Douglas Coupland: 'FM radio created art rock and the double album'

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Is Coupland talking out of his arse? Does anyone care what he thinks, anymore? Or does he still have his finger on the pulse?

YOU DECIDE!

― clive, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

art rock created in UK, where FM not a "thing"
first double album = zappa? (prior to arrival of FM)
coupland = hornby-esque rockcrit wannabe who desires to be paid to throw around the usual cliches more than he wactually wants to be as good a novelist etc as the best rock-writers are [insert striking term for whatever they are]

― mark s, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I like reading his books very much, am I the only person who thinks Shampoo planet would have made a great teen film? I hope not.

― cabbage, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

from what i recall of my recent readings, shampoo planeet has been developed into a film...anyway, i'll stick up for the canuck, not as a cutting-edge, generation definer, but for his seminal get-off-yr- ass before yr dreams go bust book girlfriend in a coma. great book. good tv stuff from memory as well.

― Geoff, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If Mr. Coupland's thesis were true, then why did American FM radio play so little Zappa?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, come on now. That was a completely offhand comment in the context of a completely unrelated point. It doesn't stand up to rigorous musical/historical scrutiny, but the connection leads where he's trying to go -- toward the idea that each form of communication winds up with its own "ideal" type of content.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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