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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
Well, you're probably a bigger VU fan than me, so I know you're not dissing him. Nonetheless, now that it's been vindicated by a touring string ensemble playing Metal Machine Music, I think the validity of it as a real electronic music composition stands pretty clear to anyone that wants to see it. Cale's comments could easily be applied to 2/3s of the electronic music composers, so yeah it does sound like the classic case of a classically trained musician being pissed off by less academic musicians using technological short cuts. The argument is worthwhile in that it creates a couple different schools of music that both produce great work. Cale, however, is ever the reactionary (which doesn't take away from my loving a great deal of his music). I remember a Melody Maker interview where he summed up hip hop music in the single word of "rubbish". Right now I'm listening to Dalek who combine hip hop with post-MMM type noise, and I'm sure he'd hate it.
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You make a good point as usual, but John Cale is far from being a reactionary. He's a huge fan of Dr Dre and he certainly is not the type afraid to use technology in his music. Listen to Hobo Sapiens (almost entirely an electronic record) alone, and you'll get what I mean. He likes some daft stuff like Beck though, the old bugger.