Jumpin' beats

[drdoug]

The Chemical Brothers' latest album, Further, is bloody brilliant.

That is all.

This entry crossposted to http://doug.dreamwidth.org/207150.html, where there are

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[andrewducker]

*heads to Spotify*

[vinaigrettegirl]

Why was this flagged as perhaps not appropriate for minors?

[drdoug]

Journal default, I think, for all my posts - it shouldn't be different to anything else I've posted. (Would be interested to know if that's not true.)

The rationale for the default setting is that some of the stuff I talk about, and the way I talk about it, is stuff that would really upset some parents if their kids read it unmediated or unprepared. (I suspect the kids would be fine, in the context of an open, engaged and supportive family, but that's because of my particular beliefs about child-rearing which are very emphatically not universally shared.) And I'd be almost certain to forget to flag up specific things that might be problematic - often because they don't seem that problematic to me, but including stuff that I do think might be problematic, because I simply wouldn't think to consider what kids would make of it. And the downside risk of over-flagging seems to be minimal.

[vinaigrettegirl]

Oh dear. Instant headache-inducer :-(. Fooey. I wanted to try to update my playlist to something in this century, but may need to start from a different place. thx for the pointer, though!

[drdoug]

Sorry! It probably helps me that I've been listening to that sort of music since the 1980s - when a lot of people thought it was unlistenable - so have got used to it.

[vinaigrettegirl]

I think it's my ears, tbh: I was much more tolerant physiologically to electronic music in the 80s, although it didn't always give me pleasure to listen to it; but now it just hurts and induces fight-or-flight hormones to flood right through me. But maybe that's why they're called the Chemical Brothers ;-) ?

I'll keep trying if you put stuff up, though, don't stop!

[drdoug]

Andy Bell out of Erasure has a solo album out recently, called Non-stop. It's also a bit electronic/synthy but not as ... challenging as the Chemical Brothers - might be more up your street.