but what kind of IPA do they drink?
― fits, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
xpost his brother is in the Lonely Island ... not that that changes your point, I don't imagine
― alpine static, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
unless i don't know something ... which is entirely possible.
i am only paying attn to twitter a little bit right now (work at a hospital and day job is, uh, very busy) but i couldn't quite tell if ppl were clowning the publication or the band. or both?
if it's not marked as ad content that's pretty silly.
the whole thing is silly.
but there are a lot of old punks on the timeline touting their '94 tour in a brokedown econoline and acting like they wouldn't have jumped through fire at a chance to tour in that van!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
asa has written some of the lonely island’s music. he also co-wrote that big song by portugal the douchenozzle
― maura, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
the band too ephemeral to be a real nemesis
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
I think it was the timing more than anything, just with everything going on it seems even more vacuous and stupid
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
I mean, it's Business Insider
― DJP, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
A colleague sent me a Business Insider link today, and it’s a “BI Prime” story (behind paywall) – which means he must actually subscribe(!?)
― morrisp, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
lol
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
paid content articles are going to be a rich vein for literary analysis in about three years
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande teamed up for "Rain On Me," an upbeat dance track where each singer takes a turn with a verse. They also sing together on some of the choruses. https://t.co/eap8R2kl0p— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 23, 2020
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
(the tweet, dunno about the article)
"Both wear eye makeup."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
reminds me of NAME RELEVANT SONG FROM ANTI THAT MATCHES DESCRIPTION
― dyl, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen, I rarely post articles in this thread. But today I found a piece of work that I feel is truly, truly exceptional. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/mark-words-lets-rock-way-extinction-2578080?fbclid=IwAR0JEbEYNsElq4MpZYShemmOw6LLkiDsOTTNI7EWf7We8i4tgYcALV5F08w
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Made it to this point, couldn't go any further:
The fact is, whatever you think of their music, Coldplay put on one of the most spectacular, un-beige, bed-shitting live shows on the planet, a tornado of colour and excitement that makes a Beyonce show look like Milkfloat Karaoke.
Assuming it goes on in this manner and is confirmed to be parody by the end.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
even without a pandemic going on i don't know if i'd attend a bed-shitting live show
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Holy shit, this article
― (so serious) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Does the bedshitting provide natural, renewable electricity to power the instruments
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
"un-beige bed shitting" suggests the blueberries went bad
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
And if our efforts to save the planet fail? I’d rather spend my last few decades of habitable planet rocking out to retina-exploding 5D live shows, thank you very much. At least I’ll end up saluting my desert mutant warlord with a whole bunch of euphoric nights behind me and a wrist full of flashing neon bracelets.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
"At least I'll have my memories of Coldplay concerts when the environmental apocalypse comes" is one hell of a thesis statement
xp: lol I may have had similar posting motivation there
― (so serious) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
it's strange to me that he invokes maroon 5 as the sort of cultural decay that would justify complete nuclear annihilation, and yet for some reason coldplay is the band whose shows must go on even if the price is total environmental catastrophe. like, if you just squint hard enough
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
5. Bring on the day, says I, when all human culture is obliterated by ecological apocalypse and rebuilt by the brave few who were intelligent enough to keep their Strokes records off-Cloud and live up a hill.
I guarantee (and counting myself among them) no one who owns a physical copy of a Strokes album is going to survive the apocalypse.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
sure but even so that’s probably the nicest conceivable way you could criticize that horrible sentence
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
When you go to Bartertown, the Strokes cds are the first thing they will confiscate
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
at first they came for the maroon 5 CDs, and i said nothing
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Oh it's Mark Beaumont, I should've guessed - he was always a terrible writer.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Also just want to point out that the column is called "Mark My Words"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Xxxpost budo - you don't see "says I" dropped into a sentence everyday
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
A Moment With Beaumont
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
xp says you
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Sez who?
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
It's actually "Mark, My Words" which is even more 😱
― (so serious) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
"Heavens! I kill you know ;-)"
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
omg that thread
― (so serious) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
"Heavens! Bring on the day, says I, when all human culture is obliterated by ecological apocalypse and rebuilt by the brave few who were intelligent enough to keep their Strokes records off-Cloud and live up a hill. ;-)"
― (so serious) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
haha sorry! the comma really makes it next level
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Mark, my Spotify playlists, let me show you them
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Apologies if this is mentioned in the article (I'm not reading it), but I'm reminded that Chris Martin said the following in 2005:
”I think Radiohead are better than us,” says Martin of his group, which includes guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion. ”They’ve pushed themselves further. Them and U2 are tough to catch up with. But my mission is to beat those bands out of town. When the world ends in 200 years, it’d be nice to have it be ‘Oh, yeah, and the best band was Coldplay.’”
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
(I'm not reading the article because my brain apparently retains 15-year-old EW blurbs, and so I need to be very careful what I put into it.)
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
Don't deny yourself
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Read it!!
I feel swindled. That piece was partially tongue-in-cheek and just too predictable to rise to the inverted heights of 'Neil Young's Lonely Quest to Save Music'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
do you guys remember when Coldplay first appeared and the hook that every writer threw their hat on was that Chris Martin did this weird thing that appealed to American Christiany types where he would talk about being a virgin?
― mh, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
sorry, maybe that he was a virgin until the *omg* ripe old age of 22 and still relatively chaste, as if he was untouched by the vile rock sex cult
― mh, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
vile rock sex cult
think I saw them supporting Zodiac Mindwarp back in '92
― Neil S, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
It's hard to call this the "worst" piece of music writing given that the writing itself is good, but it's bad
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
I mean, for all of its writing quality, it's basically "White people be drivin like this, black people be drivin like this" the music essay
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link