Past the Due Date On The Prime Meats
At 7:24 PM 12/7/98, TweeKid@--hidden-- wrote:
>If you think about it, both the TVP's and the Pastels have been around almost
>20 years, how many bands going have anything to say after three albums?
quite a few. of course most bands change over time, so after three albums
any band will be almost a completely different group of people, but this
probably has a lot to do with artists being young and changing a lot as
they get older and progress in your work. or whatever less wanky way you
want to put it. i mean, i think of bands like yo la tengo whose newer
stuff i find myself loving more than the old, the magnetic fields and all
the stephin merritt projects (ok, that had to come up ;) and the latest st
etienne album which is fabulous and completely different than their older
stuff. now none of this really fits in with what the shalala list is
supposed to discuss, but i think that's because a lot of the bands this
list is devoted to discussing were more of the moment sorts of groups. and
yes, it's easy to prove me wrong here, as it always is when one makes
grand, sweeping generalizations, but here me out for a moment. i'm not a
sarah records worshiper, but i really like their view that the music they
released was more of a document of a moment in time than anything lasting.
the best bands on sarah certainly released fewer than three records (matter
of opinion, i know).
so basically, i just proved matt wrong, then proved him right again. ;)
sorta. i guess my overall point is that if a band grows musically, then
they'll endure, and if not then they should break up after three albums.
how's that?
xoxo
megan
mkl206@--hidden--
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