av club was early on in taking a catholic approach across genres. wide-ranging coverage, including serious reviews of pop albums, etc. better than most alt-weeklies. i was in chicago at the time and the reader had a good music section but it was sort of specific and featurish. for general reviews and coverage the av club (which i read thru the print edition) was way better than any other weekly i could get my hands on, physically.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
omg are we going to count on him to defend the racist music industry every few weeks now?
― dyl, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link
Just seen this from 2012http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100063781/should-paul-simon-have-defied-a-un-boycott-to-make-graceland-in-south-africa-under-apartheid/
"Music-lovers will find it difficult not to take his side, as Philip Glass, Paul McCartney, David Byrne and Oprah do in the film. It is said that he put a “human face on apartheid” and raised awareness about what was happening in South Africa. It is said that without his chutzpah Ladysmith Black Mambazo and other musicians wouldn't have had so much global success. It is even said that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop".
― ۩, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
read that last sentence again
what the
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
it is even said by morons that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
oh wow
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
it is even said that without graceland, there would be no martin luther king
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
now say that in the voice of Herman Cain
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
ok this is like 10x more minor, but it really irks me when people miss the point of this line:
So he took off to the home of Elvis, saw the 'Mississipi Delta shining like a national guitar' and eventually decided to just go with it.
by not capitalizing National. The line is a reference to National brand resophonic guitars, which are very silvery and shiny, and are also used a lot in blues. Yes, there's also a play on words, with the mississippi delta being like a "national" guitar of the united states, but that makes no fucking sense without the reference. Why would a national guitar of the US be shiny?
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
it is said it is shiny
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Clearly, art cannot exist in a vacuum, in some sealed-off Arcadia in the clouds. But then… how I adore Graceland. I remember exactly where I first heard it, sitting on the floor of a friend’s room in my first year of university, drinking cheap red wine. There’s a moment in the film where the drummer breaks into a grin at the riff of You Can Call Me Al. Perhaps we should just be glad it exists – but even more so that apartheid is over.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
The Magic of "Graceland"By Jay NordlingerJanuary 28, 2014 5:32 PM 43 Comments
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
not to put too fine a point on it
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
meanwhile in MN, Meagan Pittelko is writing the most heartfelt thank-you note of her life
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100065085/this-gotye-and-call-me-maybe-mash-up-could-be-number-one-for-the-rest-of-the-yeardecadehistory/
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
mon-wed
TV Club 10Adapt and DieThe Single FileOne-Season Wonders, Weirdos and Wannabes
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
It is even said that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop
<3
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 10:30 (ten years ago) link
"without Graceland, there would be no hiphop"
1 result (0.32 seconds)
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:03 (ten years ago) link
At av club andy battaglia was great back in the day.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh, apparently the 'no hip hop' argument is made in the Under African Skies documentary, rather than just being something the telegraph blogger invented. So I suppose she is correct that 'it is (even) said'
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
She didn't bother to take it to task so one can presume she believed it to be true.
― ۩, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
sometimes just reporting the words is enough
― rock nobster (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Paul Simon time-traveled to the Bronx 1971 and performed Planet Rock at the Under the Sea dance.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
it is believed that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Grandmaster Paul & Gar-Funkenstein prophetically refers to the Marley Marl/KRS-One beef of the mid-late 80s.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Little known fact but he also paved the way for bands like Operation Ivy and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones with his song Ska-Bro Fare.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:23 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ftw
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
also recorded the early diss track "A Message to Benedict Art" after his group broke up
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
lol @ Ska-Bro Fare
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I heard he hard-sonned Papoose in a battle last year in disguise, under the moniker "50 Wayz"
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I Am A Roc Marciano
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
The Only Living B-Boy in New York
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Paul Simon time-traveled to the Bronx 1971 and performed Planet Rock at the Under the Sea dance.― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Afrika! Afrika, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Bambaataa. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
omg lol
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
set...SPIKE!
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/why-is-pop-music-stuck-on-the-same-old-song/article16557019/
why doesn't Beyonce write songs about Robbe-Grillet novels
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Thursday, 30 January 2014 08:36 (ten years ago) link
can't believe that the guy who brought us "When it comes to selfies, James Franco could take a lesson from Lady Gaga" and "Can winter socks be both warm and dressy?" could stoop to this
― Squidward Ka-Spel (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link
In hip hop, the verses can be chanted rather than sung
*takes notes*
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link
Five'll get you ten he's never read Alain-Grillet in his life. Otherwise he would have known that I Am Sasha Fierce is Beyonce's Les Gommes.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link
He also wrote this, lol: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-truth-about-publishing-its-full-of-hotties/article4322712/
― longneck, Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:57 (ten years ago) link
But I have never in my whole career made a real pass at one of my colleagues or, I think, been flirtatious to the point of making someone seriously worried about my attention. Even when I was single.
Why has this guy not been arrested already?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There’s nothing wrong with songs.
Very long new board description
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:34 (ten years ago) link
All songs – all of them, every single one, that is to say 100 per cent – must have a four-four time signature.
That's Burt Bacharach put in his place then.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:45 (ten years ago) link
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies.
RUSSELL @ KFC.EDU
― wilful brony (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Oh, jeez, Russell Smith. He was a promising novelist that never lived up to the promise, then became Canada's most cringeworthy columnist. He's also a jerk and a snob, but that's getting ad-hominem.
― is olympic hamsterwheel a thing? (staggerlee), Friday, 31 January 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
thu/fri
Who In the World Is Camero...Albums That Time ForgotBlock & TackleExpert Witness
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
forgot i screencapped this
https://31.media.tumblr.com/0d40d8336fd30bab7c6f86f685b0ae43/tumblr_mwsquzE5kM1qzb8z0o1_400.png
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Sunday, 2 February 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
dig that up for the woody allen thread?
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
just a coincidence but i sincerely await the avc column title about it
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Sunday, 2 February 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
Are these the 500 worst pieces of music writing ever?
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/schmidtt/rolling_stones_500_worst_reviews_of_all_time__work_in_progress_/1/
― davey, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:42 (ten years ago) link