Posts by Simon Grigg
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And actually made am album that wasn't the aural equavalent of waterboarding the converted? Tom Yorke, IMNSHO, is the inverse Brooke Fraser -- with Fraser, enormous amounts of time and effort go into producing musical rice pudding. With Yorke, there's so much self-conscious "ART" going on, it's ever bit as tedious.
And I wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with Craig. Absolutely.
The Rice Pudding description was both bang on and made me laugh.
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I think last time it was visited there seemed to be a brave new world slant to radioheads bold move toward a visionary business model. the linked article kinda dampens that vibe,
I don't think anyone ever said that. All I ever said was that it was a roaring success for Radiohead, and it was. Nothing has changed there.
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You do realise you can push the stop button right?
And then, good frisbee.
Do Mp3s return?
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only enough to abandon it as a viable business model and relinquish it to the novelty act that it was, got em good attention, worked once, not so much the next time someone tried it.
Yep, I agree it worked well for them. That was all it was supposed to do, nothing else is vaguely relevant...err haven't we been over this time and time again?
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It's like she's the dark heart of some precise, calculating machine whose intentions we can only guess at. If ever the Antichrist were loose upon the land, it would look -- and sound -- like Brooke Fraser.
Yep, and it almost was that calculated, the launch of BF. There was a minor bidding war for her as I recall at the time she was signed but there was a definite feeling of a creatable easily defined and sold product in the offing. It was very much a case of a label having a taste for female singer songwriters after the huge success of Bic Runga. But the gulf between Bic and BF was glaring...Bic had soul and was always coolly unique , Brooke has little of either.
That radiohead article is very interesting however impatience probably had a bit to do with it... didn't their server go down because it was so popular?
As if Radiohead care. Anyway you look at it for them it was a massive and resounding success. They made more money than they'd ever made before because they owned the master, had a huge publicity blitz and a number one US album. All in a shitty time for the old school music industry.
Tom Yorke is grinning in that story for a reason.
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oh, and my most ardently disliked record at the mo is the bloody Fleet Foxes. Someone talked me into purchasing it...what horrible fey post hippy drivel....
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And if we're on the top of greatest gigs attended (were we kinda getting there?) - 3 words.
Daft Punk. Melbourne.
Most of my favourite gigs ever are New Zealand bands but for foreign muck, Kraftwerk, Sydney, 1980 (ish) does the trick, or the last night of The Elvis & The Attractions, Hammersmith Palais circa 84/85..1 1/2 hours of encores.
Listening to: the Mark E mix on Resident Advisor is very big right now, as is the new Paul Weller, the new Henrik Schwarz, Dixon & AME, Toby Tobias and hoping the new, finished copy, of The LEDS 2nd turns up this week in the mailbox.
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Perhaps the National Party could use them for policy
won't work, they are supposed to find things that actually exist
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The situation there is not pretty and China's support of that awful regime is next to complicit to genocide.
How about the UK or Singapore? They're the biggest investors in Burma. Or India, or Malaysia or Thailand? They're all pretty strong supporters of the junta, and all have this year signed trade agreements (India just last month)..or are we just selective in our outrage.
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National's deliberate policy vacuum
And as an interested party abroad, I've spent the last hour or so trying to work out National's Foreign and Defence policies from their website and elswhere. There is this from a speech some months back but it says little and is at best vacuous and non-committal. Lets sign an FTA with the US, be more like Ireland and align ourselves with Asia are hardly novel policy stances.
An honest question...is there anything more substantial than this out there, or is this it on that too?