Entire pieces have been written about the voices of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, so American and vital and wise in their manly scratchiness, like unshaved bristle and whiskey and dirt. Man voice make music good.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
i agree with her that sexism is a factor in the way music is reviewed.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
but that seems sorta self evident and presenting it here as if it were a revelation is a tetch self serving in preservation of newsom as the greatest voice of her generation, why because i like her
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah this sucked as an experience of reading prose and is tendentious and bad as a description of newsom's appeal but . . . .
it's on point that many male journalists infantilize and condescend to women in pop/rock who are scarily talented
(see the critical history of kate bush, bjork for starters there)
I'm guessing this probably doesn't happen to, say, martha argerich or someone on that level
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
pretty much all music "opinion" writing these days is presenting totally obvious, self-evident things as "revelations" because social justice
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
and that is bad and awful
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
the only way to enact real change is to eat up real estate with constant, condescending, redundant explanations of things that everyone already knows
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
like how many articles can I read and share on social media in one day that reinforce the worldview of my peers and i
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't want the outcome to be "if you don't love newsom as much as I do, then you're a sexist piece of shit"
but you're saying maybe that is the arm-twisting politics-as-ethics logic here?
that's a bummer, if it's true
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
I haven't read the piece and only skim-read the conversation here but I already feel better about having been on-record as someone more than willing to make fun of both Bob Dylan and Joanna Newsom
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
Man voice make ILM good.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
blown display name opp
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Man troll gas beany jim-jam
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
this is one of my favorite voices ever. starts at 3:22 right after the witch is hanged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDxMnjRZT7M
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
where are you, Trella Hart! i could listen to that song all day long.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
blaaack lucky hammerhead...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Mark Of The Witch written by two women, fyi...
"now i wonder...if anybody'd miss me if i died..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqq8vMt2I9E
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
not the same as her mark of the witch jam, but pretty cool and depressing.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
this song is amazing though. luckily a family member posted it along with family photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6q1w0RPhBU
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENJbKqS9ns
Here is PAMS' Swiszle package, Series 32 for WKLO. Trella Hart is the captivating lady with the amazing voice singing lead on many of the cuts. Trella's voice had a fascinating, (even sexy) "smokey" sort of quality. She was paired on many cuts with PAMS's answer to the Four Freshmen, here called the Good Timers.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
you've sold me scott
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
this is her only spotify track and i diggithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6cpbzJez4
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah the number of "if you don't like this / do like this, your politics are wrong" articles is really depressing but since the default mode of writing about music is now "this is how I felt as I listened," it's natural that this is what we'd get
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:23 (eight years ago) link
it's definitely what you get when blogging = journalism.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
or "journalism".
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
i don't really know what you call the awl. awl-ful!
webblogzine or whatever.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
what i found more striking was that i think i've read five profiles of newsom from this album cycle, all of them by men, and all of them identical (1. something about unicorns 2. her songs are complicated 3. she was in inherent vice)― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I spent €8 on Uncut to read a dreadful feature that went on about the 'constellation of birthmarks' (read: freckles) on her face, and hit all these other marks mentioned above.
― lamonti, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
Apologies if an ILMer wrote this but shit like this make me pray for asteroids
http://thequietus.com/articles/19113-carly-rae-jepsen-emotion-best-record-2015-olafur-eliasson-drake
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 October 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 02:28 (2 days ago) Permalink
For a while it seemed like they were trying to distinguish themselves as sort of "above the fray", not too clickbaity, perhaps a little more literate than most sites, but not with articles like that.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 30 October 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
all you really need to know right here about that carly ray review:
"As with the briefcase in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction..."
― scott seward, Friday, 30 October 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
If an ILMer wrote that you should be even less apologetic
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 30 October 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Heh, probably.
The Quietus are usually pretty good generally though which is why it's always a bit odd when they drop the ball so heavily
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
New winner.
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-of-the-best-debut-albums-of-2015
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
painful stuff.makes the bojack horseman takeover issue look like a masterclass in subtlety.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
It didn't have "sponsored post" on it at first. It had a byline. Of a writer who took to Twitter to angrily deny he had anything to do with it.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Viet Cong is not a noise band
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Clearly that's the issue here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
tbh i'd rather have my advertorial hilariously clunky like that than anything more insidious (or worse journalists repping brands in non-advertorial copy)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
found out about the late of the pier frontman's record from this. the system works! listening to it now, though - perhaps it doesn't
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
ha, that is only one article from a four part series
You’d think we’d run out of battery or grind to a halt. But two hours in and we were still at 71%. The system is designed to handle multi-tasking by balancing memory and processor resources efficiently. So we carried on, gliding from tab to tab like Sleaford Mods on a pub crawl. Juiced up and eager to keep the party going.
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-5-best-collaborations-of-2015
― soref, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
this is surely someone who has been lumbered with an unenviable writing assignment and intentionally making it as corny as possible to maintain some personal dignity?
― soref, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Amazing.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
"Getting a job done has never been so lolz."
― jmm, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
I was just coming to post that.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Hefty.
― soref, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
is it a joke? a conceptual prank of some kind? institutional critique about the advertorial fate of journalism today?
― the tune was space, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
this has the same earnest tone as the clean bandit cortana adverts, which were not done in jest
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
it has the feel of something which has been rewritten in spite after a request for amendments
― ogmor, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Canadian trio Badbadnotgood bring their intricate jazz flex to the philosophical whims of Wu-Tang wordsmith Ghostface Killah
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link