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Yeh, that's a much better comparison, actually. Though I think we'd need to specify 80s metal (I get the impression contemporary metal isn't half as cliche-ridden as hip hop is now). Yeh, Whitesnake, that kind of thing. It was that tried and tested Julie Burchill technique of adopting a...

I know there was some discussion a while back of slang - but does anyone know where 'bare' comes from? US? Caribbean? Or UK?

My own views on hip hop are well known. Here are some reasons why I don't like it any more: 1. Black indie. Yes, yes, hip hop is very diverse from a certain POV, but the same case could be made for indie. The reality is that hip hop, like indie, is in the main massively conversative and...

CDs arrived yesterday and are predictably fabulous - atm my favourites are Renegade Legion - forbiddingly but compulsively abstrakt, like an alien unlifeform stalking vast underground titanium corridors - and Cypher's 'Frozen Boom Erection' which is not as mentasmatic as its title suggests...

Yeh, and I hear there was a bit of rain too.

Yes, university students have always been a militantly reactionary group, but they used to content themselves with keeping the Glitter Band and Tenpole Tudor in work. Now their tastes dictate the pop cultural agenda to an unprecedented degree. I think ppl are confusing two levels here, the...

I don't have a problem with absolutism. Culture should be more absolutist. As for this thing about 'aesthetic preferences' - surely having a distaste for mewling self-indulgence is about more than 'aesthetics'? I would agree with 'my music teacher'; it isn't music, but then again, Pop isn't...

Some points from a while back: 1. Singer-songwriters. Telling that Simon's list included John Martyn and Tim Buckley; both of whom are fascinating because of their DEPARTURE from folkist/singer-songwriter 'authenticity'. 'Stairsailor', 'Solid Air' and 'One World' are far from being rockist...

I don't understand why Simon wants to rehabilitate the term 'rockism'. Whatever he says, his account of rock itself is NOT rockist. (So he agrees with Tim and me, heh heh). And if the battles 'have been won', then why line up on the side that has lost? (btw it really is not only a dwindling band...

The most telling line in a post that is very incisive IMHO. That's why I do try to define what I mean by 'rockism' (or indeed 'popism') before rejecting them.. Think it would be a mistake to underestimate the influence of (what I am calling) rockism --- particulary among white teenagers, as it...

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy?

That isn't the argument; the argument is that, according to rockism, rock is the best type of music, and that one of the reasons for its superiority is its authenticity. Rockists, principally. btw the point about racism/sexism/heterosexism was not made in connection with authenticity but...

I think this article rests on a fundamental misapprehension; namely, that rockism is an accurate representation of how rock is produced. Yes, rockism might be about rock VALUES, but those values are a distortion of how rock has always operated. Rock is as much based upon populations and...

Anti-fi Yes, imagine an alternative universe in which alternative pop was still a possibility. Imagine, that is, a world in which there was no Coldplay, Athlete, Elbow and other priests of anthemic pathos... That's where Ariel Pink comes from. I went to the show at Matt's behest having heard...

Baudrillard remains the best writer on many of these matters - and Seduction is his best statement of his most provocative theses. Baudrillard claims that the 'struggle for subjectivity' is a concession to the power of the masculine, which has always been under the delusion that the subject is...

Yeh, but not much, and certainly hardly at all in the last five years.

Or hip hop. Yeh, but there's nothing inevitable about that; indeed, the whole point is that there's no intrinsic reason why there can't be a modern goth sound. Plus, much of the goth scene revolves around Industrial and NiN, which were more 90s than 80s.

(a) Right, where are the Wu Tang, BDP, Mantronix, Eric B, Jeru the Damaja, Timbaland of 2005? I notice that you offer no positive case whatsoever for hip hop, just the idea that condemning it is self-evidently wrong. (b) Easily done. Funk was not about men boasting about how much money they...

Yeh, it's about time some pressure was put on hip hop now. It's THE most complacent music ever. Prog rock/ 70s soft rock like the Eagles were cornucopias of crazed innovation compared to the tedium of rap, which has enjoyed twenty years of hegemony now . People have to recognize that there is...