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I have the theory that it have something to do with music journalists problem of getting into electronic music in 90s. Most of them, rock based, actually didn't like rave culture, but they still had to react to the enormous amounts of music put out by these scenes. And then it became very...

I think you're absolutely right here. Now this is really interesting, because oddly I'm really into The Bevis Frond, one of the few rock artists I've cared to follow in the 90s. Bevis obviously has a HUGE oedipus-thing going on with Hendrix, going as far as writing these lines: I took an album...

Obviously, each and every one of us know we'll be able to do it much better. Well, I do. When I was younger I used to invent fictive festivals with fictive line ups. Sometimes fictive bands too.

But this is the whole point of what I don't like about him - that I really never ever heard him as ahead of anything. On the contrary, except for Beethoven I've never heard any other supposed timeless genius sounding so bloody dated and dependent on it's time. Now... I am aware that Hendrix...

Now I never thought that this thread was about kicking things out. I actually do think that a lot of stuff that I don't really like deserves to be in "the canon" exactly because of its influence, I just don't undrstand how it ever did become so influential. So in a way I think the second new...

Not necessarily. I never really experienced jungle in the natural element, but I still get it. Or at least I think I do.

This is certainly a part of it, but when you've listened to music for a long time, you get to know yourself enough to know when something is just not worth trying to get any more. That doesn't mean that you can't understand the historical importance, just that you've become so confident with...

There's just too much overrated stuff to even mention... I think there's a point to almost everything that have been up here, actually. But my personal winner: Jimi Hendrix! The incarnation of everything I hate about the electric guitar. The Liszt of rock - yuck!

You're probably thinking of the Rupert Howe interview that was up on the old blissout page once.

I actually think HPSCHD is quite enjoyable for the concept alone, it's just so wonderfully ridiculous. Not that I hear it often (if ever) of course, and I'm certainly glad I didn't pay more than 10 kr. (that's £1) for it, but it's just pre-empting some of the V/Vm cod-avant garde so perfectly...

If you ask me, "just" as important as Germany is pretty much as important as it gets. Should I for some bizarre reason choose to listen to music from just one country, my choice wouldn't be between UK and US, but UK and Germany. I've tried to do a little statistics on my favorite records of the...

Well, I did say there was good music, but I really don't know about "groundbraking"? In what way? Any examples? OK, this could be part of the explanantion. Still not convinced it's all of the explanation, though. Maybe I'd be if I'd heard more of the obscure 80s stuff and found it as great as...

Maybe, but I doubt it... I suppose my question could be rephrased as: Why haven't this happened? Why are Der Plan and Palais Schaumberg and Asmus Tietchens still not as famous and influential as Can, Neu and Faust? (Eventually, I think Woebot is on the right track about this). Please notice...

Yeah, but those two are more or less unknown to anyone but the few experts. The existence and influence of Can/Neu/Faust/Kraftwerk/Tangerine Dream, and probably Amon Düül II/Popol Vuh/Cluster too, is almost basic knowledge for everyone interested in rock history. Der Plan/Palais Schaumburg are...

Debussy made a childrens ballet called La Boite a Joujoux (The Toybox). Remains one of my all time favorit pieces of classical music, even though I didn't hear it until I was... hmm... fourteen or something. So not a nostalgic childhood thing for me.

Inspired by the krautrock thread, where we just slightly touched neue deutsche welle before it fizzled out, I'd like to hear peoples opinions about something that have really puzzled me. Now, no matter who you might consider the kraut canon of the 70s, there obviously was enough indisputable...

Neptune is brilliat proto-ambient. I have a record where it's followed by Ligetis Lux Aeterna, a perfect conceptual connection. Mars is obviously a classic. Sampled on several old school rave tracks, as well as covered twice by Laibach. Anyway, Holst Planets fits neatly on a single LP, so I...

That's actually exactly what I'd want! However, if that isn't allowed, I'd travel back to the time of the Cambrian (some 550 million years ago) and watch trilobites and other strange creatures.

Hmm, did harvest do much more than rerelease old Air Liquide stuff? I have completely lost track of them recently, but I too used to love their early work. Would really like to hear that shark track you're talking about, I've only got Shark trax vol.2 and I'm not really exited by it. Damm, as...

Yeah, that's 5 Years on Speed, the best way to get most of his early gabber stuff. Groundbreaking for 1992/93 when it was originally made. I do, in all honesty, consider him the greatest living musician.