November 25, 2009

You know what? "Can't Get Started" is a pretty great song.Now that everything is available to all of us at any time, does that mean that the concept of "uncool" is over? Brian Eno thinks that it does, which may bode well for unjustly neglected masterpieces of adequacy such as Peter Wolf's 1987 release Come As You Are. There's hope for all of us!

by Balk posted @12:54 PM
 
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  1. ecgroom [#570]

    Wait, wait…wait: THIS is where Nirvana go that lyric from?!

  2. LondonLee [#922]

    "The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness"

    He obviously hasn't met any teenagers.

    I think "uncool" is over because I'm an old fart who can't be bothered worrying about stuff like that anymore (Barry Manilow or the Sex Pistols – it's all good to me) but I still hear youngsters dissing things because they're "old" or "slow" or "black and white"

  3. formerly it takes a lot etc. [#87]

    That's the motto of the Anglican church in Canada, Come as you are. I don't think they mean it, though.

  4. TerseNursePornstein [#58]

    Comment commending your "masterpieces of adequacy" will be delayed as we struggle to regain composure lost to the Doctor Pangloss tag. Please stand by.

  5. beingiseasy [#1735]

    basically Eno says: fragmentation and subjectivity are 'cool' thus making 'the longview' and objectivity 'uncool'

    hm

  6. HiredGoons [#603]

    I always thought psychedelic music was just a euphemism for abstract expressionism.

  7. bshep [#746]

    See, I think the fact that everything is available to all of us all the time is more likely to mean the death of cool. But then maybe it's all one and the same thing? (can something be uncool without a cool to judge it against?)

  8. sailor [#396]

    But Peter Wolf was never uncool.

  9. codswallower [#2355]

    Cool means shit. The amount of energy wasted before learning this is tragic.

 

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