From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #95 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, October 8 2011 Volume 19 : Number 095 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How do you work this thing? [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:23:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: How do you work this thing? On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Rex Broome wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, lep wrote: > > Moz lui-meme's lyrics always strongly suggested to me that if you didn't do > exactly as he > did, you were beneath contempt. Of course there's that surface-level > putdown of all things popular and banal, which is normal for an > "underground" band, but beyond that there seemed to be many, many strict > proscriptions as to *how specifically* to be countercultural, and a > sneering > suggestion that if you did so in some other less-Morrissistic fashion, you > were doing it wrong. Actually, "Cemetry Gates" is one of the prime > offenders, strongly suggesting that it's not enough to be unfashionably > bookish, but that you really had to worship the *right* dead poets or "you > lose". > > Uh - except for "Meat Is Murder" (the song) - which really is unbearably preachy - I think you're taking him too seriously - assuming his words are literal, or only literal. I take his lyrics much more in a sort of ironic, Wildean mode..."here's the sort of thing this character might say..." - even though, true, probably he was recognizing tendencies of that sort in himself at the same time...and also at the same time, exhibiting that typically British rock-star egotism that seems almost required - yr Ian McCulloch "I'm the best singer in the best band ever" type of thing... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #95 *******************************