― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
Quite possibly true, but I guess I never make the connection as you never seem to post on the Gathering (unless you're doing so under a different moniker).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
More of a lurker..only recent post of note...spotted Jaz & young PR woman in Camden about a month ago.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
I work two twelve hour overnight shifts a week, so I snatch up pretty much every music periodical there is (within reason) to fill up those empty wee morning hours. I really should stop reading ROLLING STONE and SPIN, as all they seem to do is make me mad (way, way more so that Q, who at least acknowledge the existence of certain bands).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe the reason people *won't* be listening to Wilco in two hundred years is because there probably won't be a large cultural and academic institution propping them up. If classical music wasn't so classical, wasn't so tied up in notions of good taste and refinement and a proper humanist education, would it be "timeless"? Certainly some people would listen to it, but any music you can name is liked and listened to by someone. Being accorded a privileged social status by the community as a whole has much more to do with how society sees itself in relation to the artistic form (and thus, simply, how society sees itself) rather than any inherent superiority within the music. The privileged status of classical music is as much about a dogged insistence upon the inherent rightness of the western musical tradition, and a reinforcement of class-based divisions of taste (see Bourdieu on this) as it is about the music itself. And one only has to look at Geir's frequent crypto-racist arguments for musical purity to see how deeply ideological appeals to Western Musical Tradition can be.
I'm not saying that classical music isn't good, but I don't think you can appeal to these notions of "timelessness" without noting the very glaring ideological dimensions to such a status (eg. we don't tend to call Chinese opera "timeless" - why not?). Maybe Wilco *will* be considered timeless in 200 years. If so, I'm sure society will have very good reasons for it and it won't simply be because Yankee Foxtrot Hotel or whatever it's called is some amazing album.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
I think that is a quite fair kind of predictability. What is pathetic is when a magazine gives a rave review to a band, and then, two years later said band follows that debut album with another album that is just as great, but in the meantime said mag has decided that band is no longer "hip", and as such, they give a really lousy review to their new album, while pretending to have disliked their previous one too.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
hahahaa
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
(All the shit they receive are probably from writers whose musical taste is so different from what Travis are doing they aren't given the job to review Travis at all - obviously, you don't ask a hip-hop/dance fan to review Travis)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
what a cop-out. you agreed with geir!
But Tim is correct here: that is what happens with 'Timeless' music: you can't argue with hiw good it is, how music and the way its received changes over time: it becomes preserved as this great thing and then ppl stop caring abt it. What is the point of even checking out classical music from bach or beethoven's time. I'd rather spend my time with 20th century classical right now.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
Well, some of it is nice to listen to julio!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link
little geeta: bah bach suXoR i hate playing these stupid inventionslittle geeta's sadistic russian piano teacher: (hits geeta's hand w. stick) bach was beautiful, shut up and keep playing!!
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
(ducks)
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
yeah dave- kind of like listening to old blues/jazz records, the noisy/crackly recorded bits add another dimension.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
good grief no julio!! (unless "i learned to play by playing along with the first 2 omd albums" counts as musick theory)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― ArfArf, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link
― ArfArf, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:47 (twenty years ago) link
― ArfArf, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
If the name of the magazine was Dave Q and content was reflected accordingly, this would be a beautiful world.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, it is a bit of a cop-out, but it was never mind intention to start a thread about "timelessness," but rather about Q Magazine (and I don't see them as interwoven topics.)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― bypasser Devon, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
That's not actually true though is it?
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:07 (twenty years ago) link
Its a fair point.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
Doesn't this tell you that while cutting edge creativeness does get remembered, it is still the really great tunes that are really remembered?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link
* Q will be:
Definitive
The inside story
Informative
Useful
Funny… but never whacky
Credible
All encompassing
Accessible
… And it will know what it’s talking about
* The 9 Do’s of Q writing/editorial:
1/ Do be smart, but never cleverer than the reader
2/ Do avoid stock phrases. Q will use language that is its own, not the latest in phrases/words/sayings. We stand apart.
3/ Do be the readers’ guide without patronising them.
4/ Do be irreverent, but do so with authority and affection.
5/ Do fear the pun.
6/ Do take our own view entirely separate from both hype and accepted wisdom.
7/ Do be passionate.
8/ Do be prepared to stick our necks out.
9/ Do deliver the complete picture.
* The 9 Don’ts of Q writing/editorial:
1/ Don’t dumb down for the reader.
2/ Don’t be lazy: ie. Using clichés, praising one artist at the expense of damning another.
3/ Don’t use flowery language.
4/ Don’t assume knowledge.
5/ Don’t be a smart arse.
6/ Don’t force the humour (ie. if a caption is best served with a simple piece of information, use it).
7/ Don’t assume knowledge.
8/ Don’t just ask the obvious question.
9/ Don’t ever write: ‘The best album since…’
― MeejaInsider (MeejaInsider), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link
We stand apart.
stick out necks out.
the complete picture.
10. Do assume that all readers have the average mental capacity of a three-year-old Down's sufferer.
11. Do give at least four stars to new releases by major artists for fear they won't give the magazine an exclusive interview.
12. Scratch certain PR agencies' backs and they'll scratch yours. Particularly applicable to those contributors who are contracted to write exclusively about artists handled by one specific PR agency.
13. Do not use language. Emoticons and star ratings are all our thrusting Thatcherkid readership has time to require.
14. Emap shareholders pay your wages.
15. Do be compliant.
16. David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister.
17. Do remember that music has been shit since "Friday I'm In Love" by the Cure.
18. Do not under any circumstances cite track seventeen of the second Bubonique album.
19. We are in charge.
20. Any Trouble are the great hope for 2007.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
AAAAAAHHHHH what's a smart-ass to do????
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link