whats wrong with 2009
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- utopian0
Perhaps if firms like Crispin Porter + Bogusky stop their outsourcing on Crowdspring life would get much better...
- usrper0
and again, im not some dickface who complains about the "CURRENT MUSIC SCENE" while I only get itunes recomendations and think that Calvin Harris and the future of "electronica dance". The amount of shows/parties/music downloading I do i would say is fair enough for me to make an "educated" commentary.
- usrper0
^calvin harris IS the future of "electronica dance"
- akrokdesign0
dave's lounge "pod cast" is pretty good. (if your into chill out )
- haha "chill out"usrper
- i gota chill the fuck out! lolusrper
- chill at the grill. :-)akrokdesign
- usrper0
ok i may be over generalizing. yes, i do find good stuff. there are really good bands and artists coming out that i do like and think they're brilliant. but i'm tired and im going to sleep for now. :)
- usrper0
also the ironic point about the photographers is, I look at flickr and tumblr, there is just sooo much incredibly talented amazing people out there doing stuff that I can only be jealous of.
i kind of lost my train of thought.
- airey0
the thing is that at time in your life you'll feel like this and the problem is you. if you're going out a lot, downloading a shitload of stuff and think it's all shit then you're simply going to the same places and downloading the same stuff you're already bored with. basically reinforcing you're dislike for it.
it's called a comfort zone or 'bubble' and everyone get's into it. you just have to change it up and go see, do, download stuff that isn't the usual.
especially with music. go back into older interviews with bands you like and dig out their inspiration. i found fugazi through an interview back in '93 when i was at college and from there discovered a whole world of music i hadn't even known was there. at the time it was really exciting. when massive attack brought out blue lines i really liked the poster (it was 1990 or something around there) so went hunting for the casette.
you do this kind of thing less and less as you get older as you start buying more and more into you're own bullshit.
- Shaney0
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too sad to post after
- ukit0
C'mon, is there anything more pathetic than whining about how music, or art, or design, "used to be better?"
I hate that kind of snobbish attitude. We're all guilty of it sometimes but it's just as much you who's "not as good" when you've lost the ability to appreciate things.
- Rouncey outukit
- < sir, your tea is ready in the reading room.akrokdesign
- :-)akrokdesign
- if you have followed my trail of explanations maybe hopefully it would make me sound less of a pathetic snob.usrper
- not music used to be better. THEY used to be better,already said loads of good new stuff out thereShaney
- it's a new groups game. my point is all the old dudes cloud it up by not fooking offShaney
- ..when their time is up. carry on : )Shaney
- usrper0
oh you raised a good point i was going to make. lets say its no longer about me and my shitty year. But you think back to when fugazi did something, or massive attack did something, or portishead started something, or suede did something, or kyuss started something, or blood brothers did something, these things are memorable and when you think back, you're truly excited about hearing about these new things.
I can't really think of a (electronic) band today that has the same intensity of excitement that arises that can compare to when massive attack released mezzanine.
there are still plenty of super great stuff (comparing something like flying lotus to massive attack), but there just doesn't seem to be an overarching climate of super excitement on a global scale.
i lost my train of thought.
- usrper0
and i think its still rather exciting to be in somewhere like france or something, even now that the electro thing cooled down a bit, there are still a lot of incredibly talented peeps out there doing crazy stuff. too bad its hard to get it over here.
- colin_s0
the problem with media criticism is disseminating feeling jaded to realizing how pioneers tend to control authorship. black flag wasn't the best hardcore band ever, but they did it first and best for when that style was starting out, and so "my war" and "damaged" become staples, because it was said in that manner first. innovation breeds attention, unless you're really fucking good at doing something that's been done (say what green day has done for pop / mainstream punk).
however, where you're right is that a lot of new music is simply appropriation of the old in the worst ways. that band brokencyde is neo-liberalism coming back to haunt us all; the "anything you want" mentality bleeding into "art" and so the suburban lack of direction / silver spoon gets fed to kids with lots of money and no talent but grew up on bad (read: not the innovative) MTV.
generation X was a definitive generation of innovation through apathy, generation Y took sort of the craft of X and molded it into some post-cultural, but still aware, hellhole of sound and visuals. a lot of that is real good, i mean movies like "half nelson" really reflect the absent, drug addled problems of a class war that a lot of us never asked or wanted to fight, or care about continuing.
however the new generation is killing off most of this and there is plenty of blame to go around. too much technology, not enough real emotion to go along with real interaction; just because we don't yet have autonomous artificial intelligence doesn't mean most intelligence has become artificial.
anyway, i guess i'm saying i agree with you on a lot of fronts, but being an asshole is easy. craft pointed messages with a described thesis and you'll get a more positive response to what you have to say or else you just sound like a grump. i should know, i am one.
- mydo0
damn, it's like being in the future, sat in an old peoples home listening to old swearing men who used to post on QBN. pass me another space biscuit please.
maybe it's just the anxiety of entering a new decade. the 0's have been defined, although we've yet to find anything good to call them. bring on the teens, it will feel all new again. that's what i say. you can quote me on it.
- TheBlueOne0
Bah, I think the first ten years of this century have been mostly teh suck. No one knows what the fuck is going on..you know the 20th century didn't really know what it was about until the first world war got under way, then it got all it's major themes squared away it worked out for the next eighty odd years. I think we're just stuck in some sort of interregnum at the moment. We're still groping around in the flotsam and jetsam of the last century. Real change and excitement is just around the corner folks. Of course, I don;t think we're going to like it very much and we'll all turn into a bunch of curmudgeons, but there you have it.