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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care |
| Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:12:28 -0600 |
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Have you spent any time on the Bomp list? Maybe you missed the vitriol that
some garage fans directed at bands like The Hives, based on their success.
As for your Fountains Of Wayne point -- what insulated world do you live
in??? Any band that rises to success gets a certain amount of shit from
their fans. Success breeds that sort of thing.
However, I'm glad that you qualified your comments re: power pop fans. Yes,
there are some fans of power pop who only want things to be carbon copies.
Looking pretty much the same, though a bit blurry -- fresh off the
mimeograph. Such close minded stances are annoying, laughable whatever. I
agree. That only applies to a portion of the audience. And this is true of
any revivalist genre -- some people just want things to be the way they
were.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:02:08 -0500
>
>At 06:43 PM 2/9/2004 -0600, Michael Bennett wrote:
> >2. I would agree with Stewart, to a degree, that power pop has generally
> >pretty ossified. But it isn't like power pop is the sole genre with that
> >attribute. Garage rock anyone? Ska? I could go on...
>
>I don't hang around with enough ska fans to be able to say anything one way
>or the other, but I do count a number of hardcore garage rock fans among my
>friends and acquaintances, and for me, the main difference I'd say I see
>between garage rock fans and power pop fans is that I never see the kind of
>plain, unalloyed disgust that shows up so regularly here whenever a band
>that can loosely be aligned with "our" form of music shows signs of
>breaking out of the protective bubble. (Yes, WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS
>topped the Audities poll last year, but I'm probably not the only one who
>remembers how controversial "Stacy's Mom" was in some quarters hereabouts,
>as a piece of music, as a video, as a hit record, as a song that caused
>interlopers and arrivistes to show up at FoW concerts and finally as a song
>that Chris Collingswood supposedly regrets writing and recording.) And I
>certainly have never seen a more parochial group than the subset of power
>pop fans whose only criterion for new music is that it remind them strongly
>of music that they've previously enjoyed, and the more it sounds like an
>old Badfinger outtake, the better. And other than the extremely rare like
>of complete twats like Jeff Connolly, I know no garage rock equivalents to
>the Pop Stalinists, who take that "newness and variety scares and angers
>me" mindset to such an untenable extent that they think that anything that
>doesn't sound like a 10-generation copy of the Beatles just plain "isn't
>music." Years ago, such people angered me. Now I mostly just find them
>pathetic and vaguely amusing.
>
>Some forms of music ossify through benign neglect. In some hands, power
>pop often seems like it's deliberately chosen to ossify itself.
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