Mr Blessed Blue Wings
We all have a little corner of our record collections that other people just shake their heads at. Many people find my love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers completely inexplicable, and I in turn am guilty of similar eye-rolling behaviour and piss-taking whenever I come across ELP, Yes, Genesis or (insert name of other macrobiotic muching neoclassical progwankers here) in friends record collections. So it's always reassuring when you discover that even the mightiest of musicians listen to some real toe-curling bollocks when no-one's looking. Sometimes they even name their bands after said shite. For instance, I was reading this rather fine interview with Des Kensal, High On Fire's drum maniac, over at PitRiff.com, and made the horrifically brilliant discovery that HOF are named after a fucking ELO song, namely Fire On High. Who'da thunk it?
posted by Dr Wommm @ 2:04 PM
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Des's revelation is indicative to an extent of a very American way of thinking, and I find it kind of refreshing. It seems that for Yanks hardly anything is taboo except the obvious current popshite that clogs the charts (and is snaffled up eagerly by Lex). Over here we have a much more rigidly defined sense of what you're not allowed to like, which I think reached its peak in the the punk era, and continued into post-punk and 'new pop'. Hence the concept of guilty pleasures, which I find really fucking stupid. Although it does make liking supposedly questionable stuff a bit more fun because people almost vomit on you when you declare an unironic love of Genesis and Rush, as do I.
Very true Mess, the whole idea of guilty pleasures in music is an idiotic idea generally invoked by the same sort of twats who nick their little sisters jeans and sport haircuts seemingy inspired by japanese schoolgirls who went over the top with the hair gel. And thats just the blokes...
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