well not entirely but they're no more groupable than any other noise-rock/alt-rap/idk
― imago, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Topical Cuck Storm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
I will always pretend Kozelek quit music in 2013-ish
― Evan, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
whiney g forever the king for savagely destroying his own taste in music better than anyone else could <3
― flopson, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
own thyself to know thyself
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
pwn iirc.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Bernie Sanders Played Sheer Mag’s “Expect the Bayonet” at New York Rally
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
Good song!
― thicc elizabeth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
t minus whatever till Fox gets wind of that title
― Simon H., Tuesday, 22 October 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
To thy pwn self be true
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
in the past 24 hours:
Here’s Everything That Happened at Kanye’s L.A. Jesus Is King EventListen to Kanye West’s New Interview With Zane LoweKanye West Shares Official Jesus Is King TracklistKanye Doesn’t Release Album, Makes Surprise Appearance on Kimmel
you don't need turn every press release into an article ffs
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 25 October 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
West's PR machine clearly has them by the balls.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Friday, 25 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
This is why:
kanyekendrickfrankkendrickfrankkanye
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
hmm today a Sufjan project can't even make lead review up against some guy called Rex Orange County. Times changin'
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
it's a ballet score so not exactly a major sufjan project in terms of popular appeal
― ufo, Friday, 25 October 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
xp - for the better
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:43 (four years ago) link
Was struck by the contrast btw this observation in today’s Go-Gos review:As the Los Angeles punk scene emerged in the late 1970s, it was inclusive, diverse, and pioneered by marginalized voices....and the conclusion of the recent review of X’s Los Angeles:The song is a reminder, in a culture that rhapsodizes the early days of punk, exactly how limited its considerations of the most marginalized people were, how narrow its stage once was and how vast it is becoming.
As the Los Angeles punk scene emerged in the late 1970s, it was inclusive, diverse, and pioneered by marginalized voices.
...and the conclusion of the recent review of X’s Los Angeles:
The song is a reminder, in a culture that rhapsodizes the early days of punk, exactly how limited its considerations of the most marginalized people were, how narrow its stage once was and how vast it is becoming.
The PFork staff book club must have read John Doe's LA punk essay collection in the interim.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah the idea of a magically progressive punk rock scene, particularly in late 70’s LA, seems quaintly romantic. It’s weird to see this egalitarian punk gospel shit still peddled in 2019.Are the Doe books good?
― circa1916, Saturday, 26 October 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
I've only read Under The Big Black Sun but it's a good read, he got essays from a wide variety of people (relatively speaking, for a book that's like a quarter the length of Please Kill Me) and you get a good sense of the color of the very early scene.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 26 October 2019 06:51 (four years ago) link
The Germs write-up is good, but doesn’t everyone buy MIA rather than GI on its own?
― dracula et son fils (morrisp), Monday, 28 October 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
Is either version still in print? Neither is on Spotify.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 28 October 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
GI, at least, is on Spotify for me. (Possibly not particularly useful information, but hey...)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 28 October 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
All I see are a couple of live albums
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Yeah, in the US there are four Germs records on Spotify:
Media Blitz (compilation, mostly live)I F*#ed Your Mom - Live '78/'79Cat's Clause (Live)Live at the Starwood Dec. 3, 1980
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 28 October 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
This is disturbing news
― dracula et son fils (morrisp), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Looks like everything is out of print again. The cheapest MIA CD available on Amazon appears to be $42.61 and one offer for GI on CD for $99.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
this is a hilarious statement
People have more or less collectively agreed that rendering women as pure sex objects in music doesn’t need to happen so much anymore.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
you didn't get the memo?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
there was a meeting
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
finally, some good news
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 28 October 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
pour a little out for rap music
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
just how bad does a kanye album have to be to get properly panned
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
He collaborates with Greta Van Fleet?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 05:41 (four years ago) link
That review reads more like a 5.2, or even a 4.2, than a 7.2. I wonder if the reviewer's verdict was nobbled by higher-ups?
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
actually, missed the bit where she praises the production job. But it's still never a 7.2 review in a million years.
Lol these fucking clowns
― imago, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album, a richly produced but largely flawed record about one man’s love of the Lord (and himself).
A 7.2 should be impossible with a lede like that.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
i tell you the truth, it is hard for a richly produced album to enter best new music.
― j., Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
it's called "much more focused" than "ye", which I see got 7.1. Continuity!
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
The review of ye is pretty funny. It's extremely harsh, but still ends up at 7,1...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Going by their non-stop flow of headlines about his ever move, Kanye probably generates a good 40% of their traffic to they aren't going to nip that brand.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
yeah didn't you guys see the user poll
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
don't bite the hand
were people writing like that about neal sedaka or frankie valli?Greil Marcus' intro to the reprint of The Aesthetics of Rock talked about how the book was heretical (to whom, I don't know) because it considered Tommy James and the Shondells on the same level that it considered the Beatles or whoever.― timellison, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 5:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Greil Marcus' intro to the reprint of The Aesthetics of Rock talked about how the book was heretical (to whom, I don't know) because it considered Tommy James and the Shondells on the same level that it considered the Beatles or whoever.
― timellison, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 5:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i: to readers of and co-writers at crawdaddy, where the first excerpts of AoR ran. cf its editor paul williams on nearly anything but especially dylan ii: to ppl who felt an "aesthetics of rock" wd be not dissimilar in social import and therefore fileable alongside to an "aesthetics of jazz" or an "aesthetics of moderrnist art" -- viz the kinds of ppl meltzer hung with in 1966-67 and wanted to ruffle a bit, inc.i imagine some of his chums fluxus-side (were his argument was that rock-and-pop were doing to a LOT of very unprepared people what happenings wd only ever do to a tiny number of fairly prepared* ppl)**
*(samuel r delany is probably the only person who walked into an actual real happening unprepared and wrote down its full sensually deranging effect on him: cf the chapter early on in triton) **in later years i think an embittered meltzer has retreated a lot from his early super-enthusiastic claims, which is a pity really, bcz run alongside e.g. ian macdonald's not-dissimilar but far more negative worries abt the effects on random cageian stimulation on a generation (viz "revolution number nine"), i think an interesting claim was being made abt purposeless play and mass media
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
ok the "to" in "alongside to an" s/b between "import" and "and"
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
I assume you also meant "effects OF random cageian simulation"
cuz I was having trouble parsing that tbh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
lol i did yes sorry
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
LOLing at "Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album"
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
appears to have misspelled "publicity" there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
As though KW has an "unwavering focus" on anything besides the nearest mirror.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link