ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

well also there's the fact that, as far as i know, burzum's music contains zero offensive content---all that is extracurricular. which is why its easier for me personally to rationalize listening to dude's records. with OF (and countless other 'controversial' or 'problematic' artists) the objectionable stuff is front and center, and you can like sing along to it if you want.

listening to people justify what they listen to in the privacy of their own home is so hilarious and unnecessary. there's not a song on earth that i have to do psychic backflips to justify enjoying. if someone is a loathsome person, i make that decision with my wallet, not my ears

its true you have to be told about burzum or read something about him. you have to know his history. but his history is definitely part of the "charm" for a lot of people.

there was one guy who came in my store when i started playing tyler after i got back from the lame cd store and he said "this is interesting. what is this? there's a lot going on in the background." then he took off.

listening to people justify what they listen to in the privacy of their own home is so hilarious and unnecessary. there's not a song on earth that i have to do psychic backflips to justify enjoying. if someone is a loathsome person, i make that decision with my wallet, not my ears

well, but you can understand how another perspective is "it makes a difference what sort of stuff I choose to engage" - right? I think the argument that what you choose to take private pleasure in eventually informs/effects what kind of person you are isn't really such a hard case to make

i'd definitely use it as a scatter gun at the store if people i don't like come in.

the thing is burzum is almost a perfect point of comparison precisely because there are plenty of nazi metal bands who everybody can take or leave but burzum makes such blazing metal that it's hard to ignore, and from what I gather no-one would give a shit about odd future's homophobia and misogyny if they weren't making really interesting music

― Steven Tyler the Creator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i totally get that. but i swear i have seen Burzum invoked on at least a hundred non-Burzum non-metal threads over the years, rarely as anything but a quick shorthand for "hey sometimes nazis make good music!" and at this point it feels like a wearying, useless detour that's inevitable in any discussion about the offensive views or actions of any musician ever.

well yeah

well, but you can understand how another perspective is "it makes a difference what sort of stuff I choose to engage" - right? I think the argument that what you choose to take private pleasure in eventually informs/effects what kind of person you are isn't really such a hard case to make

― Steven Tyler the Creator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:25 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cool, aero, i better put down these VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES too before i go on a shooting spree

I feel you but if we said "what about drudkh" everybody'd just stare at us blankly

i was playing some rap thing at the store one day - can't remember what - and some old dude said to his friend that he felt like he was being aurally raped and that he had to leave. and then he left.

sometimes i feel like Burzum exists purely to be used as an example or conversation point in ILM threads

― contenderoni (some dude), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:23 PM Bookmark

lol first burzum mention in this thread was by contenderizer 8 months ago

― contenderoni (some dude), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:43 PM

compare w/

BURZUM (BM Godwin's Law).

― contenderizer, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:14 (2 years ago)

(from art for art-metallers thread)

should've been ILM godwin's law

Whiney you're kinda, forgive me, too old to not be able to draw the distinction between "playing violent video games will make you violent" and "a steady diet of hateful art may have an effect on you as a person"

I feel you but if we said "what about drudkh" everybody'd just stare at us blankly

― Steven Tyler the Creator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:27 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or you could come up with a new argument. Burzum records are corny as fucking shit too. Like 80% of the time his name is invoked my non-metalheads its on some "David Allen Coe has a song with the n-word huh huh huh" bullshit

haha i was gonna say something about how there should be a Godwin's Law for Burzum on ILM

should've been ILM godwin's law

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:28 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm

whiney chill for christ's sake we're having a fun discussion here not sniping all aggro, maybe listen to less tyler the creator or something

chicken/egg haha

since the burzum thing seems to have legs...

as far as i know, burzum's music contains zero offensive content---all that is extracurricular. which is why its easier for me personally to rationalize listening to dude's records. with OF (and countless other 'controversial' or 'problematic' artists) the objectionable stuff is front and center

which, perversely, makes it easier for me to accommodate. relative to the likes of burzum, OF's transgressions seem superficial and basically meaningless, like scenes in a gross-out horror movie. that's not to give them a pass, but varg's philosophies are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers. this makes it MUCH harder for me to give any kind of burzum support a pass - at least in the present moment, while the artist is still alive and his legacy up for grabs.

