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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
When you consider that Captain Beefheart (true rock innovator) and White Noise - An Electrical Storm
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Just for the sake of balance, I'll just say that that Electrical Storm record, regardless of the context, is dull as piss these days. I don't mind the Oram/ Derbyshire re-issues, but AES just seems like second-rate concréte, a novelty record that should remain so.
And Beefheart is nowhere near as clever as his acolytes make him out to be.
EDIT: There's another point actually - that of when people say 'in the context of [x]'. I often find that saying 'it was revolutionary at the time' is analogous to the 'well, black people have the vote, therefore what are they whinging about now?' argument. In 2009 (as Marras says) it's singularly unimportant how 'revolutionary' revolution #9 sounded nearly 20 years before I was born - it's a turd and it's filler and I don't need to care.