The story I heard about Electronic Renaissance was that it was a throwaway song, Stuart M proving (to Chris?) that it was dead easy to write dancy stuff. Luv Iain, Glasgow
That sounds very plausible to me, sadly Stuart succeeded in proving quite the opposite. Don't we love them for their guitar-led brilliance rather than this synth cackhandery? Guess it just goes to show that even a band as talented as B&S can have their David Bowie moment. Let's just hope they drop the touted speed garage track "Sebastian's Nation" from the next album. I had hoped they were above all that. x Belle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Belleanseb@aol.com wrote:
The story I heard about Electronic Renaissance
throwaway song, Stuart M proving (to Chris?)
was that it was a that it was dead easy to
write dancy stuff. Luv Iain, Glasgow
That sounds very plausible to me, sadly Stuart succeeded in proving quite the opposite.
i agree, but not quite... if the initial impetus for the song is indeed as suspected, then what Stuart has in fact proved is that yes, it is indeed very easy to write a 'dance' track, but that hmmm, when you come to listen to it all, maybe it's actually rather more difficult to write a GREAT dance record. Because 'ER' is hardly great, and in fact it's hardly a 'dance' record at all. It has a drum machine doing a vague 'disco' beat, but, um, so what? It's 'dance' in the realms of, say St Etienne (and again, not as good as their best), but hardly cutting edge. Count the number of crap dance records you hear. Now count the number of crap windy indie records you hear. What's the difference? there is none... It's a complex area, trying to 'copy' someone else's art, someone else's genre of art. Watch out for the batches of B&S copycats, and see how many match up... because they don;t have the edge, the spark, the essential It. Pick a wadge of drum and bass platters, pick out the ones that are Special... define what they have... you find it difficult, because it's a complex entity. It might seem easy, but it's not. Balances and indefinable sonic responses. Don't say something is 'easy' until you can make something that deals in the currency and hits the mark of greatness. cultural commentary over. the dashing duke (that's dashing as in a hurry...) -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Belleanseb@aol.com wrote:
The story I heard about Electronic Renaissance was that it was a throwaway song, Stuart M proving (to Chris?) that it was dead easy to write dancy stuff.
That sounds very plausible to me, sadly Stuart succeeded in proving quite the opposite. Don't we love them for their guitar-led brilliance rather than this synth cackhandery? Guess it just goes to show that even a band as talented as B&S can have their David Bowie moment. Let's just hope they drop the touted speed garage track "Sebastian's Nation" from the next album. I had hoped they were above all that.
x Belle
I hope you don't mean that you don't think Electronic Renaissance is any good? How dare you ... (gets horribly censored by Paul ... sorry!) I thought B&S were about what your fave track is and not which ones you don't like? Cheers, Katrina. (upset that anyone could slag off - sorry, australianisms - her most precious son ...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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