blissblogger
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most artists carry on long after they should have stopped, so the Q might equally be "who hasn't shat on their own legend?"
but who are the ones who have most soiled their own discographies?
it might not even be a question of bad records, just the sheer quantity of 'pretty good / decent' clogging up the discography - and also the way that the dogged persistence into the present serves to strip away the mystique and romance of their legendary phase, bound up as it is with a different era
in that category, I would suggest Faust (cover stars on this month's The Wire)
in "our" corner of the world, maybe Dillinja (although there are plenty of other golden-age junglists who soldiered on into the linear fastplod not-so-golden age)
(I suppose you can't blame artists for carrying on - what are they supposed to do with the rest of their lives?)
but who are the ones who have most soiled their own discographies?
it might not even be a question of bad records, just the sheer quantity of 'pretty good / decent' clogging up the discography - and also the way that the dogged persistence into the present serves to strip away the mystique and romance of their legendary phase, bound up as it is with a different era
in that category, I would suggest Faust (cover stars on this month's The Wire)
in "our" corner of the world, maybe Dillinja (although there are plenty of other golden-age junglists who soldiered on into the linear fastplod not-so-golden age)
(I suppose you can't blame artists for carrying on - what are they supposed to do with the rest of their lives?)