Sun City Girls >>>> most bands
― Wimmels, Monday, 21 March 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
I was just saying they're dorks
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, March 21, 2016 1:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pvmic
― someone who just gets annoyed at bad tweets (stevie), Monday, 21 March 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
xp did you know there is an all-girl Sun City Girls cover band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJuLm9CJiQ
― drive me to a girly rave (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
that svenonius argument about male bands not calling themselves "girls" is such bullshit! it boils down to "girls are pretty and boys are hairy and can never live up to the sexy implications of femininity"
obviously male bands should still not call themselves "girls" for plenty of other reasons
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
To be fair, a band name that includes the word girls doesn't necessarily mean they're calling "themselves" girls if that makes any sense. Splitting hairs a bit but still.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
no need to "be fair" with misappropriated yoni power imo
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, just meant "in some cases, perhaps" and worded badly.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
there are enough words and/or morphemes to choose from that a choice of "girls" (or "women") is a deliberate and stupid one imoand yes, svenonius' reasoning is lame
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
imo
what about if the band is called "Urgh, Girls"??
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
lame
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
exactly
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
can't read that svevnonius paragraph in anything but his voice, which is very sardonic
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
how about "Girl Germs"?
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
lol @ this reaction to Svenonius btw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
like have you never encountered his schtick before
Does this apply to all female-identified band names?
The Sisters of MercyLeather NunThe Lazy CowgirlsLittle WomenBaronessQueen
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
not music writing but this guy is dumber than the band he is supposedly taking down:
The A.V. Club: What do you hate about “Ants Marching”?Julian McCullough: The first thing I hate about “Ants Marching” is that it starts with the horn section, and I hate horn sections in rock music. They drive me fucking crazy. So I already don’t like you when your riff is a horn.http://www.avclub.com/article/comedian-julian-mccullough-hates-dmbs-condescendin-233484
Julian McCullough: The first thing I hate about “Ants Marching” is that it starts with the horn section, and I hate horn sections in rock music. They drive me fucking crazy. So I already don’t like you when your riff is a horn.
http://www.avclub.com/article/comedian-julian-mccullough-hates-dmbs-condescendin-233484
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
I would say that if you are forming a band now, and you are all men, a) where are your female musician friends, and b) you should definitely consider whether your band name might help perpetuate a historical imbalance where women don't even own the right to naming themselves as women (there are fairly few all-female bands who have taken 'boys' or 'men' names, because the men have already taken them too, I can think of a couple but they are outliers). Obviously a fair amount of the time band names are not "we are this" but "we are referring to this", but you should still be thinking about what you are implying.
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Obviously a fair amount of the time band names are not "we are this" but "we are referring to this", but you should still be thinking about what you are implying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Black_Teenagers
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
oh god i was on an episode of the mark hoppus show with that comedian dude. so unfunny, fuck 'comedy' right now imo
― maura, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
I am glad for this conversation, I'd been feeling kind of churlish for being mildly bothered that a local band here (one of the better ones) is called Girl Power and is three dudes
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.popmatters.com/feature/all-talk-and-no-stick/
2. Cindy Blackmon
It is important to note that women seem to be unfairly underrepresented in the world of rock drumming. I don’t know why this is, but the reason certainly isn’t physiological. It’s established that women tend to have slightly more body fat and slightly less muscle mass, but so what? The rock drummer who probably had the fastest hands ever (Ginger Baker) had arms like twigs at the height of his powers, and the best drummer of all time (Buddy Rich) got to be a chubby bastard toward the end with no discernable effect on his playing.
So it’s maybe cool if Cindy Blackmon, Lenny Kravitz’s enthusiastic, sometimes-afroed drummer, gives girls the courage to pick up the sticks and give it a shot, but that’s about the only good thing I can think to say. The drummer for Lenny Kravitz should be a lot better.
