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The right wrong thins is quite appealing but you could argue in an Adorno way that really its nothing more than a fetishisation of nuance and detail on what remains essentially a rather narrow band of underlying musical forms. Whether its Kylie or Joy Division the range of keys, sequences, time signatures etc employed in popular music remains much the same. Therein lies the success of those like ENO who can make music seem different and exciting and new when it’s rather the same. We can and do enjoy this delight in detail but it will always leave us thirsty for more nuance and difference and therein lies the capitalist/consumer paradox. In this light John Peel was actually the most commercial DJ on Radio 1 as he kept on endlessly rediscovering the same music.