I don't know why this occurs to me after just coming into the house near midnight after watching "Control" (which I thought was thrilling) but I guess this is the sort of thing that people sometimes like to gas about on this forum ;-)
I keep waiting around for the next exciting new form of music. Maybe I'm getting old and not appreciating what's out there but I've been waiting a while now. OK I'm just saying something peepz on here have said plenty times recently - and I bet others have said down the years as their opinion hardens that what's out there now doesn't match what they remember in "their time". However my particular take on a familiar theme this time is: 1. It seems like we can synthesise just about any crazy sound we want now (just take hold of those dots and make a wave any shape we want) or reproduce any naturally occurring sound at will with modest equipment. 2. As far as I know (and this may be a weak point as I'm short on expertise here) is that we've explored and to a certain extent become familiar with most of the world now and there doesn't seem to be any large culture or ethnic group who's music we have yet to hear / be blown away by / magpie some bits of into our own popular music. So is the reason that it seems to me that there's no new ideas about but just the same old being rehashed is that instead of being liberated by all this freedom to produce as we like and all this wealth of sounds from around the world we have to examine that if there's nothing strange and new prodding us along (instruments that sound unlike any we've used yet, a new vibe from another land) we run out of steam a bit? Still I guess not having new instruments didn't stop Berg, Mahler and Schoenberg (or punk - but you could argue that was more of a fashion thing than music that was revolutionary).
