OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

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josh that is fucking creepy

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link

this bottomlessly horrid listicle is producing psychic mind-melds between ilxors now

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link

"Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here."

I think I saw this written on one of those doorknob things at a hotel.

Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

There's something happening but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Lapin

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

i heard amy goodman rambling on and on about bbc sex scandal in the car this morning and then i heard katy perry and then i yelled at my kids. it was raining.

scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

I like how he confuses "raucous" with "ruckus" in the Mingus bit. Well done.

5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

it's still not as bad/horrifying as "jive"/"jibe"

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link

where be thy jives now?

C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

Oh man, I fucking hate when people do that. But it's so common that "jive" is about to overtake "jibe."

5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

he is apparently old enough to drive a car so i guess its safe to assume he isn't 12. which would be the only excuse for this thing i can come up with. though that might actually be offensive to actual 12 year old kids.

scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

honestly I did not know it was "jibe" till just now.

paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

I definitely did not know about any of these albums when I was 12.

paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

my whole life has been cloaked in ignorance

paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

The jibe/jive & raucous/rawkus posts make it sound like you're arguing about Cherry Poppin' Daddies lyrics.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

xp: at least you did not say your life was clucked in ignorance

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

i think my dad might have owned "headhunters" but it also might have been too funky for him

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

and there was experimentation going on in there

only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

to be fair discharge would have been too funky for my dad

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

funky discharge is unfair to everybody.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

my parents didn't do enough experimentation to listen to funky jazz

paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link

when i first started listening to jazz my mom just called me maynard g. krebs a lot

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link

when i was little, my dad sung me a blood, sweat & tears song every night before i went to sleep.

scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

my dad played a lot of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, James Brown, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Average White Band, Stevie Wonder and Vanilla Fudge

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link

claire de lune is used in lullabies

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link

my dad's favorite band was yes :'-(

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link

I have a friend who teaches a class in criticism and music writing, a post-grad class, and she says the quality of student and in particular their writing is overwhelmingly abysmal. I have a feeling their idea of funk - or jazz, for that matter - may be the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link

Before the first time I saw Charles Mingus, I thought bass could only be played flat on the ground. But then one day I drove my Hyundai Elantra over to my grandparents house. It was only a three minute ride, but when i pulled into the driveway, there was Charles Mingus, playing the bass upright. Some say he is the godfather of the upright bass. Including me!

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

taste in music and quality of writing don't necessarily correlate; my dad could write amazingly and convincingly about Vanilla Fudge and it would not change the fact that he was lionizing Vanilla Fudge

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link

I dunno, the ability to lionize Vanilla Fudge is an achievement unto itself!

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

That would be my assignment if I were teaching music writing: in 800 words or less, convincingly praise Vanilla Fudge.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

(although I'm listening to a remastered version of "You Keep Me Hanging On" on Spotify right now and I'm starting to get it)

also Hurting, you know that "upright bass" is actual terminology, right

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

dan i think i have a project your dad might be interested in

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828132368/uncool

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think I've ever heard Vanilla Fudge. They fell through the same crack that caught Uriah Heap.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

also Hurting, you know that "upright bass" is actual terminology, right

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol of course

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link

http://open.spotify.com/track/4R2Zih6jIGEpANAYdFCRaf

the Vanilla Fudge version of "You Keep Me Hanging On", which my dad played to death

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link

There should be something called downright bass.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

i'm gonna see my dad in a week or two cuz he's coming down from upstate new york to see the louis hayes trio in brattleboro. he bought tickets online. 2+ hour drive does not keep his 75 year old self from the jazz.

scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

imo vanilla fudge should not just be heard but seen

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

da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

i can't load all, can anyone relink to the post that set off this conversation?

Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

some douchebag twentysomething wrote a jazz listicle for a once venerable publication

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

you ain't missin much

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

so I click on this thread and you guys are discussing Vanilla Fudge

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

you know it kinda freaks me out that djp's dad and my dad would have a common point of connection at all and that it would be vanilla fudge

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link

yeah that Vanilla Fudge video is like a master class in psychedellic stage hamming

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link

you know, after watching that video I kind of have to say I'm regressing back to childhood and deciding that Vanilla Fudge pwns

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link

wait holy shit @ that video

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link

more classic tim bogert o face for u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yl8u2vGuwc

da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

^ junior wells' "shotgun"

da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

lol junior walker's i mean

da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

this article doesn't really chive with me

flopson, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link


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