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
― flopson, Freitag, 9. November 2018 20:37 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar
― 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
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
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
Hadn't heard of Rapsody. Sounds cool, noted.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
I can't think of a single Kinks song other than 'You've Really Got Me' that I'd ever like to hear again.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 November 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
('You Really Got Me', rather.)
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 November 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
Agree. And I'd rather listen to Van Halen's version than the original anyway.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 November 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
Good stuff.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Monday, 19 November 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
I'd rather hear Come Dancing or Apeman than You Really Got Me.
― Frank Lloyd RONG (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 November 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
"Father Christmas" is the best Christmas song
― brimstead, Monday, 19 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Hoping you mean Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas"
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Monday, 19 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Hoping you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3x_8cI2vY
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 19 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
I'd hardly call myself a Kinks fan, but Apeman is a sweet song.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 19 November 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
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.
― Frank Lloyd RONG (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
apeman is certainly the kinks most racist song. it's not where I'd begin my defense of them
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
The absolutely gorgeous "This Time Tomorrow" is on the same album and we're stanning for Apeman? They have 3-4 dozen better songs
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
Is it more racist than "Black Messiah", ogmor? (I'd probably take "Black Messiah" over "Apeman", musically, though, if only by default.)
"A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" is my favourite of the Kinks songs I know. I don't really know why someone wouldn't also like "All Day and All of the Night" if they like "You Really Got Me".
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link