I'm furiously tugging next-gen over here
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
there it is
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
It's been established that reviewers don't assign BNM so the language of the review has nothing to do with whether it gets BNM or not. That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I don't think the reviewers assign the ratings either?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.
Maybe but it is a go-to for people who aren't hardcore music nerds and just want a cool playlist for their Hanukkah party, I've seen it happen.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Shabazz Palaces would be great at a Hanukkah party, give it BNM now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
bnm is for ppl w/ lives/jobs
― balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Basic New Music
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/493789133601394690 <-- logical endpoint
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, July 28, 2014 11:51 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
this is not true
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah this canard comes up fairly regularly itt
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2oic3J0vk1qz9rjn.gif
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
you're gonna break out your box sets this week aren't you
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
more braffology!
http://www.stereogum.com/1694425/premature-evaluation-spoon-they-want-my-soul/franchises/premature-evaluation/
here’s a moment on Spoon’s new song “Outlier” where Britt Daniel sneaks a sharp splinter of film criticism into one of the tough, terse, personal songs that Spoon is so known for: “I remember when you walked out of Garden State / You had taste, you had taste / You had no time to waste.” Imagine Zach Braff’s face when he hears that song — because you know he’ll hear it. As a guy who was making slick, broadly appealing indie rock in the early ’00s, Daniel probably indirectly made some money off of Garden State, and Joe Chiccarelli, the longtime music-biz insider who co-produced “Outlier,” previously produced the life-changing Shins’ Wincing the Night Away. Point is, that tossed-off dis, really just an aside in the song, is a potential bridge-burner, and most big-indie frontmen in 2014 aren’t in the business of burning bridges, at least not consciously. But Daniel has always carried himself above the fray, with a slight sneer in his voice and a clear sense of purpose in his melodies. And if he wants to say “fuck that” about something, he’s going to do it. That’s a minor moment on Spoon’s new album They Want My Soul, but it’s a telling one, and it shows off the haughty confidence that has always set both Daniel and his band apart. Spoon carry themselves with a certain strut, and it’s been too long since we’ve heard that strut in action.
― j., Monday, 28 July 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
whoa that beat that one to death.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
i mean its kind of a funny line to take note of but to use it as like mathematical proof that britt daniel is a badass is kinda sad
it’s been too long since we’ve heard that strut in action.
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Britt Daniel is talking about that time she walked out of the State of New Jersey.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
strutted out of new jersey
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
I saw Britt Daniel at Pitchfork Fest six years ago in cargo shorts and high tops in the Chipotle line: he wasn't bad ass.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
That review is trying a bit hard to turn being a spoon fan into a sign you're a fearless ice-cold mfer.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
It would be pretty easy to read that line as sarcastic too.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
cargo shorts are pretty badass, lots of pocket space for more handguns
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
or burritos
― bnw, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
i bet you could rob ppl for a lot of burritos at pitchfork fest
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Imagine Zach Braff’s face when you steal his burrito
― tylerw, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
in one of Britt Daniels' cargo shorts pockets is a interdimensional portal back to Austin, through which he rides on a burrito
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
the one place i ever saw britt daniel was in the pearl district in portland buying truffles at a boutique chocolate place called "moonstruck", no hirschberg
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
burritos, truffles, he's a gourmand, that Britt
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
burritos, truffles in my palm HANHbe like he's a gourmand HANH
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
lmao i've seen Britt Daniels irl and he was eating a burrito
― een, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Ha I was thinking
this place has insanely good milkshakes btw
― Clay, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
lol at the idea that burning your bridges with Zach Braff is a risky move. Weird to see another article way overstating the importance of that dude for indie music in 2014.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
i've seen scrubs a few times -- if you cross braff, he'll prank you in a way that is hilarious but will also make you *think*
― tylerw, Monday, 28 July 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
hospital television shows
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
greenday time of your life E.R. scene
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
braff's entire career is just trying to make that scene over and over
I kinda dug Scrubs tbh
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 July 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
if they've completely giving up on the idea of innovation being anything to be aplauded.
I hope so. "innovation" is a false god
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
"innovation" may be false, but what about innovation?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Britt Daniel sneaks a sharp splinter of film criticism into one of the tough, terse, personal songs that Spoon is so known for:
lol is this really what he's "known for", I have never had more than the barest glimmer of understanding of what any of his songs are about beyond the most obvious (Sister Jack etc)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
innovation is more about technology, not so much about aesthetics. I don't really care about technology and it's false sense of progress. music is not about progress.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
wait, what is false about the progress in say medical technology?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
tons of things that were marketed as progress courtesy of technology have turned out to be detrimental - the idea that because something is new it is better than what came before (the very essence of the concept of progress) is, how you say, problematic
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
ah, so you meant 'technology and its sometimes false sense of progress'
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
I love Spoon and I have no idea what their songs are "about," Sister Jack included, this is part of the appeal tbh
― anonanon, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
i'm pretty sure i know what fitted shirt is about
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
rolling burrito with a spoon thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
― Οὖτις, 29. juli 2014 01:32 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nah, it's the way art develops. Otherwise you end up with fucking Fleet Foxes as album of the year. And really, the concept is that something that is new is all things considered better than something we have heard a thousand times before.
(for some reason I listened to Fleet Foxes the other day. christ it's awful. this thread should prob have been closed back then)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Well the most forward-thinking music right now is probably festival EDM/dubstep, which they don't cover except sneeringly:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19139-skrillex-recess/
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link