IdleRich
IdleRich
Or at least, a Guardian article on the subject (which is dear to dissensus' heart) here
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2060953,00.html
My first reaction on reading that is that they are missing the point (or at least the big question), by picking quotes such as
are they not automatically assuming that rock can still be futuristic?
My take is that the journalists who write this kind of thing are trapped in that they want to hear something "new" but they want it to fit a format that they are familiar with (and that some would argue is dead).
Paul Morley said
Vincent Vincent wouldn't agree
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2060953,00.html
My first reaction on reading that is that they are missing the point (or at least the big question), by picking quotes such as
"I cannot stand the fact that so much rock music is ridiculously retro"
are they not automatically assuming that rock can still be futuristic?
My take is that the journalists who write this kind of thing are trapped in that they want to hear something "new" but they want it to fit a format that they are familiar with (and that some would argue is dead).
Paul Morley said
"Something that was meant to be a radical music has become truly conservative, in that it conserves: it's recreating shapes and riffs and sounds that have happened before."
Vincent Vincent wouldn't agree
I would say that if he really thinks that he's deluding himself - Vincent Vincent are just a shit indie band - but, more likely, he's just saying that because he doesn't want to admit his own conservatism.Vincent Vincent thinks it's a positive advantage that someone like him has more than 60 years of musical history to draw on. "That's what this whole first decade of the 21st century has been about: this massive amalgamation of all the previous decades," he argues. "We now are in the luxury position that we can cherry-pick our favourite things from the past." A fan of Elvis, doo-wop, Bob Dylan and the 1970s rock'n'roll revisionism of Jonathan Richman and Richard Hell, he aims to "pull rock'n'roll apart and add modern things to it". Doing so, he thinks, makes Vincent Vincent and the Villains "perhaps the most forward-looking, adventurous band out there. I feel like I'm presenting something new, something different that people haven't thought about. An English rock'n'roll band of now."