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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: JANUS: Searching for a Sound that Doesn’t Exist

Interesting stuff, but I don't know if I could take a whole night of it.

I've started thinking that club music is really where the cutting edge of music is, and probably has been for quite a while. Not that there's nothing happening in other genres, but I frankly haven't heard any rock since... the 90s, or maybe early 2000s that I didn't feel like was just kind of a stylistic rehash. I'm not saying I haven't heard good stuff, but it's never really revolutionary. Rock has been explored from every angle, can it go anywhere else?

In clubs, especially since I moved to England, I've heard some really crazy shit. Stuff that you would never hear on the radio, which makes me feel like I'm living in the future. Not necessarily stuff I'd listen to at home, but it's exciting when you're having a night out, and you feel like the music is just challenging you to live up to its craziness. You could argue that it's fuelled by drugs, but one of the most interesting rock periods (psychedelia) was as well, so I don't necessarily view that as a bad thing.