She has a female pig at her live shows? Cool.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry for having a strong/visceral reaction against a musician on a music discussion place.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, right?
― thomp, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
if you hate this album you hate women and pigs imo
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah feeling p. clowned by my sub-par showing in the tune-yards thread.
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Your strong/visceral reaction wasn't the problem. It was the part where you specifically expressed your hatred for her "ugly face". This is never a good look dude.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
if only jimi hendrix had been prettier
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
If you like her, you like her I am just saying every person I've met with one exception who is a big tune-yards enthusiastic is your typical trend-watching late to the game pitchfork type person who attends like ~6 concerts a year and illegally downloads all their music. I like a lot of shit music too, and I suppose I like to think it doesn't impugn my character but it probably does sort of.
do you meet very many people? it kinda sounds like you should make more friends.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Tune-Yards rulez!!!!!! Whomever doesn't like their muzik suxxx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
eXcUsE-mE, bUt I bElIeVe-yOu MeAn 'tUnE-yArDs'
― del griffith, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
heh
― del griffith, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wow -- I bet that killed a few dendrites!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
dEnDrItes
― del griffith, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shoot forgot to capitalize the last E because i was distracted by eating a fAjItA
― del griffith, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
sUgGeSt BaN
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
You squarez don't understand us kidz and r nonTrAdItIoNal punctuation.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
why'd they put all the "difficult" songs at the top of the album? is she trying to scare people off?
bizness through killa is quality listening tho. this is an album that deserves it's own playlist, with the songs i dislike conspicuously absent. the stuff i *do* like is a-list, top quality stuff. i'd probably dig the weird stuff live, too.
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The album could use a bit of editing, like most indie. There are a couple of self-indulgent "experimental" tracks that I could do without. But the catchy stuff on here is very catchy. She can write a hook.
― o. nate, Thursday, 22 September 2011 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
album never totally caught fire for me. still like it, and am looking forward to another. I would also like to see her live.
the two minute stretch between 1.00-3.00 of "my country" might be my favorite 2 minute stretch of the last 3 years.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wooly Wolly Gong" is the only one I skip -- that one deffo needs editing. "Powa" needs more love aswell.
My fave tUnE-yArDs songs are on the (uneven) debut: "Sunlight", "Fiya" and "Real Live Flesh" are INCREDIBLE. "Bizness" is the only one that reaches those heights for me.
― Mercer Finn, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
powa and bizness are definitely my favorites on whokill, but really the whole album is solid. when i saw her the other day, i kept thinking "ok i'm pretty sure that's everything i loved off the album" and then another great song would come up.
― kaygee, Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
feelin this
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
for liek three songs, gets a lil grating after a while
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
lIvE-bLoG^^
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
p tuneful overall
Parachute Club of The Future.
― chromecassettes, Saturday, 1 October 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
i like this
http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/11/10/mwahaha-love-feat-merrill-garbus-song-premiere/
she's also collaborating on something with cut chemist (who opened for her in l.a. last week).
― patio hunter (get bent), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, so this is tUneohfuckit... Tune Yards.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Better than the crazy name spelling would suggest.
If new, I'd start with 'Powa' 'You Yes You' 'Bizness' and maybe 'My Country'
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
won p+j apparently
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
<embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/August 1 2011 - August 6 2011/tuneyardsfallon_Segment100-00-03-00-05-09.mp4">
― NZA, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
d'oh
well it's not on youtube, that's weird...anyway...
when they played 'gangsta' on jimmy fallon with the roots it was pretty great!
― NZA, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Gave this another shot after seeing it win Pazz/Jop. No idea what it is about the sounds she uses, it makes my skin crawl.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still boycotting based on the stupid capitalization. Can't get over it.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
Tune Yards? More like Turd Tunes if you ask me!! Thank you thank you that was my Mark Prindle impression.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I have a nagging feeling that the Brute Heart album from this year shits all over this; I'll probably check it ou just to confirm...
― pass the hatchet i think i'm gordon (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
This is kinda weird, because I didn't really notice any particularly big hype bandwagon surrounding this record. I noticed the name and the annoying capitalisation and wrote them off as some jobbing tweepop band.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
This was my favorite from 2011.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
tUNe-Yards gets the Chuck Klosterman treatment:
I'm not really in a position to argue for (or against) the merits of tUnE-yArDs, simply because I've barely listened to w h o k i l l. Had it not won the Pazz & Jop poll, I might not have listened to it at all. It's been on my iTunes since whenever it came out, I know my wife loved it, and I had no problem with it ideologically. I just never got around to playing it. Somehow, I hadn't read a single story about tUnE-yArDs, so I wasn't even sure what genre of music it was supposed to exist alongside. The only thing I knew was that the words "Tune Yards" were spelled "tUnE-yArDs," which seemed like reason enough to ignore it (not a good reason, but a reason nonetheless). But then it was voted no. 1 in this poll, which made me think, I should at least know what it is.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7490324/chuck-klosterman-tune-yards
― o. nate, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
To which Maura responds:
Most frustrating about the piece, written by one of the country's most celebrated music writers on a high-trafficked platform: It seems to have been the result of a listening session or two in a vacuum, with only Wikipedia and a couple of preconceived notions about Garbus being kind of "out there" as research assistance.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/01/tune_yards_pazz_and_jop_chuck_klosterman.php
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
chuck klosterman is one of the country's most celebrated music writers?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
things are worse than i thought
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
I think that Klosterman's point is only nominally about tUnE-Yards though and mainly about the way critical acclaim functions within the tiny niche of "serious" pop music.
xxp
― o. nate, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
klosterman is a fucking idiot
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
that was one of the worst pieces of published writing i've ever read
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
I had no problem with it ideologically.
what on earth does this even mean
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
The album w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs was just named record of the year by voters in the 2011 Pazz & Jop poll.I'm guessing this doesn't mean much to more than (maybe) 10,000 people in the entire country. In fact, if you effortlessly understood 100 percent of this article's opening sentence, you can probably skip the rest of the piece.
I'm guessing this doesn't mean much to more than (maybe) 10,000 people in the entire country. In fact, if you effortlessly understood 100 percent of this article's opening sentence, you can probably skip the rest of the piece.
Took him at his word, stopped there. Seemed like an okay article to me.
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Is he paid by the adverb?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
he's paid in Trident Layers
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link