things tend to just sound rubbish in tents idk? i'm kindof over festivals maybe.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
also a one day festival with eight stages x twelve acts (or whatever) is not going to have the most engaged people doing sound - particularly if they either have to i. deal with another one-day festival with same the next day or ii. bugger off and get out of the way for whoever is
i wonder if there's any attempt made to maintain continuity in re: what kind of music tent x is, between underage and field day and the apple cart. (the latter has spoken-word and comedy and possibly cooking tents so is possibly an outlier)
― thomp, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
field day made me feel bored with the idea of festivals, except when i ate things. though, to be honest, i could have just gone to venn st. market.
also one friend turned up with a girl not his girlfriend and another friend's girlfriend left with another guy, so all told it was an interesting day
― thomp, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
@ Plaxico festivals can have great sound, just not in Victoria Park.
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i got super bored about ten minutes into omar souleyman and left to go to a party instead.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck tents imo. worst way to enjoy live music. i find them unbearable - especially dance tents. what's the point if you're so squashed you can't dance?
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
(or Hyde Park, or whatever park it is they have Pitchfork).
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
after konono no 1 started empty and ended with a packed tent i made a bet that the opposite would happen with souleyman, and only hardened pseuds would remain. i lost
xposts
unrelatedly, i listened to john maus again today. i enjoy the first album a great deal, and would like to thank whiney g weingarten for bringing it to my attention
― thomp, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyway like i said this was probably in part due to me being mid mood crash and chronically falling asleep at spontaneous moments but yeah i've generally found that at festivals the sound in open air stages is considerably better than in tents. tents tend to be super echoey.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
this baths album is pretty good too
― thomp, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
THEY CALL ME THE BELIEVEEEEEERRRRR
― Sonny Chevrotain (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
remember this guy?
― cream of some young dude (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
John Maus Reading List:
http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/29/phds-and-dropouts-killer-mike-kreayshawn-and-john-maus-talk-school/5/
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 5 September 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
The interview is better than most people's interviews.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's pretty cute imo; wkiw and talk about Adorno w/this guy
― sarahel, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have the phrase "worthless VHS idiot" permanently in head now
― goole, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah the thread was awesome. Sorry cute nervous Maus guy we all love you!
― wolves lacan, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reach his press contact here: christ✧✧✧@motormouthme✧✧✧.c✧✧
That contact is for John Witchmaus
― moley, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
I CARE
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
The record is still really amazing...
― Clarke B., Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
THEY CALL ME THE BELIIIIIEEEEEVER
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
:-D
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can anyone enlighten me on some of his lyrics? I mean the man talks in rambling curlicues during interviews and then his songs tend to have just a couple of lines about Jackie Chan flashing across the world. I know very little about critical theory...
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean the man talks in rambling curlicues during interviews and then his songs tend to have just a couple of lines about Jackie Chan flashing across the world.
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp neither does Maus
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
BOOM!
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still haven't entirely unravelled my initial misconception that this fellow was the long-lost third (and now decidely late) walker brother, returned to critical attention :(
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 12:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
When I meet other Ariel Pink fans, I feel like we understand each other, until I discover they also like John Maus, and then I wonder what it is they like about Ariel Pink, because the two are not even in the same ballpark.
Has anyone seen Exit Through the Gift Shop? I think of Ariel Pink as Banksy, and John Maus as Mr. Brainwash.
Now, if John Maus turns out to be an elaborate hoax, a Kaufmann-esque artistic statement created by Ariel Pink himself, then I would be the first to applaud both of them. I still wouldn't listen to John Maus' music, though...
― PublicRadio, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, okay.
Was it okay to like Maus when he was playing keyboards for Ariel?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whatever scam they are running, it's getting both of them lots of alt pussy.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
aka fleshlights
― curtains will become your drapes (Ówen P.), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty much agree w/ public radio's post
― dmr, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
valuable new posters
― thomp, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
note: it is possible to like things that "are not even in the same ballpark." some people manage to like a great many different things. god knows why, but they do.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
also: my whole world's coming apart is a good song. not too concerned abt whether banksy or mr brainwash gets to claim credit.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the poster is referring to "the ballpark of quality"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
no such thing
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
which one is the cool one? that is the one i like
― bnw, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah this is excellent. If he keeps this balance of clear but lo-fi his fingerprint will stay on the material. It's like a more sophisticated weathered sound. Well done.
The keyboardist and the drummer from Lilys are in the Haunted Grafitti now? Wow.
By the way I've been trying to get into John Maus for the last two days. Talk about a poor man's Ariel Pink. It's like he's trying to copy every aspect of Ariel Pink and just blowing it. That's got to be a bummer to shoot for crappy and fail.
― PublicRadio, Sunday, 21 December 2008 09:34 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― thomp, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's so much bad music being made right now, who has time to hate on any one particular artist?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
― buzza, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
imagine the inner life of an ilx troll in 2012
― ogmor, Friday, 13 April 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I agree with contenderizer, though, that "My Whole World's Coming Apart" is a good song. I like "Navy Seals", too.
If you split the difference between Ariel Pink and John Maus, you get Part Time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhia_RlurkI
― PublicRadio, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink