Hi again

[HawkFan]

You've touched one of my most strongly held views here. It's very very easy
to lose interest in anything new and just listen to all your old CDs, and it
gets easier as you get older. I don't want to be the embarrassing dad trying
to be hip, but I'd hate to think I'd just given up.

You have to look around, but there's a lot of new interesting stuff out
there. I don't know much about the US scene, though I like the Von Bondies
album and I think both Strokes albums are excellent. In the UK my recent
favourites are the Razorlight and Libertines albums, Slipknot's latest
album, the two Cooper Temple Clause albums and on a lighter note the Zutons.
Go back a couple of years and you have Air, Feeder, Ash and so on. I've been
listening to Inferno, but sorry guys it sounds just like Motorhead always
did. Lemmy needs some lessons from Dave Brock on how to move on.

There are also hundreds of old albums that I never got around to buying.
I've just been listening to the Zappa albums Burny Weeny Sandwich and
Weasels Ripped My Flesh (both rubbish, but you can't win them all). I've
also got heavily into Julian Cope. Very Syd Barrett influenced but, dare I
say it, even better.

Actually if you risk embarrassing the kids and start asking their friends
about music they seem to be remarkably ill informed. Most of them seem to
have never heard of the bands mentioned above, or indeed precious little
outside the top 40. Mind you I suppose it was always this way.

John Rennie

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Subject: Re: Hi again


On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> Matthew Braun wrote:
> > Stephen Swann <swann at CUGC.ORG> writes:
> >>Sheesh, has this list really been around for 14 years?
> >
> > Naw, that can't be right.  That would mean that some of us would be
> > approaching...oh, crap.
>
> Just think -- it's now been just over 10 years since _Cult Classic_ was
> released, which is the same amount of time (more or less) as between the
> first BOC album and _Extraterrestrial Live_ ....
>
> Well now, that's a grim though ;)

Probably the grimmest thought that I've had recently was the
realization that most of the music that I will ever really
love has already been released.  That's partly due to the
fact that I seldom get to hear cool new music (given the
dire state of modern commercial radio), and partly due to
the fact that my musical tastes are almost certainly getting
more and more ossified.  ;-)

Coolest thing I've heard recently: Shomu Yamashta's East
Wind "Freedom is Frightening".  Kind of early 70's heavy
synthesizery progressive jazz, or maybe jazz-rock fusion.
Sounds almost like something John Lord might have done as
a solo project.

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