Posted December 2, 200816 yr Was listening to the free Heavy Mod album that was stuck to the cover of Mojo - and me dad asked me to turned it down at the point of Roky Erickson and his kinda psych-to-garage 13th Floor Elevators. well that came on and he was all 'wtf is this' - and making accusations that the band must have been dug up by very desperate compilers from a hole of obscurity...as he had never heard of them and so much not be important in the annuals of 60s rock and pop like dylan or the beatles (tho tbh when i put on his cd player his 60s album seems to be always full of $h!tty adam faith type plinkyplonk cheese...which is much much worse)... so the 13th Floor Elevators is that like really really random, or something that everyone (well not people just obsessed by 1984) would be into - from reading things like shindig they seem to be important and quite cool.... (btw i'm listening to keith sweat on 100 r&b hits now)
December 2, 200816 yr They are very important indeed. Although my parents wouldn't have heard of them at the time either - they weren't mainstram, just very, very influential.
December 2, 200816 yr Author They are very important indeed. Although my parents wouldn't have heard of them at the time either - they weren't mainstram, just very, very influential. yeah man thats the vibe that was coming across in the features ive been reading - and actually what you've said there what was i was thinking (well something along those lines ) an argument about not having grown up in these retro eras you wouldnt have the attachment to certain kinds of rubbish as say some who grew up in those era emotionally attached to it (in the 60s has to adam faith or for those 80s pop lovers on here most that c**p on itv2's now show) as that rose-specticled nostalgia wouldnt be there - and you could get a better perspective of what is decent and what is not perhaps...by putting everything into view? (tho this arguemnt could also be used the other way round with irony and kitsch cheesy stuff - and also certain icons as well who may be valued/rated too highly)
December 2, 200816 yr Yeah I like most of what I've heard by them. "You're Gonna Miss Me" is a '60s psych classic!
December 2, 200816 yr Author B)-->QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 2 2008, 05:55 PM) 2317647[/snapback]Yeah I like most of what I've heard by them. "You're Gonna Miss Me" is a '60s psych classic! do you read shindig as well??
December 2, 200816 yr Author B)-->QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 2 2008, 06:19 PM) 2317679[/snapback]No, what's that? I know there was a '60s TV show called that though. yeah im finding this intersting at the moment - and i even buy it even with out having a cd on the cover....it may not be the best looking magazine inside - tho perhaps equal to or better than artrock and without a lot of its pretention... http://www.volcanopublishing.co.uk/shindig/ http://www.ready-steady-go.org.uk/uploaded_images/shindig_005_01b-762948.jpeg
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