I used to get angry whenever I saw this thread at the top of Site New Answers. Now I weep.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 December 2014 10:07 (nine years ago) link
that was already an indie band name
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 29 December 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Now I weep
Emo band?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 December 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, his combination of cluelessness and weirdness makes him more interesting to me than e.g. Klosterman -- whose views are less obnoxious but also very dull.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 December 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Found an old clip from Lefsetz's public access TV days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xG00OC_imA
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Glanced at a second of that: guy looks just like Dan Aykroyd in Tom Snyder drag.
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
And Imagine Dragons are really good.
I know you don't want to hear that, because if they're good, you're not.
Now I'm not saying you can't be nearly talentless and be successful. But that's a different kind of talent, one of conception, one wherein you look at the world a different way and come up with something so mind-blowing that people pay attention. That was Lou Reed's gift. But we haven't had that spirit here for so long.
He just emailed this one...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
That was Lou Reed's gift. But we haven't had that spirit here for so long since 1969.
FIXED
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
That doesn't fix it for me. Lefsetz preceded the above with this quote:
But it's in the struggle that you hone your chops, that you get really good.
So Imagine Dragons have chops and Lou did not?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 March 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
how was Lou Reed "nearly talentless"?
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Maybe he meant it in a dodge the bullet sense. Like "Lou Reed was nearly talentless, but fortunately he started writing songs and playing music and discovered, phew, he did have talent after all."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Lefsetz is a mainstream baby boom rocker who probably never listened to the Velvets, but after later hearing Lou's solo songs that got radio play, decided in hindsight that Lou's skill was just of conception.
It's dumb and wrong and goofy just like this sentence of his I know you don't want to hear that, because if they're good, you're not.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Josh, read the post that Lefsetz wrote, don't rewrite it for him so it makes more sense.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
I know you don't want to hear that, because if they're good, you're not.peak lefsetz. beautiful.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Now I'm not saying you can't be nearly talentless and be successful.
his own career is a testament to this
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
tylerw otm
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
And if you want to grow up, emulate Billy Joel. He’s let himself age, he’s gained weight and has no hair. And he’s honest and believable. And he puts out no new music. BECAUSE NO ONE CARES!
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Once upon a time you were a leader, now you’re running after a train that has left the station when everybody else is taking Uber.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
It’s like having your aunt kiss you at the graduation party. You know, the creepy old one who wears too much makeup and winks at you when you’re in the kitchen… The one who’s unmarried and seems to want to sleep with no one so much as YOU!
Explains so much about how this guy's world view was shaped.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
his ability to consistently amaze me with the shittiness of his thoughts and writing is really staggering, he manages to top himself each and every time
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
the obliviousness of being able to confidently state that as a universal experience
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
just realized you can sing this to like a rolling stone
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
I guess I'm trying to understand, but if the train is an overland commuter train, taking an Uber seems pretty damn expensive...and if you were in NYC with a big subway system I don't think it's retrograde to take the subway, I really doubt everyone is taking Ubers everywhere....
maybe he means the Bay Area and BART?
i should probably shoot myself in the head for even thining about this
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
he is based in santa monica though
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
so maybe he's just talking about LA's pretty decent but failed subway system
think i heard the next madonna single is dropping exclusively on Uber
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
still, Madonna strikes me as someone who travels exclusively by limo or private plane
either way, this is Big Lef #shotsfired at mass transit
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
yo peter gabriel has gained weight and has no hair and is goddamn overdue to put out so new music. lefsetz is the worst.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Bill Joel's in a new dad state of mind as he and girlfriend Alexis Roderick are expecting their first child http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/billy-joel-new-dad-state-mind-girlfriend-article-1.2185383[bill joel! that'd be rad if billy joel came out and demanded that people call him Bill Joel from now on.]
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Gwyneth Paltrow called him William Joel in a goop newsletter, to which videogum responded, "ah yes, William Joel. The Piano Sir."
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
you are reading the goop newsletter????
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
you are reading the lefsetz newsletter?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 17 April 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
you are reading videogum?
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
Are we all reading ILX?!!!
― nickn, Friday, 17 April 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/f1c37a9bec59b99cea82bb5d074a8bde/tumblr_n9gp0qGHzP1tchrkco1_500.gif
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 06:02 (nine years ago) link
The Goop Loop
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
i can't tell if croup is playing or not - she did not seriously call him william joel did she???
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.laineygossip.com/Content/images/articles/gp%20joel%202%20jun09.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 17 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
hehe
― mh, Friday, 17 April 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
omg
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
"Crap, there's another pecan lover in the house! I just saw it run behind the fridge!"
"Should we get another trap? Or bake it some cookies?"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 17 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
i can't remember whether i was reading videogum several years ago or told a hilarious bit from videogum several years ago but i think it should obvious why i remembered this hilarious bit of info from several years ago
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
See that the biggest venue in America is the smartphone. And its stars are Snapchat and Facebook
This is possibly the most Drunk Uncle he's ever been.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Sunday, 19 April 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Move to lock this thread and have ppl email Robert directly if they have any issues
― piqued (wins), Sunday, 19 April 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
BaltimoreThe PIGS, that’s what we called them back when I was growing up.
The PIGS, that’s what we called them back when I was growing up.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I take the elevator up to the top where Toni escorts me into Steve Barnett’s office where he and Ambrosia are listening to a record, not a word being said, Steve staring rapturously at the wall.This obviously wasn’t done for me, I caught them in a moment. And what was playing over the speakers was…SPECTACULAR!So I go from caring not a whit about the music business to being totally riveted, feeling that I’m back to where I once belonged.And when the track finishes Steve tells me it’s the album of the year, which sounds reasonable to me, since this is the guy who built Sam Smith in the U.S., and he’s going to do his best to deliver this 67 year old another hit.Huh?Now I’m completely confused. So I ask “Who is this?”DON HENLEY!
This obviously wasn’t done for me, I caught them in a moment. And what was playing over the speakers was…SPECTACULAR!
So I go from caring not a whit about the music business to being totally riveted, feeling that I’m back to where I once belonged.
And when the track finishes Steve tells me it’s the album of the year, which sounds reasonable to me, since this is the guy who built Sam Smith in the U.S., and he’s going to do his best to deliver this 67 year old another hit.
Huh?
Now I’m completely confused. So I ask “Who is this?”
DON HENLEY!
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 14 May 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
well, yeah
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 May 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
haha i'm morbidly excited about this
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 May 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
though i srsly doubt big lef can't identify don henley's voice upon hearing it
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 May 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Music, when done right, scales.Stop listening to the old fogeys. Stop learning how it used to be done. Know that in order to succeed you’ve got to turn the world on its head.Let’s make it simple… How about finding ugly people who write their own songs? That’s changing everything everyone in power believes in.How about putting music in BuzzFeed movies?
Stop listening to the old fogeys. Stop learning how it used to be done. Know that in order to succeed you’ve got to turn the world on its head.
Let’s make it simple… How about finding ugly people who write their own songs? That’s changing everything everyone in power believes in.
How about putting music in BuzzFeed movies?
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 14 May 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link