beating canons into shares
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
blessed are the canonmakers, for they shall be really short on irl friends
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
can't really say anything about this
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
first time for everything i guess
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
whiney
this list is obviously a load of nonsense but you've literally reached the point where you're gunning for the black eyed peas over the knife
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
karin andersson came BARRELLING down the hill yelling "NO!" at the black eyed peas, who were forced to jump into the east river
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
drake is rap's phil collins only i still don't like him
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:14 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm contractually obligated to point out he's def a top 20 rock drummer of all time easy
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
nah man Drake's top 30 AT BEST!
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
amazing how the most anodyne fucking comment possible still gets me insulted for no reason
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Aw, it was an open goal, k, nothing but love
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEXMJfvuQcQ
― j., Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
that's the first time i've ever heard those trivia, they are interesting and I'm glad I know em but I wouldn't begrudge someone for not knowing them and not writing about them.
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
I dont think "trivia" is the right word though? I think these things are all absolutely integral in understanding the main conceit of the story!
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Like Diplo eventually collaborating with an actual member of the Clash on a Converse ad is "trivia." M.I.A. detourning the melody and lyrics of 90s butt-shaking song to be about globalism is 100% integral to what makes is a good chorus
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
trivia or not, i've been able to enjoy all those choruses without knowing those facts. also, i googled for like 2 mins and couldn't find ANY piece of writing (aside from your ilx post and whosampled.com) that mentions them
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
I hate to encourage the circular entropic flow of information between people writing chart articles and fucking genius.com, but genius does have the rumpshaker ref re:MIA
the "get low" annotations are worthless
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
less than five google searches and I get from "to the windows, to the walls" to this article, which at least cites a 1994 track
asking people writing articles on pop culture to do more than two google searches is nearly impossible afaict
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
forgot article link:https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/united-states-of-bass/episodes/mr-collipark
I mean it's not really a lack of googling, more just the whole regurgitated received wisdom with a chyme gloss of celebrity gossip and fun blog voice thing, but
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I guess writing doesn't necessarily imply anyone did research
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
I mean, honestly, on one level there's the skill of digging into some material, which used to be paging through Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and hoping nothing really recent was relevant, and hopefully being able to have a couple sources that weren't just churn off the same article. (middle school library nerd here)
Now the actual digging is much easier with google, but the critical skills to find original sources to determine if you've found a traceable fact or just the same half-dozen people regurgitating one questionable source gets tricky.
I guess if you're churning out stuff in the ol' billboard post mill it might not matter
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sfweekly.com/music/hearthis/colleen-green-is-the-queen-of-blase/
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
that owns
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
San Francisco's on the Trump Train, baby
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
That openness reverberates through “Want You Back”’s verses, which have a Don Henley glimmer and a Christine McVie yearning
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
can't see what's particularly bad about that
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
they forgot to work in a Twin Peaks reference too
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
i hate to give mr. thenardlebop any attention at all, but this is so egregious how is he this uninformed
And here we have one of the ugliest attempts at capitalizing on the Caribbean craze: pic.twitter.com/U4ZtKtUkFy— Thee Anthony Fantano (@theneedledrop) May 3, 2017
@theneedledrop Wow man .. ugly attempt at Caribbean ? Man that's Afro beat that's my naija culture . I was born into this sound . This is OUR sound— Wale (@Wale) May 3, 2017
― austinb, Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 4:56 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haim make pop-rock full of deliberate callbacks to '70s los angeles pop-rock i.e. what are you talking about
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link
make it a Mulholland Drive reference then
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
my point was, yes they make that style of music so obviously that one could have written that sentence without hearing a second of music.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
Jesus fuck fantano scolding wale unreal lack of awareness
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
*billy ocean voice* caribbean craze
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
looks like "know how to diss diplo, i'll run with it" without recognizing wale whatsoever
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
What's a Don Henley glimmer
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
The gleam of the LAPD badge as they search his partment?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
the reflection the lights off his coke mirror.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
The fact that Wale responded to Fantano at all is an amazing self-ether
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 May 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
i get that ATDI is important but this is the most hagiographic, labored-over, critically uninteresting thing i've ever seen
http://thequietus.com/articles/22339-at-the-drive-in-inter-alia-album-review
― austinb, Friday, 5 May 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
I got halfway through that before thinking "is this is a review of a new record or a fucking history lesson?" ... a couple of paragraphs later and I was like "is this a review of a new record or is this just the writer telling us how much he likes the previous one?"
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 5 May 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
The review didn't really click for me until paragraph seven:
Peers in my Devon sixth form college didn’t know what to make of them when I brought Relationship of Command into the common room
which is where I stopped reading. Especially once I noticed there were like 17 paragraphs to go. Pull your pants back up, buddy, it's just an album.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 5 May 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I like At the Drive In quite a bit but I don't really know how "important" they are, they were solidly part of an emo-influence/mathy post-fugazi scene of underground rock
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 May 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
holy crap it's almost 6,000 words. that's like Wright Thompson or Spencer Hall longform strokejob length.
― evol j, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Is there a Caribbean craze?
― Evan, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Pfft
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/three-days-at-stagecoach-californias-pro-trump-honkytonk/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Sitting on another set of lawn chairs was Craig, a civil engineer who’d spent the morning perfecting a spill-proof beer bong. The only thing more sculpted than its arrangement of PVC pipes and valves was his body.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
Amazingly, this was not written by Bob Lefsetz.
Closing paragraph:
The hippie movement is actually a great case study in the intersection of pop music and activism. Listen to Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock.” (Yes, she famously missed performing at the festival she wrote the definitive song about.) “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young calling out police in the wake of the Kent State shooting in “Ohio.” Listen to Bob Dylan skewering government warmongering on “Masters of War.” 2017’s ambitious pop crop could wield this same power if they wanted. But do they?
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
hey Katy Perry pricked her finger on a rose thorn in that one video. that's about as deep as you're gonna get these days
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Before I heard you, I didn’t think it was possible for someone to front three separate bands over their career, and on top of that, release several albums as a solo artist. How could someone be that universal?Your voice sends chills to the spine. Your words stir the wheels of thought. Your melodies invent emotions most of us never even knew existed.Your songs have gotten me, as well as many other people, through some of the darkest, as well as some of the best times in our lives. You touched more people than you can imagine. And now you’ve hurt us.
Your voice sends chills to the spine. Your words stir the wheels of thought. Your melodies invent emotions most of us never even knew existed.
Your songs have gotten me, as well as many other people, through some of the darkest, as well as some of the best times in our lives. You touched more people than you can imagine. And now you’ve hurt us.
http://www.alternativenation.net/say-hello-2-heaven-open-letter-chris-cornell/
― Frozen CD, Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
nah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link