are the streets,um,rockist?

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don't know if anyone saw the interview with the streets in hot press recently,unfortunately i don't have it in front of me since i was only reading it in tower,but i was interested to see that your man started off with something of a rant about people who would class him as "pop",and he was fairly keen to point out that he considered his music "rock and roll"

― robin, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember there was something on nyplm a while ago about an interview with someone,(something to do with piano magic,i think,who i know nothing about)where they were giving out about pop music (i think it was r'n'b to be more specific)and this seems similar,its odd how you can assume a musician would have been in a certain mindframe when making something,only to find they themselves were thinking completely the opposite... anyway,i'm really starting to like the album,some of the strings and so on are excellent...

― robin, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bands can't be rockist :)

― Tom, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does that mean if I join a band I'll be the Acceptable Face of Something Else?

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It means you'll be "The Rockism It's Okay To Like"

― briania, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think trying to connect with some sort of imagined 'spirit of rock 'n' roll' is quite different from being a rockist - I think Tom's right; can bands really be rockist? Besides, I know we've covered it before, but rock 'n' roll and Rock with a capital R are quite different, albeit related, species.

― Clarke B., Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the rockist thing was more of a joke,i was mainly talking about his eagerness to distance himself from the notion of "pop"...

― robin, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shutupi'mthedriveryou'rethepassenger

― piscesboy, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

This is a parody thread, right?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

"he was fairly keen to point out that he considered his music "rock and roll"

he just knows whos buying his music.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

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