Blackmon is a textbook case of a middling player holding a better artist back. True, she may have been hired for her looks and not her playing; the fault there lies with Lenny for hasty overpromotion. Still, one can’t shake the fact that Lenny himself is a better drummer than Cindy. You can hear it on songs like “Let Love Rule,” on which he plays with remarkable heart.
Cindy, on the other hand, is singularly uncreative and mechanical in her rock beats. In a review of her work with Kravitz, Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote, “Cindy Blackmon on drums could switch from the splashy, sludgy style of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Mitch Mitchell to the casual economy of Ringo Starr.” Just like Ringo, you say? Oh goody.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Also her name is spelled wrong throughout
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
The drummer for Lenny Kravitz should be a lot better.lol is there some kind of Lenny Kravitz rule for how good his drummer should be?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
5. Carter Beauford The Dave Matthews Band’s drummer is on both of my lists.
christ
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
The physically diminutive, poorly-spoken, heroin-addicted drummer for the Clash
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:29 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Urgh! A Music Girl"
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Ha I thought was a game of "what if we described male musicians in the same "<physical attribute> <vague putdown> <tabloidy autobiographical detail>" way as this dude used for Cindy Blackman* and horrible local paper reviewers everywhere use for all female musicians, but no, this actually appears in the article
amazing
* not, alas, related to Larry Blackmon as the author's misspelling had got me hoping
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Hahahahahahaha fuckin' Popmatters!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
But really, the most damning indictment of his playing is the exceptional solo work David Byrne has produced since leaving the rhythmically handicapped Talking Heads.
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Talking Heads are but a minor footnote to/warmup for the monumentally epoch-shattering work of Byrne's solo career.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
And today I learned that a single percussionist is known as a "slew."
the rhythm section that created "Once in a Lifetime" called rhythmically handicapped. Still, I suppose Tina Weymouth is, y'know, a woman.
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
i like neil peart as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean he should be in every band.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, he shits on Ringo for "struggling to fill the space." Because the only good drummers are those who FILL EVERY SPACE WITH DRUMS AT ALL TIMES.
Which pretty much explains this:
the best drummer of all time (Buddy Rich)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
lol of course
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
thats cindy "blackmon" thing is pissing me the fuck off fuck music writing fuck men fuck everything jesus fucking christ!>@!@!?#!@>#!>
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
he brilliant South American grooves on Bryne’s solo efforts
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Here's an example of some drumming by the writer of that piece:https://youtu.be/orJtr738Zpc
Sorry, but when your playing is so, let's say, uncreative, you're not in a position to say shit about fuck.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
a/b that shit with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsfg9SRgwEw
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
That guy's a shitty writer and his opinions about music, at least based on that one piece, are almost completely wrongheaded (not gonna get into the Ringo thing 'cause I fucking hate the Beatles, but the other bands he talks about, he's basically 180 degrees from reality). That said, I'm not a big fan of Blackman's myself. I saw her at a traditional jazz gig years ago, backing Pharoah Sanders, and she got completely lost when her solo came around, had to basically claw her way back into the tune - it was almost painful to watch/hear. And in recent years, I think she's tried way too hard to be Tony Williams, without coming anywhere close to his precision and timing.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 23:41 (eight years ago) link
Cindy gets a lifetime pass for "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Not being Tony Williams is a bar that like 99% of drummers won't clear
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
why is whiney making us read poopmatters from 2007???
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
does a whiney still play drums? he was pretty rockin'!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
For miming in the video?
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
Whoa, it was Lenny all along :O
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
she's Rick James niece bitches
― Mr. Magic's Rap Attack (m coleman), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link
That moment when you wake up in a tunnel of yourself and then all things lost are either adult or millennial. But not one or another. Silence in spurts of manic fervor. Sort by oldest. Thus, hours of pornography will find a new depression for your skull’s cavity. (Tiny Mix Tapes review of Prurient's Cocaine Daughter)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 31 March 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link