Comments on: Kogan on Frere-Jones http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: koganbot http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-335264 koganbot Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:59:56 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-335264 Which is to say that I actually don't think that "'cause it's the model for the modern mainstream" is a very good answer. Which is to say that I actually don’t think that “’cause it’s the model for the modern mainstream” is a very good answer.

]]> By: koganbot http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-335261 koganbot Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:52:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-335261 Carl himself didn't ignore the elephant... er, Mark says he's tired of elephant-in-room metaphors... didn't ignore the pink tarantula in the pillbox, kind of mentioned it at the end, but didn't highlight it... but the real point I think I was trying to make (was not the clearest piece I ever wrote) was that I think, for particular reasons having to do with right now, the particular indie subset that Carl was pinpointing is having trouble taking its voice from <i>any</i> contemporary models. Carl himself didn’t ignore the elephant… er, Mark says he’s tired of elephant-in-room metaphors… didn’t ignore the pink tarantula in the pillbox, kind of mentioned it at the end, but didn’t highlight it… but the real point I think I was trying to make (was not the clearest piece I ever wrote) was that I think, for particular reasons having to do with right now, the particular indie subset that Carl was pinpointing is having trouble taking its voice from any contemporary models.

]]> By: . http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-334947 . Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:53:53 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/11/kogan-on-frere-jones/#comment-334947 “An answer to the question “Why isn’t black music the model for today’s bohemia?” could be “because it’s the model for the modern mainstream.” Ahh...isn't this why indie started in the mid-80s anyway? “An answer to the question “Why isn’t black music the model for today’s bohemia?” could be “because it’s the model for the modern mainstream.”

Ahh…isn’t this why indie started in the mid-80s anyway?

]]>