like if tyler was in jail for domestic violence and expressing his theories on rape as the ultimate expression of oppressed masculinity, i'm sure i'd feel very differently about his art. calling jim goad...

give him a few years

ice cold

please don't call jim goad.

i can't believe i used to watch richard kern videos. jeez, the follies of youth. so lame. did have a thing for lung leg though...

i'm just fucking around. there's a kid in my math class who basically lives and breathes OFWGKTA (copies tyler's outfits, says "swag" 200x per hour) and i'd be shocked if he raped anybody, ever. he's a mama's boy!

i'd still read an old issue of film threat though.

dude they're all mama's boys

should i specify that he's also a black suburban teenager or is that NAGL

i can't believe i used to watch richard kern videos... did have a thing for lung leg though

me too! sewing circle kinda did me in tho

how has this not been posted in this thread yet
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a8ac764340/louie-s-poker-scene

privileged white hipsters turning burzum into TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY HILARIOUS cult figure is one of the saddest stories of the Vice Magazine generation. When I was a kid in the 90s, record stores refused to carry Skrewdriver records and stocked Fishbone FUCK RACISM t-shirts

fwiw, a couple years ago i was comfortably down w burzum "as music," comfortably divorced from its real world context. i wasn't into the rad/hilarious aspect of black metal, but i'd long been a fan of the cheap, evil, gothpunk buzz of those early albums (darkthrone too). was the criticism of folks like you and especially aero that made me rethink this.

which, perversely, makes it easier for me to accommodate. relative to the likes of burzum, OF's transgressions seem superficial and basically meaningless, like scenes in a gross-out horror movie. that's not to give them a pass, but varg's philosophies are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers. this makes it MUCH harder for me to give any kind of burzum support a pass - at least in the present moment, while the artist is still alive and his legacy up for grabs.

like if tyler was in jail for domestic violence and expressing his theories on rape as the ultimate expression of oppressed masculinity, i'm sure i'd feel very differently about his art. calling jim goad...

― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:33 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

replace 'burzum' with known wife beater miles davis to show how ridiculous this logic is

or james brown or r kelly or ike turner or

miles davis's philosophies about beating women are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers?

well ike's and r's kinda are tbf
and then there's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwYzGWjTGdM
what i'm gon do
i'm gonna go downtown to the hardware sto
and buy myself a double bladed axe handle
come back
square off
and believe me her soul better belong to the good lord
because her HAID gonna belong to me

it sounds silly but read literally .... yes? xp

maybe not followers but otherwise

miles davis's philosophies about beating women are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers?

― contenderoni (some dude), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i knew i didn't understand jazz

thread needed forks writing "sto"

it's a direct quote

lol hey dudes who only know varg from ilm godwinism you guys realize this is a dude who publishes essays about the evils of racemixing right?

i real the Miles autobio cover to cover and don't remember a chapter about why and how to choke a bitch

replace 'burzum' with known wife beater miles davis to show how ridiculous this logic is

― D40 (D-40), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:53 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

unfair, and some dude OTM. if miles davis was the symbolic figurehead of an international movement of hardcore, often violent misogynists, and if buying his records put money in the pockets of such people, and cred in their bank...

then fuck yeah, i'd take a hard stance against him and his music. the comparison you're making doesn't hold water.

i do now!

xp

real=read

aerosmith: that would be a no. sounds like a great dinner party guest.

miles davis's philosophies about beating women are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers?

It was real consequence for Betty Davis and Cicely Tyson who were scared shit of him.

^what he said
waaaaaaay off topic now but this article left me with such mixed emotions this morning
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/us/11nazi.html

Davis's music isn't an attempt to frame an ideology of misogyny. varg's music, on the other hand, is a nationalistic expression. tyler's lyrics - the jury's out; people like to invoke "persona," but his use of homophobic language IRL puts that defense into question

imo

miles davis's philosophies about beating women are presented in all seriousness and have evident real-world consequences and followers?

It was real consequence for Betty Davis and Cicely Tyson who were scared shit of him.

― Trying to Find Every Nicole Wray Song Is A Bitch (lilsoulbrother), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

philosophies are not actions