e just prefer different...schticks
I think I've explained several times that there's something timbrally going on in the BB harmonies that has always, since childhood, made me feel physically ill, so no, this isn't about giving a fuck about any "narratives." it's just about sound. (I also don't like the songs the Beach Boys write, lyrically or musically, so I struggle to listen to the production afforded to the songs I don't like, lyrics I don't like, and the weird dog's-ear thing that happens when they do the soaring-sliding thing and I always feel like I'm going to vomit)
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
i appreciate the Beach Boys but i'm kinda the same way. and ugh i'm a giant Cubs fan but JCLC do you remember the song i believe the BB remade as a Cubs jingle? they'd play it on every WGN radio broadcast and it made me want to die.
― nomar, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Barbara Ann...I think that was the one they redid.
― nomar, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 04:05 (seven years ago) link
beach boys prolly diddled waayy more kids than MJ
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
And I don't begrudge anyone for their personal revulsion towards MJ given what we know or have reason to suspect about the man. But I also don't think it has fuck-all to do with the music itself
Would you say the same thing about Gary Glitter?
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 09:56 (seven years ago) link
so I struggle to listen to the production afforded to the songs I don't like, lyrics I don't like, and the weird dog's-ear thing that happens when they do the soaring-sliding thing and I always feel like I'm going to vomit)cool, we reach. you *do* get why I don't care about post-OTW MJ after all (although swap out "soaring-sliding thing" for "bowchicka-ah-jamawnit-cha")
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
this is a weird thing to say but I guess it hinges on how you define "kids"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
lol at ppl pretending that not enjoying anything mj did after off the wall is somehow an iconoclastic opinion
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
or the fiction that liking beyoncé is now a requirement under the new authoritarian state of music criticism. i guess getting ppl like this is the inevitable side effect of having so many polls based on the 'acclaimedmusic' trashheap
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
#allgenresmatter
― nomar, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Please explain, dyl.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
here's my rambling take on Michael in the disco era, looking his underrated (imo) work leading up to Thriller plus a peek at the pre-MTV music video "scene"
https://medium.com/@markcoleman57/dancing-with-michael-jackson-remembering-music-video-before-mtv-a0c18b063581"> https://medium.com/@markcoleman57/dancing-with-michael-jackson-remembering-music-video-before-mtv-a0c18b063581
― Dogshit Critic (m coleman), Friday, 21 April 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Uhhhhhh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e62M-5-7ajY
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 10 June 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
Classic.
― Austin, Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
On his worst single.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 March 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
love it. your piece i mean.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 March 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
was checking out xcape, the posthumous album, this apparently was adapted from an 83 demo of paul anka song, just beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG08ukJPtR8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Lowkey have been loving that since it came out
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
that song was getting played constantly when it was "finished" and it was always a joy to hear. I think they did a great job making it sound both modern and like one of those later Jacksons hits
rest of the album was kinda weird though, pretty 'good' in a sense but there's definitely something going on with the vocals that's a bit creepy
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
The breakdown with the "Working Day & Night" percussion gets me in the gut every time
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
i'm pretty impressed with this so far (only up to "place with no name" which is great)
pretty 'good' in a sense but there's definitely something going on with the vocals that's a bit creepy
not picking up on this, you thinking too much autotune?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
I wish I could wipe JT's glassy-eyed smirk from the video, but it's a jam
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
Ditto; it's an extremely well edited video aside from including JT
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:26 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkI wish I could wipe JT's glassy-eyed smirk from the video, but it's a jam
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:26 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
on the plus side, when i was just listening to it i honestly couldn't tell he was on the song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
it's not all the tracks but there are a few that feel so cut and paste where you can tell it was assembled from a bunch of different takes, which I think is kind of odd given his vocal approach. clearly they wanted all those MJ signature vocal tics but they all sound like they're pulled from different recordings, so it has a real stuttered flow to it. and yeah the autotune is a bit much in spots, like "Slave to the Rhythm" right now kinda sounds like an AI bot during the verses. admittedly this is just kind of how pop music is made nowadays, so maybe it's just knowing MJ was dead when it came out really that makes the necromancy apparent. it's actually a bit uncomfortable knowing it's probably better than an album he would've made while he was still alive.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
ah gotcha
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
what went wrong after 1995? were the accusations proved on trial? who were mj enemies?
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
wonder who transcribed the lyrics to billie jean home demo
https://i.imgur.com/0FO8ae5.png
is there anywhere you can hear him directing his siblings singing the choir to billie jean as he's writing it? or is that just a story I read somewhere
on another note can't believe "Chicago" is one of his most popular songs now? maybe a tiktok thing
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
I happened upon Nelson George's Thriller: 40 the other night: while I certainly think a close examination of how the music is made, the context in which it occurred, should be the paramount rationale, I was struck that no mention was made of the fact that even then Jackson's megalomania was ascending; his obsession with being the biggest and the best deserves to be interrogated, in light of History in 1995, where his fixation on his near deification becomes particularly demented. You don't have to talk about his paedophilia or his efforts to erase his physical connection to his heritage to acknowledge that he was deeply disturbed.
― veronica moser, Friday, 8 December 2023 15:52 (five months ago) link
the story that sticks out is after Thriller sets a record by selling something like 80 million copies, he tells everyone he wants Bad to sell 160 million. which apparently he was serious about! its like if the night after Wilt scored 100 points he went out and said "I'm gonna score 200 in the next one"
― frogbs, Friday, 8 December 2023 16:00 (five months ago) link