On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 12:19 am, Michael Hurwood wrote:
I make it a policy not to listen to a band whose name I can't pronounce. Care to enlighten us?
i don't suppose you get that advert for O2 i think it is. it for a mobile phone network - but being in the uk, i guess they don't opperate in down under one of their other tracks is on another advert on british tv too - but i guess that's a bit redundant too erm.... how best to describe them..... i'd say they're like more mainstream Orb maybe? more mellow than Bentley Rhythum Ace, but along those lines although, two be fair, there's only 2 tracks on the album that i like
What they appear to fail to appreciate is that their actions during the time they were "The KLF" will continue to have an effect as people in that generation that listened to them move into the lime-light in their own right. What is more, they have left a body of work that will, rightly or wrongly, outlive them. (They probably feel wrongly, given the deletion of their back catalogue.)
Should any artist have this attitude? And should we respect it?
isn't that the point of art though? that it out lives you because you create it at point in time and then move on, but it stays and influences anyone else that is in the same emotional/mental place you where when you made it so i think they have a right to want to move on, and also to be knarked that all we seem to be interested in is them for their past work, not so much interested their current work (or at least that's how it probably appears to them) and i think, they probably also have a right to want us to move on too. they've been there and done that, and moved on to a higher plane of art. but us fanatics are still stuck hung up over their earlier stuff. it's like going upto one of todays leading artists and saying "yes, yes, i quite like this piece you've just won the award for and they are hanging in the center of the tate modern, but can you talk to me about these crayon pictures you did at kindergarten, those are the work of yours i really like" or something -- --- if you have a cross to bear i think its fair if you use it as a crutch - moloko -- ----------------------------------------------------- -- illitrate Publicashions - jai@illitrate.co.uk - http://www.illitrate.co.uk/ - --- --------------------------------------------------- ---