>The truth is, up until to day I thought my Sunscreem days were over
>I fell in love with Sunscreem in 93 and I did more than the average
"fan" for them up until about 2 years ago - when I let my website and
mailing list input practically dissapear.
>Comments please - esp Thicket, Matthew K, Adam, Joost, Neil F, Chris K some
>of you are still here - where are the rest of you guys? You feeling the
>same way as me?
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let me start off by saying that my opinion matters no more or less than any
other fan... ;-)
i have spent over an hour labouring over a reply to this and i still don't
know what to say. i sense bitterness from you and i feel a little bad for
you. i have to agree that their greatest moments are when they just write
the solid, building tunes we all know and love (i still remember bringing
"when" (even love u more!) on cd home from the shop. i'm surprised the cd
player didn't melt.)
i can hear in your mail what 'makes' a band - huge mainstream treatment, big
club play from big name dj's... but you know them (we all do) ... at least
in a small way, from the interviews they've done. they're not studio
freaks. they like to play live, in clubs. and not least of all - they're
married and parents (how many kids? 2? 3?) i try not to delude myself
about my place in the cosmos - or even sunscreem's corner of it... ;-)
and personally, i will go further out on a limb than you did on one very
small point - this copyright b.s. is so *backwards looking.* all this
concern about the past - it's just time to move on. it's like someone
believes that they'll never write anything as good as their other, older
material. it reminds me of when madonna's nudie photos were published in
playboy or whatever. she was like "yeah, that's me, and i have a great
body. so what?" no scandal. and no looking back. someone from sony will
undoubtedly re-rape love u more (steps' cover was the first offence.) but
so what? they should know it, acknowledge it, say "yeah, we wrote a really
great tune, didn't we?" and continue putting out top material.
sure, like you, i bet we all want them to put out new stuff all the time!
but the fact of the matter is that they're not. *****but look at what they
have done*****. if you really have been reading all the posts - you know
that recently (i point to no angel, for starters, but can pick off rollo's
butchering of exodus, or k-klass's drunken stumbling treatment of when) the
list fans haven't been hugely impressed with their choice of remixers (gotta
love that TE mix though, i don't care what lucia and paul think...) the
band knows this. and what are they doing? *****They are letting US put OUR
money where OUR mouth is and remix THEIR songs OURSELVES.***** what more
could any of us possibly ask for? what other band has done this? (and
incidentally, back to copyright issues.... if paul makes the drum loops for
love u more, and synth riffs, and vocals, all available separately.... does
that get around the problem?)
i guess my point, and i'm not sure i even have one, is that they are moving
forwards. it's slow (as far as new releases.) but it's also VERY new and
(dare i say) revolutionary, this remix project. so they're moving forward -
but not in your traditional "get big club play" way. it depends first on
how they (not us!) define success... and then the myriad of ways to get
there... (personally i think having a family and still continuing to do
some music is a pretty big success.)
let me go so far as to say that this could be bigger than any of us could
ever imagine. can you imagine the press coverage opportunities in letting
the world know that the entire world can now mix their own sunscreem tracks?
(think both muzik and DJ and Wired and all sorts of other magazines.)
ANYONE can take lucia's vocals or synth riffs or a drum loop and throw them
in any other track they happen to be working on? the potential is there for
lots of songs - completely unrelated to ss - to be infected like this.
"where was that sample from?" "oh, an old sunscreem track." ... "hmm, let
me look them up in the record store."
thus a new fan is born.
but rob - i hope we don't lose you.
-matt
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