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October 31, 2002 at 12:22:53 AM CET [music, thoughts] October 31, 2002 at 12:22:53 AM CET Why can't I connect to today's pop/rock music? The rock critic Simon Reynolds in his new blissblog on Wallowing Shamelessly in Technostalgia: ...There’s another aspect to all this, what you could call anticipatory nostalgia: when you’re in a Moment, and suddenly think "will I remember this fondly one day?". With music, I’ve found that this question never raises itself when you actually are living through a period that turns out later to be regarded as a Golden Era. During post-punk, or late Eighties bliss-rock, or hardcore/jungle, I never thought about posterity: I was too fully immersed in the here-and-now, it felt like this Moment would extend itself in perpetuity. But when you’re actually ambivalent about a contemporary pop phenomenon, not wholly convinced or seduced (see: electroclash), I find the question becomes irresistible: you can't imagine who could possibly look back on this one day and feel an ounce of nostalgia.
Simon Reynolds is exactly my age and has probably listened to much more music than I have but I can relate very well to what he is writing about here. Though I am not sure what electroclash is, bands like Fischerspooner whom I don't know but who are supposed to rip-off Suicide and new wave bands like Human League, I guess. But I am really not interested in all this eclectic recycling stuff. All this retro rock including Beck who tries to fuse Gainsbourg with the elegic side of Neil Young bores the hell out of me. It has been done before and better is what I always feel.
Yesterday the CD coming with the German Rolling Stone was a sampler on post-punk (which I know I like but don't know too well) including tracks by the Au Pairs, Modern Lovers, Teardrop Exploders, Fall, Slits, X-Ray Spex, Fat Gadget, Gene Loves Jezebel and someone I had never heard of called Reininger. I found this early new wave stuff so much more original, powerful and challenging than any of the bands hyped today which I won't mention again. It clicked with me immediately and now I am not sure if this is because of the quality of that music or a kind of diffuse nostalgia. I write diffuse here as I didn't know most of the tracks and even the ones I knew like It's Obvious by the Au Pairs had a complexity and diversity about them I hadn't noticed before. I ask myself the question why this is so. Is it my age, I am approaching 40, and do I settle for calmer music now? Or is it the fact that I have listened to a lot of rock music of the last forty years and therefore only hear the rip-offs in the new music? Or could it be that my nostalgic feelings are hurt by bands who do more or less the same as bands 15 or 20 years ago? Don't I listen closely enough to the new stuff to detect the hidden qualities? Or aren't there any and are the new bands really bad pale copies of the past heroes? In one question: is it me or is it them? Listening to Loveless in 1991 or Heaven or Las Vegas in 1992 (as so often I was late) were revelations which haven't been matched for a long time. I'd like to know if there are other people out there who feel the same. By the way I am really happy that I do not have to live on writing about music I don't like. link (2 comments) ... comment |
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