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ive had a quick flick thru this thread and very curious and interesting points are thrown up..... innovatuion doesnt really mean big sales or popularity but to be innovative you have to be heard by more than your flatmates or your neighbours right??
since 1990 we have had how many truly groundbreaking (not innovative) records... id say 5 maximum..
loveless
spiderland
nevermind
snivilisation
mirrored
i say these as they stopped people in their tracks and made a certain style or genre of music extremely publicly in demand for a while.... in the same way the sex pistols did or in the same way bill hailey did...
maybe im grasping at straws here but to me anyway, those records were highly important in recent musical history....
mnowim gonna be shot down here by listing these so in advance im gonna shoot some down, animal collective innovative.. no, highly interesting but not uinnovative.... if they are then i sugest liars
aphex twin, fucking genius but innovative..... no.....
autechre innovative.. mmm maybe but they disappeared up their own input sockets and lost it in my opinion...... lp5 was their peak..... and i wouldnt call that innovative
maybe we gotta look at artists like merzbow to talk innovativly, mayvbe we should look at artists outside our own little tiny world.. maybe there is some mali music or something happening in eastern africa which is truly innovative??? who knows???
music is too easy these days! all i have to do now to find asomething new to listen to is do a google search and bang, i have it burned to a cd in a few minutes. i dont have to preoreder in my local shop and wait an eternity tfor it to come, i dont have to wait for that trip to dublin and run into that cool shop where i think i may have seen it 6 months ago and hope its still there...... i dont get suprised when i rummage through second habnd racks anymore.... "argh, its a bit scratchy, ill download it instead"
we are all spoiled in this age, and yes we are all guilty of it.. maybe if we all didnt know so much we might find something innovative but for me ive 2 words to say and please think about this as an answer to your question....
lighting bolt????????????????????
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