"their dusky counterparts"
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Regardless of quality AM, doubtless, has the most powerful voice in the quartet. So much so that it may be worth comparing her to black pop divas/screechers Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey, rather than the 3 others.
"black pop diva/screecher Mariah Carey"
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
lolling that the current household names out of that list are Pink, Xtina, Britney and Shakira
ppl still know Jewel and Alanis but they are not really musical vanguards anymore
JSimp still being around but not as a musician is also lol
had Jewel released "Fat Boy" by the time he wrote this?
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
also did he not know Pink was white?
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Unless I missed a huge part of Willa Ford's marketing, this guy is a huge douchebag and doesn't deserve one iota of attention. I mean, jesus christ, coming straight out and calling a female singer a "dumb slut"?
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
yup. but this guy must've had a small stroke when she released "Intuition" about a year after he wrote that essay.
one of his favorite hobbies (besides clunky music criticism) is 'improving' critically acclaimed poems by rewriting chunks of them in his far more tasteful, far superior writing style. I don't have a problem with questioning the received wisdom w/r/t canonical texts, but this dude truly has an ego that won't quit.
I haven't paid much attention to him since I was like 16, but he's still good for the occasional lol nowadays.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyC59VuGbMs
this should be linked everywhere so that people stop thinking Jewel can write songs
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
DJP it's 2011 and I'm pretty sure even Jewel no longer thinks she can write good songs.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Fat Boy" sounds like a Belly song from a fantasy universe (circa 1992) in which Tanya Donnelly is an absolute fucking moron.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
wow, "fat boy" is pretty hilarious.
Hush, sleepDon't think, just eat
― original bgm, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
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lol @ that jewel song, its basically a in irl version of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
She is the host and judge of a competitive songwriting show!
http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/networks/bravo/platinumhit
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not gonna add this to one of the zillion Loutallica threads because it really belongs in a thread about bad music writing. This review of Lulu really irritates me:
http://www.volcanictongue.com/columns/show/17
And this is what Lou Reed and Metallica are becoming: Rock'n'roll animals in the perverted zoo of the internet. Yes, Lulu is about sex. It is a 69 between Lou Reed and Metallica. Lou's tongue is a chainsaw with rusted links (for infection and maximum durability). Metallica gets cut in two and will never recover.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, Lulu is about sex. It is a 69 between Lou Reed and Metallica. Lou's tongue is a chainsaw with rusted links (for infection and maximum durability)
This is like conservatives with totalitarian envy.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
idk I kinda liked that, it prolly helps if you have a working idea of Mattin's sense of humour
― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 November 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
stand back, gary giddins...
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/11/ten_jazz_albums_to_hear_before_you_die.php
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
cool i'll add those to my bucket list thx village voice
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
they paved pazz & jop and put in about.com
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
hard to even pick an excerpt, but man
Probably one of the hippest figures in jazz, Thelonious Monk was a genius who was able to see notes on the piano that didn't even exist in Western music. When he would sit down on the piano, he would strike two half notes (notes next to each other that sound awful when played together) to simulate the imaginary notes between the two piano keys.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
okay, so that piece isn't great. but it's not exactly terrible either.
― Chuck_Norris_on_the_topic_of_obesity (stevie), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, dude, it is so terrible.
In fact, I knew this thread revival was going to be about this list.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
― Chuck_Norris_on_the_topic_of_obesity (stevie), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how is it not exactly terrible? It is exactly terrible.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
If you think about the course of hip-hop, then can you really imagine groups like Tribe Called Quest or even someone like Tupac without a cultural and musical prophet like Coltrane?
― Brad C., Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
6. Miles DavisBitches Brew I'm not saying that you have to like this album. But it's one you just have to listen to before you die; it's kind of like looking at Abstract Expressionism or listening to Morton Feldman -- it just might not jive with you. Bitches Brew was released in 1970. The first time I heard this album, I thought it was a joke. In fact, I was kind of pissed. Where was the melody? Where was the catchy rhythm? Well, it's so shocking the first time you hear it that it forces you to question what jazz and music can be. It makes you think about structure and limitations of our current music. The prison of the human ear. Ah, enough of that. Just listen to the album. Chaos and cacophony defined.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Charles Mingus is the godfather of the upright bass
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
This is a hilarious article. Serious laughs.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
"it just might not jive with you" <-- wtf
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
that's not even getting to the fact that he's making Bitches Brew sound like a Naked City release
The first time I heard this album, I thought it was a joke. In fact, I was kind of pissed. Where was the melody? Where was the catchy rhythm?
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, i cdn't think of a suitable vehicle for laughing at that BB piece
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason my favourite detail is his assertion that there are multiple decades of jazz.
― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
brb gonna go play some half notes on my piano -- they're not even known to western music and basically imaginary
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
village voice sneaking geir hongro into its freelance rolodex under another name
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
the vicious atonal skronk of Bitches Brew was so mind-blowing in its redefinition of what music cd be that only 10 years earlier were dudes like Coleman and Ayler able to catch up
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I loved this too
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of like looking at Abstract Expressionism or listening to Morton Feldman -- it just might not jive with you.
yes of course what idiot would do these things for pleasure
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/11/10_albums_while_studying.php?page=4
3. Simon Trpceski -- Debussy: Images
Claude Debussy is one of the best French composers and probably artists, and that says a hell of lot. His compositions were analogous to the paintings of the impressionists, and he hoped when you listened to his music, you saw, literally, similar visualizations of Monet. That's why he called his work Images. You can find an album by Simon Trpceski on Spotify. Take for instance Debussy's, "Clair De Lune." It's probably one of the most famous works in music -- played in everything from lullabies to film scores. And really, it's not just a song. It's a painting that will set all 100,000,000,000 neurons in the average human brain on fire.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
Geir would NEVER have made that half note gaffe
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM (4 minutes ago)
Can't you read they're in between those
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway), but sometimes, it's really about being in the right mood.
Joseph Lapin, ladies and gentlemen.
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
i like the idea that this guy was pissed at miles davis for the way a 43 yr old undisputed masterpiece sounded.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
named after the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn.
lmao @ this bit of trivia being in the village voice
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
At one point, Head Hunters was the best selling jazz album of all time. Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Why is it so great? Let's not try to put it into words. It might be something unsayable.
Kind of Blue is about abortion?
If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over. turn the car around imo
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Herbie Hancock helped bring the synthesizer and the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano to mass appeal.
once the domain only of enthusiasts like The Beatles and The Doors
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway)
I can study and sex all day whenever wherever
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
also (kind of exhausting this piece, I know, but)
Ornette Coleman went from playing the sax to the trumpet
um, not on Shape of Jazz to Come, and not really that often in general.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link