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What you hear in the best rock records of the 1980s and early ’90s is not post-Iggy fuck-all YEARGH!-ism. What you hear is insecurity, and fear: that you couldn’t afford another hour in the studio, or another reel; that another mistake would put you over your budget; that you couldn’t pull it off; that the songs weren’t good enough. You knew they weren’t, the label knew, your fans would know. You might not have even liked all of the songs, but one was the bassist’s favorite and the other was the one with the show-off drum breakdown, so you suppressed your ego to placate your friends, and you learned how to work with other people, because you might arrive at a Sound, and an identity borne of those compromises. And if you could hold it, however briefly, that was Making It: you were a Band.
Shallow Rewards: Commentaries on Pop 2005-2012 by Chris Ott (via Findings.com)
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