Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Matt Davignon wrote:

> Regarding experimentalness - it exists in most genres of music. The
> genre known as "Experimental/Avant Garde" is actually an umbrella term
> for 5 or 6 major branches of very different music, and a lot of
> subgenres. It probably has more groundbreaking work than other genre
> titles, but still more than 80% of the practitioners are working with
> very specific ideas that have had success in the past. I admit I love
> a lot of that stuff, but I can't pretend that it's more "creative"
> than pop music.

so what's the 20% that would stand out as being groundbreaking
compared to say, the Forbidden Planet soundtrack?
What in this decade was unimaginable in the previous?