everything sounds stupid if you put it in all caps
― Treeship, Friday, 8 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
The first time I ever encountered the whole "Bradley Nowell is a genius struck down in his prime" was when I stopped by a Best Buy early in the morning in 2006 and was waiting in line with like 10 dudes buying the three-disc(!) Sublime rarities box set, all of them speaking in reverent tones about how much they missed him.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
xp
hip-hop sound collage pioneers sublime
does that sound better
― marcos, Friday, 8 August 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
I'm thinking of recording 30 tracks of myself farting and getting it onto Spotify under the name Sublime!
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Best Sublime Albums List
List Criteria: This list includes studio albums only, so if you add an album make sure it's a proper studio release.Long Beach-natives Sublime aren't just one of the best 90s bands,but can be considered one of the best reggae bands and reggae rock bands. List of the best Sublime albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Sublime discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Sublime albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Sublime singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Sublime album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Sublime album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you want to know, "What is the Best Sublime album of all time?" or "What are the top Sublime albums?" then this list will answer your questions. Items here include everything from Sublime to 40 Oz. to Freedom.This list of popular Sublime CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. You may copy this list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your views, then publish it to share with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers or with any other social networks you're on.less
1) 40 Oz. to Freedom 2) Sublime
3) Jah Won't Pay the Bills
4) Robbin' the Hood
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
always been sorta curious about robbin the hood bc my idea of it matches whiney's description of 40 oz. upthread
but having grown up near socal i don't really need to go out of my way to listen to sublime
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
lol omar
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
haha
― marcos, Friday, 8 August 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
also robbin the hood is shit, thrown-together garbage
good to know!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 8 August 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
how did I have no clue that brad is a west coaster
― some dude, Friday, 8 August 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
faith no more are so much better/have so little in common with sublime it is barely conceivable
― "trough lolly"??? (stevie), Friday, 8 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
they are better but i think in the big picture there's a certain style of socal music, i would put chili peppers in there as well, like dudes who liked early rap and punk and minutemen and dub records and some metal and smoked shitloads of weed...
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
dekker and prince buster, toots, jimmy cliff, hugh mundell, dillinger, ken boothe and so on tho'.i was working pr for (ahem) a cover group this past year and finally got around to listening to the album a time or two for the first time and it's my considered opinion that it is pretty horrible.that's all.
When I was first listening to Sublime heavily, my manager from the ice cream shop I worked at (a black man maybe in his mid to late 20s) invited me and some other coworkers over to his apartment to smoke pot. On the way over, we were listening to some kind of alternative that he didn't like, so I asked him what he did like and he says "I'm into reggae." My coworkers and I got really excited. "You've gotta hear it." I was hoping for something better than "what the hell is this crap?"
― how's life, Friday, 8 August 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
your manager otm
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Friday, 8 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
First stoner I'd ever met who reacted that way.
― how's life, Friday, 8 August 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
this calls for Robert Stack in "Unsolved Mysteries" mode recitatoin
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Like doing Grateful Dead songs over the "Funky Drummer break," scratching a Minutemen album, doing a folk song about KRS-One, singing Bob Marley lyrics over a Just-Ice song — it all spoke to the post-Beasties smash-up culture they were trying to promote and attempt and see through the lens of smoked out cali loving surfer bros/dalmation enthusiasts
― [Fine Whines via] Treeship, Friday, August 8, 2014 8:35 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think the mash-up aesthetic, in the internet era, is kind of played and combining/curating disparate sounds in itself doesn't sound refreshing in 2014. that might be why i didn't notice all the stuff whine mentioend and just remember 40oz as this ska-rap album that has a song about date rape
― Treeship, Friday, August 8, 2014 8:37 AM (6 hours ago)
wholesale dismissal of "post-beasties smash-up culture" (if that's what we're calling it now) in the indie aughts depresses me. not that the beastie boys (or ratm or sublime or the judgment night sndtrk or w/e) necessarily deserve a long shadow of active artistic influence, but it's sort of a drag that the interconnections between genres have been so thoroughly severed.
also, all this sublime talk reminds me of recent activity in the not guilty pleasures thread. when a artist becomes a comical icon of awfulness, trashing them becomes a bore. if nowell's "genius" wordplay weren't such a constant stream of casual slut-shaming misogyny, i'd feel some obligation to fake like sublime. as it is, i just figure they're someone else's thing. whiney?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 8 August 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
If you're bored with Sublime:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/08/08/all-that-jazz-isnt-all-that-great/
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
fuck that guy
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 8 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
― j., Friday, 8 August 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
disparaging jazz like that seems inherently racist
― Treeship, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
is it? i think it is.
inherently stupid
― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
really if you find yourself writing a piece about why something you don't like is overrated have a think for a minute then stop doing it and go and do laundry or something else useful instead
― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
that article is just trying to wind people up, relax
― brimstead, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
I appreciated that these generous African American men deigned to share their art at a quite white New England liberal-arts school. But I just didn’t get their aesthetic.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
being deliberately challopian doesn't make you not obnoxious
― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
it's sort of a drag that the interconnections between genres have been so thoroughly severed. -contenderizer
is this true? grimes is pretty eclectic. death grips integrates rap with punk and industrial in a way that feels new.
― Treeship, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
sorry to change topics
apology accepted. thanks, Treeship.
― brimstead, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
cheapo "here's what i think" gen-y articles are a dime a dozen these days
― brimstead, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
yeah but how good would your articles be if you were only being paid 83 cents to write them?
― Treeship, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
83 cents?
― brimstead, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
dime a dozen
― Treeship, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
i don't know, ted koppel. what are your thoughts on all this?
― brimstead, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
it's cool that dude got a C- in anthony braxton's class and decided to repay him by denigrating his chosen art form in the media
i took fiction writing from a pulitzer-prize-winning novelist, i'm pretty sure the american novel is kind of an embarrassment tho. where's my byline, wapo
― j., Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
i think this sort of kneejerk academic reverence for / defense of jazz is the exact sort of reason the new yorker, washington post, etc should go ahead and publish millennial bullshit like this once in a while. does it really harm anyone to go ahead and admit that in the end, popular music really isn't that important
― panda fiend (sleepingbag), Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
it harms the american spirit
― j., Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
this is fun to listen to if you like jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-04Dey1SzQ
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
i just can't ignore these stupid articles. i really do know better. i swear. just ignore them. but i guess i'm just dumb...
i can be kinda dull-witted.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
There’s not much difference between a screechy performance by avant-garde saxophonist Peter Brötzmann from 1974 and one from 2014.
See how Jazz doesn't advance? This one dude sounds just like he did 40 years ago.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
justin moyer was the drummer for gay dad bass player for el guapo and supersystem.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
I kept typing different responses to the dumb shit in this article, but keep erasing them for fear of taking the bait. Daphnis otm upthread, and it applies to this sorta shit too. This piece is the height of stupidity, I'mma go do some laundry, later gators
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Moyer also wrote a pretty tedious Wash City Paper article a couple years ago about "the Brooklynization of culture"
― some dude, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
i was ruminating on stupid things as i left for work. jazz is stupid because it does away with the words to popular songs. like they just get lost the jazz tubes and no one ever gets to hear them again. it would be better if jazz kept all the words and ditched the improvisation. then it would be more like the national and everyone could be happy. the fuck does this kind of thing even happen inside a person's head, much less get published?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
the depth and character of condescension in the idea that ellington's "take the a train" is an "african american anthem" because it mentions sugar hill while mingus/dolphy's is a meaningless waste of blackness is overwhelming to contemplate
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
really, don't bother
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 August 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
urite obv
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 9 August 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link