Virtue in Vice
Apr. 23rd, 2004 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
Yeah, yeah, so the cynics will say that the reason Anne and I get 10 in Vice and Devendra Banhart only gets 8 is that I write for Vice and Dev doesn't. But I like to think it's because Dev's record could have been made in 1970, whereas ours really could only have been made now. It's the difference between pastiche and originality, between the timeless and the timely, between the classical and the contemporary. It matters, at least twenty percentile points-worth. Vice are right to point it out. Oh, they didn't. In that case, can I suggest that we got the two extra points for our unremitting European paganism, and that Dev lost his for the sickly Christian imagery. 'Rejoicing in the Hands' indeed! 'Young God Records' indeed! Harumph! Will Devendra's next album be called Ready for Rapture?
Amongst the Japanese people diverted here by Yahoo Japan the other day was an Osaka musician called Electron. I really love his mash-up of Eleanor Rigby.
dear pirate:
Date: 2004-04-26 07:41 pm (UTC)just another pat on the back?
are you nervous that dev might sell more albums than you, because people don't realize that you're more critically sound?
two things:
1. vice magazine gave are weapons a 10 as well so consider your company.
2. your work has rarely been without its fair share of pastiche.
so, here's a good healthy harumph! to you too.