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

stellar buffoonery

would have liked to hear some of those entries turned into a Wesley Willis song

similar style to this site:

http://listdose.com/top-10-best-famous-jazz-musicians/

Benny Goodman is among the most respectable and famous Jazz musician, he is esteemed at such an extent that his clarinet is among the world’s most expensive musical instruments today

Miles Devis

http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-popular-countries-monarchical-government

[Nat King Cole] was very famous for his unique and pulchritudinous soft voice.

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Okay, that one is a keeper.

Miles Devis

at least he acknowledges the importance of that Louis Armstrong classic “what a beautiful world is”.

lol

Music is a very important part of life, music has the power to change a person’s mood in a blink of an eye, it is capable of making you smile, and it is also capable of making a person cry. Music can bring a person back to life, it can make you enthusiastic, and it can inspire you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK2hx377iU

music can make your soul less hungry, and it can feed your soul.

describing Monk as a singer gives the game away. It seems quite mean sneering at someone who is just making "content" and grappling with English as a 2nd language. I'd guess the author knows this is a load of shite, it is the hacks who purr away at their perceptiveness and ingenuity whilst talking a load of shite who deserve the real contempt.

http://sherly.mobile9.com/download/media/446/rastasmile_XXfBedHk.jpg

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/08/in_defense_of_sublime.php

i think this is really it. the one. the one we've been waiting for.

I have so many feelings, probably too many

"I say this as a person who was sixteen in 1996" = the person who wrote this is not actually 16.

which might be the stunner for some.

Miguel is like the fucking Rick Ruben of the O.C., doing what Ruben did at Def Jam (and with other acts, like the Beastie Boys)

that line caught my eye too

fucking Rick Ruben ese

why does Kurt Cobain get treated like dead royalty and Brad Nowell get the bum rap of being the lesser-than frat-dude version?

because uh

My god, every line of this

Yeah, srsly

"But the third wave ska movement was a big and important one, ushering bands into the mainstream like the Aquabats, Reel Big Fish and, of course, No Doubt, while changing the way rock radio sounded forever."

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/why-beyonce-knowles-doesnt-deserve-mtvs-vanguard-award-20140808-101raz.html#poll

xp
so we're writing think pieces in response to stupid avclub clickbait now, huh?

The Sublime piece has a shaky premise--aren't they far more rated and loved than most dumbass 90s ska bands?

fucking Rick Ruben ese

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:32 PM (Yesterday)

lolllllll

Rick Ruben Blades

I grew up in the '90s, and guess what? Chicken butt.

What I'm saying is, to your average sixteen-year-old music fan in 1996, Nirvana and Sublime could be enjoyed all the same. I say this as a person who was sixteen in 1996, loved both bands and saw no difference between one and the other.

This person is as old as me and this opinion seems like it's from someone who can name more than five pokemons

its like that piece was written just for you Whiney

I mean, I'll tell it like it is, I definitely banged some Sublime in 1996, I can't lie — and I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom, mostly as a conceptual triumph.

But to see no difference between them and Nirvana would have been the opinion of an insane person, even in 1996. And to not recognize that in hindsight as someone approaching 35 is either willfully blind or unabashed trolling

yeah i dunno...i mean....i guess to me back then there were like Major bands (nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, RHCP) and then like tons of alt rock radio bands, but i didn't necessarily see sublime as a bigger deal than marcy playground or garbage or w/e

well, there were definitely 'sublime fans'. like, overlapping with the deadheads/phishheads who were also into alt rock and not just trapped in an alternate universe of tape-trading.

yeah i'm sure but i think for the average they weren't on the same level as nirvana

lower level than the Offspring I think

I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom
I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom

the "average music fan" was probably listening to Snoop or Shania Twain or Alanis Morissette in 1996 anyway

Sublime at the time felt to me like they had the same level of popularity as, say, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and I thought they'd vanish once the musical trend died down, and then I turned around and it had been like 10 years of randomly seeing Sublime t-shirts out in the wild and I was all "wait what the fuck happened here"

"Chica Me Tipo"

No me importa que se lleva (It doesn't matter what you're wearing)
Porque todo se quitara (Because it will all come off)
Ay no puedo verlo (I can't see you)
Ni en pintura (Not even in paint)

(Chorus)

Cuando empecemos, no me dio cuenta (When we started, I didn't realize)
De que luego, tuviera que pagar (That later I would have to pay)
Pero, se dice tambien (but, it is also said)
Me muera acostarme con ti (I'm dying to lay down with you)
Con ti (with you)

No me propongo predicar (I don't propose to preach)
Vive y dejar vivir (Live and let live)
Pero el amigo (But a friend)
Es un condon en el bolsillo (Is a condom in your pocket)

Yo no soy medico, no soy chapocero (I'm not a doctor, I'm not a joker)
Solamente soy pobre, y ya estoy tan solo (I'm just poor, and now I'm so lonely)
Pero si se cambie (But if she changes)
Ella seria la mia (She will be mine)
Para ser poseido en propeidad (To be possesed as property)
en propeidad (As property)

I've got to get alive with you
Whoa I cannot do?
I will lay down anytime with her
with her.

brad nowell is a kurt cobainesque tragic genius to a lot of people so i don't think the comparison is that ridiculous. i think the article is right about the politics of taste that cause people to make a point of hating sublime and their shallow, garbage music.

"40 Oz To Freedom"

You've got your hair permed
You've got your red dress on
Screamin' that second gear was such a turn on
And the fog forming on my window tells me that the morning here
And you'll be gone before too long

Who taught you those new tricks?
Damn I shouldn't start that talk,
but life is one big question when your starin at the clock
And the answers always waiting at the liquor store, 40 oz to Freedom,
so I'll take that walk.

And I know that ohhhh...I'm not comin back
Ohh not going back
God knows not going back

You look so fine when you lie it just don't show,
That I know which way the wind blows
40 oz to freedom is the only chance I have to feel good,
even though I feel bad

And I know that ohhhh...I'm not comin back
Ohh not going back
God knows I'm not going back
God knows I'm not going back

the "average music fan" was probably listening to Snoop or Shania Twain or Alanis Morissette in 1996 anyway

― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 8, 2014 10:18 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean average the type of kids that would care about nirvana and sublime...also it's not like nirvana wasn't selling mainstream numbers

40z to freedom is the sublime album that people who were once a fan but are now slightly embarrassed about it will still say is "pretty good". it is not.

40 Oz to Freedom, conceptually, really was like smart that it came from a product of hip-hop fandom and college DJ culture (which Nowell was I think?)

Like doing Grateful Dead songs over the "Funky Drummer break," scratching a Minutemen album, doing a folk song about KRS-One, singing Bob Marley lyrics over a Just-Ice song — it all spoke to the post-Beasties smash-up culture they were trying to promote and attempt and see through the lens of smoked out cali loving surfer bros/dalmation enthusiasts

. Of course there's no shortage of awkardness ("DATE RAPE STYLEE") but I can get behind the message conceptually, plus they had good taste

the way a crowd reacts when "Santeria" comes on in a crowded bar in 2014 vs how they react when "smells like teen spirit" comes on is p different ime

brad nowell is a kurt cobainesque tragic genius to a lot of people so i don't think the comparison is that ridiculous.

I'mma stop you right here and opine that once you've gotten to "brad nowell is a kurt cobainesque tragic genius to a lot of people", you have jetted past "ridiculous" and are firmly into "full-on insane and laughable" territory.

"a lot of people" does not equal "me"