philblackpool
gamelanstep
Dunno if there's a thread for this already, but fired up by the press release hall of shame, I wondered about what people's favourite ever examples were of total out-&-out pretension in music itself. I'm no heathen, I used to be involved in running an avant-garde jazz club in Leeds, but sometimes you do just have to roll your eyes or slip into a coma with some of the stuff featured in Wire mag or laugh uproariously at people's attempts to do something never done before that really may not have been worth doing (see the South American hip hop version of The Magic Flute that I posted in the Worst Thing You've Heard Recently thread). LPs where all you hear is a slight rustle of some paper every coupla minutes, po-faced delivery of absurd concept albums, let's have em...
