tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20443115207766610.post1021521454292034795..comments2024-03-03T23:39:06.689-06:00Comments on Rockaliser Baby: Only A Broken Mind Can Understand...Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17389566303984348920noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20443115207766610.post-27842228015493913362009-09-27T17:41:34.489-05:002009-09-27T17:41:34.489-05:00Fucked Up does indeed point toward a new direction...Fucked Up does indeed point toward a new direction in punk music in a particularly Canadian way: the original punks eschewed studio overdubs not only because it was costly, but also because the lack of immediacy and vitality of too many overdubs was apparent in many of the corporate bands they despised. In today's music-making market, overdubbing is easy for anyone with a computer, and a band can retain its vitality by remaining an open-ended collective, which puts Fucked Up somewhere in a continuum that not only includes the Pumpkins, MVB, Minor Threat, the Cro-Magnons, etc., but also sychronically is representative of the more open-ended approaches to band politics as shown by Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, etc., bands with like 11 members each.<br /><br />This is an easy way to find a use for massive overdubs and replicate that sound live. Corgan tried to convince Iha to add another guitarist to flesh out their live sound, but Iha was always against it, as he felt that adding another anonymous background guitarist would betray who was playing on the album. There needs to be more people like that.<br /><br />Nothing wrong with sounding like or trying to emulate the Smashing Pumpkins, I hope you know.npsackshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930523408869525898noreply@blogger.com