OFF: The Weller/Kilmister controversy

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:39:26PM -0800, Keith Henderson typed out:
>   P.P.S.  So, is The Jam/Paul Weller "80s" dreck, or not?  1977 is not
>   the worst year to have been "born"...so it could go either way.  I'm
>   a fan of the Police and Talking Heads, after all.

	Just reading that gave me Police tunes in the head, which goes 
to show their power :-) I was reflecting the other day on one of the 
rare occasions that I've spun the Lloyd Langton Group's _Like An Arrow_ 
on how much the first song on that sounds like an attempt to sound like 
The Police. Difference is that The Police had an *excellent* rhythm 
section and an indifferent guitarist, whereas the LLG had it pretty much 
the other way round...

>   P.P.P.S.  Sunn O))) is realllly bad, too.  Why does anybody like
>   this nonsense?  When are they going to stop tuning their guitars,
>   warming up their amplifiers, and play some actual f*cking music?

	Come on Keith, you could say the same about Tangerine Dream or 
any number of Krautrock or improv. bands :-) I take Sunn 0))) (now just 
Sunn, I believe) as atmospheric noiserather than music. That said, it's 
only with the second album and collaborations with Merzbow that it 
became something I wanted to listen to more than once. I gather their 
stage show is sillily dramatic, Satanic costumes and so on, which given 
how little they actually *do* seems somehow out of kilter. But I have 
not seen this, and I don't think I'm likely to leap at the chance 
somehow. They're not very exciting to me, but I think there is a point 
to it all just the same. Yours,
				Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk