hs is great so may have to retract my controversial music opinion
TS: Big Rappers vs. Lil Rappers
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Soft Machine wasn't truly great until Robert Wyatt left the band
Gong wasn't truly great until Daevid Allen left the band
(I am OK with the idea that these are a coincidences, as I enjoy both Wyatt and Allen quite a bit. But I much prefer the albums without them)
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
There is something pitiable and maybe even tragic about people in their forties and fifties who are still obsessed with the Misfits and the Ramones
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
or shellac and autechre
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Eh, people are attracted to different things. People could conceivably like the music even if the lyrics don't have significance for them in their forties and fifties.
― timellison, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
I consider everyone on ilx pitiable and tragic
― ogmor, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
is that really a musical opinion
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
or a controversial one?
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
that too
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
The best album Mick Jones made was B.A.D’s ‘Megatop Phoenix’.
it's top 3 for sure
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
nothing per se bad abt being pitiable and/or tragic
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
or vain, erudite and stupid
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
I always wondered about that title. Does each word describe a specific band member? Bruce is definitely "erudite"
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
similar question (as long as I'm derailing): was "experimental, jet set, trash and no star" meant to describe the individual members of Sonic Youth? If so, I'd guess Lee, Kim, Thurston, Steve, respectively
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
p sure Thurston confirmed that explicitly in an interview (at least, that's my memory)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
can't tell if you guys are joking but there's no comma after "experimental" and experimental jet set is a play on words
― Josefa, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
idgi
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
"Not surprisingly, the title had no single explanation. It was either a play on their alter egos - Ranaldo, Gordon, Moore, and Shelly, respectively - or, as Moore told writer Alec Foege, it was inspired by the time Yoshimi P-We, the drummer of... the Boredoms, was in the company of Moore and Gordon and was approached by autograph-seeking kids. "No - no star!" she said, in broken English."
- David Browne, Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth, pp. 267-268
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
I'm still waiting to learn how "experimental jet set" is a play on words
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
That’s a great Yoshimi story
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
I think maybe there was a joke that SY had become the 'experimental jet set' after signing to DGC? I don't see a play on words either.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
I guess because it's a combination of "experimental jet" and "jet set"?
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
^ that, yeah
― Josefa, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
The Kinks 1964-1971 > The Beatles
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
agree
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
Ramsey Lewis's 1970s albums are AT LEAST as good as Herbie Hancock's work from the same era, and in the latter half of the decade, they're better.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 23 December 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I dove deep into Duke’s MPS catalog a couple of years ago; great stuff, sadly overlooked now.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 23 December 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
he's great in Zappa's band too
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
Bad Bunny album is boring af
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 24 December 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Maybe you were expecting J Balvin
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link
Post a controversial music opinion: thoughtless music is worse than bad music.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, December 15, 2018 5:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i def agree with this
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Tracks >>>>>>> Playlists > Albums
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
food >>>>> meals
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
ALL ALBUMS, ALL THE TIME.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
A man after my own heart.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
I just have no time for albums in my life now. 3 or 5 minutes can get my complete attention. Why do I then need to hear another 11 tracks from the same artist, of which at least half will be filler? I still love many LPs, but just feel like I've had my fill of them, that is until the theoretical day I get an hour to sit and listen undisturbed, which may never come.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
I know you are a good person but that sounds like violence to me.
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
which at least half will be filler?
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
life is filler
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
it's about the notes they don't play
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
Take "If you are feeling sinister"....please!http://greatthoughtstreasury.com/sites/default/files/henny%5B1%5D_0.gif
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
I just have no time for albums in my life now. 3 or 5 minutes can get my complete attention. Why do I then need to hear another 11 tracks from the same artist, of which at least half will be filler?
I can understand this POV from someone who only listens to pop music, but it doesn't apply to the genres I listen to at all.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
'I just have no time for full compositions in my life now. 3 or 5 minutes can get my complete attention. Why do I need to hear another 11 movements from the same composer, of which at least half will be filler?'
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I chose to read that post as a surreptitious allusion to György Kurtág's 12 Microludes for string quartet.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Funnily enough, I was listening to a version of Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus earlier today that was split into 22 tracks, instead of being a single 75-minute piece. I was idly wondering whether it had been optimized for playlists or something nonsensical like that.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Marc-André Hamelin's record is split into 36 tracks, one for each page. Pourquoi pas?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
*recording
This is a bit of a tangent, but having just stumbled on Norman Lebrecht's review of said recording, I am consistently amazed at how insufferable and frankly useless his opinions can be. For instance, quotes such as 'Contemporary composers are not, on the whole, the most considerate members of the human species' would fit snugly in the rolling worst music writing thread.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Music’s fine, I guess. Not great. My imo.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
I don't know if I really even believe this but what the hell:EPs >>>>> albums
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link