NIce to see Haggard used as a pivot point for completely opposed ideological factions.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 29 April 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
"Long before “Netflix & Chill” was synonymous with sloppy Tinder finger-banging on a loveseat gifted from a family friend, Netflix was actually a different frontier altogether."
A DIFFERENT ONE ALTOGETHER!
https://medium.com/swlh/choice-the-new-democracy-of-music-c2b9fa83f72e#.2jolch89p
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 8 May 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
going by that quoted line I was surprised that wasn't av club tbh
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Sunday, 8 May 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
it's true, though, netflix was indeed a different frontier. for instance, it was once a weed-smoking elmo avatar named qwikster
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Do we have a thread for awful interviews?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.88faafb5-1c3a-11e6-8352-477931e7a37d
Who needs to do research when you have that Apple cash I guess.
― maura, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
awful interviews have been Ebro's niche for a long time
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
I mean its Interview magazine so maybe it doesn't count but
TINA WEYMOUTH: Yeah, there is a very mature approach in Dreamland, where Natalie sings, "there's no use crying." I thought, "Wow, if only our Middle Eastern brethren knew that," that the wailing and the smashing of teeth is not the way to go, but rather dreaming, and out of dreams comes a much better reality.
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/wild-belle-dreamland#_
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Monday, 23 May 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
hmm http://www.alternativenation.net/the-importance-of-music-in-entertainment/
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
We are all the NPR intern now:www.mtv.com/news/2888213/de-la-soul-listening/
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
http://www.mtv.com/news/2888213/de-la-soul-listening/
oh man whiney i totally made myself stop and not post that...
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
it just seemed like a shooting fish in an internet barrel kinda thing. like with those old pitch things on pitchfork. and then people would tell me that the person who wrote it is only 15 and has started a non-profit meals on wheels group and isn't a real music writer or something and that i'm mean.
but it does totally suck.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
I can be pretty hard to please with certain musical aesthetics, and rap music prior to ‘92 — the year I was born, of course — is something I’ve struggled with a lot in my life.
Never has a sentence so disqualified a music writer from deserving my attention
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
jesus fucking christ there are timestamps?
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
that is fucking dire
― ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Perhaps I’ll give De La Soul another listen someday. I can feel the roots of music I should enjoy, but it just didn’t connect today. Right now, I’m gonna go listen to ATC’s eurodance classic “Around the World” and keep praying for the weekend.
― ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
i think i'm gonna listen to 3 feet high just in solidarity and time stamp my own responses with bagels
― ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, June 3, 2016 1:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course there are; how else would we be able to pinpoint exactly where the bagel is in his digestive tract?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
same author
http://www.mtv.com/news/2879987/why-ill-never-leave-drake/
― nomar, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I feel like we've reached un-peak music writing. Who is good that's left in the game?
― Position Position, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
finally found a DN i'm willing to wear
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
poor guy is gonna get older and better (i hope) and this is gonna be very embarrassing for him.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
you guys, it's TOO easy.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
it's like picking up a high school newspaper and saying get a load of THIS guy...
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Counterpoint: you guys are old and weird and that piece is more or less on the money
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
yes it really engages with the album and has interesting things to say about generational displacement
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
He engages with the album by saying it's a chore to listen to in 2016, which it is
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, but it's also like if RS or somesuch published a piece in 1969 along the lines of "Count Basie?! Whadda cornball! His trumpets sound like ducks!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
i hear you scott but it's MTV News... and we heard it first.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
it is absolutely more of a chore than views, i think we're saying the same thing. see you at loud yoga
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
counterpoint to your counterpoint: i'm listening to it now and 3 feet high and rising sounds fucking fresh in the new millennium
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
prince paul rules, next gen media drools
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
wow i can't believe this young person likes young people music and not old fogey music
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
The J0rdan S. listening club
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
still waiting on his Spawn OST liveblog :(
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
it is absolutely more of a chore than views,
wait what?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
he should really take my six-week course in generational disingenuous music writing is what he should do. a hundred bucks a week and the first week is free!
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE IT OFF TAKE IT OFF
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
*winks*
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
first lesson is free right here: pretend like you've never even HEARD of de la soul! and duh make fun of their names.
the rest you'll have to pay for.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
lol david turner gets so much shit itt
― dyl, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
atc's "all around the world" is a classic tho
― dyl, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Hey everyone, don't ignore this one either. Tim Sommer defends Mike Love's honor.
http://observer.com/2016/06/for-the-love-of-mike-love-its-time-to-destroy-the-legend-of-brian-wilson/
I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with, or what political candidates he supports, or how he may stumble in public speeches; he is a gentle and kind man whose heart is in the right damn place, and he supports many worthwhile causes related to the environment, conservation, and spiritual enlightenment. Have any of you ever met Ric Ocasek or Todd Rundgren, or even, for that matter, the great Lou Reed? Have you ever talked to a waitress or stewardess who had to deal with Paul Simon?I have met a pile of so-called pop stars, and in terms of being a decent man with a decent heart, Mike Love is pretty goddamn high on the “good guy” list. Most of you just hate him because he’s in a band called the Beach Boys without Brian Wilson. You think that the fact that he keeps the Beach Boys going is somehow denigrating of or defiant of the great achievements of that band, but it’s just the opposite; Mike Love has kept the Beach Boys, a vital American institution, alive and working in the face of great odds and even greater derision.Go see the current touring version of the Beach Boys.
I have met a pile of so-called pop stars, and in terms of being a decent man with a decent heart, Mike Love is pretty goddamn high on the “good guy” list. Most of you just hate him because he’s in a band called the Beach Boys without Brian Wilson. You think that the fact that he keeps the Beach Boys going is somehow denigrating of or defiant of the great achievements of that band, but it’s just the opposite; Mike Love has kept the Beach Boys, a vital American institution, alive and working in the face of great odds and even greater derision.
Go see the current touring version of the Beach Boys.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
not to taste-shame but i am not much older than the author and i can think of few lighter, more enjoyable listens than 3 feet high. i know rap has mutated way away from the space this record occupies but i think it deserves a way less disingenuous and distracted approach, especially from someone who like...writes criticism, and who already likes tribe?????
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
ofc i blame the editors as much if not more
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
otoh I've heard more than once from students who don't get "old school rap."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
who was it that shared the anecdote about students cracking up at "Fuck Tha Police"??
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
hey there were plenty of people in the late 80's who couldn't listen to any pre-1986 rap. it was dinosaur music.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 June 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
i mean took me forever to wrap my head about enter the wu tang in college but i did and i managed to never write a piece about it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
the editors are basically holding this guy up as a pinata for potential clicks, it's more than a bit shamefulhttps://twitter.com/MTVNews/status/738743779734228992^ he retweeted this!
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link