[I almost called this Drugs In Music,]
I know its been a thing, especially in some threads of music journalism/appreciation but especially , as regards things coming out of rave, to study the history of drugs alongside the history of music as a means of gauging the general psyche of music qua its context and its creators. This has always had ties to the authenticity/creative aspects of talking-about-music for me, and I thought I might at least throw it out there in light of my ignorance of the rest of the world, and my\e on the subject.
Viz.,
It was Reynolds who first implanted the cognizance of this particular tack to me, although I suspect its history lies more with older heroes, recently departed and not .
uh, enough for the introduction to this damn essay, i was thinking about how many of responded to k-punk's thread about weed, and i was listening to one of the first ever actual grime sets i've ever heard that was being all live...and and i was like 'huh, incongruity', since a few of the mcs espoused it and it's prolly a part of the scene. And I listened to some baile funk and thought about it, and I listened to some old what-I'd-call-Acid-House and thought about it, and came to 'a thinkeration'.
And since I can't ask about whether or not y'all take drugs and listen to something and then it makes sense, I'm shortenin' the old thesis and ask a few: I know around where I am (los angeles), marijuana and alcohol and cocaine and speed(but only for the girls) still pretty much fuel most of the drug diets around here, creatively and not. And Los Angeles' scene, for a good 90% of it, sucks ass. Are on y'all something we don't know about or can't get here? Does marijuana affect my understanding of grime [ or worse, authenticity at all?] and what its doing [i listen, i like, but it doesn't grip me. A lot of good things don't- I didn't like hip-hop till my freshman year of college when I saw girls dancing to Tribe)? Would Sodium Pentothal allow us to solve the "MIA - authentic, false, post-modern, or something else entirely" debate?
if you want some justification, once you've connected music + drugs connection, music + politics is easy as calculus.
please spout away, for edification or logorrheatics.
I know its been a thing, especially in some threads of music journalism/appreciation but especially , as regards things coming out of rave, to study the history of drugs alongside the history of music as a means of gauging the general psyche of music qua its context and its creators. This has always had ties to the authenticity/creative aspects of talking-about-music for me, and I thought I might at least throw it out there in light of my ignorance of the rest of the world, and my\e on the subject.
Viz.,
It was Reynolds who first implanted the cognizance of this particular tack to me, although I suspect its history lies more with older heroes, recently departed and not .
uh, enough for the introduction to this damn essay, i was thinking about how many of responded to k-punk's thread about weed, and i was listening to one of the first ever actual grime sets i've ever heard that was being all live...and and i was like 'huh, incongruity', since a few of the mcs espoused it and it's prolly a part of the scene. And I listened to some baile funk and thought about it, and I listened to some old what-I'd-call-Acid-House and thought about it, and came to 'a thinkeration'.
And since I can't ask about whether or not y'all take drugs and listen to something and then it makes sense, I'm shortenin' the old thesis and ask a few: I know around where I am (los angeles), marijuana and alcohol and cocaine and speed(but only for the girls) still pretty much fuel most of the drug diets around here, creatively and not. And Los Angeles' scene, for a good 90% of it, sucks ass. Are on y'all something we don't know about or can't get here? Does marijuana affect my understanding of grime [ or worse, authenticity at all?] and what its doing [i listen, i like, but it doesn't grip me. A lot of good things don't- I didn't like hip-hop till my freshman year of college when I saw girls dancing to Tribe)? Would Sodium Pentothal allow us to solve the "MIA - authentic, false, post-modern, or something else entirely" debate?
if you want some justification, once you've connected music + drugs connection, music + politics is easy as calculus.
please spout away, for edification or logorrheatics.
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