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I've been listening to a little bit of electroclash lately, trying to familiarize myself with it. I'm such an electronic/new wave fan, I feel like I'm almost obligated to like it.
But for some reason, it's left me feeling underwhelmed and flat. I downloaded and listened to some of Ladytron's 604, and after about three songs, I'd heard enough. All of the songs sounded the same to me. Now a non-electronic music fan would probably say the same thing about some of the techno I listen to, and that's fine. But this was the same keyboard playing the same rhythms over and over and over. I imagined one of the band members (all in black, of course) standing over a Korg, with his index finger pointing straight down, hunting and pecking the same three keys.
Fischerspooner is a bit more tolerable to me, and I've been on and off listening to their latest.
I just remember the feeling of excitement I got when I first heard GusGus' "Polyesterday" or Underworld's "Dirty Epic" or New Order's Technique -- that feeling when you hear the song or see the video for the first time and think to yourself, "OMG, that is fucking brilliant. Must. Have. Everything. This. Band. Ever. Put. Out." This electroclash stuff isn't doing it for me -- or at least hasn't done it for me yet. I'm really trying hard to give some of this trendy new music a chance, but I'm worried that most of my appetite for new music ended sometime around 1994.
Of course, it doesn't help that as I typed this, the bloops, bleeps and boing boom tschak's of Kraftwerk's Electric Cafe blared from my iPod's headphones into my head.
Current mood: Techo-poppy
Replies: 2 shoutouts
No doubt. That Nu Metal rulz dude. Creed rawks.
Posted by Huffy @ 04/29/2003 01:03 AM EST
Welcome to getting old. I'm sure that if I was 20 I would think that Linkin Park was great. I'm 27 so it's just loud and empty.
Posted by Richard @ 04/28/2003 05:49 PM EST