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

Yes, but the guy they replaced Paul with after he died has proven to remarkably faithful to his spouses.

I Married Paul

at the end of the day, any band that can inspire something like this is inherently evil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw

that whole movie is a cringefest

Tim Burton's Pepperland! would be the logical next step.

at least the dumb bee gees one had earth, wind, & fire.

and aerosmith

yeah that was the only other high point.

that movie is one long low point

Tim Burton's Pepperland! would be the logical next step.

― scott seward, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 4:25 PM (two hours ago)

this will totally happen in my lifetime, won't it

I remember watching a BBC documentary about '70s brit heavy metal where a couple of interviewees (I'm 99% sure one was Tony Iommi) mentioned in passing an antagonism towards soul music (or at least the soul club scene of the time), the point wasn't really picked up on but it wasn't something I'd ever seen or heard mentioned before

This feels more like Mids v. Rockers to me...? I've always suspected that punk & disco were two sides of the same Mod coin

*Mods v. Rockers lol

No, was definitely Geezer Butler. Was a story about how he met Ozzy, that he'd been at the blues club and Ozzy had been at the soul club and they glared at each other across the street on the way home. And through the miracle of YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCAUuBN0vI

That's actually a different clip though! I was sure the original poster was referring to an interview in the Heavy Metal Britannia documentary and, through the miracle of YouTube, I found it. Geezer Butler, talking about the early days of Sabbath, says, at one point, "Everywhere you went it was soul clubs... I was just absolutely sick of going to places and listening to soul music..."

haven't seen the clip and so can't necessarily back this up as the source of the hostility, but there was a distinct split in 60s sensiblity between listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to dance to records (ideally by black american groups or singers) and listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to watch bands (which were on the whole white and local)

up to a certain point* there was a line of strong mod disdain for the very *idea* of live music as opposed to music on record (the who called themselves mods but most real mods disowned them) so this may be less a "northern soul sucks" line per se than a "live music rocks dude" line (which is after all what you'd expect a working musician to feel)

*apostrophe to extra suggestion when this certain point came, and why = mid-late 70s, by which time there were a lot more live shows featuring black music of all kinds, and also by which time the who -- via quadrophenia -- had reverse-engineered the meaning of the word mod, which sensibility began migrating away to descendent subcultures

Geezer goes on to say they were listening to Hendrix and Cream and wanted to do music like that - sounds like Ozzy wasn't though!

Haven't any recollection of seeing the one you're talking about at all! Must try and dig it out.

haven't seen the clip and so can't necessarily back this up as the source of the hostility, but there was a distinct split in 60s sensiblity between listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to dance to records (ideally by black american groups or singers) and listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to watch bands (which were on the whole white and local)

This sounds right too. I wonder if it's an age thing too, Sabbath were a pretty young band, Geezer was born in 1949, seems like they hadn't done that thing of playing soul and r&b covers like so many 60s British musicians had.

gotta check these guys out http://www.alternativenation.net/why-royal-blood-could-be-the-next-nirvana/

Alternative Nation is such a weird site

Thankfully, for every teenage girl singing Cyndi Lauper into a hairbrush, was her younger brother, listening to Misfits and Black Sabbath records.

Kurt would be so happy to know his fans are fighting to reclaim music from girls.

Yes, how dare those young women sing along with music? Everyone knows music is only truly appreciated by boys.

hang on, didn't we do the exact opposite of this one last week?

ok, someone (*ahem*) shared that there is a notably bad Lorde review and I think I found it, but can anyone corroborate

i already regret posting about it

This is all starting to feel like the thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction, except it's a pile of dung.

i wasn't a fan of the one that wondered if she was being held back by being a pop artist...

generally there have been a lot of lorde thinkpieces

I don't know if it's the one Brad was thinking of, but the one on Uproxx is by someone who should be kept away from keyboards for at least a decade.

I don't know, as a general rule I would rather prevent old dudes from writing about Lorde than young women

I hear there is a really great Father John Misty interview out there!

Katherine otm though

some young women need editors who aren't themselves

tbh everyone needs editors who aren't themselves

I don't know, as a general rule I would rather prevent old dudes from writing about Lorde than young women

https://68.media.tumblr.com/0ae4a458b02b1705c96dd846493e2aad/tumblr_inline_n3ghj9J3u91qcklud.gif

that whole movie is a cringefest

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:15 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just makes me feel grateful that the planned Robert Zemeckis Yellow Submarine remake got scrapped. Small mercies.

I don't know, as a general rule I would rather prevent old dudes from writing about Lorde than young women

― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:39 (yesterday) Permalink

ok the piece still sucks tho

Piece on Lorde that no one will link to and ILM can't reach a consensus on where it was published is definitely the worst piece of music writing ever.

otoh if this guy hates it, there's probably some merit

o lorde tupac mansplain to them

i'm issuing subpoenas to everyone on this thread, give up your sources on the Lorde review!!!!!!!

tick tick tick

ilx melodrama

ilx d-d-d-d-dynamite

Wasn't really sure if it should go here or not but I think the 'hats of, chief' is worthy of it.

This is apparently in Q magazine.

http://i.imgur.com/Fk9phey.jpg

Whew! Close one.

I certainly can't remember the likes of Baby Ford or A Guy Called Gerald sawing up fenders back then, was that really a thing?

wallop! etc

same guy as this dude? Worst Thing In This Daily Telegraph "10 ways Britpop changed modern manhood" Article