SO MUCH DECADENCE SINCE THE FALL OF ROME
A CONVERSATION IN BERLIN BETWEEN MARK STEWART AND ALEC EMPIRE
Alec: “Hey Mark…..I kind of feel that there is so much that should be said in lyrics these days, and I keep wondering why nobody really says anything.
Sometimes when I drink my orange juice in the morning I can get deeply depressed about the current state of the music scene. Which is silly I know but it keeps happening. This theory keeps popping up in my head that if there was a concentration camp in Oranienburg (city next to Berlin), the music scene would be exactly the same as it is now. It’s not even like majority of music is expressing anything deep which words can’t say… How do you feel about that? Your lyrics stood the test of time. A lot of stuff you said 20 years ago, still seems to make so much sense. What is worse…people not listening or artists not saying anything?”
Mark: “For me berlin is a hungry ghost of the city in the 20s a time of political upheaval/economic meltdown i havent seen so much decadence since the fall of rome!”
Alec: “Decadent? I feel like waiting for a train when I am in Berlin…waiting with a bunch of people who can’t get a job. Which part of Berlin you see as decadent? Can you give me an example? I was born here so I wear my pink Nu Rave shades….”
Mark: “Taste is a form of personal censorship?”
Alec: “It depends. I see it more as a filter. But I guess you are right that for many people taste is something they copy from others to belong to a larger group. The question is if that is still ?taste?. I am shocked about the fact that most people don’t even feel the need to develop something that could be described as taste. In the elections , is it about ?taste? at the end? Do people consume the politicians, like they do with ?entertainers??”
Mark: ” VOTESCAM lizard leaders kissing babies selling fake sincerity who stole your identity? nations of couch potatos chained to YOUR tv screens it doesnt look much like living to me CITIZEN ZOMBIE”
Topic:alec empire's journal, streams and airwaves, talking heads
Tags: 80ties, adrien sherwood, alec empire, dub, experimental, grandmaster flash and the furious five, Mark Stewart, monkey mafia, mute records, noise, on u sound, Pop Group
Stumble It!
December 6th, 2008 at 9:20 am
? VOTESCAM lizard leaders kissing babies selling fake sincerity who stole your identity? nations of couch potatos chained to YOUR tv screens it doesnt look much like living to me CITIZEN ZOMBIE?
Exactly!
It’s modern mummification, an army of drones, cloned and programmed for consumption, artificially stimulated, assimilating purveyors of graves, regurgitating this self-inflicted demise. We as parasites of parasites of parasites, are blinded and misled into servitude to facilitate the evolution of this self-destructive apparatus.
It’s tragic, but what do I want?
December 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
the geezer dont say many words LOL
but what he says is spot on
luv the vibrator pic
January 17th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Popular music today makes me feel so isolated. No thought only blind consumerism. All of my friends are plugged in to MTV and the radio and only stop to think when they’re ordering there drinks at the bar.
More intelligence please, there is only so much dancing I can do.