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Where is my copy of Zen Arcade?
This question has been plaguing me today. I'm telling myself I can't work without it: I'm regressing 5 years and I'm going to fish out my copy of Our Band Could Be Your Life" any moment now. If I knew where it was. Every start-up should read it. Could be relabelled Getting Things Done and David Allen would be down with it, I feel.
But anyway, I digress and my piggy-backing days are numbered so I'm typing too fast: who makes pop songs like Bob Mould and Grant Hart nowadays? This isn't rhetorical, I really want to know, so I can listen to music that wasn't made before I was born and feel comfortable with a healthy percentage of its production.
posted by dodeckahedron at 19:08
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mi.... i had no idea this was you
Songwriters like Bob Mould. Ok.
Well, there was Davey vonBohlen in the period of 95-97 ('30 degrees everywhere' AND 'nothing feels good' for his band, The Promise Ring).
You've also got Jim Robbins' (ex-Jawbox) Burning Airlines debut record Mission:Control!
Both are up there with some of Bob Mould's stuff.
Jawbox / Burning Airlines = big bands for me.
Formative graphic design education via Jade Tree / DeSoto / Dischord amongst other things.
But I'm talking about now! 2006! Want new songs.
Oh, didn't you hear? rock doesn't exist anymore. It died at some stage in the late nineties. caught in a "fatal cross-volley of self-reference" i think is how i put it.
Something to do with technology or something.
I'm ok with death. Talking about good songs, not genres. They are not co-dependent afterall.
I like the analogy as long as you're talking about ping pong, and in a hyper-dimensional structure (or at least a hexagon) and who's batting against whom?
Remaining somewhat topical: the resurrection of don caballero! managed to convince a friend who sold his entire record collection in 2002 to come.
I think the phrase was part of an analogy based on mirrors. Like light being trapped in a hall of mirrors. As opposed to an A Vs B situation. There is an allusion to hyper-reality in that, but certainly not hyper-dimensionality! The latter i believe is not a valid scientific or philosophical concept. It comes from Hoagland, who is most famous for believing the face on mars is extra-terrestrial. Ok.
When is the don cab show? 'storm & stress' live was one of my best rock band performing type experiences.
hall of mirrors in yesterday's paper here.
a hyper dimension here.
and don caballero here.
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