From Mark Goodman (yes, THAT Mark Goodman):<\/p>\n
\nyou are way behind the curve when it comes to spotting great music (just discovering Gomez! Gnarls Barclay!the Mark Knopfler\/Emmy Lou Harris record that’s been around for months…are you fucking kidding!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What, is it 1972?<\/p>\n
Last time I checked, 60,000 albums were released a year.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know what the fuck is going on, you’re lying.<\/p>\n
I used to love to discover shit.\u00c2\u00a0 I listened to WNEW, I read "Rolling Stone" and magazines only a few of you have ever even HEARD of.\u00c2\u00a0 But I got this issue of "Paste" last week that reviews SO many records I’m not gonna check a single one out.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m gonna wait for one to rise to the surface.\u00c2\u00a0 Because my time is just too fucking valuable.<\/p>\n
I’m sick and fucking tired of the "professionals" in this business thinking that the world gives a shit about music, and is constantly combing the media for great new things.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, believe me, there are a few.\u00c2\u00a0 But most people tuned out LONG ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The cacophony is just that overbearing.\u00c2\u00a0 And then, when something reaches the surface like the White Stripes and you say to yourself THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT? you go back in your cave and don’t get fooled again.<\/p>\n
If only Gnarls Barkley’s album were as good as the single.\u00c2\u00a0 If only the Arctic Monkeys were as good as the Kinks.\u00c2\u00a0 If only ANY of the great white hopes lived up to the hype.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not saying there’s no good music out there, but I WILL say I haven’t heard anything revolutionary, that I thought was godhead, in a very long time.<\/p>\n
As for needing to know everything about the landscape in order to look cool, so you’ll respect me?\u00c2\u00a0 Thank god I’m old enough and have had enough psychotherapy to know that that’s complete bullshit.<\/p>\n
I have no doubt I can name bands, ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION, that you’re completely clueless on.\u00c2\u00a0 And what would that prove?\u00c2\u00a0 That my dick is bigger than yours?<\/p>\n
The story IS the cacophony, not the individual elements.\u00c2\u00a0 What does it take for something to rise to the surface, better yet, what does it take to STAY there, still MORE important, what is the cost of instant ubiquitous fame?\u00c2\u00a0 THAT’S the story of the twenty first century.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, you can reach everybody in a week, but at what cost?\u00c2\u00a0 Your credibility, your CAREER?<\/p>\n
Discovery is part of the process of falling in love.\u00c2\u00a0 And you have to have your enamored to yourself for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 But the pricks at major labels are on a full court press all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Did you know Britney had a baby?\u00c2\u00a0 God, there isn’t a SOUL ALIVE who doesn’t know this.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result, Britney’s a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 All the victims of media saturation are a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 Look at the reality TV stars.\u00c2\u00a0 Smart people don’t give interviews, and worry about their ultimate audience rather than the instant buck.<\/p>\n
The story is filters.\u00c2\u00a0 Places where you can go that separate the wheat from the chaff FOR YOU!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what the deejay is supposed to do.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s Mark Goodman’s JOB!\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want his job, I don’t want to listen to that much bad music.\u00c2\u00a0 As for terrestrial radio…it forfeited its job by becoming a pawn of the major labels.\u00c2\u00a0 We lost faith and then tuned out.<\/p>\n
I don’t need to be the first one there.\u00c2\u00a0 I just want to be hipped to the best information in an easy way.<\/p>\n