it's not actually a very good way to think about history!
ps i am not a nazi
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
mark s confirmed nazi, just as I suspected.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
lots of questions already answered by mark s’s “i am not a nazi” t-shirt
― solo scampito (mh), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
mark s is the lead singer of Laibach.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
eighteen thirty four, i took the whig party to war,
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/10/1/21494313/radiohead-best-songs-ranked
Radiohead is immune to hyperbole. Many will say “Radiohead is the soundtrack to my life,” and those people aren’t wrong. Others will say “Radiohead is so boring. I don’t get it,” like Kid Rock did in 2001, and … well, who is going to argue Radiohead with the guy who wrote “Bawitdaba”? The fact is Radiohead is Radiohead, existing in its own musical world. Similar to predecessors like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and R.E.M., Radiohead has legions of fans, and endless cycles of rereleased, remastered, and reappraised albums. It’s with good reason. For the past 25 years, these five creeps have defined alternative rock.
The fact is Radiohead is Radiohead
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
For the past 25 years, these five creeps have defined alternative rock.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Christian suburbanites
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
where is the lie???
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
… well, who is going to argue Radiohead with the guy who wrote “Bawitdaba”?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Furthermore, I am me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Anticipation for the OK Computer follow-up built a comparable head of buzz to Britney Spears doing it again, Eminem threatening moms, and Mystikal yelling, “Shake ya ass, but watch yourself.”
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Just saw the author's name. What if this is all a ploy by the similarly named Icelandic band of Ágætis byrjun fame to dislodge their direct competitors in the annals?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.cjnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Burning-Bush-Moses-Ten-Commandments-Movie.jpg
Radiohead is that Radiohead is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
head of buzz to Britney Spears
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
gonna start a radiohead / cure mashup cover band and call it "these five imaginary creeps." we need a singer and a bass player, who's in?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
He uses the same, um, rhetorical device just a few paragraphs later
Radiohead released their seventh album straight to fans, famously using a pay-what-you-want model. The move pissed off Trent Reznor, who then realized he was Trent Reznor and used a similar tactic for his next two Nine Inch Nails albums.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Similar to predecessors like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and R.E.M.,
Where "predecessors" = "groups of white dudes who released records in the 20th Century," I guess?
Because I am not sure in what precise ways Radiohead is the successor to those bands.
And, if the criterion is simply "people who made music before Radiohead did," well, that's a pretty broad category that would, presumably, also include Mozart, Percy Faith, and GWAR.
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mathonan/radiohead-kid-a-20th-anniversary
As you might expect, because I am a white Gen X’er bro in my late forties who was not cool enough to be familiar with Aphex Twin but was hip enough to shit all over U2, I really like Radiohead’s Kid A — which came out 20 years ago this week.It’s easy to forget just how good things seemed back in October 2000. The prevailing mood was one of optimism. The Cold War was over. The Supreme Court had not yet handed a contested election to George W. Bush. The 9/11 attacks were a year away. Climate change still seemed like a distant concern. The economy was in the midst of the dot-com boom/bubble. The internet was going to bring us all together in a marketplace of ideas, make the world a better place. Handjobs all around. And in the middle of all that, Radiohead rolled out Kid A.(...)The planet is dying, there’s a pandemic that’s killed a million people and counting, cops are still killing Black people, the country is being rent apart by racism and hate, it’s red state versus blue state, California is literally on fire, and did you even see the fucking debate? Did you see it? Jesus. Talk about “Idioteque.”
It’s easy to forget just how good things seemed back in October 2000. The prevailing mood was one of optimism. The Cold War was over. The Supreme Court had not yet handed a contested election to George W. Bush. The 9/11 attacks were a year away. Climate change still seemed like a distant concern. The economy was in the midst of the dot-com boom/bubble. The internet was going to bring us all together in a marketplace of ideas, make the world a better place. Handjobs all around. And in the middle of all that, Radiohead rolled out Kid A.
(...)
The planet is dying, there’s a pandemic that’s killed a million people and counting, cops are still killing Black people, the country is being rent apart by racism and hate, it’s red state versus blue state, California is literally on fire, and did you even see the fucking debate? Did you see it? Jesus. Talk about “Idioteque.”
― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Friday, 2 October 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
Radiohead’s Kid A — which came out 20 years ago this week
just staring at this realizing I’ve lived more post-Kid A than pre-Kid A life and drafting my thinkpiece on what that means
― mh, Friday, 2 October 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
not cool enough to be familiar with Aphex Twin but was hip enough to shit all over U2
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 2 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
He's the "BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief"
― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
I’ve been a chief, this guy ain’t no chief of nothin
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
Tombot knew Jack Kennedy. Tomboy served with Jack Kennedy.
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
Crud, Tombot, sorry
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
It’s easy to forget just how good things seemed back in October 2000. The prevailing mood was one of optimism.
Ha ha what the fuck
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 2 October 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
i remember my October 2000 "Everything's Going Great!" party well
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 2 October 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
Hahahaha @ “The Cold War was over”
That happened like a decade earlier. You might as well say people were excited about Madchester bands
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 October 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
In addition to his music career, Van Halen will forever be remembered by fans for his contributions to pop culture and film, including cameos in series such as Frasier and Two and a Half Men and being one of the titular characters’ driving forces in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
hahaha
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 07:32 (three years ago) link
was that written by billy eilish?
Entirely correct though.
― chap, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
From Scaruffi
(I capitalized all the song titles because Autechre's lower-case habit is misleading. It may lead to confuse the music with the design: the lower-case titles are part of the design, and the design has indeed remained high-class; but that doesn't translate into an appreciation of the music, although one could claim that the "content" includes both the design and the music).
Yes, I understand things better now that the titles are capitalized!
― Pataphysician, Friday, 16 October 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
May 5, 2011By Pat Prince
Phil 'Fang' Volk, known as the spirited bass player for Paul Revere & The Raiders, has independently released a cover of Bob Dylan's enormously popular hit "The Times They Are a-Changin'" as a single.
The rendition is electric and hard-driving (what else would you expect from a rock 'n' roll bassist?) as the times we now live in. Volk adds a bit of 2011 to a timeless classic. Nothing can beat the Dylan original, but this energetic take adds to a message with a raw John Mellencamp-ish flair.
With this release, Volk wanted to make a statement about, what he calls, a "planet in transition."
As notes to the single, Volk writes "A SONG FOR A WORLD IN TURMOIL. Never before has humanity teetered with such instability, facing a future with incredible fear & uncertainty." Volk sees this as a "battle cry" for all those who stand ready to see things change for the better. Coincidentally, Volk released the CD on May 1, the same day that Osama Bin Laden, a proponent of such fear, was declared dead.
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
https://medium.com/@joshuacopperman1/what-your-favorite-album-of-2020-says-about-you-930285dad454
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Oranssi Pazuzu: you have prepared yourself for the rise of the Master and shall welcome him with open arms
― imago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-playboi-carti-whole-lotta-red/
― ufo, Friday, 8 January 2021 08:33 (three years ago) link
that Carti review in interminable while providing little actual content
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
There are valid arguments to be made for Autotune. They are not found here: https://popternative.com/music/getting-rid-of-the-stigma-that-surrounds-autotune/
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
Aside from the utter confusion about music history, every argument in that article goes exactly against the thesis statement.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's so incoherent I'm almost not sure how to even start arguing against it.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Monday, 22 February 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
The moments of this have probably gone by, but this is nevertheless the stupidest review I've seen in years.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/st-vincent-daddys-home/
It presents the point of the whole fucking album as arguing for childlessness or something. Peyton Thomas gives this argument 6.7.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 29 May 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
It’s odd, for example, that two songs on the album refer to calling “the cops,” or 911, in light of the past year’s uprisings against police brutality.
Docked points for snitching
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Calling 911 because you have a medical emergency makes you a Karen
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
[Verse 1]9-1-1 (9-1-1, what's your emergency?)I'm in love (I see, so how can I help you?)
Wow, do better, St. Vincent
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
Fwiw, here’s the other lyric being referenced:
HelloDo you know where you are?You've been out coldWe almost called the copsDon't get upCan you count to ten?Oh, boy, you're so lucky we found you when we did
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
scandalous
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 29 May 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
The writer’s oeuvre is full of bangers:
The audible crosswalk signals Jordan samples were developed to make life easier for visually impaired pedestrians. But they benefit everyone, adding clarity, joy, and a little music to busy urban journeys. (Recently, while I was waiting at an intersection, a mechanical voice pronounced “Wait”; I turned to my boyfriend and sang, “They don’t love you like I love you.”)
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
I like that
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
It kind of strikes me as the NPR/podcast voice turned to music criticism
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link