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rock....jeez.....first, i no longer know exactly what it is.
aor?
assuming i know what i am talking about:
for myself, when i was younger, i was glad this music was out there.
at that point, most of it was new to me.
it did not represent a kind of stagnation.
now it does.
whether this sense comes from radio, from mtv, from having the records--from repetition--or if it is a quality of the music itself, i can no longer tell.
sometimes, if i have not heard something for a long time, i'll be able to listen again----e.g. "tomorrow never knows"---other such music i can deal with in a wallpaper sense if i am doing something else---e.g. led zep in a bar (except for stairway to heaven, which i loathe)....
i still listen to newer bands and sometimes like them--radiohead since ok computer for example--broadcast (mostly because i liked stereolab and then got bored with them and broadcast uses the same basic sound with cooler electronics)...and i like a clutch of japanese bands that work out of the general space of rock (psycehdelic variant)...particularly acid mothers temple.
acid mothers is the only reason i can still remember why i liked rock in the first place.
i have music from lots of styles on my i-tunes playlist. sometimes, when something straighter turns up in the collage, i rather like it.
sometimes, i delete it.
i dont feel badly about this, really--i dont feel like i loose anything because of it---it is simply a fact.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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