Mentions (7)
"It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of "
"for fucks sake BRIAN ENO said he wouldn't have had any desire to start making music if not for the VU."
"Brian Eno/Elliot Smith can be "too sad", okay fine, maybe. But what psycho only listens to "happy" music? What is the point? Where is the feeling, the yearning, the struggle?"
"I feel like so many 20 somethings hang with ppl who make them miserable and self conscious. Like they think they need to be friends because they both like early Brian Eno or some dum shit. Save yourself from being a mean whiny baby and just hang with the pals that treat you right."
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much mo"
"Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices"
"Like they think they need to be friends because they both like early Brian Eno or some dum shit."