DNA--Not Moving

[natano8]

Why do I like this?



[TheIndieindi]

@natano8 why shouldn't you?

[GrungeRockabilly]

That throbbing feel that I got when I first heard The Pop Group... it's back...

[DavidtheAnimalMan]

i guess occams razor is plausible

[dlewis4621]

ookami3380 - I wasn't preaching, and your comment is a familiar one attributed to Elvis Costello. It argues that there is no point in music criticism, but if that were true none of us critics would work, and we do. Musicology would not exist either, and there ought to be more of that in regard to NY No Wave. NoMeansNo was a great band, and they probably saw DNA in SF in the early 80s. But there's no comparison; different era, different style.

[BennyGaberMusic]

That's some tough organ

[tinyvox]

Vocals sound great ! How you say ? @dlewis4621 but other than that, rad analysis !!! :D

[dlewis4621]

ookami3380 - tune out Arto's guitar for a minute; Ikue's drums are the main structural component, and Robin's keyboard works in tandem with the drums. Arto's guitar is an improvised, foreground element -- it is quite formal, and the form itself is simple. Eno did not mix Arto's vocal loud enough, and that aspect of it is off-putting, but it's not the band's doing.

[ookami3380]

@dlewis4621 i dont wanna piss while you preach but.... analysing the music like that is like dancing to a architecture.

[danbball9100]

anyone know who the two people on the cover are?

[ookami3380]

this is so unexplainable. i dont know what these people were thinking about and why this is so formless. im familiar with no wave but couldnt understand it.

i like nomeansno better.

[maybeimar0b0t]

@ookami3380 Isn't that the point of this music? Part of the fringe and no-wave music scene is to make music that nobody can relate to. At least that's my take on it.

[ookami3380]

@maybeimar0b0t yea i really liked that when i was young and rebellious but now i just find any kind of alienation funny and infantil. like painters that make paintings with their own vomit or shit..or dadaist poetry. i just said to my brother who has a 3 yr old kid who is always like "da da da da la la la woo woo oo hoooo" sings all the time.

that little brat is going to be a famous poet. he doesnt even need to change the tune. dadaist poetry is just that.

so thats really an art form ?

[maybeimar0b0t]

@ookami3380 I suppose it isn't incredibly complex... But hey, people can do whatever the hell they want.

[ookami3380]

@maybeimar0b0t watch?v=E-YoY60BRsc

pay attention to lyrics

[iiiiiiiillllllll]

an all time favorite, thanks for the upload

[neovlascen]

some good punk vibs

[PanoplyCabaret]

HOLY FUUUCK! (In other words, I love it.)

[moosekarloff]

I used to see this band over at Tier 3 and CBGBs back in the days. Usually they'd come on the stage around 3 a.m. for the die-hards to dig. This is a form of punk jazz, a mostly undeveloped genre. The bands who were doing this kind of music wanted to do something really different, but, had to abandon their projects because the material was so unrelentingly non-commercial. They were virtually starving to death, and wanted to make records that would help pay the rent and buy groceries.

[MultiSagitta]

@moosekarloff Yeah this has Sun Ra written all over it.

[JustaPaperbagWriter]

@moosekarloff they made that amazingly commercially successful remix of that susan vega song. Too bad the synth player wasnt there anymore.

[jing479]

GREAT.



[rsduffield]

gwoovy baby......

[zrisezlle]

Woah. I dig it.

[shvedr06]

wanted - not - welcome.

[yukaigrrl921]

Holy shit, this is amazing.

[joeyrider]

I saw them few times live.. .they were a FUN band believe me

[Dodo2875]

Pour les nostalgique de Bourges