rolling enlightening music discussion thread

the XX

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:32 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you don't know how happy i am right now

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:33 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Try"

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:38 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Crystalised"

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:40 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:41 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Reunion"

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:44 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Sunset"

― Bee OK, Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:50 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha awesome

It's like I'm right there watching the YouTubes

important to get those quotation marks around the titles

Jesus Christ

rolling enlightening music writing discussion:

I don't speak from experience, just as an outsider, but the music writing 'scene'/music journalism sounds so horrible.

It seems like you're constantly trying to get the approval of your higher-ups when these people base your ability on their personal taste. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

This is why I agree that it really shouldn't be about the technicalities of writing (grammar, punctuation, etc., except maybe diction) but about the ideas themselves. But really, there seems to be only a handful of music writers with semi-interesting ideas. What I mean is, not everybody is a [insert your favourite music critic here], whether it is people like Barney Hoskyns or Christgau.

But usually, the type of music writing that is done by and large is stuff anybody can do, and not genuinely interesting ideas or ideas that help understand popular culture/music, like McLuhan did, for example. Or maybe all the scholars and intellects are all in hiding!

― c21m50nh3x460n, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

damn markers, true

albums where the last track are the best derp

I have no problems with them rating albums from the last ten years so highly but couldn't they have gone for someone more interesting than all these boring indie bands (3 Kings of Leon albums, 3 Pete Doherty, 2 Arctic Monkeys, 2 Coldplay etc) If they were putting Junior Boys, Broadcast or The Knife higher I wouldn't mind at all.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I usually find it very easy to ignore music I don't like but for some reason this has really, really upset me. I feel like self harming because of this shit tbh. As my friend said, "It's no longer a case of 'God help us if there's a war'. It's now a case of, 'We need a war.'"

― Doran, Friday, October 25, 2013 5:22 PM (3 days ago)

After one listen I think that 'solid' is the best word to describe this album

― paolo, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:38 (1 minute ago)

loool

That sense of arranging toys by height is the soul of virtually every ilm thread. Apols to SL

whenever i see this in SNA i am paranoid that one my posts will be here

Everything I have ever posted to ilm could go in here

Don't post there that much kinda for that reason

god, why did i ever unbookmark this thread

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― Nourry, Saturday, October 4, 2014 3:17 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tick

Just really solid classic-style rock guitar playing imo.

:P

Almost every building block on Mr Beast has a 1:1 parallel with something on Rock Action, but in every case it's a significant upgrade. Mogwai albums are like Apple's desktop operating system upgrades. Sometimes you're disappointed there's not really any new "features," but as a grownup you end up appreciating the bug fixes more than the features anyway.

that is even demonstrably false as any listen to the two albums will prove

obviously that is and should not be the point here

Just really solid classic-style rock guitar playing imo.

oh god, i'm afraid to google that but that is exactly the sort of terrible post that i am prone to making when i'm at a low mental ebb :(

ok. i think there is something i must be missing with this album.

― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've tried. many multiple listens and i don't find this to be anything special. i don't hate it or anything... just nothing stands out to me.

― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just really solid classic-style rock guitar playing imo.

oh god, i'm afraid to google that but that is exactly the sort of terrible post that i am prone to making when i'm at a low mental ebb :(

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:55 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this ends up being me 70% of the time i post about music, i just do it anyway but try make it as short as possible tbr

I am really terrible at having anything interesting to say about music tbh, I shouldn't even bother with ILM

isn't dying young an inextricable part of being a kurt cobain? or is a kurt cobain that didn't die young just a billy corgan?

― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1. Taylor Swift, 1989 - There's some good and some bad on this album.
2. Ariana Grande, My Everything - No.
3. Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste - Yes, absolutely! I had no idea it would be this good.
4. Miranda Lambert, Platinum - Whatever, she's alright.
5. First Aid Kit, Stay Gold - Strong first half, at least.
6. Tinashe, Aquarius - Great!
7. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence - People still like her. That doesn't bother me.
8. Kelis, Food - Jerk Ribs > everything else.
9. Lykke Li, I Never Learn - I love this one.
10. Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ Platinum Edition - This was my #1 album from 2013. Still love it.
11. One Direction, Four - I haven't listened to this, but I like some 1D songs.
12. Ex Hex, Rips - I actually wish I liked this more.
13. Jessie Ware, Tough Love - Better than her debut. There, I said it!
14. Various Artists, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Is Lorde on this? No thanks.
15. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness - I'm fine with this. Hardly ever listen to it.
16. Dolly Parton, Blue Smoke - Dolly, always.
17. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager - It's no Rabbit Fur Coat, but what is.
18. FKA twigs, LP1 - YES!
19. Perfume Genius, Too Bright - I have to be a mood, but when I am this is wonderful.
20. St. Vincent, St. Vincent - I like it more each time I play it (which isn't often).

So no, the whole list isn't shit. Maybe only a tiny little bit of it is.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:17

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtb3EtjEic

There are 7 hiphop albums on the pitchfork list in a year where they only bnm'd 2. It was kinda the same last year. For some reason, rap consistently gets lower review-scores and less accolades compared to how much their writers like them. It's really weird. Or really, it's not.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm

ilm is gonna be real enlightening for the next month and a half tbh

haha otm

i may as well just post my thoughts about 2014 albums in this thread instead of the other

attn: whiney

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lol

I don't know what the deal with Rock-A-Rolla is. Last year it came out Dec. 19. Last week I was updating my subscription and emailed them asking about it, and no answer.

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 12:59 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I can guess at most of what would be in Rock-A-Rolla's top 20: YOB, Godflesh, Swans, Earth, Goat, Secret Chiefs 3, Electric Wizard, Wovenhand, Shellac, Aphex Twin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Floor, Boris, Bong, Alcest, Baptists, Helms Alee, SBTRKT, Liars, Ben Frost.

Maybe top 50: Crippled Black Phoenix, Tombs, Lantlos, Thou, Sólstafir, Melvins, Mogwai, Cynic, Ides Of Gemini, Indian, Obake, Gridlink, Giant Squid, Black Moth, The Atlas Moth, Nadja, Midnight Masses, Eyehategod, Nothing, Pallbearer, Opeth, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Moab, John Garcia, Protomartyr, Gold Codes, Carla Bozulich, Have A Nice Life, Conan, Esben And The Witch, Horseback, Fucked Up, Woods Of Desolation, Comet Control, Motorpsycho, Syd Arthur, Messenger, The Soft Pink Truth, Trans Am, Flying Lotus, Maurice Louca, Fatima al Qadiri, The Skull, Serpent Venom, The Oath, Kikagaku Moyo, Total Control, Fu Manchu, Orange Goblin, Lo-Pan, Monster Magnet, Marmozets, Bracken, Pontiak, House Of Lightning, Gazpacho, Young Widows, Slomatics, The Flight Of Sleipnir, Dir En Grey, Oozing Wound, Ocean Chief.

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 2:13 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, and of course that Scott Walker + Sunn O))) album. Substitute for one in the first list, like SBTRKT.

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 2:15 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp Rock-A-Rolla doesn't publish new issue until Jan 10, so I guess that's when the list will be out.

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 11:42 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude you post on year end critics list threads

I don't email editors and write fan fiction though

the vanity of bulbous differences

in other news, whiney g. wengarten again holds that he is cooler than someone else on the internet

if not emailing the editor of a magazine about where their year-end list is makes me cool, then i'm miles davis

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Come To Your Senses is the best track here, but it took me some time to figure it out.

― nostormo, Saturday, 3 January 2015 09:39 (3 days ago)

Glad u cleared that one up for us. Can you tell us now what the best song ever in the whole world is?

― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:23 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just my opinion

― nostormo, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:36 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Could having a black president have anything to do with it? Or is that almost a reason as to why there should be more politically/socially concious rap?

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:36 (8 minutes ago) Permalink

:D

Kanye - better producer than mccartney, better singer tHan mccartney, better lyricist than mccartney, better performer than mccartney, more interesting person than mccartney. Other than that I'm sure 72 year old person will add so much to this record

― the fuckin catalina wine mixer (sleepingbag), Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

his ham bean soup is better than mccartney's too.