Perfect Pussy--I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling

I love perfect pussy, but only because of the way the recordings are produced and mixed and stuff. If they were produced differently, like if the vocals were clearer, they'd (unfairly) just be another punk band to me, and I fucking hate punk

(which, I know, they're not even punk)

otm, i feel that way re the specificity of the sound, although I don't hate punk

http://bullettmedia.com/article/perfect-pussys-meredith-graves-on-fame-overcoming-shyness-the-genius-of-kool-keith/

Do you enjoy writing about music? 
Sort of. My favorite magazine has always been Maximum Rocknroll – I've been reading it since I was 12. But some of the people that review records for Maximum lived for that punk thing of, 'I know more about music than everybody else.' The only way you can review music is by saying it sounds like this band, then you get the fucking record and it doesn't sound anything like that. I want to hear, 'I listened to this record and it made me go out into my garage and eat half a box of ho hos and smash stuff.' That will get me to listen to a record. I think there needs to be a shift in music writing. Actually, no. I think everyone should be able to write about whatever they want, but I would like to see more people writing about music that write about it differently. I just want to hear about how the record made you feel.

would the ho-ho part really distinguish one record from another, all critics considered, is the question

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

Sounds cool, but also sounds like any punk rock band you could see anywhere ever in the last 20 years, only w the lead vocals mixed low. Lead singer is super attractive so that probably helps.

*RBftT*

Oh yeah that's it, duh. Attractive women're such a rarity, after all

J. No, bt if it ws a record you were already interested in it might tip you into actually hearing it

Sry tho Adam took that a little personally, her looks prob do infl the amt of interest in PP, but they make no diff to me, largely as she seems a bit too much a hippy in interviews for my liking

Shit, sorry if I offended anyone. Hetero male here. She's super cute. That isn't a bad thing in the an industry based on selling image.

I lied about the punk band thing too, it sounds more like cool stuff form early 2000s, house show stuff that you don't get to hear much anymore because everything is heavily stylized. The production is raw and loud!

That's OK I overreacted, it's just I just fell hard for the demo before I saw any pics (I like the album a lot more, btw)

Cool, yeah it rocks!

Like this album more than I thought I would.
Yrah it's all about the production. The singer and "melodies" is the weak part.

(She reminds me of Bikini Kill)

Yeah same (Tobi Vail singing on In Accordance to Natural Law to be specific), diff reaction obv

just from the youtube clips, it just sounds like no-frills goo/dirty sonic youth to me, like the more straight-up punk songs they did around then... in a good way.

interesting to see Toby Vail joining the media conspiracy, the one where people get rich by fooling rubes into liking Perfect Pussy

this album is wonderful

sounds like "brassneck" by the wedding present

ps i listened to this album 4 times before seeing what the band looked like and i'm sure whiney's pitchfork basement conspiracy is damning but idgaf, this is a great album

honestly alex's review is all i needed to take a listen

But the singer was the star, a ball of righteous fury whose conviction made me want to go to war for her if she asked, or maybe if she didn't but needed the help.

i'm sure whiney's pitchfork basement conspiracy is damning

haven't managed to join the dots between his various observations tbh. is there something that makes PP more of a symbol of corporations glomming onto DIY punk culture than any of the other bands who played at this venue he's talking about?

whiney sounding a lot like chris ott tbh

honestly alex's review is all i needed to take a listen

no ott

― perfect puppy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:34 AM (3 days ago)

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

ha

a symbol of corporations glomming onto DIY punk culture

Most of DIY punk culture is due to wealthy parents, or at least parents w expendable income to give their rebellious kids. It's always been corporate in this way.

That wasn't Alex, that was me! But I am a little proud that someone would think that it was Alex... :)

oh sorry nycn, somehow i got the idea that he was going under your name now

can someone explain the pitchfork/topshop/perfect pussy illuminati action?

Most of DIY punk culture is due to wealthy parents, or at least parents w expendable income to give their rebellious kids. It's always been corporate in this way.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, March 21, 2014 2:42 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like this is said a lot more than it's true, at least in my experience a great deal of the ppl in diy/punk i know are from middle-to-working class backgrounds

whiney lays it down very succinctly upthread http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/18/289013884/who-had-richer-parents-doctors-or-arists

neat graph

most ppl i know involved in DIY & punk have actual day jobs so their profession would be listed as teacher, or admin assistant, or programmer, or whatever actual career/job they have

My anger is more authentic than your anger cos my parents made less money sounds silly.

i feel like this is said a lot more than it's true, at least in my experience a great deal of the ppl in diy/punk i know are from middle-to-working class backgrounds

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 21, 2014 7:54 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's also to varying degrees less true outside north America I wd say. in any case Adam's post has nothing to do w/ what I was getting at which is Whiney's thing abt "got places like Topshop and Doc Martens to put up $$$$$$ for an ostensibly DIY venue"

the publicist put me on a guest list
SMASH THE SYSTEM !

The Philly show was essentially a house show, hosted by a row house attached to a corner bodega at a West Philly intersection that would have been far sketchier if it wasn't blanketed in snow. For reasons unknown to me, the publicist put me on a guest list, but seeing the family environment I coughed up the whopping $5 admission, keen to support the scene and all.

what on earth is the point of trying to be a dick about this kind of thing when the rest of the paragraph in question is right here itfuckingt

ooh touchy !
it ain't about you, narcissus

point was if you're making art that needs publicists (or, indeed grants) then, y'know while it might be great both the artists n that, to me it's bankrupt

er..
great for the artists n that, like y'kna. cha

I didn't write the post in question so it clearly isn't about me, I just thought it was and is a dumb mischaracterisation of everyone involved. if you honestly think that any band who has someone else help promote their music is morally unclean then fine but I'm not sure ILM is really your ideal stomping ground tbh

"clearly isn't about me", ok debating-team captain.
yes it is a dumb mischaracterisation of everone involved, y'think maybe on purpose? for fun?
ffs

well I can't stand in the way of some #topbantz

actually i don't know - i've totally lost the plot. i say things, and then i don't actually have any clue why. it's all post-hoc justification. did i mean it, was it a joke? are my opinions, my values situationally determined from second to second?
it seems that way.
apologies for any inconvenience & I wish you all well despite random outbursts

oh i x-posted with your delightfully generous #topbantz insinuation.
good work !

i wonder if there are less arguments settled with fists these days because everyone fancies themself a master wizard of wit

Yes the schoolyards are now clear of blood. All that can be heard is the sound of puns, obscure cutting references, well considered snark, elaborate asides and general glorious eloquence piled upon eloquence deciding who is top dog. I also note that the Ukraine situation has been thus far free of fists. Action movies are no longer relevant and boxing has lost it's former prestige. Even Mike Tyson prefers Twitter. Tis a golden age to be sure.