[kj] Shot in the dark question for any fans of "martial pop, " "military ...

[Tim Bucknall]

does Foetus' god like "meet you in poland" count as martial pop?



On 07/05/07, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>

> One of the frustrating things (to me, anyway) about "Military pop" is

> that little of it actually has percussion that reminds me of military

> marches, etc. Some of it does, but a lot of it is just audio collage

> with rousing, nationalist-sounding anthems and the like, with audio

> clips from fiery dictators and all that stuff. I always thought the

> drumming style Crass had on, say, "Do They Owe Us a Living?" was really

> innovative, and still is, and I have heard so few bands copy it or

> utilize it the way Crass did.

>

> I'm downloading and listening to stuff now from the "bands" Militia and

> Organized Resistance, two martial pop/militaristic pop bands, and I

> ain't hearing any martial drumming, dammit. A lot of it is really just

> experimental noise -- p.e.d.i. as they say.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> Alex Smith wrote:

> > NMA-wise, it might've been "Here Comes the War" and -- yeah, there's

> > one on THUNDER AND CONSOLATION (a great, great record, by the way),

> > but the title escapes me...

> >

> > It's the one with that "yours, yours, NOT MINE" refrain.

> >

> > Alex in NYC

> >

> >

> >     -----Original Message-----

> >     From: Devacor at aol.com

> >     Sent: May 7, 2007 2:08 PM

> >     To: gathering at misera.net

> >     Subject: Re: [kj] Shot in the dark question for any fans of

> >     "martial pop, " "military ...

> >

> >     In a message dated 5/7/2007 1:23:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

> >     thepunisher at blueyonder.co.uk writes:

> >

> >         "Smalltown England" is the NMA track from Vengeance

> >

> >     The question is is there really such a thing at this term "martial

> >     pop" , "military pop" etc??-- seems even us music nerds couldn't

> >     really come up with enough to warrant an actual name for a genre

> >     as such.

> >

> >     Adam Helfer

> >     President

> >     Omkara World

> >     www.Omkara-World.com <http://www.omkara-world.com/>

> >     www.myspace.com/AdamOmkara

> >

> >

>

> _______________________________________________

> Gathering mailing list

> Gathering at misera.net

> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/gathering/attachments/20070508/cb17a618/attachment.html>