Fuctional

Fuck fuctionalism, let's dance.

does this involve music that works in *spaces* other than alone in your loungeroom with headphones...or can that kind of music be fuctional as well?

Sometimes the music I love most tends to be the least fuctional, but I know what you're saying.

i'm sorry, i'm reading 'fuctional' as 'fictional' in a heavy nouw zuhlund accent.

most imaginary music...

the heartstoppingly beautiful ambient thing i heard drifting out of the bush the very first time i got irie at an outdoor music festival, that to this day i'm not sure i just imagined out of the conglomeration of music playing from all the tents all around me...

but given the description on the first post, i listen to techno mix discs (loving the Stacey Pullen Fabric mix) when I'm at work to make me code faster...

... if i'm at home and i want to get into the mood for writing something, I'll often put on a cd which I enjoy but not utterly, so that I can be pissed off with it where it does the wrong thing (musically speaking) and use said pissedoffedness to direct my compositional beginnings.

and drifty ambient or guitar music for sleeping, of course.

Rockist can you give an example of music that you have bought in the past or would buy now except that it's NOT functional so you don't listen to it anymore or don't plan to buy it?

As an example: today I was looking through the WIRE and found out about a couple musique concrete/ambient type recordings that looked interesting. After thinking about it a bit, I thought: no, I have things I need to get done in my life right now, and I don't need anything that really encourages hermit-like introversion in me. (I'm not saying that some music is inherently more functional than other music, although maybe that sort of claim could be defended. I'm just saying "functional for me at the moment" or functional for you. Something that will help you get where you want to go.

Some of the anti-indie attitudes around here, especially in their earliest expressions, seem to be coming partly from the point of view that certain people found indie unhelpful at a certain point (e.g., Tico and some of his comments on the Smiths--see I know my ILM history).

I don't mean anything deep here, really, which may be the problem.

Yeah, good title, but I don't like that "song."

I have to be real careful with my For Carnation record, and Mogwai's Come On Die Young, cos if I'm having a bit of a downer and I put one of them on they tend to make me sit on my bed and stare at the wall feeling sorry for myself and wishing one of my friends would psychically know that I'd like company and come visit.

so i know what you mean about hermit-like introversion :)

Heh, I talk to Mel about this all the time. How the music we really love is the least functional ever and bores the shit out of our friends because of that.