college radio wouldn't know a good rhythm section if one played live in the studio
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 1 July 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
Lol at those last two.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 July 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
Male computer nerds who've mastered a culture of affluence without making sense of their sex lives should listen up.
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Friday, 7 July 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
Hopeless eccentric spends most of his adult life and a large chunk of his ill-gotten fortune trying to make the perfect album. Succeeds, kind of, on his own totally irrelevant terms. Nobody cares.
^a fair assessment of Mark Hollis's solo album, imho
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
"666[bent downward arrow or else some emoji I'm too uncool to recognize]"
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
Open Your Eyes You Can Fly [Milestone, 1976]Shut your mouth and maybe they'll let you land. C
― the old rugged crocs (unregistered), Monday, 18 September 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
But you need a lot of hooks to get away with being full of shit
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
The message being that only those ready to give up the transient pleasure of a good tune are ready to confront the meaninglessness of their neoliberal-capitalist lives
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
Patterns of culture have changed, and in a boutique economy, this shit, like all other shit, is probably here to stay.
― Smootown Philly (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 11:31 (six years ago) link
Still an expert architect of musical spectacles, but... does anybody actually like the guy?
― Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
worthy of Eno at his most rhapsodically technopastoral
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
Sade for androids
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
But there are times when the Kiss-Lil Jon continuum is just right for clearing the sinuses or getting you to the next rest stop
― Cardigan B (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 7 April 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
David Bowie accomplished several things I wish he hadn't in the 70s, from briefly reinstating mime as a legitimate art form to permanently convincing Britons that their elitist nation was the chief locus of artistic sophistication in popular music.
― riposte malone (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 12 January 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
Gary Numan--everywhere you turn these days, Gary Numan is sitting with the lights out, staring off into space.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I note as well that you are not from the United Kingdom, the spawning ground of the 1975 delusion.
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 23 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
The textures are nicer now, but whose aren't?
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 September 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
these boys like lotsa malaise with their mayonnaise
― Tokyo Ghetto Stüssy (King Boy Pato), Friday, 22 November 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
They weren't smokin' in that boys' room--just taking a quick dump.
― (dubstep violin original song) (unregistered), Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
At least the Cocteau Twins are eccentric. At least ELP were vulgarians.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
We hate you you little smarty.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
tunes, aarghh, tunes--please not more tunes
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:39 (three years ago) link
People consent to fascism because they think fascism will be more fun than this. They could be right.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
the hope-addicts whiff both commerce and pretension
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
As pretentious goes, not stupid.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link
Billie Eilish PLUS HER BROTHER, THAT’S DEFINITELY A PARTNERSHIP
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 10:55 (two years ago) link
But Donald Fagen “happy/upbeat”? That pathological ironist? How???
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link
All of these suck tbh.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
lol
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
I almost didn't bring my down jacket for fear someone would knife me and the feathers would all fly out
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
Objectively... yeah, they're mostly awful.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 5 August 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link