Guns 'N Roses plays for 3 1/2 to 4 hours these days.
A million x-posts
― timellison, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure both of the Rush concerts I saw were in the three-hour range. Saw the Cure once too, Bloodflowers era, but left before the end.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
Leonard Cohen played 2 1/2 hours when we saw him which isn't as long but for a guy who was 75 or 76 at the time it's pretty impressive.
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
So I guess Guns n Roses is the best band
― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
it’s hard to hold a candle in the cold november rain
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
Hero
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/worlds-longest-concert-will-last-639-years/2011/11/21/gIQAWrdXiN_blog.html?utm_term=.00d699b59333
― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
that’s not a “concert”
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
Shhhh!
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
i don’t get Durutti Column
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
just sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar
then you get it
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
i really like the durutti column but when i saw him live it was bad
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, i have a great challop: my bloody valentine first reunion tour sucked ass, they were the sloppiest, most garbage band I've ever seen
all the songs pretty much have leads that they were playing from tape (or whatever) and they frequently got so out of time with the prerecorded music that they were full bars or so out of time with it
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
My challop: that kind of rhythmic freedom is exactly what their music needs.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Not controversial: Durutti have had a lot of mediocre albums.
The Martin Hannett produced The Return of the Durutti Column (1980) and Vini Reilly (1989) are all-time greats in the pantheon of modern instrumental "rock", but neither reach the heights of the "Lips that Would Kiss" tribute to Ian Curtis, and I haven't felt compelled to relisten to the intervening or later albums.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Clarification: Hannett had no part in Vini Reilly, but this album is the one where Reilly discovered samplers, and there's some lovely vocal contributions/expropriations.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
Music For Airports is boring. I like Eno, I like ambient music (not a huge fan though) but I don't really like this
― paolo, Saturday, 10 November 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
tbf Eno wasn't trying to be exciting there
― Tsugumo Alanshearer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 November 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
Not very controversial.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 November 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Piano Magic were one of the greatest bands of the nineties/noughties.
― djh, Saturday, 10 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
there are exactly three Spice Girls songs ever worth hearing again and the rest are utter rubbish
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
Wannabe, 2 Become 1, Goodbye(?)
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
You misspelled "Stop."
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
PEOPLE OF THE WORLDEVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL
― mark s, Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Viva Forever!
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, “Stop” is good too
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
DON'T WANNA KNOOOW ABOUT THAT LOVE THANG!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
Wannabe, Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1
a much lower strike rate than All Saints or even Eternal tbh
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
Those tracks are still great, but c'mon... 'Love Thing', 'Stop', 'Too Much', 'Viva Forever' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
"Stop" is just a really boring pastiche and "Too Much" and "Viva Forever" are just really sludgy, inert songs that don't play to their strengths as a group or as individual singers. I've never knowingly heard "Love Thing" mind you
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
and importantly, it isn't just that those not-good songs are simply not good: ones like "Spice Up Your Life" and "Mama" are actively bad
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
spice up your life is actively good tho
― mark s, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
importantly
it's not really though - where those early singles were like real situations of friendship, intimacy, trust, etc, "Spice Up Your Life" sounds like a hard sell for a branding project, albeit one where a line like "yellow man in Timbuktu" seems to have been overlooked
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
'Spice Up Your Life' was written and recorded in an afternoon, and is all the better for it. Have a look at 'Recording' here, it's a bizarre storyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Up_Your_Life
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
"Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis was unimpressed with the lyrics, yet when comparing it to Aqua's "Barbie Girl", he found that its "unifying sentiment is more admirable"
:D
― mark s, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
spice up your life bangs
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
meant bangs as a verb, but feel free to take the whole sentence as a command
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
It sounds like you’re sarcastically admonishing a long-dead rock critic to be more “poppist”
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Monday, 12 November 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
After being in love with rap for my whole life, 2018 has been the first time that I've felt like it has a very bad year for rap music. Dumb beefs, pointless deaths, lazy + phoned-in songs, bloated albums, and infuriating politics have become the centre of all discussions, with genuinely interesting and exciting music seeming to disappear completely. This is also a call for me to be proved wrong, please, if you do think there have been genuinely great things about in rap in 2018.
― triggercut, Monday, 12 November 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
rico nasty, tierra whack and a lil b mixtape (the admittedly bloated platinum flame) are the only rap i've liked this year, but i'm not rap's best spokesperson
listen to those things though
― imago, Monday, 12 November 2018 11:13 (five years ago) link
Saba's Care for Me is quality.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 November 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
i don’t get Durutti Column― flopson, Freitag, 9. November 2018 20:37 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkjust sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar
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― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Really enjoying this, thank you.
― triggercut, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
I recall several covers. ELO?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
Glad you like it, triggercut! 'Prom / King' in particular is a tour de force. I'll have to check out his debut as well.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
the saba is very kendricky and agreeable
― ogmor, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
i feel deeply in love with the sheck wes record but that's less agreeable
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Mudboy is ace!
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link