Lux Aeterna

If I want a statement I'll go to my bank, not a record shop. Making a good record should be the priority. Then give it away for free if your politics are serious, otherwise you're a hypocrite.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:57 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So there is no place in music for conceptualism or statements?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 10 May 2013 13:59 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No. If you want to make a political point go and become a politician. The problem with most modern music is that there is no place for music.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:01 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i want all artists/critics to come from backgrounds prosperous enough they have no idea even how to give a fuck

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol.

― Treeship, Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"the leisure class" would be a good band/album name

― Treeship, Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this thread just "highlights"?

lux = light

what's that one band that had that youtube that markers would post all the time?

― You must be very cold in the sack. (sarahell), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:54 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Fall?

― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:54 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Gonna lock this one temporarily just to keep the discussion on the other thread.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 September 2007 09:10 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

5 years pass...

Back again, to the surprise of no one.

― Matt DC, Monday, 3 June 2013 14:14 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

keep trying to make "fuckboy" happen

its grime slang!

<3 to your endz but tbftye they just arent real grimey

nor are mine, exactly, but i could probably walk to somewhere grimey, not that there would be any obvious reason for me to do that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1J2ArwYBMQ

realness

http://pappzd.com/2012/11/tn1-gang-members-trial-mistaken-identity-murder-kwame-ofosu-asare/

No, trust me. :)

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:42 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i trust no one

― ○◙genital grinder◙○ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:48 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyve seemingly decided that the five syllables in their own postcode is long for a gang name so theyve gone for a pseudo postcode name except that it happens to be the actual postcode for tunbridge wells

now there's a turf war

Man Identified, Charged In `Fat Rapist` Attacks
November 21, 1986|By BUDDY NEVINS, Miami Bureau Chief

HIALEAH -- A 26-year-old unemployed man was identified Thursday as being the ``Fat Rapist,`` whose vicious attacks terrorized this blue-collar community.

Leonel Leopodo Fumero, a heavyset Latin, was charged in two of three attacks blamed on the Fat Rapist, police said.

Alyssa Milano said how much she liked Hipster Puppies!

― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 November 2011 13:57 (1 year ago)

"He joined NAMBLA"

Definitely not a mark in his favor.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:13 (4 years ago)

There was some kind of Steampunk party in Atlanta a few weeks ago (sadly i didn't get to go). I don't know how it turned out but some hip local bands played and it sounded like some kind of cool thing. It seems to sort of fit into Etsy DIY culture and "The Dream of the 1890s" etc. Next time i hear about a Steampunk party i really need to make a point to check it out.

I do wish there were Cyberpunk-themed parties though. Maybe that's what raves are like (I've never been to one).

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:28 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/cite/

fundament666

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USA, just like Iran, except with more choices for fast food.

Strummered fundament666

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Or Just like East Germany, but with worse beer.

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

― Gregory Bateson is always appropriate (sarahell), Monday, 29 July 2013 22:12 (2 days ago)

gonna give Owen a pass coz of y'know Heartland and that, but yeah this is a bit flip

This is anti-intellectual, smug conservative challops in the extreme. No passes.

?? I write altered-scale Western music, it was a comment of self-indictment.

Also if you listened to the examples posted on that thread you might agree? idk. Don't call me smug. :)

I was talking about that post, as a discrete thing. You probably redeemed yourself in my eyes later in the thread.

And sorry, I have no idea who you are or your musical background.

Think the point was that even in self-indictment you shouldn't deign to speak for everyone; perhaps your biggest crime (in my opinion) was to not elaborate on "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy" because I think that while *perhaps* a lot of this music does stem from a subconscious desire to push beyond, to transcend the meagre palette conventionally available, in manifesting experimentally this conceit, perhaps genuine and sincere expression is found. I suppose that would be your thesis, which would be very welcome on the altered scale thread. I'm also perturbed by "lesser geniuses" - subjectivity is permitted, of course, but it's a really loaded term regardless. Anyway, it's a fucken great thread and you've posted loads of awesome stuff there, which is the real reason you get a pass (from me at least)

@ sarahell, a few posts later, I explained: Just to be clear, I am posting on this thread to be proven wrong. I love extended scales, my own new music uses 24-tone tunings, primarily for saturating the colours of essentially diatonic music. I've spent the last five years buying up as many records by famous scale-doctoring composers as I can find and what I've heard has been either

great! gold star!

