Talk:Screen Memories (album)

Influence of Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles

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[...] the best stuff seems to happen when people try to follow the contradictions of what they’re already given through to their breaking point, as opposed to just starting from scratch or doing the wrong thing on purpose or whatever.

Do you think that’s had any impact on your music these last few years?

No. I mean I do believe this mentally, but with this album, I gave myself a lot more latitude as to what the idiom is with post-war music. Even though some of my favorite music is Pink Floyd just after Syd Barrett left, and all that quote-unquote “progressive” stuff, you know, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and the rest of it—the symphonic ambitions of that music, I still reject as much as I love it.

Later...

It’s important to be in command of the most advanced means of artistic construction if you’re going to try to do it properly I think. They’re putting a ribbon around my work with this box set, and now there’s this whole new generation that grew up with GarageBand. Maybe I’m just not looking, but I just don’t see the event that has yet overcome what Ariel and I, for example, had worked out. But I very much doubt it will operate in relation to previous moments in the history of post-war American popular music, the way we did in relation to the Beatles or the Beach Boys or New Wave or the whole weird labyrinth of trajectories you can trace back to the amplified guitar and electric blues and Elvis. Somehow all these disparate micro-genres and classifications go back to a single thought in the context of history.

I don't know how anyone can possibly extrapolate "Screen Memories was influenced by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Pink Floyd" from this. He is speaking about something a thousand times more broad than his own work. You could say that he is generally influenced by the principles that were adopted by pop acts like Beatles/BeachBoys/Floyd, but he denies even that. To say that he was directly influenced by those bands in particular for this specific album is reductive and a bit of a stretch. Note when he says: "I still reject as much as I love it." --Ilovetopaint (talk) 23:17, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

OK.... that's a fair argument. I think I'm trying too hard in getting as much info as possible into the article, so I appreciate the advice. :) editorEهեইдအ😎 00:50, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Good article?

This article is looking pretty solid. @Ilovetopaint: Curious if you have plans to nominate this one for Good status? Thanks for your work on this article! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:29, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Don't see any reason why it wouldn't pass GA (also I had nothing to do with 90% of the article's writing).--Ilovetopaint (talk) 17:47, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

@Ilovetopaint: OK, I just saw your extensive editing in February. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)