Is the 'Jazz at Massey Hall' rec "infinitely more obscure"? there's a whole book abt it!
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Only one copy was ever pressed, and it lies at the bottom of the ocean. Only plankton have heard it.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
Live At R'lyeh Town Hall
― multiple decades of jazz (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
But every one of those plankton formed a band.
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
irl lol
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
did the public actually shame a newspaper into competence? sorry about the high school kid, here's something that is almost worth reading!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
I know. I would now like to take back my Sesame Street counting to twenty post.
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
That list is slightly, slightly more interesting and the writing isn't as headsmackingly awful, but why does the Voice need to do this at all? Why does the Voice have to be shitty Time Out? This isn't some new Ugandan underground dance genre, it's fucking Jazz. How about "Ten NYC landmarks you need to see before you die: 10. Central Park; 9. Empire State Building..."
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Top 10 hot dog vendors you may have missed...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
You know what I fucking miss? The awesome taco truck that used to be around the corner from my office. I ate at fucking Chipotle yesterday and I think they poisoned me...I had the chills and the sweats all night. Oh, well.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'll never forget the first time I had Chipotle. I was on my way to my grandparents for dinner. It was only a five minute ride, but I stayed in the driveway for twenty minutes to finish the entire burrito.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
They say Thelonious would put the medium and hot salsas together on one Chipotle to simulate the imaginary medium-hot salsa between these two salsas that exist in western cuisine
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
He sat down on the Chipotle.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
monk was the godfather of sriracha.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
The first time I ate Korean Tacos, I thought it was a joke. In fact, I was kind of pissed. Where was the cheddar cheese? Where was the pico de gallo? Well, it's so shocking the first time you eat it that it forces you to question what food can be.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
they say the spice intervals at Guy Fieri's Paris restaurant, The Rite of Spring Rolls, caused the first patrons to riot
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
THIS is my kinda listicle. even though i have to click through 14 friggin' pages. i only really read musicians talking about music these days.
http://thequietus.com/articles/10654-michael-gira-swans-bakers-dozen-favourite-albums?page=1
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
*diet
xp
― Joanna Motorhead (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Missing u, thread on top five jazz topic of last week.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've been reading about Korean tacos. Joke or not, Hurting has convinced me that these will change my life.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
oh man bulkogi tacos are an amazing thing
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Laura Barton in fine form at the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/nov/15/power-of-love-magical-hit
"It was, Lewis explained, "a curious thing" capable of making "one man weep" and "another man sing"."
― bham, Monday, 19 November 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
hurtingchiefWow, thank you for the great introduction to this music called "Jazz." Miles Davis, huh, I will have to check that guy out. Glad the Voice is still around to shine a light on the hidden corners of the music world.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:59 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
lol
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 19 November 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
i clicked that vanilla fudge video up there and one of the side links is a 9 minute version of season of the witch
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 19 November 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Lewis, Rush and Frankie Goes to Hollywood are not the only artists to have attempted to distill the power of love in song
― j., Monday, 19 November 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
Laura Barton really is the worst. I want to smash something whenever I read her. She has that prissy smugness you get in a lot of student journalism. A nitwit naively laying out one cliche after another.
And then sentences like this: "It's pretty enough, of course, but there is something a little bleached, a little bloodless about Alpin's version".
What function does "of course" have? "There is something"? "A little"? Why bother saying it's both "bleached" AND "bloodless", mixing up the metaphors? The words are so vague here as to be synonymous.
"It's pretty but bloodless." There, that's better.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 19 November 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's pretty but bloodless, almost as though she had reneged on her promise to keep the vampires from the door
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, 19 November 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
so many commas
― resplendent quetzal spokil (clouds), Monday, 19 November 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
I'll fuckin throw your listicle up on the dresser, just ya listicle, and bang that shit with a spiked bat. BLAOW!
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'd sew that sentence up with a period, and just keep feeding it, clause after clause, comma after comma.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 November 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rip-dave-brubeck
As our music media continues to focus on Taylor Swift's hotel room sleepovers and Shakira's $100 million dollar lawsuit, a major, mind-numbingly influential figure has passed in our midst.
Dave Brubeck, one America's greatest cultural treasures—the man who got late-50s America dancing in 5/4 time with Paul Desmond's seminal track "Take Five"—died today of heart failure, a single day ahead of his 92nd birthday.
Maybe you haven't heard of Dave Brubeck, and unless you sat through hours of jazz appreciation class in high school, we can't really blame you. Pop music fans have a nasty habit of writing jazz off completely, mostly because it's such a dauntingly rich and nuanced genre. But until you've sunk your teeth into the untouchable discography of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, you probably should take a pass on illegally downloading the next Purity Ring single--no offense Corin and Megan!
More than almost anyone else, Brubeck redefined the role of the jazz musician, and walked through the walls hemming in standard conceptions of genre as if they weren't even there. He was a classically trained pianist who brought his talent to jazz, and almost single handedly proved that jazz was an idiom that deserves a place among the highest forms of art.
What blows my mind about Brubeck has always been "Take Five." It's a melody that's existed in my brain since before I can remember, like the Mario theme or the Crossfire commercial. What's so spectacular about the piece is that it's in 5/4, a time signature which almost no pop music even begins to touch (besides Sunny Day Real Estate). The reason no one touches it is because it's just not catchy. With "Take Five," Brubeck and Desmond managed to create a melody everyone knows, in a time signature no one understands. It's more than just an achievement, it's a challenge to take your audience more seriously. Even if Brubeck's catalog had begun and ended with "Take Five," his impact on the music world would still resonate well beyond that of many of his contemporaries (and successors) combined. Magic.
RIP, Dave.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
almost single handedly proved that jazz was an idiom that deserves a place among the highest forms of art
oof
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Irrelevant and stupid comparison to *today's vapid pop music* -- checkAssumption that your audience has never heard of one of the top-selling jazz artists of all time -- checkRepetition of the canard that Brubeck is a genius because he wrote a song in 5/4, which is like the quantum physics of music or something -- checkMisplaced credit to white guy for elevating jazz to "place among highest forms of art" after it had already been there for decades -- check"Classically Trained" -- check (seriously do people really think that black jazz pianists are all self-taught blues savants and never went through the Hanon book and Well Tempered Klavier and Chopin etudes like everyone else?
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
eesh that is stupid. the 5/4 thing is such a weird thing. it's a catchy song, no one cares about the time signature. also, i mean, it was his signature song, but he didn't even write it!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
but it's a time signature no one understands!
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
understanding 5/4 is definitely a mission impossible
― crüt, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
uh people totally care about the time signature in "Take Five." it's called "TAKE FIVE," THAT'S WHAT IT'S FAMOUS FOR
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
I mean who can count to five
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
NOBODY
Hurting 2 OTMFM.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
not that i'm defending this terrible article xp
― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if he'd actually talked to his grandparents he might have found they had first-hand stories to share about the genius of dave brubeck.― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalinkalas, now they are worm food.― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
alas, now they are worm food.
― wk, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i killed dave brubeck everybody u_u
― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
living in the world of contemporary choral music really makes articles like this a special level of stupid
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
walked through the walls hemming in standard conceptions of genre
IS HE IN A BUILDING OR ON A PIECE OF CLOTH? DECIDE!!!
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he is drapery
― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
But wait, there's more! http://noisey.vice.com/reviews
― dow, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2012/9/4/1346756780619/Statue-of-Marcel-Aym--008.jpg
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
no offense Corrin and Megan!
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
sweet jesushttp://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-dixie-chicks-greatest-hits-reminds-me-that-banjos-are-always-racist