Re: label descripts

aargh! (aargh@erols.com)
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 20:28:53 -0400


>I've never had 5 courses of chicken vindaloo before, but I could eat a
>dinner and say that I ate food. Or I could eat a dinner and say that I
>ate chicken vindaloo, a salad, a potato, a cup of fruit, and a Cup of
>Tea=99. Labels may not help while you are listening, but they sure as
>hell do when you are trying to describe what it is you hear.=20

Yeh but the minute you describe it like that people get lazy. They say oh
I just want the fruit, the salad, or the tea. But I don't want all three
altogether. And they don't consider what it's like to have all three going
together .... But you'd get bored (and sick) if all your diet ever was was
fruit, salad, and tea. And that's the way I see it with these labels ...
the minute you say "oh that's dnb", someone's gonna say "all I want's dnb,
everything else sucks." But you start really tearing apart what they're
listening to and it does have variety to the point that after a while the
term dnb gets meaningless ... like say "alternative." If you say hard
trance, I'm going to think of Cajmere, but you might think of Cajmere as
something completely different.

>I agree with you here. The undefined is always on the cutting edge of
>music. But in order to recognize what is undefined, you need to know
>what is defined, and this is why the labels are there. =20

But it never gets defined!! That's what I'm saying ... "I Feel Love",
"Heart Of Glass", and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" are all songs I've seen
described as disco ... but these records sound nothing alike to me other
than they're Really Slow dance songs (except for "I Feel Love"). And they
sound nothing like KC & The Sunshine Band which is what I think of when you
say "disco" .... =20

>What exactly is a chicken vindaloo anyway? Is that a deep food or a
>progressive one?

It's this monster dish for people who like to overeat that I wouldn't touch
with a ten-foot pole. Some sort of gravied chicken over pasta with bacon
wrapped around it. Nitrate city -- strictly for people who don't care
anymore. A friend of mine ordered one while we were out to dinner and
later that night he thought his stomach was going to explode ... said it
was the heaviest thing he'd ever eaten. I was eating sweet potato ravioli
and asparagus and it was great.