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that's why music with vocals is only good 30%-40% of the time.

DOUBLIN` DOWN BITCHES

i think Tonight's the Night gets a lot more notice because of its supposed autobiographical slant but it's not an autobiographical album, it just references a guy he knew in a couple songs (the same song really) and turns it into a rumination on death.

music with lyrics is for children

The solipsistic view of art where it can only be understood through "identification" leaves no room for expansion of horizons, also it's deeply patronising to both artists and audience.

there's an old big star thread where someone says they sound like kiss, that was a way weirder opinion than just thinking big star are bad

it can only be understood through "identification" leaves no room for expansion of horizons

if this is the case, the author needs to consider another vocation.👍🏻

was so disappointed when I realized Brotha Lynch Hung hadn't ate all them peoples

Levon Helm was not in the Civil War

https://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2009_In_the_Electric_Mist/009IEM_Levon_Helm_002.jpg

Big Star are terrible except for 'Holocaust' and (especially) 'Kanga Roo'.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, February 20, 2019 5:40 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To paraphrase something a soundguy once said about my own band, "They sound like a box of cereal."

Amen. I like Teenage Fanclub and the theme from That 70s Show much better than Big Star.

B-b-but the theme from That 70s Show IS Big Star.

Cheap Trick playing Big Star tbf, but still a Big Star song.

they sound like a box of cereal because there's a Box Top in them

I love Big Star and Teenage Fanclub but Cheap Trick is way better than both

Hm, Big Star vs Cheap Trick is tough. I def prefer the original "In the Street". Might take the first two Big Star albums over any given Cheap Trick album. Cheap Trick rock me harder but Big Star give me ~feelings~ in a way that Cheap Trick don't quite get to.

Cheap Trick playing Big Star tbf, but still a Big Star song.

― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was my point.

they sound like a box of cereal because there's a Box Top in them

If this setup/punchline was serendipitous (and not somehow coordinated), many +++'s

Big Star is better than these other bands mentioned come on

big star whips ass and anyone who thinks they suck sucks

sorry i thought this was the post your very popular music opinions thread

Jazzy/EZ stereolab is the best stereolab

read that as Jay Z/Stereolab, which, uh, wow

That was my point.

Oh, I get you now. I had missed man alive's post about the cereal box tbh. I should probably not post hurriedly during work breaks on long days.

Brad otm tbh

if the music you make isn't mostly autobiographic, it's trash. worthless.

Props on the controp, I'm a little tilted now. This is the wrongest opinion that has ever wronged.

Bruce Springsteen is shook now

how the fuck would you know if any art is "autobiographic" `

music with lyrics is for children

My 6 year old daughter whenever I put some music on at home: "Is someone going to start singing?"
Me: "No"
Daughter: "Then I don't want to hear it"

some of us saw the tec on tour with Large Professor xpost

anyway, my opinion on lyrics in music is that in 90% of cases music is better if you don't pay attention to the lyrics

Agree with silverfish. There aren't many good lyricists out there, and "autobiographical" lyrics are the hardest to do well.

By Austin's values recent Sun Lol Moon must be the best music of all time

Sun Lol Moon

ty autocorrect, and I mean it this time

Pink Floyd would have been a much better band if their name was Sun Lol Moon

ahahaha son lol moon

Carry Me ROFLMAO

with their big hit, Another Brick in the Lol Part 2

Mark Klolzelek

Lowl

living it up at the joketel California!

helter skelter is the only good beatles track

tru

Man I know I probably bang on about this too much but Stereolab's transition from "perfect simple dual-vocal Neu! tribute band with communism" into "terrifyingly twee and overly complicated The Free Design tribute band with jazz hands" is the biggest bummer I can think of. I cannot imagine getting listening to anything they recorded after Emperor Tomato Ketchup for pleasure. It is such a bummer! I have never heard a band go so pivot so suddenly from "perfect" to "zany"

Stereolol

too bad for you

they were more twee early on anyways

agree. I like both versions of the band, I just don't think they had the songwriting ability to do morricone / cool jazz as well as they did the neu indie rock stuff, which takes more of a conceptual commitment than songwriting chops

I honestly can’t determine if “they don’t have the range as songwriters” or if my own personal taste favours monolithic two-chord monuments to human synchronicity (which mirrors the sentiment of the lyrical content) which effectively mars my capacity to appreciate their subsequent pivot to kindergarten rock

Emperor Tonato Ketchup rules