I wonder where this kind of ferocious, articulate working-class voice exists in indie these days.
new labour and everyone got rich.
the north is all elbow and doves these days.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Skinner=Moz is ©2002 me.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Common People: A lyrical discussion/dissection
― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you know 'sandstorm' even if you think you don't
it's probably more omnipresent than the beatles
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
don't much like 'sandstorm', but i guess out of principle big euro-dance floorfillers > weezer
you know 'sandstorm' even if you think you don'tit's probably more omnipresent than the beatles― ciderpress, Friday, September 3, 2010 4:53 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark
― ciderpress, Friday, September 3, 2010 4:53 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah -- feels like it's still around in a weird way
― i am legernd (history mayne), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly though
ould we take this to the sandstorm thread so i can continue trolling kate
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, September 3, 2010 3:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
k8 is pretty much worth 100 of you, you utter twit
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ah that old black magic
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
are you having a nice time there, dear?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I've said everything about Common People/Pulp that I really need to.
I'm gonna spend the rest of the afternoon listening to Aaliyah and Aphex until my head explodes. And probably end up voting Aphex because I want to eat up his little boolies even though that's one of my least favourite songs of his.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
really i'm just bored as shit at work before a holiday weekend
tbh this list is p decent, glad to see the outkast choice, protect ya neck, gold soundz, aaliyah etc.
is this thread huge just because lex read pitchfork again?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
another bored office worker being a twat to people on the internet, wouldn't have ever guessed
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc it's that lex thinks when people like music he doesn't like it's really appalling
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
sam the irony is i genuinely haven't clicked on the actual list, i've no idea what's on it beyond the 20 in the poll!!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
For Pitchfork's worldview it's a great list. Plenty of omissions, inevitably, but I like everything here except Weezer.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lex, you're being just as big a twat
― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
early 90s man. that was our sixties. and we blew it
I love this. Voted for 'G Thang'.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not the one admitting to deliberately trolling someone to make them upset?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
not admitting to it, no
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
because being disingenuous is so much better xpost
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
even though that's pretty much exactly what you're doing, and you're smart enough and self-aware enough to know that
― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread has turned into Summer Heights High. I approve.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"i'm a loser so why don't you kill me?" - OK THEN, happily!
^^ still my favorite moment of this thread
― max, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
imagining lex sitting back in his chair after typing that to take a sip of his pepsi and say softly to himself "zing"
― max, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
well if you're going to pile on me for it, i'd also direct you over there to jess
and what's actually even worse are people like electricsound who contribute nothing except popping in to pile on someone once everyone else starts
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, I listened to it, didn't sound familiar. Oh well!
― jaymc, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't drink pepsi
dang
― max, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm a diet coke with lime man, myself
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
lex - i haven't read the thread, just skimmed it, so i ask this sincerely and feel free to tell me I'm wrong but
1. why so upset about an indie list? surely for a crusader like yourself it is great to see wu tang and aaliyah above nirvana and then after that, you don't really get it so its not worth getting angry about?
2. common people is a pop song, its not exactly supposed to sort out a 1000 yrs of class issues. catchy though. loser is supposed to be funny and silly and throwaway. other stuff we should all just let go.
3. life is for enjoying, not spending yr friday night bitching abouts pitchfork.
:)
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I speak on behalf of many here when I say I will kill you
with my bare fucking hands
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think common people is overly simplistic or insufficiently nuanced at all btw
― zvookster, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lol aero
life is for enjoying, not spending yr friday night bitching abouts pitchfork.
Friday NITE, sure. But Friday afternoon stretching eternally at horrible day job with only 5 minutes of work to fill 3 hours, threads like this are actually really really good for.
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
you really are the most pathetic individual in this entire board's history.
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
1. i'm not upset about the list! i don't know what's on it. i have no intention of clicking on pfork again. i was amused at finding these DREADFUL songs being repped for by anyone, anywhere, and people took offense.2. "it's just a pop song" is my least favourite defence of stupid or unconvincing songs. though even if the lyrics were any good i'd still hate the sound. "loser" is just a piece of shit.3. alternative to bitching about pfork is currently transcribing endless endless interview, neither offers much in the way of enjoyment :(
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
One area where I completely have Lex's back is re: Pavement; that song is horrible.
― feel free to answer my Korn Kuestion (HI DERE), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i was amused at finding these DREADFUL songs being repped for by anyone, anywhere
Do you really have no way of understanding what might make some people like them, though? I mean, I don't give a toss about Bob Dylan at all -- I think his music is boring -- but I absolutely get why other people, those who privilege things like lyrics and personae more than I do, find something of value in him. I'd be curious to know why you think so many people like Beck or Pavement or My Bloody Valentine or Neutral Milk Hotel.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(Without suggesting that those people are dumb or brainwashed or whatever.)
― jaymc, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll forever rep for "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea". It's one of my favourite albums for a lot of reasons. I don't think it has anything to do with being brainwashed, it's just very good.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Lots of songs by bands I like that aren't necessarily songs I like - Gold Soundz isn't even that great a song.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
reptilian shapeshifters trying to control our brains thru indie music iirc
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't want to derail thread, but I love Dylan because I privilege singing and personae. Lyrics are a happy third.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the thread has been officially and thoroughly derailed already.
i love dylan because he's funny as fuck. when he's good.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Dylan because he wasn't afraid to move to London to be with the girl he loved even tho he had it made in B Hills
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/submit-a-video/index2.shtml
― Mr. Que, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
man i didn't know dylan moved somewhere to be with a chick. hate that dude now.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
9/02/10 was yesterday dudes
― the embrace of waka flocka is v pertinent (deej), Friday, 3 September 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
we're in a post-90210 world now guys
― elephant rob, Friday, 3 September 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link