music

[legion505]

Mr. Moorcock:

ive been reading the cornelius quartet, and having listened to some hawkwind and blue oyster cult, i realize that music was and is an important party of your life.
my question is what do you think of the music that is churned out these days? do you enjoy or dislike any/or all of it?

[Michael Moorcock]

I like a lot of it but the majority, as it always was, is bland and samey.
By and large what's played on US regular radio stations is a poor representation of what US music is like. But then I live near Austin, and we have one of the best, if not THE best, sets of venues in the world for live music. Every kind of rock and roll/country/folk you could wish for, but very little of it bland. I think the Golden Age of the mix-sixties to mid-seventies -- from the Beatles to the Pistols, if you like -- isn't likely to come back for a while, when good original rock music also happened to fill the airwaves. I don't listen to that much metal, maybe because I got used to it, but I think there's a lot of good stuff out there. Hawkwind has a special affection, in that it was more prog rock than anything else, and you always had a sense of stretching the possibilities. But I think I was most satisfied working with Bob Calvert. King of the City is more autobiographical than anything else out there and mixes fiction and non-fiction together to try to give a picture of a certain period of rock and roll.

[Jere]

Do you like any techno or electronic?
In this category I always liked deep house but recently started listening a lot of drum&bass.