Which artists legacies have improved/worsened during the 2010s?

In addition to the evangelising of people like Alfred I think one influence on that has been the success (again starting in the previous decade) of contemporary R&B that explicitly calls back to that sound - it's like, once people started lionising The-Dream (however fleetingly) it was only a matter of time before 80s R&B ideas would start to seem compelling again in and of themselves.

speaking of Zappa, do young people enjoy Beefheart?

Have they ever?

... yes

My partner teaches high school English, and one of her students is into Beefheart...but I think they may be the only student at the school who does.

Which Beefheart do you mean

Everyone still loves Elliott Smith.

Yeah, everyone absolutely still loves Elliott Smith. His legacy is pretty much static. No posthumous additions to catalogue in years. No massive new book or documentary (I mean there was a book and a documentary but there was nothing revelatory). He'll always be adored by anyone who likes acoustic guitars and songwriting.

Yeah, he's got a very hardcore fanbase, and swathes of youngsters discovering him every year still.

i honestly can't be 100% sure this isn't correct

If Frank Zappa were alive today he'd be a Ben Shapiro stan

— The Give Smart Guy (@BobbyBigWheel) December 13, 2018

flamboyant goon tie included at 12:39 19 Jul 19

Which Beefheart do you mean

Lieutenant Colonel Beefheart

xpost You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a classical liberal.

I kinda feel like he'd hate Trump though, just how dumb and full of shit he is

wow, i've never watched "this is 40" but for a movie released this decade it sounds like it's aged incredibly poorly

would def hate trump

I wonder how the whole PMRC thing would be perceived if it happened today?

oh you rich musicians whining about freedom of speech wah wah wah

but then you've got the party of Family Values waddling around in "Fuck Your Feelings" t shirts so

zappa 100% would be a Facts and Logic guy now

maybe he'd be more a sam harris guy than fucking shapiro (if for no other reason than ben is so shrill and agitating) but yeah def on that facts and logic tip

No effing way would Zappa stan for a guy who wrote a book called Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future.

xp

And who bros down with David Horowitz

A Bill Maher guy or something, maybe

yep. don't really see him being down with Shapiro but him & Maher definitely seem like they'd be buds, smirking at everything through eternity

that makes sense. doesn’t seem like there a whole lot of distinction between Harris’ and Maher’s worldview

Can you imagine how insufferable the Marc Maron and Joe Rogan interviews with Zappa would be?

girl you thought he was maher, but he was rogan

Zappa would have been a pretty old dude by now, he may have ended up just chilling in the Canyon.

wow, i've never watched "this is 40" but for a movie released this decade it sounds like it's aged incredibly poorly

― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was garbage when it was released, and I can't remember when it was released, and I'd forgotten the movie even existed until yesterday. Albert Brooks is the only watchable element of the film, and Melissa McCarthy also had a funny second or two, but christ, it was insufferable.

It was def a big letdown after Knocked Up. The scenes with John Lithgow are good, and I find Jason Segal’s creepy chick-magnet character to be kinda funny. It’s an ok movie to half-watch on tv when it comes on now.

this is 40 was where it became evident that apatow didnt think his shit stank

^totally agree

(though points off for grossness, lol)

I'd argue that happened with Funny People. When James Taylor has the only funny line in a movie, there's a problem.

was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of

xp lol i got those two mixed up.

"alexa, find that apatow movie about men figuring out fatherhood and marriage where his wife plays the lead actress role and his kids are in it"

*alexa melts from overheating*

apatow: stock down

seth rogen's line from knocked up "steely dan gargles my balls": stock down

Stock down: West LA / Brentwood
Stock up: Neighborhoods east of Hollywood

feel like LCD's music was designed to have this ephemeral feeling to it, half their songs are about getting older and "the last party" and not being cool anymore so yeah I kinda figured they'd fall by the wayside once the moment was over. I know the reunion album was a big deal but people stopped talking about it pretty much immediately after its release and I never heard any of the songs anywhere

― frogbs, 18. juli 2019 00:06 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Late response, but Oh Baby was in Booksmart, and in a pretty prominent position. Made me feel quite old, but I was also literally the second oldest man at the press screening.

was it worse than Pineapple Express?

it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did

I think the only thing I've seen actually directed by Apatow in the last decade was Trainwreck because a friend wanted to go to the movies and it was playing. It was more boring than anything?

it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did

he didn't write it either

(also it is funny iirc)

Trainwreck def boring

I'd argue that happened with Funny People. When James Taylor has the only funny line in a movie, there's a problem.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, July 19, 2019 8:02 AM (two hours ago)

yeah funny people was garbage and were i got off the apatow train

was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, July 19, 2019 3:02 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Really? I just watched this again last year and it's still pretty damn funny.

I like Pineapple Express

speaking of which, how is Huey Lewis faring these days?

he's been doing better ever since it became hip to be square

I heard that “working for a living” song in a big record/cd store the other day