I love Big Star and Teenage Fanclub but Cheap Trick is way better than both
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, 21 February 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
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
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That was my point.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
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
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
Big Star is better than these other bands mentioned come on
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 22 February 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
big star whips ass and anyone who thinks they suck sucks
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
sorry i thought this was the post your very popular music opinions thread
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
Jazzy/EZ stereolab is the best stereolab
― brimstead, Friday, 22 February 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
read that as Jay Z/Stereolab, which, uh, wow
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 February 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Friday, 22 February 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
Brad otm tbh
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 22 February 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 February 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen is shook now
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 February 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
how the fuck would you know if any art is "autobiographic" `
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 February 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
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"
― silverfish, Friday, 22 February 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
some of us saw the tec on tour with Large Professor xpost
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 February 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
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
― silverfish, Friday, 22 February 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Agree with silverfish. There aren't many good lyricists out there, and "autobiographical" lyrics are the hardest to do well.
― beard papa, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
By Austin's values recent Sun Lol Moon must be the best music of all time
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Sun Lol Moon
ty autocorrect, and I mean it this time
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Pink Floyd would have been a much better band if their name was Sun Lol Moon
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
ahahaha son lol moon
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
Carry Me ROFLMAO
with their big hit, Another Brick in the Lol Part 2
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
Mark Klolzelek
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
Lowl
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
living it up at the joketel California!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
helter skelter is the only good beatles track
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
tru
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
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"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
Stereolol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
too bad for you
― brimstead, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
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
― macropuente (map), Friday, 1 March 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonato Ketchup rules
― flopson, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:11 (five years ago) link
oh wait do you agree with that
uwe schmidt > autechre
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 1 March 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonetta Ketchup?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 1 March 2019 09:05 (five years ago) link
lol
ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
Was D&L where you and Stereolab parted ways?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:10 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It goes with everything
― Evan, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
it's a Candiment
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonetta Ketchup
stealing this, tyvm
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
AHEM
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I can pin-point the exact moment chronologically that I get off the Stereolab bus and that's "Monster Sacre" toward the end of Tomato Ketchup. (The title track right before it is of course one of my favourite Stereolab songs)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
i listened to Dots and Loops once and knew it was over for me. I wanted buzzy punchy moog-heavy dance/pop
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
^^ that's what my experience was
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
"Monster Sacre" is such a pretty and forlorn song though! Also interesting rework of an Erik Satie piece.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 1 March 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
This is the thread for controversial music opinions. This is the thread for all this Stereolab talk: "Their early stuff was better"
― everything, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link