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Write a manifesto for what music right now should be like.

― Tom, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or write a sentence from your manifesto!

― Tom, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

High-kicking!

― jel --, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

... in which everything equals everything else, and bad geometry is thus taboo...

Rule 31. Corners are facist.

― mark s, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Side-splitting and soul-searching. With a quote from Flava Flav thrown in for those social minded types, "It's nation buildin' time!".

― Cameron Potter, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ideas, (whether 'good' or 'bad' on paper) that should be well executed. The listener must feel the participants on the record have a belief in what they are doing.

― Julio Desouza, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pure aesthetic appreciation is not an option.

― DV, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Somehow after the Watching the Detectives thread the idea of manifestos seems very very wrong. But short ones are okay, so here's mine:

Music should have peculiar sounding noises.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"We had stayed up all night . . ."

Music is acceleration. The world has galloped into the maw of commerce, so it's a tad too late to complain. Submerge & subsume in the consumption of identity; & rise like a bile phoenix into the wake of the post-post-apocalytpic guilt-trip. Bear witness to the sound of the salvation of the machines . . .

― Ess Kay, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disco is an act of liberation/Cabaret is a state of libation.

― anthony, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So varied I'm bounde to like something.

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Not self-conciously anything
2. Boundary breaking without trying to do so
3. Moving beyond strict 4/4 and cliched shuffly breaks
4. Lyrics that encompass more than the songwriters personal neuroses.

― jacob, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

5. Made for the joy of it not the intellectual challenge.

― jacob, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"It's all just tiddlywinks unless it sounds good"

― Nicole, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right now music should concentrate on its effect on the surface of our bodies. I find myself wanting records that caress me or records that scrub my skin off, and not much in between.

― Tim, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lyrics that encompass more than the songwriters personal neuroses.
Fuck that , my favorite lyrics riff on personal neuroses til they get it right , til it breaks open and splatters , until they hite the wll of universal .

― anthony, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music should have sounds in it.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Should the sounds be peculiar?

― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are not nearly enough songs with lyrics about monkeys.

― Douglas, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get in my body and live there. Simple!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rule 32 - Appendix C:

If love is a radio, turn it up to ten!

― jel --, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It should surprise me. And have beatz!

Monkeys vs. robots!!!

― Jordan, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Danceable beats. And/or handclaps.

― EdwardO, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We reject the canon. We reject all music hitherto made. We reject all music produced outside our aegis. Music starts now. This is the future, the present, and the past. Join us, or listen to shit forever.

― DV, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Visceral, merciless and fire-honouring!

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Should the sounds be peculiar?

I like peculiar, but I also enjoy comfortable. I am not willing to take sides on this point. However, the sounds are free to be peculiar if it suits them.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right now music should concentrate on its effect on the surface of our bodies. I find myself wanting records that caress me or records that scrub my skin off, and not much in between.

No wonder you're down with Kompakt.

― Mark, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no more indie. more sex. less apology.

― the old man of the mountain, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Louder. Happier. More Confusing.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Louder. Happier. More Confusing.

Please lord, no more Radiohead. Amen.

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music should reach into your body and blow your heart wide open.

― brian, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music should compete with the church.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like being hit with a jackhammer and having your brain turned inside out. An irregular occurence, I admit.

― Bill, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More R&B that doesn't whine or suck ass.

― bnw, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More R&B lyrics about ass sucking.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Freak Out! Far Out! In Out!

― Arthur, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

like cross-cultural orgies

― Honda, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music should give me lots and lots of money RIGHT NOW.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) More moogs. 2) More mellotrons. 3) More riffs in 29/7 time. 4) More double- or triple-length albums based on Paramhansa Yogananda footnotes. 5) More album covers like Roxy Music.

― Joe, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music should give me a sloppy blow job in a policeman's uniform.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unless it is explicity made for the dancefloor, no full-length record should last more than 45 minutes. 44:59? That's okay. 45:00? Bzzzzzt!!!

― Andy K, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know this is a jokey thread. But really, aren't manifestoes so, like, 20th century? Has any good music--or art, for that matter--ever come out of a manifesto? Their main purpose is publicity.

― Ben Williams, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

publicity isn't necessarily a destroyer of "good art" [research asst please insert clever disclaimer abt probs with both words in scare quotes thank you]

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never said it was nyah nyah

Manifestoes can be fun, as long as no one takes them too seriously.

― Ben Williams, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I'm a little nostalgic for the time when people did take manifestoes seriously. There's something admirable about all those wild beliefs in the power of art, even if they were mostly naive hokum.

― Ben Williams, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Eradicate novelty." (Stolen from someone else's post here.)

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

best manifesto evah - the "pasta is evil! ban spaghetti!" one the futurists did when they ran out of things to protest against

i have a copy somewhere of marinetti's futurist cookbook --> chicken stuffed with steel ball bearings (for that subtle metallic flavor)

― geeta, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

beef shredded by trumpet blasts!!

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

― James, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More E.P.'s less L.P.'s., especially in hip hop.

― bnw, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

more interesting. shorter songs, with more stuff in them. or, longer songs, with less stuff in them.

― maryann, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MONO!!!!!!!! fuck 6.1

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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