OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

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...Young says, using an unprintable post-Beatles slang phrase for anger [make sure to check w/NYT whether actually unprintable]

mick signals, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link

While Bush's involvement in 9/11 is disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably there in the melodic-depressive grunge music of Bush.

triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link

the Irving Berlin and Cole Porter of suicidal ideation and addiction

I would like to be thought of as the Lorenz Hart, or possibly the Ira Gershwin, of suburban ennui and tipsiness.

Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link

I think my favorite part of this is the implication that between 1969 and 1989, *nothing* happened in the Pacific Northwest

a heartless suggestion

Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link

well I don't think we should overlook Queensryche, the Rodgers/Hammerstein of 80s Pacific Northwest fantasy metal

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link

ÿ

mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link

ÿeah ÿeah I wasn't sure how to make that sÿmbol

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link

blasting 'jet city woman' in their/your honor

mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link

Cindy Van Lunen
Long Beach Township NJ 11h ago
This article is painstakingly beautiful. If you have a child that is atypical in your life, it will pierce your soul. This sentence at the end made me cry.

Me: As I read this article, I just started sobbing and I couldn't stop!

Friend: Oh, do you have children with neurological disorders?

Me: No ... I'm a writer!

mick signals, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link

The Wipers
Dead Moon
Heart

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link

xpost ha ha ha

Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link

The comparison of him and Fruciante was my least favourite among many many awful moments.

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 23 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link

In anticipation of the headliner, 14-year-long Mogwai fan Houston Ellsworth, host of the punk podcast Local Obscene, says that he is stoked for the night’s performance and remembers a time when Mogwai’s music nourished his soul during a particularly difficult period.

Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link

Am I missing something there? He’s been a fan of Mohawk for 14 years.

what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link

Guess you're right -- that reading didn't occur to me, I assumed it was a flub of "14-year-old." Don't think I've ever seen that particular construction before (like most of the article, the phrase feels like it was autotranslated from another language).

Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link

young team!

maffew12, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link

Is the Alternative Nation website written by an insane A.I.?

Links have been showing up in my Google News, and every one I've read has been completely incoherent.

https://www.alternativenation.net/eddie-vedder-makes-painful-the-who-revelation/

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 5 September 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name

jmm, Thursday, 5 September 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link

Ozzy Osbourne Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News
Led Zeppelin Icon Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News

It's like they keep filling out the same Mad Lib over and over.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 5 September 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link

hey the writers get four cents per completed Lib go easy on the poor wretches

j., Thursday, 5 September 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link

all my friends are bankrupt, take it slow

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has uploaded a clip of his ‘Life on the Road’ series on AXS TV where he interviews Metallica drummers Lars Ulrich, who is drinking alcohol in the clip. Ulrich also discussed a ‘crazy’ show with AC/DC. An AC/DC Axl Rose breakup secret was revealed yesterday.

Johnson said, “It looks rock and roll, that’s the good thing about it.” He added, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. It looks the business.”

Ulrich responded, “We’ve been here 15 years.” Johnson shot back, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. That’s fantastic.”

An AC/DC icon revealed why Angus Young is a ‘recluse’ last week. Ulrich laughed and proclaimed, “I like that. There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be.” The two then hugged. Ulrich recently wrote on social media, “28 years ago today, on August 10th 1991, we played the first show on the AC/DC European tour at Gentofte Stadium just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link

what

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link

Talk to transformer writes articles now huh

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link

ha was just abt to post this^

The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link

there’s nothing here that shouldn’t be

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link

talk to transformer really doesn't yield too different results

Eddie Vedder Makes Painful The Who Revelation

Onstage at the Rock & Brews in New York's Times Square in December 1989, Eddie Vedder's final Rock & Brews performance before his death at the age of 47, Vedder took aim at the Who, his favorite band, by revealing that they were "torturing him."

"I've known the Who for years and they have been very kind to me," Vedder said of the band. "But lately I think they've been torturing themselves. I think they are trying to find something and I don't know what. They are playing for too many people and I'm getting tired of hearing them play and they want to play more."

Vedder was referring to the band's recent decision to release a new album, With or Without You, which contains tracks about his personal life. Vedder expressed his frustration with the band, calling them "the biggest group in the world, the biggest band in rock and roll and I think they are not enjoying it."

The Who recorded the album themselves, with Vedder

ufo, Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link

They have to be using Talktotransformer or something like it.

jmm, Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/rLYHMbz.png

jmm, Thursday, 5 September 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link

I’m intrigued and wonder what the revelations are. Must subscribe to find out
(revelations never to be revealed)

untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 5 September 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name -- I cannot stop laughing

Frozen CD, Thursday, 5 September 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link

rock & brews was founded in 2012 lol

untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 5 September 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link

This one is annoying because there is something there in terms of general concept which may be worth exploring, by somebody else.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a28904211/2003-to-2012-forgotten-music-era/

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 September 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link

also xpost to 00s poll threads

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 September 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link

Great idea, terrible examples.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link

wow

maura, Thursday, 5 September 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link

How did he write this entire thing and not notice that his entire thesis boils down to "for every artist from this time period with multiple hits that people remember, there are one- or no-hit wonders that everyone has forgotten"?

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link

a cursory listen to old episodes of american top 40 would reveal etc. etc.

american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link

I thought it would be about indie/blog-era gems that are lost because you only had the mp3, post-cd and pre-streaming.

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link

"Can you believe the world has forgotten KT Tunstall?"

Um... yes? Pretty easily, in fact? (And I liked that song, too)

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link

I have a similar problem with Alternative Nation, it always feeds me weird Van Halen oriented ckickbait

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link

Lol if only this guy had heard of the "studio groups" of the 60s

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link

I finally read that Alternative Nation link and am I the only one who now REALLY wants to follow the writing career of Brett Buchanan?

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link

Xpost Like bruh what if i told you Question Mark and the Mysterians didn't have an illustrious career

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link

I’d like to believe this started life as a spiked LA Weekly listicle and was hurriedly punched up into paragraphs for prestige publication

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 9 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link

that Deleted Years piece reads like a very ineffective attempt gee along nought-stalgia*

*(c)2019 frame casual

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 9 September 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/live-review-joanna-newsom-philadelphia/

Ah yes, a charming evening of career-spanning ragtime

While her dress positioned her somewhere between the angelic nymph persona she’s come to occupy over the years and Greco-Roman goddess of warfare, her sincerity in the face of noticeable nervousness revealed Newsom to be less of the stately elvish Homer of my generation’s dreams and more a spellbindingly human artist who proved the City of Brotherly Love to be true to its name.

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link

Consequence of no editor dot net

#YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link

Ok is this a review or Ode to a Grecian Urn

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link


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