My dad has this attachment to 50s rock and roll and he rightly believes everything in pop music was invented in the 50s and possibly the 60s.

I remember most of these songs (the british ones) coming out and me being fascinated by what could be done differently to what was then the mainstream. However pop quickly devolved through the 80s and I found myself meandering back in time, from late to early Talking Heads, from late to early Genesis and Floyd and Yes and Jethro Tull and Mike Oldfield and Fleetwood Mac, discovering the Beatles and the Beach Boys were actually good at some point, finding out Frank Zappa was a thing and discovering that yes, the guy who made late 20th century pop music up in his garage, with his searches for new sounds and writing his own music and lyrics was indeed one Buddy Holly in the 50s.

Anyway I found myself listening to a rather childish track by Basement Jaxx years later and could not quite put my finger on what made that one track work for me. All these bands that only have one really good track... Anyway what was going on was a Gary Numan sample.

So I went back and listened to some of this old stuff and I was really surpised that some of it still works.

But back in 1980 if you heard Numan, early Midge Ure Ultravox minus the ubiquitous title track of the album, Visage, or a couple of years later the Eurythmics you would hear a sound that was strikingly new and different.

Thinking back Peter Gabriels 3rd solo album (although itself very electronic) took me out of the electronic pop bandcamp and more into alternative rock. That and lucking into a friend who had an older brother who had all the old Genesis records also as sheet music including lyrics. That or David Byrne.

The main point is the music you like is the music you liked when you were 13.

Measurably less intelligent. Nice summary. Starts as a rant but gets deeper.

Mercury at 4:00 and 5:33. Gold.

Also appearing: Frank Zappa.

I could not care less about "pop music" as such, but why cant there be even just one radio station run by someone competent to pick music?

Disclaimer: I like the first Coldplay album.

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ME and my roommate were discussing the lack of 'soul' in some musicians, and were using examples like Steve Vai vs. Frank Zappa and say, Yngwie Malmsteen vs. Buckethead, etc (for guitarists) and he brought up the whole Japanese fascination with jazz vs. a lot of her practitioner's technical skills relative to their lack of 'soul' and I was trying to think of an example of a Japanese musician WITH some soul, and could not remember this woman's name as I used her as an exception to the 'soulless', technical performer-

Thanks again Kulpims (pretty sure you first turned me on to this artist here), this woman has the whole soul + technical prowess package²

frank zappa already covered this... the radio is full of songs about love and feeling good, and thats not the pattern we see

And here all this time I thought you looked like Frank Zappa.

Looks like Frank Zappa to me.

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Yeah, I don't think Frank Zappa is coming back - sorry. >> ^spoco2:

First I thought you meant Frank Zappa.
Then I went to the KickStarter page and was confused
Then I watched the video intro and was amused
Then I was something else...used... damn

First I thought you meant Frank Zappa.

Then I went to the KickStarter page and was confused

Then I watched the video intro and was amused

Then I was something else...used... damn

>> ^therealblankman:

They bleeped "Masturbation"??? For real? So sad.


That's the cutting edge for you.

>> ^zombieater:

Any idea when this was recorded?


Before his death.

Thanks!

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why thank you !

People's perceptions are funny. Many of them who've heard of Frank Zappa assume (quite wrongly) that he was this huge drug addict hippie. Fact is, Frank Zappa never did drugs and hated the hippie subculture.

But in the end, facts require work to obtain and perceptions are free.