lost socks' politics & indie music blog: lost socks' indie music blogthoughts on mostly "indie" music and related topics...my political blog is here...The Great CD-R Test- January 24, 2004 So I tried to get in touch with the goings-on in the music world by downloading a bunch of songs from groups tapped as making the best records of the year...this being on a mailing-list I'm on for indie stuff. Of all the 23 songs I put on a CD-R, there was probably only one whose CD I have plans to pick up. I'll give the cd a couple more listens and admittedly some of the track selections were random, but I must say the bands generally didn't move me too much. I wonder if it's.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/indieMusic/2004/01/23.html#a81 Another Casualty in the IndieMajor Wars...- January 17, 2004 There have been many bands who have signed to major labels and suffered both artistically and otherwise for the choice. One recent example is the band Wheat (or Wheat as they now write it). Somehow Pitchfork gave the new record, Per Second Per Second Per Second... Every Second a positive review (a 7.8 out of 10) but I'm not sure how consistently they measure the criteria for what makes a record good. The first record seemed like a band who while they would gladly...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/indieMusic/2004/01/17.html#a71 The Future Of POP- January 2, 2004 It's true that most pop music isn't what I would consider POP with a capital P. You don't hear what I consider to be great pop music on contemporary radio and the people writing my favorite songs never will get on there. I don't really understand peoples' tastes but it seems that we live in a time when faux emotion is seen as real sincerity. I don't know WHY people find Korn and Puddle Of Mudd and such to be filled with anything real but if those things...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/indieMusic/2004/01/02.html#a55 |