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Posted by trouble on February 9, 2002, at 5:21:54
I was looking at the archives and there was a message from you about being a record addict. Skipping meals to buy a Sparks album? I can relate, the music endures, whereas
You're going to eat some chinese food and get hungry real soon, I predict.
If you have time maybe you could suggest something for my collection, I don't keep current w/ the times enough.
FYI my 1st rock-n-roll posting is dated 2-02 under songs for depression.
By the way, did you take the name Kid A from the Anarchist comics of the same name from the 1950s, or is that a gauche inquiry?
Posted by kid_A on February 9, 2002, at 18:25:20
In reply to Kid A, you busy?, posted by trouble on February 9, 2002, at 5:21:54
trouble,
i looked for your post so i could get an idea of what type of muzak you liked but couldn't find it... maybe you can point me in the right direction... im not always extremely current w/ what i buy, alot of times i buy really old stuff but i do have pretty broad tastes...i got the name kid a from Radiohead's 4th album of the same name... its thought that they might have got the name from the card set The Adventures of Kid A in Alphabetland, which deals with the concepts of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan...
let me know what stuff you like and i'll offer up some new suggestions...
Posted by trouble on February 10, 2002, at 14:39:53
In reply to Re: Kid A, you busy? » trouble, posted by kid_A on February 9, 2002, at 18:25:20
Kid_A,
Hi. I posted it under Songs for Depression and headed it 7 Sins To Wallow In, referring to the artists I customarily turn to when I need emotional validation.
I'll tell you straight out kid, I have been known to use aesthetics as a weapon. Known for walking into parties, removing an album from the turntable and throwing it across the room.
Got away with these antics due to a public image in rock-n-roll criticism, which earned me a place in the community as an arbiter of taste.That was 12 years ago, and I'm not so intolerant these days, but the one thing I can get Rush Limbaughlike irrational about is rock-n-roll. It's embarrassing, I'd almost feel more secure confessing a 9 hour eating binge than how pigheaded and unforgiving I've been about people's records collections, all the misunderstandings, broken friendships, pedantic lecturing, street brawls, and, natch, the absolutely ludicrous outfits I have worn to represent my loyalties.
Having said all that, I am now totally out of touch w/ what the young people are listening to. Once it stopped being my job to audition new music for 6 hours straight whether I felt like it or not I threw in the towel, not having the time or $ to keep up. It's a chore.
And I'm ignorant. Heard Radiohead for the 1st time 3 months ago. Now I have one of their CDs, so I guess I'm educable, I just tend to stick w/ the sure bets, for instance, as I write this I'm playing the 43rd release by Mr. Dylan, Love and Theft, money well spent.Anyway, I'm looking forward to trading opinions, if you're "OK" with opinions.
trouble
Posted by kid_A on February 10, 2002, at 23:04:24
In reply to Re: Kid A, you busy?, posted by trouble on February 10, 2002, at 14:39:53
trouble,
In my younger in more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "I'm not entirely impressed by new music, there are a few bands that I like but I pretty much go with the sure bets my self...as for new music, the strokes, depsite all of the negative killjoys, the white stripes, still off the radar, i wish i had picked up stereolab's 'sound dust' but i didnt, i wanted it on vinyl and they only had super colector person 54 dollar super vinyl... double bummer... islandic sigur ros, god speed you black emperor, or a silver mount zion, both i think some of the same people or all dunno, dirty three, low, mark kozelek and or red house painters, south because they sound like the stone roses, all those bands are pretty much all over the place in style but thats me...
a lot of the new music i listen to is electronic, chris clark, aphex twin, squarepusher, red snapper, boards of canada, autechre... sometimes not some peoples taste, but they're worthy if not for being creative...
plus the old music that im listening to, the plastics, nina hagen, big star, stones, faces, stooges, bowie, tyla gang's first album, the cars first album, the ramones first two albums, anything except 'head music' by suede..."
He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
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