"i get this, but almost every singer who reached greatness before the age of 25 basically did amazing things by pretending to sound world-wearier than they really were."
yeah they were better at it than these guys.
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
these guys should act their age. i'd like them better.
true, i'm just saying it's not categorically a sin
― ska bands a make her dance (some dude), Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
no, not at all. how old were some of my favorite rappers when i thought they were gods on mountaintops? probably a good percentage of them were my age or younger. i already feel like i've learned stuff from kendrick lamar as a writer.
i am the the same age as rakim. rakim was 800 friggin' years old when i worshipped him. i never would have known we were the same age back then.
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
i was so flipped out when i was doing my thing on todd terry for the emp conference and i found out he's only a year older than me. that's genius for you!
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
I have a weird thing with music, I love to listen to Korn, The Amity Affliction, Parkway Drive and then I just fall in love with Bon Iver. But what's not to like? :3
CoolWhhhiip 5 hours ago
― buzza, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
kinda tempted to find out what the amity affliction might be...
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
seems like i'm far from the biggest hater of bon iver on here!
get in the mood for james blake & bon iver 'fall creek boys choir'
and i don't hate the guy. i listened to the album everyone loved - or parts of it - just to see what the hubbub was about and it was blah to me. and hearing the bonnie raitt thing...
and no i don't have anything against bonnie raitt. (bonnie a young white girl who dropped out of radcliffe and played in little clubs for a couple of years with people like fred mcdowell and tried to sound like an eldery black woman and almost immediately (2 years or so) got a nice deal with warner brothers and was the daughter of broadway royalty.) she had some catchy tunes.
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
They're a metalcore band from Australia. They're on Roadrunner. This is their new single, from their next album which will be out October 2 in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BI3Fww1vA
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
i'm worried about my boy rufus. have to make sure he doesn't try to sneak any john mayer albums home.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/485700_10151233250225908_473502823_n.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
white dude in the old man hat voice in the top 10 right now
http://necropedia.org/jdd/public/documents/celebrities/1525.jpg
― some dude, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
awesome, awesome picture, scott.
jack johnson!!! he is like number-one offender.― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:28 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:28 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Regarding this motherfucker. Fuck, the first time I heard any Jack Johnson songs I was 22 and I was going through a really bad breakup and they played a block of his tunes on an NPR station. And I was like, "Wow, it's cool that they're giving this sad old middle-aged man a chance. He sounds like he's going through a mid-life divorce or something. You don't hear about too many new artists who are this old.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, so the further point being that I was like "I'm going to go listen to this middle-aged man break-up music now" and because this was during the height of audiogalaxy, I just downloaded a bunch of his songs and listened to them in this middle-aged man context for a while and it wasn't until a few months later that I found out he was just a couple years older than me.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
It's the Mike Love look.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
'white dude in old man hat' is this guy to me:
http://anthropology.ua.edu/blogs/matthewgreenemeier/files/2012/09/home-improvement-wilson2.jpg
anyway, all these dudes are disgusting savages. i'd totally listen to wilson from home improvement's acoustic musings, though.
what a tragedy it is that earl hindman is dead while newton faulkner still walks the earth.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
cosign
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
"He probably has to live in some sad, little apartment and only see his kids on Wednesdays or something..."
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
I saw a copy of Murry Wilson's album, the other day.
Thought better of it.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
decided to google this (well known but i don't pay attention) cunt after hearing his voice in the pub every fucking day for the last three years - and he's english! what a cock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZp6dhheriM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxccy-zcJ8
― Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
fuck. i've suffered so you should too.
it's like watching a computer generated singer songwriter
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
i watched 30 seconds of the first video and that was enough.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
This remains one of my favorite ILM threads. I say 'young man in an old man hat' to myself all the time. It's like one of the three modern diagnoses.
I can't outright hate Jack Johnson bc when my coworker's 6 yo son was on his deathbed (fuck cancer) Johnson called him on the phone and sang his favorite song to him (kid super loved JJ). I don't ever wanna hear his music but that was a nice thing to do.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 March 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
aw, that is really nice. his curious george album sucks though. i bought that for rufus years ago thinking it was gonna be songs about, you know, curious george.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 March 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I actually like "Upside Down," Jack's closing credits song for "George." Probably couldn't deal with a whole album of stuff like that though.
― It's All Posable Colaboration (Dan Peterson), Monday, 11 March 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
I thought this thread was going to be about Jimmy Durante
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 March 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Thread scarily prescient in presaging the rise of the Lumineers.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
old man take a look at my hat, I'm a lot like you were
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.yeproc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Happiness-Waltz_cover-384x350.jpg
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
that looks like a guy i went to high school with in an old man hat
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Also looks a bit like Woody_Harrelson_stupid_hat.jpg
http://stupidhats.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/woody_harrelson_stupid_hat.jpg
― It's All Posable Colaboration (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Does Phosphorescent dude have an old man hat voice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbyFTz1m5Ac
― brio, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
dude outside my store harrassing people on the sidewalk for Oxfam is totally wearing an old man hat and singing in an old man hat voice. i kid you not. God is punishing me!!
― scott seward, Friday, 24 May 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
don't worry - he will get his comeuppance for singing at a job that requires no singing whatsoever
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 24 May 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/only-nine-people-have-given-to-zosia-mamets-hipster-ba-510278912?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Clearly it was Leon Redbone
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll88/JollyvilleChick/Squidoo/LeonRedbone/LeonRedbone_JohnKnox_1.jpg
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
that's a v nice old man hat imo tho
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think he pulls of that look much better than these johnny-come-lately scruffamuffins
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Love Redbone. Yeah his look/act is kind of a schtick, but he's so great at doing what he does. Him and Dan Hicks.
― New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
at least he appears to be aiming for the same thing the bluesmen he's imitating were aiming for, i.e. trying to dress well
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
I mean jfc compare with the shitsmeared mug of the happiness waltz dude
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.aloud.com/v3/artists/310x174/ben_kenney.jpg
After a successful US headline tour; Incubus’ Ben Kenney has announced details of a debut UK tour for September.
The writer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and Incubus bass player is currently working on his fifth solo studio album and has just released new track "Concord" which has been trending on Reverbnation in the US.
Meanwhile Ben is set to release a brand new EP "Leave On Your Make Up" later this year following his UK tour.
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
my local guitar shop has a hat rack full of old man hats. they also sell a shitload of ukes.
― brimstead, Friday, 12 July 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
lol, I'm picturing heading out the door with my new uke and the salesman is like "Wait...you're gonna need one of these."
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
He's a musician, a multi-instrumentalist AND a bass player? What talent!
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Saturday, 13 July 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
he's a human, a homo sapien, AND a man too!
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
I saw Ben when he was with the Roots. Thought he was pretty good with a guitar, actually.
― Austin, Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
here's an entire long boring dvd of that guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3vkyvPWYE
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 July 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
Boy, ninety seconds in and I'm glad that he didn't have a mic when he was in the Roots.
― Austin, Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
man, incubus dude has FIVE solo records? that is the most frightening thing to me.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 14 July 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link