Time & Perspective Quote by Peter Hook

Hook’s shrugging candor lands because it refuses the two sacred scripts of legacy pop: either total reverence for your catalog or total contempt for what the industry does to it. He gives you both. “They amaze me” isn’t awe so much as disorientation at what it means to have your work endlessly reprocessed by strangers, platforms, and playlists. The blunt follow-up - “Some of them are crap” - punctures the polite fiction that remix culture is automatically creative progress.

The real needle is in the complaint-and-rebuttal dynamic. Every time he objects, he’s told the same thing: “a different market that you don’t understand.” That line is practically a mission statement for the contemporary music economy, where taste gets framed as segmentation and disagreement gets reframed as user ignorance. The subtext: the artist is no longer the primary authority on their own material; the market is. Hook isn’t just being a cranky veteran. He’s naming the quiet power shift from band-to-audience-to-algorithm, where context is outsourced and critique is met with marketing logic.

Then he swerves: “Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.” It’s a concession with teeth. He’s not anti-remix; he’s anti-blanket justification. The praise also reveals a musician’s jealousy of craft: when a remix actually reinterprets rather than merely repackages, it earns his respect. Hook’s intent is less to police the remixes than to insist on the right to discriminate - and to remind us that “new markets” can be a euphemism for lowering standards.