xp haha, maybe that's actually what I wanted to say
― niels, Thursday, 26 November 2015 11:39 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure it's deliberate but that particular ironic aesthetic does nothing for me, this youtube commenter get's it though:
The layers in the opening verse are amazing, the misuse of malaprop in describing the girl he perceives as trite and pretentious is trite and pretentious in its own right. This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.
― niels, Thursday, 26 November 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
just heard this bad musician for the first time on colbert
― conrad, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
can't stomach this guy
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.this is what might make, like, an episode of power rangers great
― help computer (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
^what?
― monster_xero, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
looool
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
father john misty is hacking up his housemate, music, with a sword, but all the while he is regretting his decisions
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing this brilliant album right up there in the poll.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 21 January 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
I'm really sorry I don't like his music because I love the cover art to the Honeybear album.
― Max Florian, Friday, 22 January 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/04/20/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-round-89-nicks-choice/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 09:22 (eight years ago) link
Great stuff. You really nail what makes this record so good there.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link
Thank you. It's easily the record Em and I have spent the most time listening to and talking about since the sprog was born, I've been absolutely fascinated with it in a way I've not been with another record in a long time.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
even as a huge FJM fan, has to be said he came across as a bit of a self important tosser here. somehow Radcliffe and Maconie's (very) mild joshing seemed to rattle him. although Maconie was perhaps unnecessarily uppity. at last night's gig he called it 'one of the worst moments of my life'. pretty easy life he's had then.
also he appeared according to follow up tweets to think it was *local* radio! as opposed to the leading national radio audience he could possibly have had at that moment in the UK.
http://www.stereogum.com/1877059/hear-father-john-mistys-awkward-interview-on-bbc-radio-6-music-today/news/
― piscesx, Saturday, 14 May 2016 10:46 (eight years ago) link
class comments to the youtube-version:
Josh has answered all of these questions hundreds of times before/they misinterpret the whole point of the Father John Misty persona/the guy has been touring for literal months and would be stressed as fuck at two middle-aged dudes who don't have the slightest idea at what his act is about and probably don't give a shit either, who are just trying to engage with him on a purely superficial level
― niels, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Seemed less "car crash" than I'd expected from the internet.
Have never listened to "Radcliffe & Maconie" before (though used to listen to "Mark & Lard" and have read decent things by Maconie) and I could see why an interviewee might find them irritating.
― djh, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
wow an ironic prius ad now i really want to listen to this guy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 May 2016 03:33 (eight years ago) link
New album PURE COMEDY out April 7th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cejjqC1oyQM
― Jalapeño Coladas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
lookin forward to it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
I liked both of the albums a lot but the new song honestly belongs in rolling worst '17
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
nah sounds good to me. a bit reminiscent of the closing track on the last album
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
have to avoid coffee shops for a couple of years now jeez
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
fucking hate him he is the worst
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
you guys are all wrong
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
Every once in a while I'll feel a little guilty about not keeping up with 'indie rock' the way I used to, and then I remember that people in 2017 actually take this fucking guy seriously, and I go happily back to my psych reissues and Fact mixes
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
"Father John Misty"
lol
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
your power rangers joke was hilarious and infinitely smarter and funnier than anything this guy has done
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
Joke's on you guys imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
Farter John Shitty
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
his cover of Lennon's "God" last year was p great
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
tracklist!
Pure ComedyTotal Entertainment ForeverThings It Would Be Helpful to Know Before the RevolutionBallad of the Dying ManBirdieLeaving LAA Bigger Paper BagWhen the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to PaySmoochieTwo Wildly Different PerspectivesThe MemoSo I’m Growing Old on Magic MountainIn Twenty Years or So
Vinyl pre-orders will receive a 7” single featuring the first physical release of fan favourite “Real Love Baby” on the A-side and the as yet unreleased track, "Rejected Generic Pop Song.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
the idea of a 13 minute fjm song is terrifying
― ufo, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
I think someone like Randy Newman makes ironic pop tunes work v well, but FJM seems so self-important and clever abt it makes you wanna punch his face
― niels, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Exactly what I felt. Like, be more on the nose.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
seems like he's made friends again with BBC6
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rw622
the 13 minute song is present and correct.
word around the campfire is that the album's amazing.
― piscesx, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
the campfire that is not ilx
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
that's the one.
― piscesx, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Wimmels sez:Every once in a while I'll feel a little guilty about not keeping up with 'indie rock' the way I used to, and then I remember that people in 2017 actually take this fucking guy seriously, and I go happily back to my psych reissues and Fact mixes
I feel that guilt, too, but substitute krautrock for psych and post-punk for Fact.
I ran across a couple of tunes from this guy's new album and, musically, they're fine, mellow, uninteresting. Lyrically, though, I can't be too harsh. I mean, if you're a 30-something songwriter and watching our political landscape, wouldn't you want to rail against the dying of the light?
So if this is modern protest music, I'm fine with it but won't be singing along at the next march.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 February 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
I posted "two wildly different perspectives" in Rolling Worst, it's somehow even worse than the title track despite being half the length
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Some musicians you want to romantically imagine you'd follow them off a cliff for. This guy I would be happy to hurl off a cliff.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
reserving judgment til I can listen to the new one in its entirety but the first two are great, sorry you guys don't like irony or performance art anymore, haters gonna hate
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Man, fuck irony or performance art as an excuse, dude's just boring.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
I used to defend him on the grounds of his self-effacing humour helping to make the would-be profundity go down easier but his newfound humorlessness makes him impossible to listen to
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
I don't think it's an excuse it's just... what it is, and some people seem to miss that (cf this accusation of "newfound humorlessness" for ex.) Who he really reminds me of is Nilsson, sort of agent-provacateur pop
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
and Nilsson also threaded the line between being emotionally affecting and confrontational or silly, loads of sarcasm and humor alternately undercutting or bolstering the more seriously emotional stuff
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
maybe FJM will do an album of standards next lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
that's all fine, it's the "political" angle that does him in, he's like a Bono level terribly political lyricist and the "performative" layer just makes it worse somehow
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
stuff like "Holy Shit" managed to just barely make that balance work but these new songs just tip right over into nightmare fodder
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
well like I said I'll reserve judgment til I hear the whole thing, I haven't listened to this new stuff
I thought "Holy Shit" was v good
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 February 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link