From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #2 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, January 4 2011 Volume 10 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: my favorites of 2010 -- take 2 [Krueger.Thomas@epamail.ep] Re: [loud-fans] Music: What Happened [Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Music: What Happened Still working my way through the book, but I got the general impression (though I'm open to correction) that Scott quit examining the field intensively circa 2000, in which case he'd have to play catch-up. I *seem* to remember Scott giving up his albums lists around that time, but I can't seem to find those lists at the revamped web site... I've mentioned before (expanded and corrected here) that my list of crucial artists from the past decade includes but is not limited to: Meat Loaf, Richard Youngs, Warren Zevon, Smoosh, Kinski, Low, Venus Hum, Pere Ubu, Six Organs Of Admittance, Fountains Of Wayne, Otis Taylor, Patty Griffin, Sara Gazarek, Melody Gardot, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Walker, Boo Boo Davis... ...and except for one Wayne plus some Ubu (up to 1991), nothing from any of them by the index... Kudos for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and "Sesame Street," though! (No prizes for guessing how Scott got into "Sesame Street") Andy In the forward to his The Dark Stuff collection, Nick Kent wrote that he had already scored a cherry gig at NME, yet he felt ill prepared. So he traveled to Detroit and showed up at the Creem offices. "I mush-mouthedly asked Lester if," wrote Kent, "as the greatest writer of his day, he could, if not teach me, then at least indicate to me how to achieve some vague approximation of his creative intensity, he good-naturedly replied, 'Sure.'" After a two month tutorial on figuring out how to penetrate music and ask the right questions ("So you like this music? Why? What do you mean, it's got a nice middle-eight and the cow-bell sounds cute on the finale? That's not good enough. What are these guys really trying to sell us here? What does this music say to your soul? Do these guys sound like they even have souls to you? What's really going on here? What's gong on behind the masks?") Kent went on to revolutionize British music journalism from being music industry lackeys to the equivalent of wartime correspondents in the trenches of punk's guerrilla culture-war. - --from a review of "Let It Blurt: The Life & Times Of Lester Bangs: America's Greatest Rock Critic," by Jim DeRogatis, at http://www.fastnbulbous.com/rants_archive.htm ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #2 ******************************