Julian Casablancas, What's on your playlist?

That interview scans as either the last one he did after a weekend of hundreds of them, or the first one he did before he's even had a cup of coffee. What are Bobby Gillespie interviews like?

tom d to thread to answer that one

strange logic is many execrable Boabby G interviews somehow making this Julian Casablancas effort beyond ridicule.

he's been reading Howard Zinn and that's probably about all we need to know

If you could sum up your philosophy in three words, what would it be?
Wake up sheeple

A world where Ariel Pink is as popular as Ed Sheeran is a zero-sum game

i am v happy to not live in a world where the velvet underground are more popular than the rolling stones

otm. for me that would be a nightmare. because you can't just have more popularity free of any real world impacts of that success. and that'll be that. the band would be different. the music would be different. it would no longer be the band we know.

does this mean there is new material? does it suck? there would have to enough new material to support a popular (touring) band for 3 decades. we could say the members cannibalized this universe's solo material for VU albums but there is a possibility they won't be writing any of the same songs our VU members have written. would we not have any Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico solo albums? or just less of them? does this mean Lou Reed never makes a "Transformer" solo album, recording "Perfect Day" together with David Bowie? being in a big successful band is physically and mentally exhausting. their material and performance in general may lack the wiry energy we know and love.

what if Mo Tucker/Nico/John Cale/Lou Reed leaves the band anyways and you have the post-Lou Reed Velvet Underground being the one everyone loves? and you are the jerk saying only their first 4 albums were good, that would be quite ironic. i wonder if in that universe there is a Julian saying the exact same thing he said in this one.

he meant to say he wants to live in a world where Ed Sheeran is about as popular as Ariel Pink

I really can't believe purportedly intelligent men -- always men -- over thirty still have this implicit disdain over phantom popular forces that kept this or that favorite band from triumphing. Unless you're Reed, Chilton, or Pink, who the hell cares?

Earth-2 Julian never started a band, b/c he was too busy going to VU stadium concerts and tracking down elusive mint copies of the Stones' (only) four albums.

on what planet of opium must you live on to imagine that City of Night would top the NYT best seller list for months?

yeah, alfred otm, also VU is not in any need of attention

I guess if you look at it very idealistically it is conceivable that there are currently overlooked artists whose style could be hugely influential in a way that would push popular music towards a completely new sound

if so, it's probably not Ariel Pink

What are Bobby Gillespie interviews like?

Glaswegian and completely incomprehensible. No way is Boab as dense as this guy btw.

You know Paul Robeson?

D'ye ken John Peel?

i blame John Peel

relieved to know that we can still rely on tom d to answer the boaby signal when called upon

No way is Boab as dense as this guy btw

way

mebbes, but i'd say boab is a markedly more entertaining kind of dense - the smacked-out postgrad to julian's stoned undergrad perhaps

Boaby ahem, escuseme..

Bobby is more a performance eejit at times. Like back in his "Bomb the Pentagon" days, he'd just as likely to eventually say ".. Obviously not really!"

Whereas J is a more sincere kinda dude..

I'm probably over-compensating vis a vis Boaby because I've spent so much time rippin' the pish oot the cunt, albeit in a spirit of fun.