As an American it's my honor to polish Soundgarden's balls to a mirrorlike sheen
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
Can somebody fill me in on the "controp" thing? What does it mean? Is it just cool to keep me guessing?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Soundgarden are a great band with no front-to-back great albums. (Ultramega OK and Badmotorfinger come closest, to me.)
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
controp = controversial opinion
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
There is an actual code to Pearl Jam's No Code - however ambiguous or amorphous it may be.. there's a definite code that it adheres to.
Thank you for clearing that up!
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
challop > controp
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
Jay-Z would've experienced more (even more) success (album sales, fame, valuable stock, etc.) if he had more Russell Crowe feature spots/ cameos on his tracks. -Controp or non- controp?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
The best ever Nirvana album was named "Two of Us" and was released in 1968.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
The song "Jessie" by Paw is not about an actual dog named Jessie, it's about having an ideal best friend who'll know when to lay off, or when to let go (to not get fixated on trivial things)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
The song "Black Shampoo" by Wu-tang clan was filmed in an actual The Body Shop store, in Westfarms mall (West Hartford, CT) in 1996. U-God "Golden Arms" delivered his verses while soaking his feet in hot, bubbling water (in a hot tub filled w/heated Poland Spring water and Epsom salt) - in a mobile hot tub on top of a parade float - it was towed by a Ram pickup truck.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
― beard papa, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
Haha, success
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah that's a deep dive. Often wondered how that band got signed.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
Arab Strap are more fun to listen to than Belle and Sebastian. Arab Strap's music has more resonance (physically and emotionally) than that of Belle & Sebastian.
Arab Strap are shite. Belle & Sebastian are worse.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
they toured Australia a couple of years after Jessie, and the posters had "JESSIE YOU'RE A GOOD DOG SUCH A GOOD DOG" in large caps, laid over the out of focus band photo
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
"Often wondered how that band got signed."
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
ts: ass-wiping vs. ball-polishing
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
There is only one where failing to do it will make nobody want to be around you
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
I loved Paw back in the day. Great live band.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 February 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Paw's Dragline was one of my 8 free CDs from Columbia House back in the day, that's the main thing I remember about it.
― Chris L, Thursday, 14 February 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
listening to Paw's Dragline right now and buffing Kim Thayil's scrote, sounds p good tbh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Kim Thayil's scrote can actually melt steel beams
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
Death to Traitors is great too.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
I listened to Dragline this morning for the first time in decades. Felt pretty much the same about it as I did back then: The guitar-work is great - there are some really catchy and beautiful guitar lines. The lyrics are embarrassing in a way that's hard to put a finger on. Maybe a just a bit too plain-spoken, earnest/confessional... I don't know. The vocalist sounds like they dragged him into the studio right off of a combine. The album loses steam after the first few songs and I really didn't remember any of the later songs. I decided I really didn't want to listen to the lyrics to "Lolita" at all. Still a fun trip down memory lane.
― beard papa, Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
After listening to that I got to thinking about other albums of that era. My potentially controversial opinion is that Brad's "Shame" was one of the best grunge adjacent albums of that era.
― beard papa, Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
I'd co-sign that. Shawn Smith's voice is a beautiful thing.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
The first Satchel record, too.
I remember really disliking Paw but also kind of confusing them with Seven Mary Three (who I also didn't like). I did like that Brad record a lot at the time though but sold it decades ago and haven't heard it since.
Dragline, Churn, and Shame all have basically the same 90s-as-fuck covers though.
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
my weed dealer's fav band was Brad i should investigate again
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
Scott Walker has better songs than Bowie.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
that's more of a yawn-troversial opinion
― sarahell, Friday, 15 February 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link
Dad humor. Of course.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 15 February 2019 06:51 (five years ago) link
y'know what?y'know what?FUCK Led Zeppelin
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
i totally would
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
Belated appreciative post for “yawn-troversial”
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 15 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
xxp remove bookmark
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 15 February 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
When I was in high school and very into Coltrane, I saw Pharaoh Sanders at a music festival without knowing his music too well although knowing he had played with Coltrane. I couldn't get past my impression of him as a faker, and that has stuck with me to date even though some of his music is ok. The contrast between his showboaty spiritual schtick and Coltrane's introspection still bothers me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
it took me some time to appreciate john coltrane. i never understood the appeal of "a love supreme". so repetitive, so uninspired, so boring. a waste of listening time. but then i heard ascension and meditation and i was overwhelmed by the energy and intensity. fabulous stuff. pharoah sanders music i have liked from the beginning. to me his music emanates spirituality. fake or not fake is not a question i ask myself in this context.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 18 February 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
When I was in high school ... I saw Pharaoh Sanders at a music festival
assuming we are around the same age, i can say the same. and i had a similar impression. i saw wayne shorter at the same festival, doing a very similar thing w electric instruments, and had a similar impression again ... but (rockism alert) really who isn't faking it to some extent in the fourth decade of their career?
showboaty spiritual schtick
people made the same criticism of coltrane!
― the late great, Monday, 18 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
i never understood the appeal of "a love supreme". so repetitive, so uninspired, so boring
comment does what it says on the tin
― the late great, Monday, 18 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
(the repetition is the point)
― the late great, Monday, 18 February 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
1) it's literally a hymn and 2) did you know they go over the theme in all 12 keys over the course of the song? that's kind of cool if you think about it
― the late great, Monday, 18 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I too prefer Ascension but I won't die on the street for its sake.
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
did you know they go over the theme in all 12 keys over the course of the song
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane have both routinely been called out for their 'showboaty spiritual schtick' over the years - though not so much lately - so I don't think it's that controversial an opinion.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
3 days late but is this where I admit I liked Paw, Brad and Satchel too?
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
Pigeonhed or gtfo
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
them too
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 18 February 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
Shawn Smith's voice is a beautiful thing.
Agreed! Saw a solo Showbox lounge show last decade, and his vocals were just as good live as on the albums. Shame no new Pigeonhed in the years since The Full Sentence.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 18 February 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Controversial nowhere but ILX: if you prefer Meditations, Ascension, or OM to any Coltrane prior to 1965, you are insane
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 18 February 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link