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Yeah it is an aural curiosity... the background vocals and guitar sound very much like they were recorded live.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
I'm certain that the "Björk makes good music" aspect of her career is faked
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
Vince Clarke chose The Dark Side of the Moon as one of his favourite LP's for the Quietus, too.
Back when he was in Depeche Mode, I remember him chosing "Animals" as one of this favourite albums - which was completely beyond the pale then. I don't think the original opinion that Pink Floyd were an influence on synthpop/new romantic musicians is that controversial an opinion given the ages of the people involved. Vince Clarke one of the younger ones though.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
lil late here but of course the ventures rule!!!! hella goood band
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
my controversial opinion might be that brian eno's rock records aren't very good.
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
pink floyd were better without syd.
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
most jazz guitar is terrible.
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
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agree with both of these controps
syd era is weak as hell
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
Not liking Syd era Floyd is hardly controversial, I think most Pink Floyd fans think that.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
controversial among my dorky friends then
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
i wish i had more controversial opinions :(
― ian, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
I imagine your dorky friends are massively outnumbered by non-dorky Floyd fans.
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
yeah I don’t like Eno’s rock records either, especially when he sings. “In a hollow land” is desert island track for me though. I like/love all Pink Floyd through The Wall.kinda feel the same about jazz guitar, guys like Les Paul or Danny Gatton that throw in stuff from country etc. is cool... probably doesn’t count, though. fusion guitar absolutely rules.
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
Wait, what do you mean by jazz guitar if you're excluding all of that, then? Joe Pass/Wes Montgomery/Jim Hall?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
Lots of it is good, but those Pass/Hall imitators who play like they're afraid someone will hear them can all get fucked. And Kurt Rosenwinkel too, especially when he uses that pedal that makes his guitar sound like a fucking slide whistle.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 29 April 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
elyc6 0nset is as good as anything on Confield
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 29 April 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
well yeah. It's probably the best track on elseq
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 29 April 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
freedom by wham! is better than freedom! '90 by george michael
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 May 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I completely agree! I mean, I like both, but I feel like 'Freedom' is a better song.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
The Pennine Studios version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is superior to the Strawberry Studios version.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
Thank you. His 'singing', ugh.
― campreverb, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Oakenfold's Tranceport is a stellar dance mix, deserving of study.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 11 May 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
while I admire the politics, I hate Bikini Kill's music, and will stan for many other riot grrl era bands much more stridently than I ever will for BK. BK's songwriting and vocals are shit, even considering the aesthetic of the era and genre.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
i agree with this
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
not an opinion i am ever going to offer irl
90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck
― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Electroclash was awesome and fun.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 18 May 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
I mean, sure, a singles compilation across Bikini Kill-Le Tigre-Julie Ruin would be ideal.New Radio is a top 10 American punk song for me though.
― campreverb, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
Def agree abt electroclash
Electroclash backlash was thinly veiled homophobia, also
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this has been true since around the time they released Total 12 but the noughties was an incredible run, since then though I would put the figure closer to 99%
― boxedjoy, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
I still very much dig it, still go running through the woods on occasion listening to Thomas Fehlmann Justin Kohncke Jurgen Paape
the catalog is a little samey and era-specific but they're just really rich recordings
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
xp but yeah referring to that hot run
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
i always thought i was the only one who never got the hype about kompakt. rich is not the adjective i'd associate with the music on that label. embarrassingly repetitive stuff.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 20 May 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
The first few Total comps, Michael Mayer's Immer and Gui Boratto's Chromophobia are all good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
Kompakt was fine and had loads of great tracks, it's just that the minimal trend it started/mainstreamed has, pretty much to this day, sucked nearly all productional/compositional ambition, boundary pushing or whatever you want to call it out of 'underground' club music <- ok controversial opinion right there
― Siegbran, Monday, 20 May 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
same
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 20 May 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
it’s dance music ffs, more like 40% is jackin, 20% is corny, 40% “boring”
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
like many dance labels
now tell us what you think about perlon
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
that wasn’t a response to unperson, just the original opinion
immer 2 >>>>>>>> immer 1
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
We areA perfect labelBesides the factThat we're not there
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:05 (five years ago) link
Based on seward's recommendation I have blind-bought several Kompakt releases, albums by Lansing-Dreiden, and scooped Deep Purple from the bargain bin. I currently own none of these albums, they were all returned and/or resold
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
at one point i started buying ever mott the hoople lp
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
also my phone tried to autocorrect that to mitt the hoopla lol
I really like Mott The Hoople and my last post was not a crit of seward's taste but an expression of "different strokes" etc.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:18 (five years ago) link
goes without saying we all worship skot :)
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap because some (most?) of their fans were meatheads but all three of their original studio albums whip ass. I feel like if they came out today, in "the Twitter age," they wouldn't be nearly as broadly successful but way more intensely beloved.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link