Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
I honestly believe blind nostalgia for Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, The Cure, etc. kills popular music and killed the music industry.
and if that was the message you got across, brian, i could respect that. but you don't take issue with people who worship only nostalgia - you go off everytime somebody mentions anything not made by an angry 19-year-old. it's as if anyone over 40 couldn't possibly produce good music. that's a blindness far worse than nostalgia worship. your logic that anyone who had a hit 10 years ago must automatically be unable to write good music today is faulty and prejudiced.
Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
Speaking of Radiohead, in the new issue of Q (with a gold-painted Michael Stipe (?) and the rest of R.E.M. on the cover continuing their hopeless campaign of "Yeah, we know we sucked the last ten years but we've made a GOOD ALBUM this time.
a case in point: the new REM album is indeed good, and i think that you realize this. had some unknown mascara-wearing snots produced the same album, you'd be hyping it. but because of who the band is - or, more precisely, was - you can't enjoy it.
you say everyone else is a prisoner of nostalgia, yet REM's track record (i.e. the fact that they have one) colors your judgement. newsflash: we're not prisoners of the past, brian. you are.