The Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot's performance of John Luther Adams's Become Ocean feels less integral to the piece's success than the quasi ghostwriters behind DAMN..
xp yep
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
If the academy is to expand the definition of "distinguished composition", they also need to expand their definition of composition accordingly, if you catch my drift.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Monday, 14 September 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Kendrick is a state of mind.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
so is equally crediting those responsible for said state of mind.
ahh shit, i got us stuck in a feedback loop. sry.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 14 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Harry Smith gets way too much credit for the Anthology of American Folk Music. So he picked the songs and wrote the liner notes, big fucking deal. He also missed A TON of great music simply because it didn’t happen to be in his record collection.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
He and Lomax both. We missed out on a lot of really great stuff for a really long time because the curators - whose hard work I acknowledge as a gift despite these omissions - weren't interested in stuff outside their own specific preferences. The tons of amazing African American banjo players, for instance.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
What’s Going On is a bit boring.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
I like it but I'd prefer a bit more edge throughout (one 'Inner City Blues' isn't quite enough).
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:56 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:21 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did we miss out on great stuff because of them or did we later discover more great stuff because they created a space where there was interest in preserving and listening to that kind of music?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
what if they never existed? how much would have been lost? how much more music was documented and later released because of the interest in pre war stuff they cultivated?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
Lomax had an awful habit of trying to get the best blues artists of their day to perform folk tunes because that was his idea about what they should be playing, it's great he recorded them at all, but annoying that he failed to capture the music they actually wanted to play. He made 30s folk & blues a whole lot less interesting than 20s folk & blues.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
yes, please read blues as "blues" - it was Lomax who did a great deal of the pigeonholing
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
I agree but that happened before him too, Robert Johnson had a wider repertoire (They're Red Hot the only recorded evidence) than what was portrayed on his recordingsthough I guess my argument is that ideally they would have been recorded by someone who wasn't trying to push a musical direction on them, but the more likely reality is they wouldn't have been recorded at all
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
nothing is really more to blame than the 1929 crash, which destroyed the record industry for a generation or more.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
COVID-19 is a serious threat to live music, for those of us who still enjoy concerts and festivals.
www.SaveOurStages.com
― DT, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:11 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
point well taken. As I said, I'm reluctant to pile on because of the very thing you mention: the creation of a space that might not have existed otherwise.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
re: what's going on
if you want more edge in that material, i highly recommend seeking out the deluxe edition with the live recordings.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
I never really connected with what's going on. much prefer here, my dear
― despacito ergo sum (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
y'all need to relisten to "right on," it's crazy
the first side is a gorgeous suite; i get feeling like it's two towering singles linked together by interstitials, but look into those interstitials and you'll find psychedelically dense orchestral arrangements and beautiful chord progressions, even if they're not exactly songful
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 September 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
agreed, brad. it's a much cerebral record than it may initially appear.
also, jim re: here, my dear— i do agree that it's the better album and that what's going on is, generally speaking, kind of overrated. but it's overrated in the same way that like marquee moon might be: it's still a classic album when it's all said and done.
again: deluxe edition highly recommended for anyone looking for a fresh perspective on the album.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
There's several Curtis Mayfield albums that I'd want to listen to 50 times before I put on Let's Get It On once
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
I think I could write really good CCM lyrics, like I could be the Bruce Springsteen of CCM
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
[gachi is] "An avant-garde music genre that challenges ubiquitous, unspoken heteronormative rules of modern music. It wrestles with the straight, white jabroni establishment that is modern music and holds it in submission while cumming all over its corporate, college-educated hypocrisy."
― meisenfek, Friday, 9 October 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
[i have to point out that this is an actual quote]
― meisenfek, Friday, 9 October 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
that's a very confusing quote
also how exactly does "cumming all over" something challenge heteronormative rules of this monolithic so-called modern music?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
This is a still-developing opinion that I really have no right to be stating with any confidence, but:
D.I.T.C. production is ao classically, Platonically '90s NYC boom-bap that it's actually kind of dull.
― JRN, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
listen, columbo. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3kUzOP8v4
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
sry, this isn't the thread for proselytizing.
my controversial thoughts for the day:
i'm with croz; evh was meh. i'll go one further and say that his band was responsible for influencing a generation of terrible music. kind of like the shitty velvet underground. evh not solely responsible for that, but i stand by it regardless.
and also man i hate d'angelo. people always talk about the beatles or vu being overrated and i'm over here all like, "ya but brown sugar is fucken boring and black messiah is the equivalent of a dialtone — no, a dialtone is less monotone than that flat tire of an album." voodoo was decent, but overall: dud.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
I feel like use of the word "heteronormative" and being in possession of a college degree do not function as diametric opposites in the way the speaker wishes them to
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
searched up out of curiosity of the provenance of that quote aaannnnnnnnd. . . it's from reddit, because of course it is.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
JRN....buddy why you trying to hurt me?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
his band was responsible for influencing a generation of terrible music
you could say this about almost every popular musical act of the past 75 years
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
My controversial opinion on this is that the VU have inspired many more boring bands than Van Halen ever did
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
my controversial opinion is that bands are boring.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 14, 2020 6:12 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I could be totally off-base. But earlier I was listening to Cuban Linx (which, to be fair, I have listened to a lot before), the first Big L album, and the first Showbiz & AG album, and compared to RZA, the D.I.T.C. stuff just sounded so workmanlike.
― JRN, Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
Bands vs. Solo Artists
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
xpost - well sure RZA was very distinctive and not really anyone I would pick as being indicative of pure boom nap as opposed to Diamond D, Da Beatminerz, Premo etcbut man the first Big L and esp Runaway Slave are just total classicthey aren't maybe as creative as RZA but to me they bang more and are funkier
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
boom nap
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 October 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
BUCKWILD THE BEST NYC HIPHOP PRODUCER 1995-1998
don't even say dj premier or rza or whatever. quality over quantity all day, everyday, any day.
how's that for a controversial opinion?!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 15 October 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
Napcore: The War on Drugs
― rattle, Thursday, 15 October 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
doesn’t read as a diss to me. Naps are the best.
― beard papa, Thursday, 15 October 2020 06:46 (three years ago) link
Scritti Politti would have been much better if Green had sang more in his natural register and used less of that cloying wheedling syrupy thing he was so fond of.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
Agree. It's not so much that he changes register (goes from chest voice to falsetto), but between the Early singles and Cupid and Psyche (I haven't heard the first album), he adopted this purring tone that I wish he would change up occasionally.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 14 November 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
classic nonsense in the finest traditions of this stupid thread
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
The best Kiss song was "The Oath", off that absurd rock opera album they did.
― lots of people in a line, waiting for a number 9 (Matt #2), Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
ha i've never actually listened to music from the elder maybe i should
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 14 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
Highly agree with the acoustic vs. electric blues position someone posted upthread. I just cannot summon any enthusiasm for electric blues, shit literally makes me sleepy.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 14 November 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
I was disappointed by the elder, it really is some bullshit
― brimstead, Saturday, 14 November 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link