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'songsmith'

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

'tuneage'

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

'off-kilter'

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

'jangly guitar'

I mean, WTF does that _mean_?

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that one actually means something. "Jangly guitar" traditionally refers to a Fender or Rickenbacker, most likely at the neck-pickup setting, played through a tube. When talking about jangle, people usually mean a guitar that sounds like the Byrds or R.E.M. (on the higher-fi end of the spectrum) or like the Velvets' quieter stuff (on the lower-fi end). In this case, I believe, it's not the term that's overused but the actual sound.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Ta!

:-)

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"Fucked up"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"Shit hot"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"Eclecticism"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"influenced"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"real"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"authentic"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"hot"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"skull crushing"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"noise" (when it's not noise they're talking about)

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, let's count 'em in this gem of a sentence (the opening paragraph of an article from a neighboring thread):

Destined to live high on the hog by way of Talking Heads royalties until the day he dies, the adventurous quirkmeister has been nothing but ballsy since his seminal new-wave outfit parted ways."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"quirkmeister"

― mei (mei), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

don't forget "seminal" "outfit"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

is that what depp wore in that one scene in Fear and Loathing?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

But to reject a certain term altogether is to surrender it to the dumpster-diving enemy. ("When you pass a market, and say,'Man I'm starvin',' shut up! Jump in the dumpster, and just start carvin'." Charles Manson sang that.)Such words should be spirited awy for re-programming, re-cycling, but *not* via the dumpster!

― Don, Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I cannot believe that no post has yet mentioned the phrase "solid effort" ...!

― kjoerup, Friday, 3 September 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Funny. No one's mentioned "[Y] is the new [X]."

Hate.

― babyalive (babyalive), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Alright, judging by the length of this thread, it's obviously time for some post-modernist rock-crit action -- take cliched terms and build them into something new: jangly + angular = jangular

― st. uber, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

archetypal jangly angular music that grabs everyone by the throat: Jungular

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link

...backed by clattering 180bpm rhythms, of course.

― st. uber, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

...and emanating from our collective unconscious.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I put in "archetypal" and "everyone" cos I thought collective unconscious would stretch it a bit...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

"braggadocio"

― peter $.., Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Diamond Dave > Sammy Hagar, fight new wars please!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

"Atmospheric" (ARGGHHH!!!! WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO MEAN????)

Also, when the word "Pop" is used to describe anything that's not really in the commercial mainstream right now.

― Hurting, Friday, 24 September 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
"poor man's Radiohead"

― cracker killer (crackerkiller), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"keybs"

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds like ___________ on acid

pffft. really old but perennial and woeful, natch .

see other thread *burp*

― drunken (beeble), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

socially conscious (see: dero)

― s blaze (conrad), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"Americana" is badly abused by BRITISH journalists. They would
consign rock with any hint of country to the ghetto of "Americana,"
as if ALL of rock's major moves were invented here, anyway.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 1 July 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

ahem, that should read
"as if ALL of rock's major moves WEREN'T invented here, anyway"

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"Commercial" for fucking sake!

― It's Rodney, poised and rational! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 2 July 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

it's july. how did that happen?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe that no one's said "overproduced," which is a word that doesn't really mean anything.

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

it's the opposite of "underproduced"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"dreamy"

― cdwill (cdwill), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe that no one's said "overproduced," which is a word that doesn't really mean anything.

Sure it does.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 2 July 2006 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link

'Nuff said.

incendiary, flaming, aural, bliss, sonic, in flames, from hell, talking about music is like dancing about architecture, blistering, contact high.

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Sunday, 2 July 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Rationing Board overdue to act on: Transcend, Subversive.

― don (dow), Sunday, 2 July 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

epic (= longer than 3 minutes)


(so "long and epic" = "I'm paid by the word")

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 2 July 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds like ___________ on acid

Wow, I'd never noticed how annoying that is. You'd think somebody might've pointed out that it was annoying before.

― Duck Rivers (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 July 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Snarf actually means something? Heavens, what?

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 12th, 2003. (Ned)

Snarfing is "the act of sniffing a bicycle seat after a lady has just been seated upon it"

-- Jerry (everet...)February 13th, 2003. (Jerry)

i always thought snarfing was when you laugh when you're in the middle of drinking and it comes out your nose,no?

-- robin (robin_lace...), February 13th, 2003. (robin)

I'm sure there are snarfing e-groups on Yahoo.

-- Vic (Iodine99...), February 13th, 2003. (Vic)


Dagnabbit! I thought I had found a usage of "snarfing" in a song. It turns out I haven't but I feel I'm closing in. My misheard lyric comes courtesy of Ed Sanders and Ken Weaver from the Fugs album "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest": the track is track 7 on side two of the LP--"We're Both Dead Now, Alice."

We're both dead now.

No more Viceroys

No more K-Y

No more slurpings at the narthax

All is over

Over the lee.

If anyone has used Snarf(s/ed/ing) in a song, it has to be the Fugs.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Sunday, 2 July 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I will always think of "Snarf" as a noun that denotes the colorful sidekick of the Thundercats. Snarf-the-being continually says "Snarf!" in a whiny, neurotic manner as an expression of fear/anxiety.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Snarf - Lion-O's nursemaid, Snarf is a small, fat, cat-like creature from the Valley of the Snarfs on Thundera. Not fond of his proper name, "Osbert". When Lion-O aged to maturity, the Lord of the ThunderCats didn't feel he needed a babysitter anymore. Still, Snarf is the most loyal of ThunderCats and their most underrated member. His relatives now live on the Planet of the Snarfs after escaping Thundera's destruction. Snarfs are the only creatures in the universe incapable of evil (except while possessed).

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoah, Osbert, eh? I had no idea. Thanks!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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