I thought the AV Club Hateclub thing with Mary Timony was good, but the new one, with some comedian, talking about "Pink Houses," is so full of stupid. It's not my favorite song, but her reading of it is totally wrong and she gets all sorts of stuff wrong, especially silly since it's really just a poor man's death of the dream "Born in the USA." Like, she claims right-wingers use it in rallies, and blames the Coug, but the Coug has always told them to cut that shit out. And then the writer and comedian both think the pink house in the song is some sign of individuality, and not, like, a crappy pink house. And then the comedian rips on "Do They Know Its Christmas," which is a fair and easy target, but she does it all wrong, by claiming it's an example of Americans (?!) being up their own asses, even though it's overwhelmingly UK. And then she cites Bono's - who she notes is not American! - blurted "Tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you" as only quasi-ironic. I mean, it's a dumb line, but it's *entirely* sarcastic. And so on.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
I never heard that line as sarcasm
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
maybe mid-80s Bono wasn't the right dude to give your ironic line to
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's the totally fair criticism (or any criticism of Bono, really). But do people really hear his "tonight, thank god it's them instead of you!" blurt as an earnest, phew, at least we aren't starving in Ethiopia! I always heard it as Bono sarcastically accusing people of selfishly ignoring the famine as something happening to someone else somewhere else.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
its obviously completely sarcastic. and it's it a 100% uk/irish recording?
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Except for Kool and the Gang!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't call that line sarcastic. It's basically another way of saying "There but for the grace of God go I."
― goth colouring book (anagram), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Well, he does say "God."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
I just read that Bono and Geldof fought about the line as Bono thought it would be misinterpreted
to be honest I never listened to the lyrics of that song closely. I just kind of hear Bono's voice as signifier for mid-80s hypersincerity.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/best-christmas-song-photostrip.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrdAI3kwIbU
― example (crüt), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
lol yet another article calling frank ocean a rapper
also "shower" is pretty distinctive for a dr. luke production -- and it's wonderful besides.
― dyl, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
I am deeply suspicious of poetry professors who own albums by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.html?referrer=
― campreverb, Monday, 20 October 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
it's little pink houses, plural, for you and me (yeah), how could that be a sign of individuality?
― j., Monday, 20 October 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
let's just skip that one, please
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 October 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
That article is shit
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Monday, 20 October 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
I am stunned that the opening sentence "It’s hard to imagine now, but there once was a time when you could not play any song ever recorded, instantly, from your phone" appeared on an editor's desk and did not immediately cause the piece to be spiked.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Monday, 20 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
To be fair it could have been worded that way to be a joke.
― Evan, Monday, 20 October 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
could we really just not do this
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
It's not that hard to imagine a time like that
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
A lot of discussion of this article already on the Millennials Ask Old-Timers thread
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/15/playlist-world-eek-islam-chipsy-souad-abdullah-maurice-louca-faycal-azizi(The first blurb)
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Really it was just this line:
The tightly syncopated rhythmical assault is in a lot of ways analogous to carnival or marching musical forms such as soca, New Orleans second-line drumming, dancehall and calypso.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
otherwise the writing is fine
so it may not be the worst piece of music writing in the history of the world is what you're saying
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Is that a terrible line?
Seems like a very useful article.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
IDK it seemed pretty o_O to me -- like what does it have in common with those styles of music other than being syncopated and not by white people?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
they all use a marching-style pattern
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 20 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
YES! I've arrived…
― Doran, Monday, 20 October 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/feature-5-reasons-logic-s-under-pressure-is-the-best-debut-of-2014/11247386
― based grandpa (noz), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
resonances??
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure resonances is 100% not a word
i mean i'm not sure what we should be expecting from like, artistdirect, but even so woooooooooowwwww.
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
He must have meant 'resonations'. A literal symphony of them.
And I had no idea artistdirect was still a thing
― leprous mottlings of disturbing funghi (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
resonances is definitely a word
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
checked, it is indeed, but it still sounds mad ridiculous in plural form and is unnecessary in the context of that review
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I agree. It is a widely used word in my field, so it doesn't sound weird anymore. 'A symphony of resonances' is terribly lol, though, and I plan to use it if I ever come across some bad glass.
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Hahahahahahahaha!
I mean credit to the New York Times there -- after the Dan Brooks thing, they realized that if you're going to troll, leave it to a total fucking pro.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
a gathering of bare-armed, bare-legged lovers of song and smokers of pot
Frank Bruni received money to write this.
While recording devices have liberated many of us from commercials on television, the rest of our lives are awash in ads. They’re now nestled among the trailers at movies. They flicker on the screens in taxis.
Cause, meet effect!
They’re woven so thoroughly into sporting events, from Nascar races to basketball games, that it’s hard to imagine an era when they weren’t omnipresent. But in a story earlier this year on the website Consumerist, Chris Moran reported that 20 years ago, only one of the major-league baseball stadiums had a corporate moniker, Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
"Hi dere, I have never heard of Wrigley Field (built in 1914)!"
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
He's a talented man.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
maybe he only watches the World Series?
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
“Keep Austin Weird” is the Texas capital’s unofficial slogan, a clue to its proudly subversive soul.
can we talk about how Austin is really not weird, like, at all?
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
i feel like it got some rep because it was in texas and slightly more "quirky" than dallas
Keep (X) Weird
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm a super dilettante when it comes to Texas but for what it's worth, I found Houston to be a LOT weirder than Austin. Or a lot more bohemian, arty and exciting at least.
― Doran, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Austin is weird gone mainstream, so isn't actually that weird anymore. From my experience the past few years Houston and Dallas weird are still out on the fringes so lack that homogenizing factor.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
austin has livenationed up, totes
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Keep Austin Weird, brought to you by Doritos.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Performing “Summertime Sadness,” Lana Del Rey told a lover to “kiss me hard before you go.” Would she be texting him later with a Samsung Galaxy, the smartphone for which the stage on which she appeared was visibly named?
What hope do antisystemic movements have if LDR has deserted us?
― one way street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for this dumb link, Ted Giola.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/smart-people-listen-to-radiohead-and-dumb-people-listen-to-beyonce-according-to-new-study/
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link