OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

Yeah, in the US Britpop is pretty much Oasis = "remember that 'Wonderwall' song? No?" and Blur = that "woo hoo!" song played at baseball games.

does republica count?

Republica is one of the best terrible bands

still think 'heads will roll' is the best republica song

Baby I'm Ready to Go came instantly to mind, hook/singer and all so yeah kinda good at least given I haven't heard it in like 20 years

on the rooftops sha-de-da. that one?

It's "shout it out" I think, bt yeah

hm. don't like that as much.

Lyrical quibbles aside I think the singer ws Brazilian, or something, also they were too housey to be Britpop

god yes the relentless rave beats

saw Republica play first support for Ned's Atomic Dustbin in Leeds last year. before Cud.

republica was a weird band, like roxette crossed with kmfdm and echobelly.

Lyrical quibbles aside I think the singer ws Brazilian, or something

Wikipedia has Republica singer as of "Portuguese, Chinese and British descent", born in Nigeria.

still, ethnic quibbles aside

drugstore had the brazilian singer

I wasn't being entirely serious, btw. And yeah I might've been thinking of Drugstore

look they're all happy hardcore foreigners with ravey rhythms ok?

dude from flowered up was the keyboard/producer/writer. definitely britpop.

he was the keyboard? cool

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/240/b/2/the_regular_show_wallpaper_by_irv5567-d5crh3g.jpg

I'm slightly depressed that having a "dog in this horse" isn't a real thing. Was momentarily looking forward to using this phrase frequently all summer. May still do.

if this was c.jan '13 there'd be a joke about tescos and turduckens in there

I feel kind of blessed that Britpop was just never a significant or noteworthy force in my life. It just kind of passed over me like a cloud. Small good things.

Girls & Boys by Blur is a jam. Good job England

Girls & Boys the only blur i really need. love it so much. still probably my fave 80's homage of the last 25 years.

when "Girls & Boys" was briefly Blur's big song in America i thought "they're huge in England, they must have good songs that are hits over there and then they just sent something uncharacteristically dumb over to break America." not only was i totally wrong but basically predicting "Song 2."

When Song 2 came out I remember thinking "this is weird, it seems like it should rock really, really hard, and yet somehow it doesn't quite"

http://observer.com/2014/04/robert-mccormicks-daughter-responds-to-nyt-magazine-cover-story/

this is why we can't have nice things

I'm confused as to whose side I'm on.

“You’re not allowed to sit on these things for half a century, not when the culture has decided they matter,” Mr. Sullivan writes in the article, referring to the transcript.

~~someone~~ is gunning for a job w/ the salinger estate

This part is kinda unsettling:

Mr. Sullivan, for his part, defended his actions to the Observer in a telephone conversation shortly after the article was published.

“I won’t try to make it sound like I didn’t struggle with it,” he said of the ethical blurriness of the situation. “It’s not the kind of thing you want to do with every story.”

He added, however, that he was legally in the clear, as one cannot own somebody else’s speech, and Mr. McCormick’s transcript features the words of Elvie Thomas. (“You’re not allowed to sit on these things for half a century, not when the culture has decided they matter,” Mr. Sullivan writes in the article, referring to the transcript.)

Ms. McCormick called Mr. Sullivan’s comments “glib.”

“There is reason to believe this theft of my father’s research was their intention all along,” she said, “and that they have stolen far more from him than just the items Sullivan has publicly admitted.”

i feel like nobody comes out of this well, which might be a cop-out but hey

i guess it's hard for me to feel too much for either party, it's just two people from the same culture of eggheads that have made a cottage industry of fetishizing and collecting and hoarding precious facts and recordings about old blues singers. i guess if geechie or elvie were alive or if their families were complaining about how they never wanted to be found out or revealed i would have a problem, but honestly i feel for mccormick who seems like a real character and obviously is going through a lot of stuff, and who knows? maybe the sullivan is shady, but i kind of feel like none of this stuff really BELONGS to either of them

it was a hell of an article i will say that

He added, however, that he was legally in the clear, as one cannot own somebody else’s speech

But Sullivan published someone else's research without consent or (presumably) compensation. As a journalist, he should fucking understand that.

i think the phrase "legally in the clear" draws an obvious distinction from "behaved ethically"

Yeah seems like a dick move

i'm glad he did it. who knows, that old coot could burn his house down in the middle of the night. i support this theft. it was iphone pictures of documentation, right? i don't know the rules of consent when someone invites you into their home. can you get sued if you take a picture of someone's cat without their knowledge and post it on the internet?

i am also in favor of frivolous lawsuits against the new york times for reasons of mental anguish though. i've wanted to sue them for this many times over the years.

i mean i definitely did think about what that old coot was gonna think when he read the thing or if he was gonna have a heart attack or possibly burn his collection out of anger. but i think overall the thing was worth it. it's love and theft. that's the blues, baby. truman capote isn't really your friend. and neither are the hell's angels.

'every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. he is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.' - janet malcolm

fair points

i don't think that family is comparable to a biker gang or a convicted murderer?

truman capote didn't just write about murderers. mentioned the hell's angels merely to point out that if you write stuff like the NYT piece you are gonna get heat. not beat up, probably, but heat nonetheless.

A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to any blues memorabilia you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10744192/10-ways-Britpop-changed-modern-manhood.html

scott, it felt like a fair assumption you were doing an in cold blood / hst comparison there

answered prayers is where capote drew the charges of betrayal and was ostracized by his friends

Not terrible but sexist:

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2014/04/haim_review_photos_miami_2014.php