Anyway I thought I was posting pretty good in that thread, allowing myself a rare moment of "this sucks!" cause usually I'm always "this person is a blessing and an inspiration" on these boards :) 8) :^) :D

Again, it's just that first post that put me off!

:(

Is there a place online where i can hear your music flamboyant goon tie included?

ruining nilmar's thread and watching a fight between my bezzie m8 sarahell and a dude who wrote one of the best albums of recent years, this is toooorture

lol treeship

Wait, I figured out who flamboyant is. You used to follow me on twitter!

Used to follow? Are you Everett True?

sarahell you are a blessing and an inspiration

No my twitter name is @IWouldPreferNot. Idk why you followed me. In any case, I'm going to buy a copy of your album next time i'm at the record store.

dpurpz haf bttr live ablumz + spinoff groopz
― a-33, Monday, April 15, 2002 5:00 PM (11 years ago)

Street-Prep, w/ a dash of artpunk.

― Leon Septamost, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 08:29 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1 month passes...

7 dead

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/27/us/ap-us-apartment-shootings-florida.html

― schlock corridor (WilliamC), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:11 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck

― fervently nice (Treeship), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:11 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

3 weeks pass...

"Freshly cracked pepper?" A Poll for Culinary Finishing Touches

Drugged out teddy bears not really typical sexual fantasy. This performance seemed more about selling the effects of drugs to kids.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 16:26 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the racial dynamics of the performance were depressingly typical (i cosign everything in that article posted above), but other than that i think it was authentically weird. the teddy bears, the unflattering outfit... it seemed like a lynchian approximation of the lolita teenpop aesthetic sold so effectively by britney spears a decade ago. and i think this uncomfortable, dissonant quality was both intentional and, as adam said, related to drugs.

― Treeship, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 16:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were several posts in between those two in the ot.

n.b. or whatever

Lol

ALBUM BY BAND

Too low!

Haven't heard it!

This is so good!

I should listen to this when I get a chance.

Nice images!

join the fun! we need more dissenting voices

I would just post irrelevant jpgs -- I am trying to be less trolly

there are certain albums by bands coming up where i'd almost welcome that

just let me know when ... and whether you'd prefer enthusiastic small dogs, penises, or hitler

or c&p from wikipedia about an esoteric topic

^would enjoy, but lol i honestly can't encourage this behaviour as pollrunner. you will just have to psychically determine when is right

I'd be surprised if I have heard even 5 of these albums tbh

like I will probably know more of the musicians whose albums are rated than I will have heard the albums themselves

I don't know if there's anything productive in determining the relative moral merits of pedophilia vs. fascism - they are not the same thing and not equivalent imo.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:05 AM (yesterday

how enlightening is the morrissey thread atm?

tldr tbrrwu

everything after the title is footnotes tbrrrr

2020 shaping up to be a 2016-level shitshow.

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 03:19 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it's a long tradition. Nixon, Joe McCarthy, they all had imitators.

― clemenza, Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:55 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama administration shouldn’t have depended on republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix things like voter suppression for example.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 09:24 (eight hours ago) link

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama admin as a whole shouldn’t have calculatedly depended on Republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix or even mitigate against things like voter suppression for example.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 09:27 (eight hours ago) link

how big of him to clarify that, as a whole

or even

MITIGATE

!!!!

Isn't that a wee bit presumptuous to claim your own personal pronoun? Additionally (s)he wants to be called in the plural, grammatically that is rubbish. What bewilders me there is that the Guardian immediately accepts and promotes this instrumentalisation of the language for a personal cause by reprinting it. Is there no public discussion about this kind of language intervention?

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:01 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Record labels with female names.

lol - i feel like the aspect of the semantle thread where people c&p their results is kinda the low bar for lux levels (there are interesting things in that thread, but there is a lot of lux that is comparable to the thread map linked above)

I think I'd be more excited for a Kendrick Lamar album if I was still listening to any new hip hop, which I have stopped about the time of Untitled Unmastered. I don't think I remember anything from Damn except the annoying "Bitch, be humble" line. His number of features was also ridiculous at some point. But will be happy to listen to the new one about 15 weeks after everyone else because I still love everything he did up to TPAB.

― Nabozo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:49 (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/kLThz0x.jpg

RIP Person I heard of but can’t remember reading at all.

Is George Santos neurodivergent?

sorry i'm late
― unknown or illegal user, Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:00 PM (twenty-one years ago)

bump

We all have a personal connection to this conflict because our governments are spending billions on arming one side of it.

― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 2:47 AM (nineteen hours ago)

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