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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
You've picked some good examples of 70s/80s innovative music, however I don't feel what you're demanding of my examples, "a totally new type of music" is even remotely supplied by some of your own, namely Swans, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Bauhaus. They're all innovative, and they sound different to much that went before, but NONE are in themselves "a totally new type of music".
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Ok so some of my examples weren't that great. What I'm getting at is that when I played 'Filth' for the first time, back in 1983, it blew me away. I had never heard anything like it before.
Same with 'Brother James', 'Day of The Lords' and 'Stigmata Martyr'.
The same with 'Despair' by SPK and 'John of Patmos' by Eyeless in Gaza and 'Thirsty Animal' by Einsturzende Neubaten.
I understand the 'nothing is truly new, everything is a rehash of previous work' argument, but when an artist takes such a giant step that what they produce is unrecognisable from anything that preceded it, then that is an evolutionary step in music. A new species of music.
That evolution seems to have ground to a halt.