POP STRIKE!!

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my birthday-buddy tracer hand sez: ppl shd stop writing new songs for a year and see if anyone complains....

well there are EASILY ENUFF SONGS IN THE WORLD for EVERYONE to get by on cover versions of excellent unknown material from one another's back cats, so this project is URGENT AND KEY!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't be a scab!! covers are fab!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes yes Mista sinkah, ppl should improvise from now on. Either that or the firing squad!

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

prince & robert pollard please report to camp x-ray

― , Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

improvising is writing new songs julio obv, so that is out: but you can remake old improvs: COMPANY REVISITED!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With covers you still get songs and that is bo-ring (apart from covers of JOURNEY, of course).

Improv= a more interesting song to listen to (if not to dance to).

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

improvising is not writing new songs, only a composition fascist would try to define improvisation that way

― Josh, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An Improvisational Tribute to Journey

featuring Derek Bailey vs. "Don't Stop Believin'"

― Keiko, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but if you record the improv then play it back it becomes a "composition" (i nearly used the word discrete there, but just caught myself in time)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''An Improvisational Tribute to Journey featuring Derek Bailey vs. "Don't Stop Believin'" ''

Yes yes good idea Keiko. Finally someone is thinking clearly in this thread! Doe anyone know John Zorn's phone number (he'll get him to do it)?

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Improv = More interesting way to make music, but usually not so fun to listen to.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''but usually not so fun to listen to.''

Well, it depends on what improv you listen to. Can you really generalize like that about a whole genre?

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr management has bussed in all these STRIKEBREAKERS!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How a bout just no more records? Live music only. Of course, anytime a performer introduces a song with, "This is a new one" the crowd gets restless... So just live covers from now on...

― Dave225, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We're sorry, Mark. We all think it's a very good idea, and we'd all like to contribute by making a Streets tribute album.

― Keiko, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if anything, the world needs MORE creativity, not less. Thus, to counteract your POP STRIKE, I will try to pick up the slack from everyone else and write one new song every hour.... starting.... NOW.

― Shaky Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and to be performed by people waiting for the N17 bus

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, that'd be the greatest thing ever.

― Ally, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone know John Zorn's phone number?

haha sadly maybe: a girl i knew in college is his girlfriend

― geeta, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shaky Mo Merritt!

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark- I have hijacked yr thread AND I WON'T LET GO!!!

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The strike committee accepts that the sheer momentum of commodity fetish production being what it is, songs WILL INEVITABLY continue to be written, demand or no demand — but THEY SHALL NOT BE RECORDED. Recording of improv CAN continue at the present level without threat to the industrial action: NO NEW TITLES ARE TO USED HOWEVER — such qualifiers as "part two" and "(slight return)" will be smiled through. ¡No parasan! ¡Vinceremos! ¡If ver kids r united we will nevah be divided! etc etc

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would support no new records for a year. Maybe then I could catch up with my wish list.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the pop strike = NEW RECORDS but OLD SONGS, creativity diverted into imaginative song choice and interpretation, energy usually wasted on new song manufacture saved for 12 blissful months

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer the no new records idea. Everyone needs a rest I think.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A cooling off period...

― Kris, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The reverse idea would be a lot better, I think - no old music, only new music. We give everyone lobotomies and get rid of all music before 2002. Then we force everyone to start again from the ground up. No knowledge of punk. No knowledge of soul or rap or any of that. In fact we'll get rid of guitars too and force them to be reinvented from scratch.

― geeta, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Super-madrigals all the way!!!

― Lynskey, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and plainsong. I fucking LOVE plainsong.

― Lynskey, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I personally would like to see rock bands drop their I'm-a-genius-me songsmithing and ALSO drop their genius-by-association covers of "rock classics" and instead do covers of classic techno tracks. For instance I think Rob Zombie would do a great Circus Bells (Hardfloor Remix).

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And Tortoise already play the boring-end-of-the-scale ambient techno. They should cover Ken Ishii, maybe learn a thing or two about dynamics.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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