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Originally Posted by ni'k
taste can obscure substance but it also can re-energise substance with interpretations that would not become available otherwise. i was talking about dead airs comment about how music sounds and i took this to mean a superficial vantage point where the first impression of music is negative because it is not familiar to the usual style the listener is familiar with. i don't think taste is the base substance of music. i got into sy because of stupid ideas that their particular sound must be so great and mean so much more because i was judging it in contrast with the mainstream. to me then it was as if sy where choosing to sound like this in opposition to the very things i wanted them to be in opposition to.
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Well that was your mistake in the first place. I found your post interesting and insightful in some ways, but you came to your conclusions based on the fact that you appreciated Sonic Youth for entirely shallow reasons. I like Sonic Youth because they make good music (or at the very least made good music), not because they choose to make the music the way they do because they have some political stance or are anti-mainstream. I think we all know by now that Sonic Youth are not anti-mainstream and haven't been for a very, very long time- if ever. But does it really matter? Music is just music, when it all comes down to it. As important as music is to my life, I don't listen to it in order to learn about politics or society or anything really. And yet it's taught me a little about about all of those things.