SEMI HIP 40 YR OLD SELLS CD COLLECTION.

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Slothrop said:
You lot are basically a bunch of indie kids who are too indie for indie, aren't you?
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I thought I was quite the music snob before I joined Dissensus. Then I realised that the next level of snobbery is hating everything that entry-level snobs love.

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"But Dad, don't we LIKE Burial?"
 
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trilliam

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replacements >> pavement everytime

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theres a lot of twentysomethings with this taste in music, its what they were told was "good", myself included..
 
Leo

Leo

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luka alluded to this upthread, but i like to think about not the top-tier of actual good cds by legitimately good artists that he owns because they were popular back when he was dating that one girl, but instead the part of his collection that represents the second (or lower) tier...the second wave after the innovators of a genre, the bandwagon jumpers who could dupe a semi-hip music fan, the caricatures, the ones who had the right haircut and got signed/packaged/hyped by the major label that needed to get in on the trend (or the sub-label they created to have more cred than themselves). the cds that are sort of embarrassing now to own but still have a place in his history, or at least one good track.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
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He has a screen print of Al Pacino as scarface which he has put back up now that he is single again
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Ahaha, "tedious icons of blokedom" as someone here beautifully put it a few years back. Probably in PBIDMHI.
 
trza

trza

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A successful pop act could sell ten million cd's in the nineties, a successful crossover could sell hundreds of thousands, semihip groups from this era could sell four hundred thousand and be considered failures by a major label, then they release independently to please their semi hip fans. And an independent release on a major independent could easily sell fifty thousand copies just from print hype or college radio. I would estimate there are a few hundred million cds in collection of semi-hip forty year olds today.
 
matt b

matt b

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A pre Chiastic Slide Autechre LP

Fairport Convention- Liege and Lief

Cannibal Ox- Cold Vein

A CD by an Italian/ French/ Spanish Reggae band that sounded ace in the record shop he visited on holiday. Sounded shit upon return home.

Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica (VG++++)

A single Naxos contemporary classical CD (Arvo Part- Tabula Rasa?)

Soul II Soul- Club Classics Vol 1

Pharaoh Sanders- Anthology

A Northern Soul Comp

Slint- Spiderland

St Germain- Tourist

A Luaka Bop CD

A Scott Walker CD

Gregory Isaacs- Night Nurse
 
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CrowleyHead

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Leo said:
the cds that are sort of embarrassing now to own but still have a place in his history, or at least one good track.
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To rapidly age myself, I love Natalie Imbruglia's debut to death, lame as that sounds. But honestly the songs are quite good and Phil Thornalley who did The Cure's "Pornography" is responsible for that, which is crazy because I adored both for separate reasons and before I learned the connection.

She's also got a great trip-hop song on that album.

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Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
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*hand shoots up*
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Enough to drive you to the needle? Fucking hell. :eek:

Alright then, the point was: everyone here really likes at least some of the music mentioned, and a lot of the stuff we're pretty much universally taking the piss out of is music that many of us did like as teens or students. As amply demonstrated by CrowleyHead.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Another thing about CD collections is that you were much more likely to buy a certain number of shit/mediocre ones because it wasn't like today when you can listen to everything before you buy it (IF you buy it!). In my case, at least, a lot of the time I was going off what magazines were saying, and sometimes I'd buy things ''blind'' from HMV just because I liked the look of the cover, or I'd heard of the artist. Or maybe you'd only heard the one single that was in the charts/on the radio.

I have no idea what provoked me into buying Mike Ladd - Welcome To The Afterfuture, though. I was probably into Company Flow at the time. :eek:
 
trza

trza

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Talking Heads were a little before my time, but then I found out that the guy from Talking Heads traveled around the world and released compilation albums and reissues and new stuff from half-forgotten people from Africa or South America. Those Luaka Bop releases, like that girl group from Zaire by way of Belgium was really mind blowing for semi hip people around 2000.
 
Leo

Leo

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i'm an old geezer and remember when the first talking heads album came out. there was a buzz about them for a year or so prior with lots of anticipation, and that first listen to the first album was so great. probably difficult to appreciate them years later when the quirky new wave thing had been done to death, but there simply wasn't anything that sounded remotely like them at the time, particularly since they emerged from the same cbgb punk scene opening for the ramones and that lot. art rock certainly existed before them, but they took in a fresh, weird new direction that later became very familiar, if not tiresome.

i got tired of them after awhile, like some elements of their later dance stuff but the first two albums are still wonderful little oddities.
 
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