like, just blow it all up and start over
― maura, Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Rip it up and start again, I'd say.
― Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
Friend on fb just posited the theory that Counting Crows ranked so high in this because people with high SAT scores like counting.
― how's life, Friday, 24 October 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff:
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2014-10/return-aphex-twin-110978
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 October 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Amherst College 1419 1430 83% 31 (~1365) 17% 1648 amherst Amherst, MA1. The Shins ... 5. Radiohead ... 7. Beethoven ... 9. David Bowie ...
15 Williams College 1414 1420 97% 31 (~1385) 20% 2003 williams Williamstown, MA1. Coldplay 2. The Beatles 3. U2 4. Jack Johnson 5. Radiohead 6. Counting Crows 7. Bob Dylan 8. Guster 9. The Killers 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 27 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
LOL
Colorado School of Mines 1244 1250 59% 28 (~1240) 75% 3310 mines Golden, CO1. Metallica ... 3. Linkin Park 4. Lifehouse ... 6. John Mayer 7. Disturbed 8. Country 9. Bob Dylan ...
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 27 October 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
i know a dweeby hyper-catholic oil-industry dude who for some reason is really enthusiastic about metal, that explains a lot
― j., Monday, 27 October 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Lifehouse!
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 October 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
they played a casino near me recently! i had no idea they were still a band or still had a following
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
"No Name Face" 33 1/3 written from the perspective of a Colorado School of Mines freshman hearing "Hanging By a Moment" for the first time
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 October 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff
Also, DeRo continues to call him "THE Aphex Twin."
― jaymc, Monday, 27 October 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Saw this article linked and thought of this thread. http://i.imgur.com/Ya2j4NR.png?1
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
That is kinda wondrous
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
Third para especially a masterpiece
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
it's got a touch of objective game reviews.
― woof, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link
https://medium.com/@boma23/dear-artists-no-one-cares-if-you-put-out-new-music-bc03f9aebc6d
― maura, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Chance The Rapper hasn’t put out a project in almost 2 years
18 months and counting. A regular Axl Rose.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Let me give you another example. Hoodie Allen...
nope.
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha
You’d think at this point people would quit going to his shows maybe, but they just keep coming, and coming. 60,000 people showed up for his Lollapalooza set even though he had toured the entire country twice the year previous and hadn’t put out music in over a year.
60,000 people showed up to Lollapalooza SPECIFICALLY for Chance the Rapper, then promptly left afterwords, leaving the grounds completely deserted
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
i know a dweeby hyper-catholic oil-industry dude who for some reason is really enthusiastic about metal, that explains a lot― j., Monday, October 27, 2014 9:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you need music you can still hear above the deafening industrial sounds of an oil rig
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
If you're going to do clickbait put your back into it son. The only good thing about this is the picture of Dave Grohl waiting for a train in the snow, which I'm sure he does all the time.
http://www.bdcwire.com/the-pretender-why-i-cant-stand-dave-grohl/
(Usual thread caveat: probably not literally the worst piece of music writing ever)
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
the writing itself is pretty wack, the argument is one i can understand
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
"I say this firmly, and people look at me like they just walked out of a warm porta-potty at Bonnaroo. Their face contorts to an expression somewhere between anger and confusion – they know they’re supposed to be appalled but forget why – until they finally blast out a large 'WHAT?'"
Yes I'm sure people give a shit.
― Evan, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
the physical symptoms of receiving a challop
― ILoveMeconium (President Keyes), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
xxp to myself: i wouldn't be nearly as snide and dickish making the same argument bc grohl isnt even close to that hateable despite his goofily earnest rockism
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I can only name about Foo Fighters songs and think they're dull as mud and I don't think this makes me a straight-talking maverick. This self-aggrandising "yeah I went there" approach is silly. Also, Grohl's problem isn't that he's not "real" enough.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
"I just don't like thing that some people like, it's just my gut reaction" is such a terrible premise for an entire thinkpiece, it's like showing people arty photos of your turds.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
"This self-aggrandising 'yeah I went there' approach is silly."
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen this used in a situation where I found the (whatever) stance as edgy as the writer wants me to think. Yet there's always a little story about how the writer SHOCKED somebody they were talking with this opinion (like what I pasted upthread).
― Evan, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm SHOCKED if I meet someone who passionately loves the Foo Fighters.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 11:06 (nine years ago) link
You weren't here when Aja posted I suppose..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 12:14 (nine years ago) link
I've met (worked with) at least 3 people who passionately love the Foo Fighters. Two of them are/were women under 25.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
The other was Taylor Hawkins.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
The enthusiasm of my total bro cousin (studying grad school economics in London, natch) for the Foo Fighters knows no bounds.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways-is-the-so-so-rock-doc-gene-1660615929
concourse did a much more reasonable, non-hot-takey version of criticizing sonic highways than the pompous hate-screed posted upthread
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
hmm who is this mysterious anthony miccio character and can we get him to post here I wonder
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
has any other musician switched instruments mid-career like DG?off the top, I can only think of Phil Collins...........
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
You mean are there other musicians who can play more than one instrument? Yes. Lots. Most of them actually.
― everything, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Karen Carpenter
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Miles Davis
Scarface
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
kanye
― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah but come on, MC is talking about people who were pretty much exclusively associated with one primary instrument and switched mid-career.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
scarface and kanye actually work pretty well
Miles Davis was known for playing the trumpet for the vast majority of his career - then abruptly switched to organ for a large portion of this electric period
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Drummer of B52s became their guitarist.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Carpenter drummed and sang for the first half of her career, then p much just switched to singing (just like our man Phil)
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Bobby Gillespie lolz
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
DJ Quik's kinda done this - switching back and forth from production and rapping
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Brian Wilson (he def stopped playing bass altogether at some point iirc)
Kim Deal
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link