Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.
I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
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