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The last genuinely exciting moment in mainstream music?
Posted by spt on 26 March 2011 - 10:52am.
When the industry, deep in its water, still just about remembered that this sort of thing was good for it.
Now disagree. Especially if there's something more recent.
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Or maybe just the last time
In your life that you were young enough to be moved by naked sensation dressed up as half-baked situationism.
I know this great place where genuinely exciting moments in mainstream music happen on an almost weekly basis: it's called the charts, and if your ears are young enough to get Lady Gaga, Cee-lo Green or The Vaccines then you don't need dead sheep or buckets-full of bills to sate your jaded palates.
It's the Brits allowing the illusion of dissent
that struck me, rather than the value of the KLF ( which is purely entertainment.), You're right about GaGa being basically the same. I prefer ENT musically though...
Young Ears?
Oh please, the charts. I couldn't bear to be the old groover hanging out with the kids at the gig. Don't you recall how pathetic they looked? Fact is, if you're still pop thrilling after 40 it's all a bit tragic. Pop IS the most juvenile of the arts by some distance and those who cling on to it's relevance always insist those who have seen through it are "giving up" or "getting old". Too right we are. You should try it. A grown man "checking out" the new Ga Ga single....I cringe...
Calm down, dear
And get back to your Fleet Foxes. Earnestness doesn't look particularly becoming on old shoulders either.
EDIT: Who wouldn't like to be doing THIS at 60? (with thanks to DH, from his posting today)
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/we-should-watch-clip-least-once-a-...
I find myself
Grooving to the hip beats of Gaga frequently daddio.
I check out lots of new music that's in the charts - I love a good pop tune I do.
I don't go to a lot of gigs for a number of reasons - not one of them is to do with my age. I'll be buggered if I'll let some snot-nosed kids make me feel unwelcome at a gig.
Life and love of music doesn't suddenly stop at 40, well, for those of us that still know how to smile, chill out and check out what the kids are listening to it doesn't anyway.
I feel sorry for someone that feels they have to abandon anything the youth likes just because they hit an arbitrary age.