right
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
ya
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him like some odd proto-AIDS patient back in the year the first Velvet Underground album was released."
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
quietly composing a thank-you email to Rachael Maddux over here
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
You know I considered posting that use of wasted here, too! I initially read it in that "we wasted those scumbags!" way. Pretty awkward. They could have said "taken."
― Evan, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Not long after he made the recording, Cathy was killed in a freak house fire (stunningly, Guthrie's sister was killed, and his father badly wounded, in two unrelated fires when he was a kid).
this makes Woody Guthrie sound like Firestarter
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
ack!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah the "stunningly unrelated fires" thing cracked me up, like is he an arsonist, or perhaps being followed by a fire monster like that guy on True Blood?
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
So were there three unrelated fires that wasted Woody's family? Cuz that is pretty stunning if you think about it. Just two is less stunning.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
His odd non-absence has been especially felt in this year.
ARE YOU THAT SCARED OF THE WORDS "INFLUENCE" AND "PRESENCE"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
the thin line between disclosure and name-dropping
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16850-jareds-lot/
The cover of Gary War's third LP, like Maus' comment, conjures the idea of a high-minded, rock'n'roll Robocop, ricocheting heroically across a metropolis that has been reduced to a smog-laden wasteland by the ravages of human self-interest. Designed by Robert Beatty, who has done some album covers for my own band, the record's helmeted mascot feels like a distinctly backward-looking vision of the future, mid-way between cyberpunk hero and Apollo 11 passenger.
...
Recently, on a website I helped found, John Maus offered up a lengthy explanation of his Gary War claim that even went pretty deep into the harmonic logic (or anti-logic) of his note progressions.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing find.
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
anti-logic. The best of both worlds.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
thats like a fine wine in that it gets better the more i think about it
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
I believe a lyric quoted in the actual review of the writer's band (not going to mention any of them by name) is "Too many rock stars, not enough gangsters". Apparently it gets repeated over and over in the song.
― grandavis, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
you think about wine a lot?
xp
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
winey g winegarden
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
this ppl's choice thing is a cute idea, but the website is such a mess. it fails half the time i try to login, it won't let me add albums, it doesn't have half the albums i'd want to add...
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i always said the problem with posting on ILX is there's not enough polls for me to vote in here
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
hey Pfork: Johnny Cash did not write "Long Black Veil" fyi
― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
but it's on a Johnny Cash tribute DVD
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
That poll reminded me I need to check up on a lot of music I used to love, but haven't listened to in a few years. The poll will be a fun little diversion if I get freetime at work this week, kind of like most ILM polls.
Random observation, but it would be much easier to put this poll together if, at the end of adding albums, there was a Netflix Queue-like button where you can instantly shoot albums to the top.
― musicfanatic, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
as fine a description of animal collective's music as i've read
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
whereas listening to A/C is like vomiting a burriito
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wish they hadn't turned the 5-10-15-20 feature into a video thing.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9701967776/m/53619010301
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/mixtape/yes-it-was-me-i-threw-burrito-your-windshield-again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatribe_of_a_Mad_Housewife
After Homer buys nearly everything on the menu at Krusty Burger, burrito filling hits the windshield and, unable to see the road, he swerves towards the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, crashes into the main building and crushes a safety inspector. Mr. Burns fires Homer and throws him out of the SNPP before tossing his wrecked car out of the area as well.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhKscqC3yY8
I think this was when Ethan was leaving Corbin and I at Taco Bell, so I threw a burrito at his windshield, and he just left it. It made it to my house though!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
gotta say p4k pretty much nailed it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Part of that is inevitable since any record that starts with "It's Time to Party" and "Party Hard" doesn't leave much room to build on an upward trajectory. But while "Party Til You Puke" is the culmination of I Get Wet's "Party" trilogy, it's also the tipping point where the thought of past, present, or future partying becomes unbearably oppressive. The sheer velocity of its call and response vocals renders it a monolithic yell of "CHUG," and immediately afterwards, "Fun Night" is that guy handing you a rally beer at the toilet when all you can say is "not now, bro." "Got to Do It" is "Girls Own Love" seen through the eye of a tiger, and though I've owned this record for nearly a decade, to this day I still can't remember what the title track sounds likehttp://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16836-i-get-wet/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16836-i-get-wet/
I'm sorry, but if you know this album well enough to be pretty OTM on "Party Til You Puke" and "Fun Night" then how on earth do you not know that "I Get Wet" is the greatest Andrew WK song ever.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 September 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
pitchfork doesn't get wet (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)
― IN REAL LIFE (some dude), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
yah title track is A++
― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Friday, 7 September 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
from first paragraph of menomena review
On 2010's Mines, not much was going right for Menomena-- Danny Seim and Brent Knopf had just gone through divorces, and Justin Harris had seen a therapist for the first time. The band was hardly talking, their inability to communicate in a civilized fashion meaning that the record took over three years to complete. But as everyone knows, suffering can make for great art, and although Mines sacrificed some of Menomena's trademark compositional weirdness for comparatively melodic rock songs, it contained some of their most moving material to date. Opener "Queen Black Acid", written by Harris, was among that year's most devastating songs: "You're five foot five, not a hundred pounds/ I'm scared to death of every single ounce," concluding, "You bring me down... So down."
from willamette week interview linked in the review
Listening to Mines, it’s clear the past few years have been rough on the band. Both Seim and Knopf struggled through divorces, and Harris says he saw a therapist for the first time. Mines opens with Harris’ “Queen Black Acid,” a leisurely paced slow-burner that’s the most devastating song in the band’s catalog. “You’re 5-foot-5, not 100 pounds,” Harris sings, pausing a measure to catch his breath. “I’m scared to death of every single ounce.” The song’s chorus is similarly heartbreaking: “You bring me down/ So down.”
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
rip pitchfork
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
when will the "institution" crumble?
― spazzmatazz, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
things like that make me glad i have a tendency to avoid reading other press about an album i'm reviewing
― some dude, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Wow I cannot believe they trashed "I Get Wet", that's the best track on the album!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
I think Snapes's review walks a dangerous line but doesn't veer far enough into plagiarism for me to seriously take issue with it. NAGL, tho.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
i just think it's funny that she linked to the source!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
If that was being assessed as school/college/university work, that person would not be getting awarded any marks. That is quite clearly plagiarism.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's obv plagiarism.
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone compare it to the band's press package? My impression of most reviews is that 50-75% of the background information is lifted directly from materials provided by the bands.
― Moodles, Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
OK but even the hackiest lazybones reviewers tend to have the presence of mind not to use the exact same turns of phrase in the same order as the press release
― Did communist FB take down the awesome bacon quran picture? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
just checked; press release doesnt have that stuff in it
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to find the mines press kit (cause the article is from 2010) to see if it originally came from there but could not do so
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, frankly, that this bastion of music journalism has sunken so low.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link