Ya know, not to enter into a complete topic about this whole group, but it gets very amusing to me the kind of things obsessive fans of a group will do, especially when said group drop entirely off the face of the earth but are seemingly still working on something.... Witness the pages and pages devoted to whatever scrap of music Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine fame might release into the world, and of course the rampant speculation about whether he has or hasn't recorded anything new, and if it's been rejected by the record label. etc. etc.

The interweb is a great tool for obsessiveness like this. Of course, for my money, the people most adept at this are fans of German proto-electronic godfathas Kraftwerk, a group who haven't released anything new since 1986, release a remix CD in '91 and an overblown jingle as a single back in 2001, all the while quiet and mysterious. Since then, apparently they're still working, showing up every day at their fabled Kling Klang studios in Dusseldorf like the factory workers they claim to be. But just what on earth is going on in there? It's a sign of how obsessed people are with finding out that someone actually made their way in, and took exciting pictures like this through the windows: In the storage room of genius. Pictures of the courtyard to the studio even lead to discussions as to which band member owned which car.

Going back to the whole cargo cult analogy, I guess you just gotta watch the horizon and see what washes up, but it doesn't hurt to invent some binoculars : ) Egads... workweek ALMOST over....
posted by Robotpolisher 5:33 PM ::