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Eddie Rosseau

you know what he'd really dig is "Tribal Gathering"

perhaps rousseau's aversion to harmony would've influenced him to echo pom's famous "pet sounds is bad" controp

Rousseau was the OG Fourth World dude.

learning how to play music sucks. out of tune is the new "in tune"

Tbf 'Red Dress' is still stuck in my head several days later.

Not everything's singing, you know.
The only important thing these days is rhythm and melody.

nope rhythm is not important.

do y'all even *read* Geir's posts

Is Geir a Rush fan?

Jejune lyrics, cloying melodies and insecure quasi castrato vox from Pleasantville

this is the standard line on the album at this point isn’t it, as in this is exactly what makes it so great

i can’t stand this dark side of suburbia type of shit. which it’s probably only an accidental example of anyway

lol if only (x2).

I can't remember if Geir liked Rush, if I had to guess I think they might lack in traditional songcraft

seems like he would love the 80s synthy stuff

he doesn't hear rhythm though so Distant Early Warning sound like a blur of synths colliding with each other

Was Geir for real or was he an art project?

He posted last year, might even have been this year.

He was advertising the (re?) release of his solo album on Bandcamp iirc.

It Takes a Nation of Hongroes to Hold Us Back

Hongroe - "Talking to a Computer" is a bop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U31JW3YQHI

Not a controversial opinion.

Can't help but feel like 'talking to you is like talking to a computer' is his valedictory message to ILX.

Africans and muslims, you hate them all
I might as well bang my head against the wall

Great couplet.

RHYTHM

and MELODY

total package imo

geir was odd though, it's not accurate to say he was merely a "rockist" even though he definitely thad that chauvinism towards traditional western capital-S "Songwriting" traditions, but he didn't have that sort of macho, luddite thing that's usually a part of rockism, the idea that manly men playing guitars and drums is the ideal of music

he even uses autotune which is generally one of the lame-o normie complaints about modern music on facebook

_I would even go further and defend dismissing certain cultures as "fucking garbage" without that being compared to doing the same for an ethnic group. Difference in my mind being that a culture is something a person chooses to be a part of._

Not saying you're necessarily doing this, but this argument is used to support some really nasty stuff. (Unless you're talking about "toxic gaming culture" or something like that.)

I always thought of Geir as more of a poptimist tbh. Based on your description, ums, he in fact straddles the line and undermines that binary opposition in its entirety, forever redeeming ILM in the process.

Yes, I would never call Geir a rockist. He was more difficult to characterize than his reputation suggests, also he spent a lot of time trolling people in a completely cockeyed manner that might have made more sense if you were Norwegian (Land of the Trolls).

We come from the land of the ice and snow
Into your threads we will extensively troll

Still the most ''holy shit'' post i've seen on ilx so far

I've really wanted to get the hell into metal since at least my early 20's, but it never quite took :(

I don't mind people not liking metal. I just mind people who (fortunately nobody here) say it's for transgressive little shits who are trying to piss their parents off.

no, it's for big fucking nerds who just like loud guitars as well as some alpha male fucks on steroids. the nerds try to kick the alphas in the nuts in the pit.

I would probably love a lot of metal if i made just a little bit more of an effort. Not even a lot.

I've tried a bunch of times, but not very hard.

The single most astonishing thing about that Geir Hongro post is just that he took the trouble to write it.

Whenever I try listening to heavy music (of any kind), it ends up feeling… I dunno, silly, I guess. It’s my bad! Wish I could enjoy metal, it’s a cool thing to be into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7y-MYIgKs

i guess that's me turning up the volume in my car

I love the idea of that post being rockist.

That being said, Robert Johnson wrote only one song in his entire life (the 12 bar one that goes C / / / F / C / G F C /), but at least he is not to blame for the fact that thousands of rock and soul acts have later plagiarized this one song.

anti-CCR rhetoric should never be tolerated

Tbf to normies on FB, Autotune does sound like shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJVcPlx39s

I can't believe anyone thought it was worth arguing with him tbh, there's a vehement refusal to engage with any of this music on its own terms.

The brilliant/maddening thing about that post, though, is that his take is OTM every 6-7 entries or so.

Most startling bit of that breakdown is him saying that Bitches Brew is 'also interesting in parts'. I thought he'd dismiss it wholesale.

I also hadn't realized just how much he loathes the blues.

almost as much as compilations!

72. Purple Rain, Prince

His best album. Not too many of those repetitive funk number, instead lots of nice melodies. "Darling Nikki" may be his best song ever. The title track is overrated tho.

^i love the little random bonkers opinions like thinking Darling Nikki is the best Prince song

every compilation that shows up seems to make him madder

yeah I get why calling him a rockist isn't right, but he exemplifies aspects of rockism more completely than any other rando on the internet I've encountered, e.g., the holiness of The Album form

then there are opinions like this that are some kind of special Geir-ism:

Nothing of interest happened in "rock" before The Beatles and the following British invasion.

Why don't you guys just realised that hip-hop will never be even remotely as important as rock. Hip-hop is just as passing fad - completely forgotten in 20 years - while rock will live forever.

This HAS to be a joke.

Actually, I think I'm 100% in favour of 'rockism' being exemplified by an Autotuned synthpop musician who hates Robert Johnson and noisy guitars.