tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post7036629171722489710..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Against rockismbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-40448610010323932902008-06-18T22:36:00.000+01:002008-06-18T22:36:00.000+01:00nice postnice postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-74417597519267289632008-05-16T13:36:00.000+01:002008-05-16T13:36:00.000+01:00Thank you for that Chris! Speaking for England is ...Thank you for that Chris! Speaking for England is not something I do often. <BR/><BR/>On authenticity: I don't think acoustic instruments are any "authenticer" actually. You could equally say only the human voice is "authentic", but that's not true either. There's no such thing. We are humans, and humans create and innovate and distort. <BR/><BR/>On Krauss and Plant: I have heard some of it, and I found some of it worked for me and some of it didn't. I would venture to say that the bits that didn't work were the bits that smacked of rockism!bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-8114119515909125442008-05-16T10:23:00.000+01:002008-05-16T10:23:00.000+01:00You're speaking for England, Bob. You might have p...You're speaking for England, Bob. <BR/>You might have pointed out that the notion that there's anything authentic about electric instruments is pish. Only acoustic is that. But then, rock relies on volume for what effects it aspires to have.<BR/>Am I alone in being depressed by Alison Krauss's collaboration with the prat Robert Plant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-40573309641190631122008-05-15T17:46:00.000+01:002008-05-15T17:46:00.000+01:00OK, it's not rock music as such I hate so much; it...OK, it's not rock music as such I hate so much; it's what I call rockism: the ideology that goes with rock music, the blokishness, the posturing, the pretence at being cool and transgressive. <BR/><BR/>Or maybe it is just AOR rock that I can't stand, and I'm just being an intellectual snob/reverse snob, and over-analysing it, and I need to get over it. <BR/><BR/>Some of my favourite music is, of course, rock: the Stooges, Motorhead, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, the Eagles...bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-1560912918563044392008-05-14T21:31:00.000+01:002008-05-14T21:31:00.000+01:00You've got to let a little rock into your life Bob...You've got to let a little rock into your life Bob; just not the stuff that's on Virgin.Andrew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10763753671606930383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-14826728860548260322008-05-14T17:03:00.000+01:002008-05-14T17:03:00.000+01:00I don't buy it. I could turn this the other way a...I don't buy it. I could turn this the other way around and compare, say "T.V. Eye" by The Stooges to...I don't know...some Robbie Williams song or something like that, "Angels" or whatever...and I promise that you'd be far more moved by The Stooges. To make a completely banal observation, it's less about rock vs pop than it is about good vs crap.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375230713040998061noreply@blogger.com