burn all your ramones and dead kennedys albums plz
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
i love how gang of four and stereolab sound but i don't listen to lyrics
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
as far as I know, everybody fucking loves LDR.
really?
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
new dn
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
by "everyone" people are referring to non-US audiences (SNL appearance less of a factor?) and young, often teenage girls -- the Cedric Gervais "Summertime Sadness" was Top 10, "Young and Beautiful" IIRC just missed Top 20, and you don't get those numbers from hate-listens. you can speculate all you want about *why* she resonates with non-US audiences or teenage girls but the data is there.
that said, there was absolutely a backlash to LDR among "music types," a huge one -- in fact, if you think it's just blog chatter that probably says more about your defining things by blog chatter.
great review, also
― katherine, Monday, 16 June 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
seemed to get passed over earlier but holy fucking shit @ professional writer not knowing what anachronistic means
― I 'SCAPED A GAOL FFS (wins), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
(haven't read the review)
I've read it now, it's alright (that line has been changed btw: "When lines like these pop up on the record, I find myself chuckling, sometimes laughing out loud, which might seem odd on an album about sadness" - to which I would still say "yep, it would seem odd if you were on the album", and yeah "repellant" is a noun, but I guess she's a daft reader who looks for belles lettres in a p4k review). Not heard the album, not sure if I'll bother, but it seems otm to me that her appeal can be both summed up & dismissed as "cool fully formed aesthetic bro"; if you like the songs you'll go along with all the played-out americana. True as well that most ppl, popstars or no, get bored with their one-note sockpuppets after a while, I guess LDR is the waterface of pop
― I 'SCAPED A GAOL FFS (wins), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
*smiles, sings Video Games at the top of his lungs*
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
*guitar solo*
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
i thought you were owen pallett
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
*takes off Nixon mask, revealing Darth Vader mask*
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
circles within circleswithin other circlesvideo games
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
first person shooter
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
hey now
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
the only thing i would shoot someone with is my hurmor
humor
I like the review, I said it was mostly OTM and talked about the authenticity thing well.
My ish with the "many people/repellant" line was not its accuracy but its phrasing. That the "people" went unnamed, like, it didn't need to be said. I can't see a writer typing "you begin to remember why many people find the whole project repellant" about, say, Jack White, an artist whose whole project many people find repellent.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Speaking on behalf of other people is textbook abusive-language, even (especially?) when it's a method for framing a compliment. I dunno. Maybe I'm just being sensitive. My post was supposed to actually be in support of the review.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
i've always thought that those casual asides are how received wisdom, both abusive and non-abusive, actually gets reinforced, rather than something actually being the subject of a piece, for exactly those reasons
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
iirc her last album sold 5 million copies worldwide but is just barely platinum in the US after two years, so Katherine otm re: her popularity outside the US.
― Greer, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
How does observing that lots of people have a virulent reaction to her reinforce it? That's dumb
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
That the "people" went unnamed, like, it didn't need to be said.
argumentum ad populum as it were.
― campreverb, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
If anything the wild success of Lana del Rey pretty much proves that using blog chatter as a metric for anything is totally short-sighted
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 June 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
It shows Lana gallivanting around with an older gentleman, getting into a number of decadent situations. It's very Gatsby-core. Check it out below.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
oh god
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
oh lord pac
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
they killin the spirit of gatsby
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
shoulda gone for broke and ditched the hyphen, editorial
― j., Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
otm. Watching American political talk shows it's amazing how Dem and GOP guys will say "We all agree Social Security is out of control and the deficit is a problem" without fear of contradiction.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
https://my.secondlife.com/gatsby.core
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 June 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
It's funny how they always stick metal albums in that #5 review slot. Kind of feels like "we hired a couple of reviewers who specialize in metal but now our audience doesn't care about metal as much as they did a few years ago."
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
You can sense that North Carolina rock trio Late Bloomer hears Dinosaur Jr., Hüsker Dü, and Nirvana differently than most revivalists, that they’re doing so without any pretense of sounding cool. In fact, Late Bloomer don’t think of their heroes as "indie rock" at all, but rather as some of the most popular bands of their time, actual heroes who deserve to be spoken of with grand gestures.
A world where Nirvana was among the most popular bands of their time, what a thing to imagine.
― franklin, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Right? I noticed that too.
It's that weird "indie vs. mainstream" mindset that I never have, nor probably never will, understand.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Gotta do some serious crate digging to find out about Nirvana.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure Ian knows nirvana was very popular
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
*makes swooshing motion with arm* "i speak of NIRVANA"
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Nirvana, they were a Scream side project right?
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 July 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
You know, that band the dude from Sweet 75 was in.
― cwkiii, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
expanding his sound to include bold elements of vintage country and R&B.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
NEWSWORTHY
http://pitchfork.com/news/55871-laurie-anderson-was-trapped-inside-a-hyperbaric-chamber/
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 12 July 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
i get that there's a core of truth in even the dumbest/most poorly expressed criticisms, but this is still a pretty dumb thing to say:
And it doesn't render commonplace technology personal and alive—there's not much here that a savvy amateur couldn't do with GarageBand, a low bar to clear when grid-based composition with soft synths is so accessible.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I used a soft, clear synth to clean my coffee pot this morning.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Braff’s most vaunted position in pop culture circa 2014 isn’t as the actor who played the annoying guy on the TV show your college roommates watched all the time, or as a fervent Redditor who once assisted in helping someone propose to their girlfriend online, or as a distant blood relative to Mitt Romney. Arguably, he’s not even most known as the guy who directed Garden State—he’s the guy who put together the Garden State soundtrack
I'm always happy to read something taking down this dude, but the idea that he's most famous for putting together the Garden State soundtrack is kind of dumb.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Though I guess it outranks the random Romney factoid pointlessly thrown in there.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Scrubs ran on a major network for 8 years, but yeah he's definitely more famous for really liking Iron & Wine.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Obviously the assertion that the Garden State music is more renowned than Scrubs is silly, but I definitely know people that are still really into that soundtrack (I seem to recall someone I knew at university telling me it was her all time favourite album)
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely feel that it's fair to say that the Garden State soundtrack--and the role it played in mainstreaming a certain idea of indie--is actually Zach Braff's most lasting cultural legacy. But that paragraph makes the odd assertion that he's actually most famous for picking movie soundtrack songs.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link