Been trying to think why I hate the faux avant-garde so much, and came up with these answers:
1) It aims to discredit music with life, harmony, glamour, street-smarts as somehow occupying a "safe" middle-ground.
2) At the same time it dishonestly tries to preserve a little frisson of youth/glamour/the aforementioned attributes.
This is why I got so much pleasure at hearing Karlheinz Stockhausen slag it off.
Posted by Woebot at June 1, 2003 01:58 PM