Sinister: Re:

[the duke of harringay]

Jamie Huxley wrote:

> i am very grateful for the lengthy and detailed
> discussions upon "rock 'n'
> roll" and its relative proximity to heaven.
>
> however, i feel that certain  arguments quickly
> became
> tied to an attempt to distinguish between rock
> and roll and pop. this, at
> least in my mind at the time of conception, was
> not the intended focus.

the beauty of email discussion is once you hit
that send button, it's out of your jurisdiction
and people will take it wherever they will... this
is something i love with a passion :-)

> i took it in its broader and more nebulous sense
> - music. the reason i say
> this is becase of its context; it is of course a
> lyric from Aztec Camera's
>  "Somewhere in my Heart". i may be wrong, but i
> feel that the intensity
> and dynamism of this particular section of the
> song transcends the issue
> differentiation that was so eloquently, but
> perhaps wrongly, dwelt on.
> if indeed, music is to remembered as "little
> moments", i believe the value
> of the moment should be respected.

it seems to me that we're arguing to the same end
point around a nebulous phrase.  i wholeheartedly
put my hand in the air and plead 'guilty' to
making distinctions in my own interpretation of my
moments, and make the arbritrary choice of the
word 'Pop' over 'rock'n'roll' simply because Vic
Godard made such a strident point about it, and
that someone like Lawrence also made the same
choice.  referential reverence... which is
entirely Pop because Pop is obsessive, and is
obsessively about the moment of transendence...
it's always about reaching (back) to That Moment /
That Feeling.  Call it what you want... but i
don't think that just saying 'music' is enough.
'music' is just the empty potential, because not
all music makes me feel That Feeling.  You need to
make the distinction between that which does, and
that which does not.  You might, as Kevin Pearce
has said, say simply 'Great' or 'Not Great', but i
don;t think that's expressive enough.  I choose
the word Pop because i feel it annoys enough
people, and because it sounds right! :-)

are we through yet?

the duke

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