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In one of the essays in Blissed Out, Simon Reynolds suggests a moratorium on selling and listening to soul music for a five-year period (this was at the time when the charts and adverts were clogged with 'classic' re-issues).
Which genre would you stop today for five years, if you could, for the long-term good of music?
― Tom, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Knackers.

― Tom, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor! This is in italics!!

Obviously I would stop that crap that you're always trying to flog us. I don't know what the genre is called, but I tend to call it EwingPop.

― the pinefox, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No - it's not in italics. But it is on my screen as I write it. Cor.

― the pinefox, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

US early 90s rebel-rock: Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Green Day, Tool, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Chilli Peppers etc.

― stevo, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day are rebel rock? News to me!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stretching a point with Green Day perhaps, but if only RageAgainstTheMachine could be deleted from history.

― stevo, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Believe you me, I would jump for joy at that prospect.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Adult Alternative Radio. Just lose the ClearChannel-perpetrated playlist for a couple of years. Let some other bands grab @ the ring, goddamn it. Stimulate the economy. Make my ears happy. No more "Hey, Leonardo" and "Desperately Wanting" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "I'll Be" and Barenaked Ladies (DAMN IT!). Happy happy happy.

― David Raposa, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd toss out punk. Not all punk-inspired music, mind you, just the authentic stuff. It'd be intersting to see where rock would go without that influence.

― Mark, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bhangra. Just to give me a chance to catch up with all the stuff released in the last decade, I discovered it rather late and I'm sure there's about 10,000 CDs (never mind the countless cassette-onlies) that are essential purchases.

― dave q, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It'd be nice to derail the relentless influence of hip-hop on other genres, if only because its tenets of "keepin' it real, yo," "bling bling" and other lowest-common-denominator-appealing drivel only serves to further dumb down popular culture.

― Alex in nyc, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"only serves to further dumb down popular culture."
When was it universally smart, then?

― DG, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

indie rock, definitely. weed out the underachieving and unnecessary and mediocre, maybe raise everyone's standards a bit. especially if by the moratorium you speak of, just halting the selling and listening, so the constant stream of terrible useless records would stop, but everyone could keep tooling away with their 4-tracks and maybe come up with something good by the end of the 5 yea

― al, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark: I am _so_ with you. I like a bit of punk, but I don't really _get_ it, y'know? It's like, "This is the revolution? Sounds like pissed off Troggs with bigger amps." Especially hardcore -- I don't connect with the "artistry" of playing angular lines at 180 bpm and screaming your head off.

But my ultimate choice for a moratorium would have to be hip-hop. In this case, I _really_ don't have anything against the genre. I only have a handful of hip-hop albums, but I plan on getting more. I just think that the influx of hip-hop into popular culture is obscuring a lot of things, like the goodness and interestingness of non-metal guitar-based rock.

― Jack Redelfs, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"non-metal guitar-based rock" like what?

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All Garage. It's terrible.

It goes *clICk* *cLIcK*.

― Mr Deft, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

who died and made simon reynolds pol pot?

what's next, which books ought to be burned for the greater good?

(insert lame nick hornby dis here)

― fritz, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Fritz. You should read Reynolds' piece - it was provocative and not meant as a serious proposal: in fact a large part of the piece's message was the disservice done to soul music by its then-ubiquity and the way it was handled by the media. Of course it's not possible to submerge a genre for five years!

― Tom, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Tom. What's the essay called? I'd like to see if I can track it down online.

― fritz, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i really would like to read it.

― fritz, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Fritz - sorry, copy of book not to hand. Remind me next week and I'll find it for you!

― Tom, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So, did anyone manage to stop anything?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only this conversation by the look of it. 8-(

― Rob M, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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