MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS
― chawki (buzza), Saturday, 6 August 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
Cootie Williams on swing: "Define it? I'd rather tackle Einstein's theory!" Holding one man's feet to the fire on what it means to rock seems sort of obsessive. Probably the best you can ask of a non-musician is to give examples, and he's been more than accommodating.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 6 August 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
tbh chuck's writing style and circular logic drive me nuts a lot of the time and i kind of enjoy amt's archnemesis thing w/ him but this "rock" debate is just pointless
― some dude, Saturday, 6 August 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
actually i don't care what chuck's opinion on this topic is. he was just the impetus to ask the question. i don't think he takes the concept for granted any more than anyone else, really.
sorry for being so grumpy these past few days! i've been stressed IRL.
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
I would be pretty stressed too if I didn't even know what rock was
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
Rock is cowbell
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
Rock is tin he spaces between the beats
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
Rock is a ham hock in your milkshake.
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
Not precisely, but Marcus has made more or less the same point: "If the artist made a record intending to convince all right-thinking people to send money to the I.R.A., but the record is in Swedish and nobody can know that, it's sort of pointless to discuss the guy's intentions. What you really have to discuss is what is it like to hear a record in Swedish, and does it have a good beat?"
I like the idea that no one could conceivably understand a song that was written in Swedish.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link
actually it's just an english-language record running backward
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
This is like asking what makes pizza " delicious"― fappin' duke (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 5, 2011 11:47 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― fappin' duke (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 5, 2011 11:47 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is that because the answer is obvious and/or because the question isn't worth asking?
b/c the simplest answer is that pizza is delicious because it is sweet and salty and fatty. but a lot of foods are those things, and chances are we wouldn't find all of them delicious. i guess i find some questions interesting that other people don't.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvABt2uXRzY
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
if you gotta ask, you'll never know.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
rot
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
styx rocks
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
ranking ac/dc songs that say 'rock' in them
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link