Happy Black Friday Caroline Polachek
luka
Well-known member
theres only one good one i think its called electric feel. we've got a thread about it
sus
Moderator
See this is why I'm so unconvinced by the taste on this board.
It isn't, "oh, that's not a very good exemplar of X kind of music, try this instead"—which is an approach I'm always all-ears for. It's a genre supremacy type thing—it's literally the belief that certain genres are interesting and certain genres aren't. Which is rubbish. Sturgeon's Law rules everything around me. If you can't get anything out of horror films, or detective novels, that's OK—but to think that there are no good horror films or detective novels, that's just silly.
sus
Moderator
No that one isn't very good, you clearly don't have a developed palate for pop-rock, you should probably stick to late 90s British dance music or whatever it is you listen exclusively to.
sus
Moderator
"X genres are good Y genres are bad" is provincialism I think. A kind of closed identity-preservation tactic: "no" to all of this, all of that. Omnivorism is what anyone with taste is up to these days. I listen to more raga than indie, I like 70s pop from Siam, there's good examples in any tradition or lineage, but this board only gets upset when certain genres get brought up. Very odd provincial behavior, very uncivilized, very middle-brow.
woops
is not like other people
you're absolutely right gus it's just that for some people here it's a point of honour that ALL late 90's dance music is better than ALL indie and it'd be like eating your own grandma to concede an inch on this point
sus
Moderator
compare Polachek's "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings," which is ubiquitous on American airwaves
woops
is not like other people
any good indie listener knows that the b-side is frequently better than the a-side. in any case it won't just be some cheesy remix
luka
Well-known member
i think this is literally true
woops
is not like other people
exactly
sus
Moderator
What I'm more interested in than the object-level question is the motivational one, the psychology that only listens to 90s dance music
I can only get in that headspace very occasionally, with certain kinds of tasks or activities
What would it be like having a brain that wants it all the time, feeds off it, breathes it, exists in that mood perpetually (or desires to)
I can only get in that headspace very occasionally, with certain kinds of tasks or activities
What would it be like having a brain that wants it all the time, feeds off it, breathes it, exists in that mood perpetually (or desires to)
woops
is not like other people
it's not taste gus it's ideology that's why there's no point arguing
luka
Well-known member
ive got no idea cos no one actually does this. Third listens to Turkish schmaltz, Leo listens the The Police, Corpsey listens to Benjamin Britten, Rich listens to garage rock from the '60s, Woops loves Stereolab, WashYourHands has every Grateful Dead bootleg ever recorded....
woops
is not like other people
quite the omnivores aren't we