I hope we get another "Mean" out of this.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I mean we kind of already have
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RG9XYD33L._SX305_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
as in the rapper obv
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
ah, i hated that book so much 20 years ago—remember when he and wendy shalit were being pitched as the ivy leaguers who TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS (i.e. that america should be more conservative)? misty, watercolored, etc.
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
dude got woke. it turns out that women make great music. if you really listen. while you are eating breakfast.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/magazine/should-women-make-their-own-pop-music-canon.html?referer
THIS IS NOT THE WORST MUSIC WRITING. just didn't know where else to put it.
kinda would have respected him more if he had gone first person here. the marathon listening session he describes at the beginning seems like penance or something:
"We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough."
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
lol at Wesley Morris suddenly getting woke
― President Keyes, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
We should start new thread for this and it's ilk called 'OK, is this the wokest piece of music writing ever?'
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
Also, what New York does he live in where he doesn't hear women. I hear "Hips Don't Lie" all the time.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
he just hears the beatles everywhere
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop and heard, one after the other, the Doors, Radiohead and Elvis Costello.
lasted 74 minutes longer than I would've
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop
The saddest 11 words I've read all year, maybe.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
it's hard when you're trying to stay sober
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
I write a scathing Yelp review if I spend more than 5 minutes in a coffee shop without hearing Tribe 8's "Neanderthal Dyke" playing at deafening volumes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
what kind of new york does he live in where people eat hoagies???? IT'S CALLED A HERO
― maura, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
anyway ban all critical writing that uses 'we' as a rhetorical framework, because it ALWAYS lands poorly
― maura, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
yes^
― marcos, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
xxp
Morris grew up in Philadelphia. He attended high school at Girard College in 1993, graduating in 1993.[5] While a high school student, he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer's teen supplement, "Yo! Fresh Ink."[6]
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
Yep; I've been saying this for years.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
we agree then
― j., Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
I sometimes spend three hours grading, writing, and reading at a Starbucks on weekends, but I killed the barista and his Elvis Costello playlist three years ago.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
the spurlockesque stunt of listening to women
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
fetishize this
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
fuck, i fucked up the joke
fetishize me
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
If the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” comes on while I’m waiting for a hoagie, I’m not going to riot. I’ll just stand there in a state of stupid happiness while I sing the whole song and mime the whistle parts.
― nomar, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
oh god I know this guy
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
he also yells PUMP IT UP and mimes the organ part
also as someone who spends... significantly more than 75 minutes a day at coffee shops (my home wi-fi is beyond shitty), I don't remember a single playlist with no women.
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
maybe he actually hangs out at a Subway because its the only place where he can get a sandwich that reminds him of his beloved hoagies from Wawa and he's too embarrassed to mention it. #yophilly
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
i believe if you're from philly you can order a "playlist with" or a "playlist without."
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
HEY I'M PONTIFICATIN' HEAH
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I'm at coffee shop now, and it's blasting Sky Ferreira's "You're Not the One."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
coffee is called "joe," a man's name, makes you think.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
you never watched "Facts of Life" did you
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Central Perk was pretty woke,as they only had one performer, Phoebe
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Central Perk was run by a stalker though....
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
http://www.ocweekly.com/music/why-we-still-cant-get-enough-of-depeche-mode-8492499
y'all
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Affectionately; the band is known as DeMode, or simply DM by their hardcore fans. Dave Gahan is the band’s front-man, Martin Gore is on guitar / keys, and Andy Fletcher is on keys, and these cats continue to amaze with their infectious sound and soul-piercing lyrics.
― nomar, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
"front-man" reminds me of
http://www.9e3k.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Batman-Begins-GIF-07.gif
As for the name, it’s been said the name was taken from a French fashion magazine, Dépêche mode. It means hurried fashion or fashion dispatch, or something along those lines. It was 1981, and with a name secured, and music set to hit the street, DM’s first album was Speak & Spell. It came out at the perfect moment to be caught up in the fledgling new-wave music genre. Their freshman debut featured songs “New Life” and “Dreaming of Me”, but what set them off into the new-wave stratosphere was a song called “Just Can’t Get Enough”. Truthfully, the kids couldn’t get enough of this British new-wave power band.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
I feel like there's there's some punchline to this entire piece that I'm not getting
― sic And Mordy’s worst fans don’t deserve sic And Mordy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Also noteworthy, DM recently received a nomination for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Truth is, they’ve received just about every award you can imagine, except a Grammy, and that’s a travesty. That’s another story for another day.
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
I am certain that this is an intentional stylistic choice and I am also certain that unless the intent was to troll fans, no one who actually wants to read about Depeche Mode will understand or appreciate said intentional stylistic choice.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
the dude is a local radio personality and not a music writer, so cool your jets, everyone
― sic And Mordy’s worst fans don’t deserve sic And Mordy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
so this is meant to be read aloud
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
lol
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Busta Rhymes & the DeMode Squad
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
Truly, today's kids were not ready for this local radio personality's fledgeling foray into the digital music scribe scene.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/music-review-stargazing-for-beginners-dazzling_us_59d6634ce4b0666ad0c3cb75
...Sparkling guitar accents bring luminosity to the cogent resonance. “In A Past Life” exudes a new wave electro pop feel set in a prog rock matrix. The measured melody rumbles with deep tones. And Scott’s voice assumes a high-pitched sonority full of texture and undulating filaments.
The melody is minimal but heavy with vivacity flowing from Scott’s mellow voice. “Bodies” begins with a So-Cal intro segueing to a gleaming progressive rock melody. Restrained guitars provide lustrous mists of evocative intensity.
The title track delivers a quasi-psychedelic aroma within a prog rock melody. The melody oozes dark, heavy rhythms beneath soft, pale vocals juxtaposed against the liquid flow of random darkness. The tune discharges shadows blacker than black, along with a dank mysterious quality. It’s a great song.
...The bassline is stellar and palpable.... Poole’s guitar projects a raffish aroma that’s urgent and infectious... An aromatic guitar pours forth gracefully... The solo is chock-full of suffused sonic pigmentations, along with a bravura guitar.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
just smell that guitar
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link