Re: More filler on the BBC.....
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:28 pm
warren zevon rip wrote:
> So what difference does it really make, surley we listen to the music, not the socio-economic categories...
You're right, of course. It's not where you're from it's where you're at, as someone once said. The point I was making is that The Arctic Monkeys, authentic or not, are working class in a manner so readily identifiable and perfectly acceptable to the middle classes, i.e. very northern, slightly noisy, very nasal, very kitchen sink drama etc. No real insight, nothing contrary, nothing to get people's backs up (as Oasis once did), just a small band who got big because something needed to happen. They stand out only because of the sheer, number of middle class acts predominant in the music industry at present (Blunt, Keane, Coldplay etc). And in their own way they're as equally safe and unthreatening, and likewise slightly empty.
They have every right to be, I suppose. But for all the fuss you think something more substantial should be there, though obviously this is the media's fault more than theirs. As for the actual music, any Fall album puts either Monkeys album to shame.
> So what difference does it really make, surley we listen to the music, not the socio-economic categories...
You're right, of course. It's not where you're from it's where you're at, as someone once said. The point I was making is that The Arctic Monkeys, authentic or not, are working class in a manner so readily identifiable and perfectly acceptable to the middle classes, i.e. very northern, slightly noisy, very nasal, very kitchen sink drama etc. No real insight, nothing contrary, nothing to get people's backs up (as Oasis once did), just a small band who got big because something needed to happen. They stand out only because of the sheer, number of middle class acts predominant in the music industry at present (Blunt, Keane, Coldplay etc). And in their own way they're as equally safe and unthreatening, and likewise slightly empty.
They have every right to be, I suppose. But for all the fuss you think something more substantial should be there, though obviously this is the media's fault more than theirs. As for the actual music, any Fall album puts either Monkeys album to shame.