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TV on the web-io Highly enjoyable, mate. And I'm by no means a prog-fan. One comment, though: O. Coleman's music was/is not as "happen stance" as some people take it to be, but I guess your point was how some people took it as happen stance and not a comment on Coleman's music as such...

Not convinced yet. Thought her previous was ok (won't elaborate on that now). "Narrative" seems to be the word most have used to describe it. But is it good narrative? I dunno.:slanted:

Depends on what you mean by favorite; As in "it captures the spirit of the band", or "imaginative and funny"? In the latter category, Lack of Afro always makes me chuckle.

Do I have to choose? T'Heads made great music. 'Youth made great music. End of... ;)

I should be checking out Burial, apparently.

Well, I know MF Doom, Pete Rock, Madlib and J. Dilla has produced several of the tracks on Fishscale. Don't know about Cam's tho'.

Well, your not entirely wrong, mista. Most music from America has predominantly Black roots. And the way most music is played today, esp. popular music, owes very much to the African American slaves. BUT, rock'n'roll did take ques from white country music to shape it into how we know it today.

Race music? For one, mate, rock isn't white music in any other sense than that the majotity of the performers are white (although, are they really? What about e.g. Asia?). Rock is, if anything, a creole music, much like anything in America; a mix of Black R'n'B traditions and White...

I'm not saying that THAT is the problem with brit music. It is a problem in so far that too many believe a given piece of music to be innovative, and that good music should be innovative, when in fact almost nothing of it is. Most good music (or any piece of art) have been old ideas run through...

Well, yes and no. They were percieved as an alternative because they did not fit into the mould that were given air play by the big American radio stations, whose playlists were largely "run" (payola or whatever) by large recordcompanies. THe change in marketing during the 80's with the...