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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

My challop: that kind of rhythmic freedom is exactly what their music needs.

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.

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.

Music For Airports is boring. I like Eno, I like ambient music (not a huge fan though) but I don't really like this

tbf Eno wasn't trying to be exciting there

Not very controversial.

Piano Magic were one of the greatest bands of the nineties/noughties.

there are exactly three Spice Girls songs ever worth hearing again and the rest are utter rubbish

Wannabe, 2 Become 1, Goodbye(?)

You misspelled "Stop."

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
EVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL

Viva Forever!

Oh yeah, “Stop” is good too

DON'T WANNA KNOOOW ABOUT THAT LOVE THANG!

Wannabe, Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1

a much lower strike rate than All Saints or even Eternal tbh

Those tracks are still great, but c'mon... 'Love Thing', 'Stop', 'Too Much', 'Viva Forever' ...

"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

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

spice up your life is actively good tho

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

'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 story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Up_Your_Life

"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

spice up your life bangs

meant bangs as a verb, but feel free to take the whole sentence as a command

It sounds like you’re sarcastically admonishing a long-dead rock critic to be more “poppist”

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.

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

Saba's Care for Me is quality.

i don’t get Durutti Column

― flopson, Freitag, 9. November 2018 20:37 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar

Saba's Care for Me is quality.

Really enjoying this, thank you.

I recall several covers. ELO?

Glad you like it, triggercut! 'Prom / King' in particular is a tour de force. I'll have to check out his debut as well.

the saba is very kendricky and agreeable

i feel deeply in love with the sheck wes record but that's less agreeable

Mudboy is ace!

Noname is doing great stuff as is Rapsody but they don't really fit into good narratives about what is cool in rap and also are women and too backpacker

Hadn't heard of Rapsody. Sounds cool, noted.

I can't think of a single Kinks song other than 'You've Really Got Me' that I'd ever like to hear again.

('You Really Got Me', rather.)

Agree. And I'd rather listen to Van Halen's version than the original anyway.

Good stuff.

I'd rather hear Come Dancing or Apeman than You Really Got Me.

"Father Christmas" is the best Christmas song

Hoping you mean Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas"

Hoping you mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3x_8cI2vY

I'd rather hear Come Dancing or Apeman than You Really Got Me.

I'd hardly call myself a Kinks fan, but Apeman is a sweet song.

Not only is Apeman a good song, but (controp alert) the soundtrack to the movie "Club Paradise" - on which it appears - is a good record. Jimmy Cliff. Yellowman. Elvis Costello. Mighty Sparrow.

The movie itself is a goof but it has its charms. Twiggy, Peter O'Toole.