Post a controversial ILX opinion
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
my controp - "too many notes"
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
A letter to the editor of Downbeat about 10 years ago asserted that white people invented jazz.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
"Bill Haley invented rock 'n roll" variation there
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
in retrospect i was just being a baby probably, i can see the need for this thread and obv it's possible to not just click on it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
not if you're paid to click on every single thread
*keeps on clicking*
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
okay, that made me a bit uncomfortable. but good for you, sir!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
music sucks
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
^not really controversial
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
Too many notes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULkuwxJTGtY
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO-ws6vUrQ
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
this is the place where the opinions come out once and for all!! if the thread is locked, 100 more will spring up in its place!!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:20 (two days ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/a/img/yynWxy2TZRt7YZxAFZ9FgHDEDLk=/1092x0/2021/07/14/a74a3822-ed85-4b10-a5f2-d9c47e0dba77/screenshot-2021-07-14-at-09-24-09.png
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
all christmas music is inherently bad . . . not just subjectively either. it ruins societies and i'm sure if pure evil manifested itself into human form, that would be pure evil's musical preference.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
the real problem is radio programming
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
fair point, but why is spotify recommending it to me when i've never even searched for christmas music . . . ever?
sorry, spotify. i like good music.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
hence pre-radio Christmas music and Christmas-adjacent music - like trad carols and Tallis and Handel and a few others - is okay.
but generally I would agree that Christmas music written post-1943* can die in fire
* = yes, that date is cherry-picked specifically to include the only two 20th-century Christmas songs that are acceptable in my ears
which are also the saddest
and also among the best
they are, of course "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
bittersweet sad Christmas songs are best
fuck Frosty and Rudolph and Santa 4evs
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
"Merry Christmas Baby" (1947) is one of the great standards of the 20th Century.
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
Well, for Charles Brown I think one can move the goalpost to 1947
The boundary can be fuzzy as long as we don't get into Whamistan
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
guys . . . no.
it's all evil.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
idgaf what anyone says - "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney is a very pleasant song and I'm happy to have heard it three times so far this season.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
it's dope, hate is performative
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
ffs!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
hate is performative, and performance leads to pleasure, and pleasure leads to pain, and pain leads to hate.
yessss
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
christmas music good
― ✖, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMm9ltRpXWg
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:52 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
and god is empty just like me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
i don't like christmas, i don't participate in christmas. i don't like music that reminds me it's christmas. christmas lights are ok if they approach the ideal of 'abstractly bright and shiny things in a dark season.' not really hate, just i would prefer not to.
i like to imagine some huge outdoor bonfire on the solstice with massive subs playing kevin drumm albums for 24 hours, the winter holiday of my dreams.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
i read a little bit about the pagan holiday that xmas stole from. honestly it sounds like a shitty holiday too! arbitrarily enforced merriment that is a self-conscious inversion of some of our nastiest tendencies, no thanks.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
NP: "Goop on Ya Grinch"
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
John Fahey's The New Possibility is beautiful and I think transcends "Christmas music"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
that i would listen to
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
I'm doing everything I can to take a break from Christmas this year. It won't be completely successful, but it is considerably scaled back.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
I've hated Christmas and the music for most of my life but now I'm actively invested in created a magical month for my son. I've been playing lots of cartoon Christmas music and this record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1b4Bp30OjY
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
📹
― beard papa, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Lost the reply format there, but what’s better than Sonic Youth? Sonic Youth & Christmas!
― beard papa, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:21 (two days ago) link
My overactive imagination filmed a vine/tiktok/whatever today. I’ll try to describe it: music playing: “...the choir of children sing their song, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong” and then an old-timey cartoon character, a dumb farmer with big buggy eyes, starts ringing a cow bell and yells at the top of his lungs in double speed “DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DING-DONG-DONG-DING-DONG...”. As this repeats itself ad nauseam the camera zooms in on his face, the film roll flickers, and layered vocal “ding dong” melodies start to play at different tempos but still in time, and a layer of vocal chatter and cheering starts to play behind it (gradual volume fade-in for all the new layers playing on top of the farmer’s loud voice)... I’m trying to remember what else happened but I layed down in bed after having this thought and ultimately changed the subject.
“Wonderful Christmastime” is alright song though. I’m just not in the mood for any Christmas music this year. As usual.
― N/A (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 17 December 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
I'm not religious in the slightest, and I love a great deal of Christmas music. "Lo, How a Rose E'er-Blooming," "Boar's Head Carol," and I mean the overture to Handel's Messiah makes me weep, y'all are crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EBjgiD9zZ4
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming is beautiful imo, and I'm not religious either and never have been.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Thirded--those old carols do the job stirring the soul.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
adding to my list of most overrated music makers ever (all of them suck a lot):
the replacements*sonic youth*the rolling stonespixiesnirvanaelvis costello
maybe three good songs among the lot.
*previously mentioned entries
also i'd like to offer a partial retraction on my xmas music stance: duke ellington's nutcracker suite is good and listenable.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 14 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
what are the three songs
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
yes, the crucial follow-up
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
The Stones would not be considered overrated if they had died in a fiery plane crash in 1978.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
or even 1982, tbh
― (Still) Swingin’ on the flippity-flop (morrisp), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
i've never really understood the idea that mediocre later work takes away from the work the artist did in their prime? you don't have to listen to steel wheels or whatever albums, the idea that they should have died and stopped making music and that would be a better legacy is so strange, they are musicians they want to make music so why begrudge them that?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
eh, just playing along
― (Still) Swingin’ on the flippity-flop (morrisp), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
some people see it like Jeopardy! - you amass an early lead due to phenomenal early performance, but then you get reckless and start getting lots of questions wrong so you wind up losing.
but I don't view it that way at alllllll. I mean - an act can become "irrelevant" now and still be legendary for their peak period work.
It's just when people want to work them into the conversation for present time ("they're actually still really amazing") when they've been coasting for years or outright terrible....that's the only time I object.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
It's hard to watch an artist you love try to keep riding the same tired horse, or become a parody of him- or herself.
That said, I still listen to the Stones' late 60s - mid 70s albums and they are just as great as they always were, perhaps greater with perspective.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
I admit that as much as I loved R.E.M. in their prime (which lasted a long time), their extended period of decline was a bit of a bummer from an "optics" standpoint.
― (Still) Swingin’ on the flippity-flop (morrisp), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link