Oh Tarfumes is Taylor Hawkins? Cool
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
I was really hoping to see Vic Firth's name on that list
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
there is great recent footage of tarfumes playing some sort of matmos salon type thing in baltimore. i watched it twice. don't want to embarrass him and post it though.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
thank you, scott
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
before ilx turns into pseuds corner, let's take a look where we're headed
http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ears/
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
not sure what distinguishes that from the 100 or so sophomoric reviews just like it that are uploaded each day
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
it's about a record that ilx is in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D
*runs*
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
^ FP
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D
there only like 30 posts on that thread you dork
― marcos, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
aside from a few unneeded adverbs there is absolutely nothing wrong with that review
(I thought the album was fine, reminded me in places of laura j martin and/or the creatures soundtrack)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/hunting-for-the-cast-of-the-sexiest-music-video-of-all-time
I have nobody to blame but myself for clicking on a Thump link but this is woeful.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 09:50 (eight years ago) link
overrating things is good. if you accept the existentialist premise that we make the meaning we find in the world, overrating things is what makes life bearable.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
that last message was an xp to LJ
also, lol boxedjoy. that is the worst premise for an article.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
lol god forbid people actually love some music on ILM
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
lj is probably just annoyed it isn't more "challenging"
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
contrarianism can also give life meaning, to be fair
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
The album is good, but people are being really embarrassing on that thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
whiney himself said the album was good on that thread
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
is it Destroyer-level fawning? cuz that is scary stuff. regular fandom and WOW! shouldn't be a problem. i'm gonna go check it out! BrB.............
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSXbvzW91U
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Most embarrassing overpraise of the just released 'Ears' album on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Lol, oh god
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
well at least whiney didn't poll the king thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
oh i see matt also made that joke
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
the difference is that the KING album is an actual masterpiece ;)
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
wait wtf is thump? how many verticals can vice possibly need
― qualx, Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
I would not necessarily call this "worst ever" but I do think it just ignores/glosses over the fact that female pop-punk artists exist (it mentions Paramore but seems to have... somehow... missed the fact that Hayley is the frontwoman?) as well as female pop-punk *fans* (5SOS's fanbase is mostly women), who probably don't have much truck with the "dominant dude-bro ideology"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
shit sorry forgot the link
(pause, question priorities where one apologies for forgetting a link but not for criticizing an article)
http://www.last.fm/features/post/2259045:feature:9e81d3e2-6fac-4c64-a867-c244c2115757
Not sure if this is the right place to bemoan something like this but I'm gonna bemoan this here: http://coolmaterial.com/media/best-vinyl-records/?utm_source=Cool+Material&utm_campaign=605458e35e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f248e7d25b-605458e35e-297496053&mc_cid=605458e35e&mc_eid=6128f9e24d
Usually click bait like this isn't even worth the bandwidth but the writing and editing here is woefully bad and shallow and bad
My favorite gem, talking about Kid A: "an album that blipped, beeped, and floated effortlessly in the background when you played it."
(PS should there be a thread called something like "Shitty web links your dad sends you because he knows you're into records"?)
― MrExplorer, Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
disappointed that they didn't throw a 'blooped' in there as well.
the inclusion of Joe Jackson's Body and Soul means I can't hate that article, though
― soref, Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Vinyl is back. And with the best year in terms of sales since 1988, it doesn’t seem like vinyl is going anywhere.
It's true. Astonishing numbers.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgJuCq5XEAA3hoG.jpg
― punnerist spoon here (onimo), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know vinyl sales were on the decline a good three-to-four years before CDs came out in 1984. What were people buying in the early 80s? Cassettes?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Yes. The Walkman changed everything.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
I was. And like lots of people I didn't start buying CDs until well after 1984 -- 1992, maybe?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
They didn't fit in the Walkman, was the thing.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
I switched in '92 as well. Went from walkman to discman.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
What is the source of that graphic above?
― Wimmels, Sunday, 17 April 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Home taping is killing the music industry.
― campreverb, Monday, 18 April 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
We got a CD player in... 1985? 1986? I know I did the Columbia House thing in 1987 to jumpstart my collection and taped them to play in my Walkman (one perk of my dad working for 3M was piles and piles and piles of cheap blank cassettes basically any time I wanted them)
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 18 April 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
never would have guessed that 45 single sales outstripped LPs consistently like that
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 April 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
i think that graph was first published on digitalmusicnews.com, which claims the figures are from the riaa
― dyl, Monday, 18 April 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
taped them to play in my Walkman
Me, too. That was the first time I started being interested in sound quality as a thing, was when I noticed how much better tapes recorded from CDs sounded than tapes recorded from vinyl.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 18 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'm being picky. because it's not the content that's bad here, but the writing is...ugh.
http://flavorwire.com/571669/grimes-reveals-that-numerous-male-producers-have-demanded-sex-from-her?utm_campaign=FlavorwireSocial&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
That second paragraph is a killer.
"So it’s no surprise that Grimes, who, as a completely autonomous artist — Claire Boucher writes, records, produces, mixes, and masters everything that she attaches the “Grimes” label to — has routinely criticized both the music industry and the media at large for misrepresenting her as simply a muse, a singer that attaches her voice to other people’s (note: male’s) productions, would eventually have to speak on the subject."
or is it just me? Maybe I'm having a morning.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
"So apparently Dr. Luke isn’t the only male producer in the industry who might be awful."
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, April 18, 2016 11:44 AM (2 hours ago)
hard to tell if the light green + dark green are supposed to be = total vinyl sales, in which case LPs outsold 45s except for like a 10-year stretch in the 90s. not sure what the explanation of that would be
― k3vin k., Monday, 18 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah, when compared to this chart, also produced by the riaa, it becomes clear that the amounts sold are stacked. so, LPs were outselling singles for most of the period in question here. makes sense, aor heyday.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
^ shows that vinyl sales are still a tiny portion of the total, with CDs and downloads making up the bulk. also, perhaps suggests that CD sales and downloads are both establishing a plateau?
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Monday, 18 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link