who makes better music, sexually frustrated people or sexually fulfilled people?
did free love destroy sixties rock n roll? (the midsixties speed n' frustration era soundtracked by fantastic proto-punk and r&b-derived mayhem, the love-in late sixties and early seventies pot n' fulfillment era soundtracked by noodly psychedelic experiments and languid funk)
― fritz, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Daniel, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― dave q, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Gage-o, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sean, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
My favorite type of music (that is, the jittery, caustic funk that typifies the post-punk boom) seems to epitomize the sound of undersexed music - frantic, bursting with energy, always on the move, so agitated, can't get no satisfaction. Some folks grafted the same sexless vibe on the strum-happy confections offered by the Wedding Present. (A memorable, semi-snarky review offered that folks couldn't strum their guitar that fast unless they jerked off A LOT; guess that means the ladies are SOL when it comes to breaking the guitar pick sound barrier - yeah, sure.)
Isn't there some sort of all-encompassing theory about great "art" striving towards something the artist inherently lacks? You could transfer this to a desire for happiness, or a desire for knowledge, or a desire to sate the voices in your head. I guess rock & roll is primarily about sex (that is how the term came about, and what it was about before all those dang intellectuals & folk activists came along), so the most gripping & visceral rock music is (on some level) about not gettin' none.
Hey, wait - did BRAINS destroy rock & roll?
― David Raposa, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
surely this applies only to zee pop muzik of the fresh and clean variety, no?
60s garage punk bettah than prog because of dirty reprobates out hunting cooze while hopped up on speed,
BUT
90s breakbeat hardcore bettah because the dirty reprobates did away with the groin altogether becuz they were cheezy quavers hopped up on E, huzzah.
― jess, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― fritz, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
the error of this thread is as follows: LOTS & LOTS OF SEX = SATISIFACTION not necessarily
― mark s, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)