I'll give it a bash - I'm going to start a band called The Mouse Hartins and my first album will be called Bournemouth 6 Hull 1 I need a drummer, bass guitarist, lead guitarist and singer. I'm on the triangle
I'm mates with Ben, he went to my sixth form, and yeah, he's mates with the members of both bands. They usually play at Adelphi but they've played at Polar Bear and Fruit as well.
Love all these labels trying to give a validity and deep cultural significance. How is post-punk grunge different from post-punk? Everything after punk was post punk. But if it is still being played it isn' t post. Polly and I have had a few discussions on music. Must say his tin ear isn't noticeable when you see him face to face. I go along with Duke Ellington. When someone asked him what sort of music he liked he replied "There,are only two types of music. Good and bad.".
Genres. I remember when you just listened to music you liked without surrounding it with psychobabble and didn't listen to the stuff you liked.
Not really. Just that we didn't surround everything with stuff about genres and their cultural significance, not dissecting the effect on society and the significance of four talentless berks spouting crap on badly played stuff Just got on with listening to what we liked.
Another quote from Duke Ellington in this article by a favourite of mine ,Clive James ,in his review of a programme spouted psychobabble nonsense about music. Been going on for decades. The programme is on YouTube. Hilarious in places for the deluded uttering of some in it. http://mcnultymedia.co.uk/blog/1981/08/clive-james-the-observer/
Or maybe genres are a good way for people to discover good bands and artists they otherwise wouldn't have heard of, were it not for their friend saying 'hey, you like alternative rock, you might like this band'.
Maybe genres just restrict them. Try telling Polly you some some good soul and blues music he may like to have a listen to. Polly is a big C .of C supporter . Ask him if he is going to the Tamla Motown revue. Though what that label, which was just Motown in the USA and which started in Detroit , relocated to Los Angeles and is now in New York has to do with Hull is a mystery to me.
Interesting piece CC - since it was Clive James I thought I'd check out YouTube and ...... there you go!
Genres are useful for describing what music sounds like. This might make you think "I'm interested in hearing that" or it might not. I don't have a problem with that. It's when you get made up bollocks like "post-mucus-core" and stuff that it needs to be reigned in. I'd regard "post punk" as a perfectly valid description as it refers to a particular style of music, unless you insist on being a pedantic literalist of course. That said, I think worrying about what genre some band or other is being described as is probably a bit of a waste of valuable living time.
