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!
Wait, wait…wait: THIS is where Nirvana go that lyric from?!
And the melody is from the song "Eighties" by Killing Joke (for real, there was a lawsuit, Nirvana had to write a big fat check).
I thought they got it from Kurt's Uncle's barbecue invitations.
"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"
Agreed. I love Brian Eno but he's old and not quite the paragon of cool that he used to be.
The record he made with John Cale around 1991 is one of the worst, and least cool, things I've ever heard. Absolutely atrocious.
Yes, it's not so much "the death of uncool" as growing the fuck up and getting to know shit and what you like.
That's the motto of the Anglican church in Canada, Come as you are. I don't think they mean it, though.
oh they mean it. those anglicans need all the help they can get. hooligans.
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basically Eno says: fragmentation and subjectivity are 'cool' thus making 'the longview' and objectivity 'uncool'
hm
I always thought psychedelic music was just a euphemism for abstract expressionism.
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?)
Dude. Gay.
it's not the death of cool because cool assumes there is a singular point that cool is judged from. With the ubiquity of creative consumables that singular point disintegrates and cool becomes popularly accepted as subjective. It could be considered the death of cool because nothing is cool or the death of uncool because everything is cool. I think naming the 'phenomenon' is pointless – there is no cool/uncool, there just is.
fuck this shit. just give me more posts about bears.
Bear videos are the singular point that cool is judged from.
the still point at the center of revolving coolness.
But Peter Wolf was never uncool.
Cool means shit. The amount of energy wasted before learning this is tragic.