I wanted to thank Mark Richardson and the Pinefox for pointing me towards "The Light 3000" and "Lilac Wine" (Mark) and "Sister I'm A Poet" (Pinefox), all of which I am enjoying enormously. So I thought I'd do it publically and let the rest of you say which songs or records this forum has encouraged you to check out (if any).
Or of course you could name the ones which were rubbish.
― Tom, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
But I am fairly sure that this forum has never led me to check anything out, perhaps for the same reason that I'm surprised that Ewing has already gone and got hold of a song I only mentioned yesterday. I mean, even supposing that something could be made to sound really, really interesting, how would you go about getting hold of it? I buy other people records as presents occasionally, but I haven't bought myself a record for months. Where do people buy records nowadays? Do they find what they're after - even the sometimes obscure (and for all I know, excellent) things mentioned on this forum? Do they really feel comfortable about buying things when they don't know much about them and don't know what they'll sound like? What do they do with the records when they've bought them? Do these new, unknown quantities fit into people's lives, and on to their shelves, without strain?
I think what I am groping towards attempting to say is: by and large, 'new music' no longer really exists for me.
But, oh, I forgot - I did buy Hyacinths & Thistles at one of the Hammersmith gigs, and I do like half of it a lot. 'He Didn't' is just indispensable, though not - of course - if you haven't heard it.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The Grammy goes to ....the pinefox, who has asked all the right questions of me - or made ME question my motives/behaviour etc.
ye shall know me by my overuse of the word 'stuff'
― geordie racer, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― DG, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
See, *somebody* likes me. Sort of. God, that *moves* me, that does.
Racer - I am in 'pop crisis' too, in the sense that I feel there is no future for pop music: I mean, no future for pop music for me. (There is clearly a future for the ILM folks who love Destiny's Child, Autechre etc etc and can look forward to decades more of technological experiment, etc etc.) But for me it feels like the end of the road. Pretty much the last (I mean, the final) thing in pop for me is my own stuff. When I've written my last song, maybe it really will all be over.
I know that you (?) and Josh K (?) have pointed out that the past is the future - that what's back there is still rich & exciting. I *absolutely* agree - I'm with you both on this. But as Stevie T might point out, the past doesn't feel quite the same without a future.
I'm not sure about this. I may be exaggerating. I am mainly trying to sympathize with your own (enjoyable?) situation.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Any more talk like that and I'm shutting down the official Tracer Hand fanclub e-mail discussion list.
― bnw, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kris, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Actually, my geographical background doesn't affect the music I choose to listen to at all ... what it does affect, often, is my attitude towards the people who make it.
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)