tbh i think it's kind of cool when someone with a piercingly unpleasant voice, ridiculous pretensions and a toxic personality muscles their way to multi-million sales with a good ear for hooks. Malkmus got pretty much exactly where he was likely to land with his influences and skill set, Corgan's ascent was so unlikely as to be almost illogical.
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Take both these guys over Grohl's nice guy ubiquituous torchbearer of rock bullshit
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
^this actually
― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
is grohl a secret asshole? hadn't heard
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
well obviously. courntey love's "He’s just a sub-mediocre kind of guy who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense” is just searing, but otm.
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
xp
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
malkmus was not at all mean to spiral stairs during the reunion shows, but i felt kinda bad because the former was basically a rock god and the latter basically looked like paul simon.
Man, imagine being the Garfunkel, but looking like the Simon.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
I was always on SS' side until I finally heard the full version of Nothing Ever Happens.
I mean, more like Wounded Cat, amirite?
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
kannberg looked completely miserable by the end of the pavement reunion show i saw but oh well
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Corgan. Pavement are/were fucking wank.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
I just feel it's easier to tell Malkmus to shut up.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
There is something really nasty and insecure about Corgan's extroverts ways and I can't stand that, despite the fact that I've always enjoyed his desire to create a broad landscape as music and many other ideas behind the Smashing Pumpkins. So yeah sure Pavement didn't shoot for the moon the same way, but they hit the right notes with me.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Malkmus was always so mean to Spiral Stairs.
malkmus was not at all mean to spiral stairs during the reunion shows, but i felt kinda bad because the former was basically a rock god and the latter basically looked like paul simon
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:41 (Yesterday) Permalink
thought at the reunion show I caught malkmus played half-heartedly whenever a SS number was up
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
these reunion shows sound pretty much like exactly the ones I saw in the 90s.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
Well, minus the
http://i.imgur.com/3lZIgTF.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
feel uncomfortable even having to cast a vote for one of these straight white male pieces of human trash, but malkmus
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 October 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
well obviously. courntey love's "He’s just a sub-mediocre kind of guy who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense” is just searing
I'm far more pro-Courtney than most but I wouldn't take her opinions on people in Kurt's inner circle as gospel. I think people are just loath to admit that people who are famous at least partially for being "nice" might genuinely be nice because they don't like their output.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 October 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 05:46 (nine years ago) link
A few of Grohl's ideas about rock purism are dumb as shit, but I have a friend who knows him and I believe her when she says he's genuinely nice and a pretty dope friend.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
always thought he was a good guy, never dug his music and sort of resent him for being as popular as he is, but hey. great guy
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/news/courtney-love/80347
i believe every word
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
paul simon is cute!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 08:52 (nine years ago) link
feel like this is comparing neil young and don henley
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
malkmus is definitely a henley, spot on
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
TS: Malkmus vs. Madona
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
corgy vs. malky
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
could corgy pull off 'ege bamyasi' with such swag though?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
prob not - but the cars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJG-FEnzMY
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
Rhinoceros, Mayonnaise, Soma, and Drown vs. sideman on American Water and Tanglewood Numbers.
Don't know which way I'll lean, honestly.
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:37 (nine years ago) link
ugh you had me goin there for a second dude
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
This is the Kurt Cobain who can be heard covering Led Zeppelin in the early Nirvana tapes, right? Just checking!
I have a friend in Alexandria, VA who has a professional relationship with Grohl and says the same.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Dave Grohl is rich and satisfied.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
the foo fighters do not sound like zeppelin, they're alt MOR crap
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
At this stage Dave Grohl's phonebook is more interesting than Dave Grohl
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
xp I'm just skeptical that anyone here can channel the thoughts of a 20-years-dead guy who like things as disparate as Zeppelin, Tad, the Vaselines, Bowie and the Beatles and claim that we can "all agree" on what he would and wouldn't like.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
he would be playing noise sets and making tape collages
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
he would've attended the superbowl last year
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
he would've attended played halftime at the superbowl last year
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Phil D otm
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
he would've attended played halftime wide receiver for the Ravens at the superbowl last year
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
he would be as beloved as eddie vedder right now
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
xp The Ravens weren't in the last superbowl.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
They would have been with Kurt at wide-out.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
somehow appropriate that this has devolved into sportstalk Malk and Corgy both being secret jocks
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Most of Malkmus's solo albums, even Mirror Traffic, feel pleasant but unnecessary, and I spent much of my adolescence blasting Siamese Dream and making excuses for Mellon Collie and most of Adore, but I like American Water more than anything the Pumpkins ever did, and as far as I know Malkmus never bragged in his livejournal about having threatened to break a trans woman's arms and legs if she sullied his hetero good name, so the point goes to Malkmus.
― one way street, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know about the trans woman :/
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I mean, there are already plenty of reasons to find Corgan insufferable, but that kind of clenched it for me.
― one way street, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
well he likes to seem intellectualand to be a musician he went to schoolthe way he acts is so uncoolyou know i can't stand him
you better tell that steve to shut upyou better tell that steve i'm gonna beat him up
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
The photographer Naomi Petersen (RIP) was my dear, dear friend. She was a good friend of Grohl's and we all went to see Metallica together in DC in 92. This was at the height of Nevermind frenzy. He's just a really nice, really upbeat guy.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I've heard nothing but how genuine DG is, dude's really like that.
But that said, I've never been able to get into Foo Fighters. It's like blue static, where every song is either "Everlong" or not "Everlong".
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link