If we are talking serious electronic pioneers then Charanjit Singh is a name who should be on any list, if the person knows their shit. Same with Delia Derbyshire. These people are two of the very few I think deserve the 'genius' label.
Ten I like off the top of my head, one per act Talking heads - remain in light Modern lovers- modern lovers Velvet underground- VU Pogues- red roses for me Pixies - surfa rosa William onyeabor - world psychedelic classic Death grips- Money store The fall- unutterable Fever Ray- fever ray Captain beefheart - shiny beast
Even better if you´d picked one the proper albums like Burnin´ or Catch A Fire . Or Exodus. Or Natty Dread or Rastaman Vibration.
world psychedelic Classic by Onyeabor is a compilation and love is overtaking me by arthur russel almost made my ten faves too but neither guy released albums during their career so whit ye goany dae
No compilations, fuckface. Why don't you just start putting in Now 36 or some shit like that if you wanna go down that road.
If guys never released official albums at the time, then after-the-fact compilations are their albums
I remember it vividily: Melody Maker weren´t impresed: "it is as slushily, pseudo-galactically crass and vapid as last year's Oxygène. The melodies are trite, harmonies predictable, textures almost determinedly hackneyed (even down to artificial 'weather' effects to generate mood). There isn't even much that's danceable" But then, back in the day, music reviwers and critics were notoriously tough on everyone - nowadays, any artist releases an album and it´s five-stars out of five every time.
Id sooner listen to somebody's old man read the accounts out a summerian ledger than listen to most the dead, hairy shit you and magus listen to. So there.
Most of anything from the 1990s onwards, really. In fact, that´s not quite right, I always feel music, artists, the business, etc....can be split into Pre-Live Aid and Post-Live Aid.
Onyeabor and Russell were both late 70s early 80s. Melody maker nailed it, Jarre is astonishingly awful pap, lawd.
Partially true But the seeds for the corporate takeover of the arts were already being sewn when The Eagles were telling radio listeners "don't even try to understand" MTV was the final slowly driven nail in the coffin for interesting pop music
Absolutely... idealistic artistic hippies gave way to ruthless libertarians pretending to be the former
There's a highly enjoyable book about the music industry especially in LA then called "Mansion on the Hill" that really does a number on Geffen, Eagles, Landau/Springsteen, etc etc ... you'd love it
For a moment the title 'Mansion On The Hill' reminded me of the Tate/ Manson murders... But actually I think I've seen a documentary on TV about the whole early 70s LA music scene...
Wow. That's funny. I listen to interesting pop music everyday. But you are saying it was killed in the 80's?
I don think it was 'killed' in so much as young people having more / varied interests since the late-80s onwards... Computer games, the Internet, social media, smartphones...etc