I understand your point about how perhaps the movement is not as big a shift in sound as it could be in theory. It's a difficult judgement to make after watching a couple of videos, especially the most popular ones (which tend not to be the most experimental). Still, I'm tempted to agree.
My hesitation comes when I try to think of a movement that reinvented the sonic grammar in the way you seem to be describing. There's the Beatles, of course, and perhaps the early rock 'n' roll movement, arguably.
But David Bowie? As much as I like him, I wouldn't attribute so much significance to his work. Perhaps, as you say, he was deeply tuned in to developments in art so that anything new would turn up in his work in some fashion.
That is what I'm claiming about the bands I showed you. Not that they are (yet?) the paradigm shift about to save pop music, but that they seem to be at the forefront of artistic advancement by mirroring its developments, in a similar way to what your bookstores seem to be doing.
I find it very interesting that you would say Yeasayer are older than you. I don't understand quite what you mean. It seems to me like you've taken your folk influences from artists that came before the folk artists that they've taken their influence from, and taken those influences forward with electronic and rock/pop elements that also seem to come earlier.
By the way, the 'old' part of the facebook comment is an inside joke with the person that commented before you, and not to be taken personally.
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:42 am (UTC)My hesitation comes when I try to think of a movement that reinvented the sonic grammar in the way you seem to be describing. There's the Beatles, of course, and perhaps the early rock 'n' roll movement, arguably.
But David Bowie? As much as I like him, I wouldn't attribute so much significance to his work. Perhaps, as you say, he was deeply tuned in to developments in art so that anything new would turn up in his work in some fashion.
That is what I'm claiming about the bands I showed you. Not that they are (yet?) the paradigm shift about to save pop music, but that they seem to be at the forefront of artistic advancement by mirroring its developments, in a similar way to what your bookstores seem to be doing.
I find it very interesting that you would say Yeasayer are older than you. I don't understand quite what you mean. It seems to me like you've taken your folk influences from artists that came before the folk artists that they've taken their influence from, and taken those influences forward with electronic and rock/pop elements that also seem to come earlier.
By the way, the 'old' part of the facebook comment is an inside joke with the person that commented before you, and not to be taken personally.