god, i love radiohead
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
Fitter happierMore productiveComfortableNot drinking too muchRegular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)one INCREDIBLY LONG PUBEAt ease
― intrusive dobro, shoeless guest (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 15 March 2021 04:58 (three years ago) link
It’s not how OKC sounds which made it a classic album, it’s how it feels and how well its themes resonated at the time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 15 March 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link
And yeah, stuff like “climbing up the walls” and even “fitter happier” sounded like nothing else I had ever heard in my life.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 15 March 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link
You’d have to be a HUGE music nerd if OKC sounded like something else you heard before if you were in your early teens in the pre-internet age.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 15 March 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link
I am actually a bit enraged at the suggestion that an album can’t change your life if it’s “nothing new”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 15 March 2021 09:02 (three years ago) link
but the joke is on you - some of my best old friends always used WOAH and continue to WOAH, so in a way your post and the decisions that you've made are making me nostalgic for a simpler time
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone),
I have caught myself using WOAH outside ilx a couple of times recently so it seems the joke is indeed on me. I just never knew there was another way, you've opened my eyes Karl Malone.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Time alone will tell if you've changed my life. Could be, could be.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 12:46 (three years ago) link
Anyway I don't think I said it was nothing new? I said it conformed to expectations of what makes music "good", or what makes a "good album", and did so expertly, maybe better than any other record I've heard to date. That's not really the same thing but I already acknowledged that post hit a bum note, you know?
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
getting into "uptown music" (Babbitt disciples like Charles Dodge and Mario Davidovsky)
Funny you should mention these guys – when I found out about the 'Idioteque' / Paul Lansky connection, I looked up Mild und leise and was woefully disappointed. At the time I was firmly in the 'early electronic music suxxx!' camp – much like Afx when he said Stockhausen should 'stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to' (which is somewhat ironic since I was too shy to dance in my teens). So yeah, you were definitely ahead of the curve there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
It was propinquity, or serendipity, or both. I grew up in a neighborhood adjacent to Columbia University and had neighbors who worked with those guys. They knew I liked weird music- one of them gave me a CD of 'Philomel' for Christmas when I was 15!
I was nerdy in the pre-internet age only in the sense that I listened to middling 60's and 70's bands like Paul Revere and the Raiders at age 9 or 10 instead of Green Day and Nirvana. Kind of parochial. Def not too cool :)
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
I was into Luc Ferrari around the time of Kid A but didn't know about any of the associated musique concrete stuff at all which is... baffling.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Were there samples or references to other EA compositions than mild und leise?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Monday, 15 March 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
They sample arthur krieger's 'short piece' from the same 'elctronic music winners' album. That title!!!
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
*kreiger
Oh wow, they were winning pieces in the first ISCM competition!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
Ha!!! I didn't know.
What's the etiquette around sampling two consecutive tracks off the same record in a song? I was under the impression that sort of thing was frowned upon at the time.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
i think one is ok, two is definitely frowned upon, but if you do it three or more times it becomes something that is categorically different and maybe even better
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
relate to people upthread who say OKC felt like a pivotal life moment. it's not like i hadn't heard amazing, ambitious music by that point. i was already a fan of the bends. but OKC came out at exactly the right point: literally the day i finished my GCSEs, just as Britpop's shiny naivete was starting to fade. it felt right
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 15 March 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
xp You just keep sampling more of it like you're jamming and it'll look like you meant to do it
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link