Hi again

[Christian]

At 10:38 17.08.04 +0100, you wrote:
>HawkFan wrote:
>>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.
>
>Eeeek!  I can't say I think Brock's efforts to "move on" have been very
>successful.  I mean: _Spacebrock_ and endless retreads that don't live
>up to the originals.
>
>Moving on is great, if the music is great.  And if Motorhead still sound
>like, well, Motorhead, that's OK as long as it sounds good.  I don't buy
>into the "evolution is always better" thing; I think "better is always
>better" (though, obviously, better is subjective :)  Very few artists
>seem to "move on" very successfully.  The Beatles, I suppose ....
>
>For my part, the current UK scene isn't doing much for me, though it's
>always possible that there's something amazing happening in some corner
>that I've not heard of.  For me it just sounds like a yet another load
>of vaguely depressed pop-rock acts, much as have dominated the UK rock
>seen since the demise of overblown heavy rock (long may it reign ;)  I
>pray to every god that I _am_ missing something here.  But hey -- this
>may just be cultural conditioning, since I hear a lot of things I like
>coming out of the US scene, more sorta improvisational and happening in
>my book (but that's what I grew up on).
>
>>There are also hundreds of old albums that I never got around to buying.
>
>I have been expanding through back catalogs myself.  I figure any music
>I haven't heard is "new" and anything I like is "good" :)  And my wife
>is a raging Latin music fan, so I've been making some interesting
>discoveres down that way.  And I got into some cool Americana and
>jamgrass stuff through seeing a wide range of different artists at a
>couple of Telluride bluegrass festivals, and keeping an eye on
>up'n'coming artists playing Bonnaroo proves interesting.
>
>Honestly, giving the zillions of years that people have been making and
>enjoying music, what are the real chances that everything cool a) has
>already been done, and b) happened since 1960 ;)  Pretty low, I reckon.
>  So I reckon I've got plenty of awesome music yet to hear :)
>
>>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.
>
>Yup.  I may have been 16 twice over now ;) but I remember the first time
>;) and darned if most of the kids I knew did'nt know a damn about
>anything that wasn't on MTV (though that was when MTV still played music
>;)  'Course, the few of us were interested didn't know much back then
>either -- this was before the internet put the whole world of music at
>your fingertips -- but we did go forth and learn ..... :)
>
>Cheers,
>Carl
>
>--
>Carl Edlund Anderson
>http://www.carlaz.com/


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Lemmy is the man....

Chr. Elkhund m/f