tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post8300970614346663591..comments2024-03-18T11:43:53.754+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Alan McGee: The modern contrarianSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-3336367564120469042010-01-29T17:01:42.219+00:002010-01-29T17:01:42.219+00:00Indeed so. Not to mention Blair's involvement...Indeed so. Not to mention Blair's involvement. And Prince still winning best international act years after his peak. The Brits of a few years earlier were even worse.<br /><br />"Back for Good" is actually less irksome than the Oasis songs it beat.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-52756955449456074692010-01-29T15:57:08.554+00:002010-01-29T15:57:08.554+00:00Slow to react but I just spotted elsewhere that ye...Slow to react but I just spotted elsewhere that yesterday (the day Simon posted this) was actually Wyatt's 65th birthday!!! <br /><br />Interesting that Wyatt can become old enough to pick up his pension but is still relevant and working (Today programme, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ntb51" rel="nofollow">experimental radio plays</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/nvqv" rel="nofollow">French Jazz tribute album</a>, Hot Chip, Eno & Byrne, Bragg) whilst McGee is already a silly moaning old man. I also just looked up the 1996 BRITs - the year Oasis won most - and there's a hell of a lot of crap there. Bon Jovi won best international, Oasis (despite two nominations) lost best single to Back For Good, Simply Red played and Jimmy Nail was nominated. Yeah it were so much better back in my day...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-3685496730582867512010-01-28T17:25:19.230+00:002010-01-28T17:25:19.230+00:00*Really*?
Most of the best music for me was made ...*Really*?<br /><br />Most of the best music for me was made before or after the late 1990s. I don't recall being 18 with any great fondness - a lot of people don't, you know, in fact for many (myself included) it brings on shuddering nightmares and/or a sense that you simply didn't recognise what was *really* happening at that time. I feel a greater personal connection to a lot of music that was outside my personal experience, whether generationally or socially/geographically, than I do to almost anything I've ever been "supposed" to like.<br /><br />The problem with McGee is that he's tainted forever by his embrace of hip new Blairite capitalism, so has to jump into ever more pathetic pseudo-rebellious contortions to avoid dealing with the implications of this. He simply refuses to face the fact that disposability and short-termism *are* the establishment creeds these days, and to believe that certain jobs are done better by the experienced and unhip is now the most rebellious stance you can take (as the demonisation of Gordon Brown proves). I suspect you find that hard to face as well. I don't want to sound like Peter Hitchens, but we really do have an establishment in denial in this country, of which McGee is a quintessential example. He provides all the ammunition required for swearing off rock music forever - I'd be surprised if there are 20 "music journalists", if by that he means people who write in the established press, who care about what they're writing about these days (which itself is in large part down to the Oasis legacy); the real voices are in places he deliberately doesn't go.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-30983685061745719872010-01-28T10:49:10.792+00:002010-01-28T10:49:10.792+00:00Now that I'm getting that 40 way I can't s...Now that I'm getting that 40 way I can't say I'd want to agree with him, but does he not have a point that certain kinds of music are often only made well by the young?<br /><br />The trouble is no matter how good anyones music is the best era will always be when you're 18. Whoever you are. I mean 1993. Don't get better than that. (and only a couple of Oasis singles if I remember rightly and the best ones.)Elvita Adamshttp://elvitaadams.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com