The Pennine Studios version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is superior to the Strawberry Studios version.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
my controversial opinion might be that brian eno's rock records aren't very good.
Thank you. His 'singing', ugh.
― campreverb, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Oakenfold's Tranceport is a stellar dance mix, deserving of study.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 11 May 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
while I admire the politics, I hate Bikini Kill's music, and will stan for many other riot grrl era bands much more stridently than I ever will for BK. BK's songwriting and vocals are shit, even considering the aesthetic of the era and genre.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
i agree with this
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
not an opinion i am ever going to offer irl
90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck
― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Electroclash was awesome and fun.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 18 May 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
I mean, sure, a singles compilation across Bikini Kill-Le Tigre-Julie Ruin would be ideal.New Radio is a top 10 American punk song for me though.
― campreverb, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
Def agree abt electroclash
Electroclash backlash was thinly veiled homophobia, also
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this has been true since around the time they released Total 12 but the noughties was an incredible run, since then though I would put the figure closer to 99%
― boxedjoy, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
I still very much dig it, still go running through the woods on occasion listening to Thomas Fehlmann Justin Kohncke Jurgen Paape
the catalog is a little samey and era-specific but they're just really rich recordings
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
xp but yeah referring to that hot run
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
i always thought i was the only one who never got the hype about kompakt. rich is not the adjective i'd associate with the music on that label. embarrassingly repetitive stuff.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 20 May 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
The first few Total comps, Michael Mayer's Immer and Gui Boratto's Chromophobia are all good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Kompakt was fine and had loads of great tracks, it's just that the minimal trend it started/mainstreamed has, pretty much to this day, sucked nearly all productional/compositional ambition, boundary pushing or whatever you want to call it out of 'underground' club music <- ok controversial opinion right there
― Siegbran, Monday, 20 May 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
same
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 20 May 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
it’s dance music ffs, more like 40% is jackin, 20% is corny, 40% “boring”
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
like many dance labels
now tell us what you think about perlon
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
that wasn’t a response to unperson, just the original opinion
immer 2 >>>>>>>> immer 1
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
We areA perfect labelBesides the factThat we're not there
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
Based on seward's recommendation I have blind-bought several Kompakt releases, albums by Lansing-Dreiden, and scooped Deep Purple from the bargain bin. I currently own none of these albums, they were all returned and/or resold
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
at one point i started buying ever mott the hoople lp
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
also my phone tried to autocorrect that to mitt the hoopla lol
I really like Mott The Hoople and my last post was not a crit of seward's taste but an expression of "different strokes" etc.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
goes without saying we all worship skot :)
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap because some (most?) of their fans were meatheads but all three of their original studio albums whip ass. I feel like if they came out today, in "the Twitter age," they wouldn't be nearly as broadly successful but way more intensely beloved.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Denzel Curry's cover of 'Bulls on Parade' has made them slightly less uncool.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
there should be a thirteenth note
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen%E2%80%93Pierce_scale
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.― Siegbran, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:43 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Siegbran, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:43 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, this. I'm sure there's a few successful acts that thrived in previous decades that would struggle if they appeared now due to things like Twitter etc. but I guess that's a whole 'nother thread that I'm not willing to start.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
same. Kompakt is really good music for working and I'd say maybe 75% of music listening I do is while working, so this kind of stuff still occupies a big place in my music consumption.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
Yes but is it trve ambient?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
whenever I try to listen to ambient when working I just start falling asleep. I need something with a good tempo beat.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Exactly. I have a Spotify playlist of all the Kompakt "Speicher" singles/EPs that's a major writing/editing soundtrack for me.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
the Pop Ambient compilations are still mostly good in an unmemorable way, whereas the last Total compilation was actively unlistenable
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
There’s one on every messageboard: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/controversial-beer-opinions-thread.559492/page-114
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 31 May 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 8:45 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
re: rage covers, i’d pay good money for a john scofield record doing them
― budo jeru, Friday, 31 May 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
came here to post this tho
dickie betts >>>>> duane allmam
― budo jeru, Friday, 31 May 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
mountain mam
― budo jeru, Friday, 31 May 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
The amount of good songs Prince made after Purple Rain can be counted on 1 hand. Sign O the Times' production on the whole (some tracks avoid it) is a prime example of mid-late 80s bad synth, overly gated ugliness.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
a lot of the production makes me think of, like, sunset strip hair metal... a good thing
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
or, like, hysteria. i haven’t actually ever listened to hysteria
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Re: Kompakt, yeah, a lot of it is not too exciting, but that's been true of dance and club music since... forever?
my favorite underrated Kompakt dude? Jurgen Paape. i wouldn't say i normally like stuff that could be described as "muscular," but i love this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJm72_Mo1ps
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Rickie Lee Jones's best album is The Magazine
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 June 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link