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Ripping off Olaf Stapledon > originality
May. 31st, 2007 06:51 pmThere's a film coming of The Dark Is Rising? Starring Ian McShane and Christopher Eccleston? Why was I not informed?
So I was listening to a hyphy compilation, musing that while the lyrics might be utterly incomprehensible the backing just sounded like hip hop acts who were more into Outkast than Fiddy &c, and this set me thinking about subgenres in general, and it ended up here: there are plenty of clubs which specify that in so far as they play indie, they only play the more glam end of it. And a good thing too, obviously, because until pretty recently they were the mainstay of my clubbing life. But, even at the height of Oasis' imperial period, even with the Arsewit Monkeys ascendant, I don't ever recall seeing an indie night that only played the loutish stuff. Sure, a lot of indie clubs have always been heavier on that than the good stuff, but why have none of them ever gone exclusive? Specifically included Morrissey, Suede and Franz Ferdinand from the playlist? In the nineties at least, there must have been a market for a kind of anti-Popstarz, 'indie for real blokes wot hate poofs'.
311 Italian prisoners serving life sentences call for reintroduction of the death penalty, as preferable to their current situation.
So I was listening to a hyphy compilation, musing that while the lyrics might be utterly incomprehensible the backing just sounded like hip hop acts who were more into Outkast than Fiddy &c, and this set me thinking about subgenres in general, and it ended up here: there are plenty of clubs which specify that in so far as they play indie, they only play the more glam end of it. And a good thing too, obviously, because until pretty recently they were the mainstay of my clubbing life. But, even at the height of Oasis' imperial period, even with the Arsewit Monkeys ascendant, I don't ever recall seeing an indie night that only played the loutish stuff. Sure, a lot of indie clubs have always been heavier on that than the good stuff, but why have none of them ever gone exclusive? Specifically included Morrissey, Suede and Franz Ferdinand from the playlist? In the nineties at least, there must have been a market for a kind of anti-Popstarz, 'indie for real blokes wot hate poofs'.
311 Italian prisoners serving life sentences call for reintroduction of the death penalty, as preferable to their current situation.
