Is 'dance music' good? (when I say dance I encompass houses, hard houses, garages, conservatories, techno et al)
I've got a couple of records of this kind of music, 2 albums by Norman Cook /Fatboy Slim (who is great simply because he was in The Housemartins) and they're pretty good if you're in an energetic mood, but not really regualr listening. Same thing for the Chemical Brothers, I bought their album because I liked one song, the rest is pretty samey. I heard the last album by the french duo Daft punk, and it was pretty good, same for Basement Jaxx ('Where's your head at' was really good).
I quite often listen to Pickled Eggs and Sherbet by the All Seeing I, with contributions by Jarvis Cocker, Babybird and Tony Christie (of Amarillo fame
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So, I don't go to these kind of clubs to dance in sweaty pits with people selling pharmaceuticals and bottled water (in fact I wouldn't be caught dead in one after some misadventures in my first year at uni in a palce called Cream), so how should I view this music? I can't stand techno's repetitve beat and drunken appeal, and hate the 'let's bung a woman's voice over this track' songs that regularly seem to chart in the UK (but then again I quite like Moloko). I can't help feeling like I'm poking my nose in where it's not wanted when I listen to the music, seeing as I'm not part of 'the scene'.
So what does this make me? I never listen to this music seriously, or find any emotion in it. I remember Elvis Costello saying something about it being music to be listened to in one place in one scenario, but I can find some musical value in some pieces...
What do you guys think?
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