From Incredibly Strange Music, VOL. III
From: Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. II
” … when I passed the 30-year mark, I realized that I had effectively stopped listening to contemporary rock music, because it’s a lot of work to ferret out what’s truly interesting. I have this theory as to why rock-n-roll isn’t fun any more. In 1966, rock-n-roll was really exciting because I had to work to hear it. I had to leave my parents’ living room where Percy Faith was playing and go into my bedroom and tune in Chicago and Detroit radio stations on a tiny transistor radio; I got a lot of gratification from being barely able to tune in “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones. But today….rock-n-roll is the current elevator music; it’s the fishtank water we’re all swimming in now.
Because of this, what used to be elevator music is now interesting, because you have to work to hear Martin Denny; you have to actively seek it out. With rock-n-roll you’re just a passive consumer; it’s played everywhere you go. But with the old exotica music, you can again have a sense of discovery….
Weird-vinyl enthusiast and zinester Candi Strecker, quoted in Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. II.
