{"id":2844,"date":"2010-07-18T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:00:17","slug":"losing-my-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/losing-my-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Simon Reynolds&#8217; <em>Rip It Up<\/em>, which documents the Postpunk movement.  In the afterword, Mr. Reynolds says, &#8220;What changed in the mideighties was that bands increasingly soundposted their reference points and that spotting these allusions became an integral part of the listener&#8217;s aesthetic response and enjoyment.&#8221;  He goes on to discuss the C86 movement, REM, Husker Du, and The Smiths as bands that clearly reference back to the &#8220;guitar chimes and folk-styled vocals&#8221; of the &#8217;60s.  <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s bands also seem to be very transparent about their sonic influences.  Fleet Foxes has been posting videos of older songs (mostly from the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s) and commenting on how these songs or bands direct their current sound.  I think the clearest recent example is LCD Soundsystem.  Their most recent album, <em>This Is Happening<\/em>, is very overt about it&#8217;s Berlin-era Bowie references.  But I think the best example is an earlier LCD Soundsystem&#8217;s song, &#8220;Losing My Edge,&#8221; which includes a long rant\/list of the bands James Murphy considers to be the foundation of his sound.  <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_j8BG-ybng?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Which other bands or artists are very clear about their musical influences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Simon Reynolds&#8217; Rip It Up, which documents the Postpunk movement. In the afterword, Mr. Reynolds says, &#8220;What changed in the mideighties was that bands increasingly soundposted their reference points and that spotting these allusions became an integral part of the listener&#8217;s aesthetic response and enjoyment.&#8221; He goes on to discuss the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/losing-my-edge\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}