bruce springsteen is 67 years old and plays four-hour shows featuring guitars
and his primary guitar dates to the eisenhower era
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
how much do you have to wilfully misread something before it no longer qualifies as "reading"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
<3 u fact checking cuz
perhaps, as a bo diddley beat aficionado, you'd be interested in Songs where a musician starts "ernie-ing"/summoning up the great musical god Ernie.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
hang on i thought when it came to US politics Fred was all about stuff that was politically vague, confused and fundamentally conservative?
― i bill everything i duck (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 05:54 (seven years ago) link
didn't read, don't know about the author
6 BANDS NAMED AFTER VAGINAS YOU'LL BE TOTALLY INTOTHIS WAY FOR PUNS.
BRENNA EHRLICH08/07/2015
― goole, Friday, 7 October 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
i never felt like there was anything to misinterpret about born in the u.s.a. americans love to feel sorry for themselves. that's why it's called country music. it's a very patriotic song. trump could easily use it as an anthem. the anti-government message works well with his crowd. the lyrics are terrible though. "summertime blues" said it better and said it quicker.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
it really sounds like the prelude to a Falling Down/Taxi Diver style tantrum... or something
― brimstead, Friday, 7 October 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
(BitUSA)
― brimstead, Friday, 7 October 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
this has gotta be on purpose and bear with it but
https://festivalpeak.com/an-open-letter-to-drake-dj-khaled-and-the-rap-world-84cd4940deb4#.qslc42y8e
― rip my mensches (s.clover), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
or maybe its not on purpose in the way the author thinks. anyway, there's a point, and you'll know when you see it, where something unexpected happens.
― rip my mensches (s.clover), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
clickbait
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:30 (seven years ago) link
In fact, there are dozens of songs that people think were recorded by The Beatles that were written and recorded by other groups, that were hits during this time.
These were actually all recorded by Weird Al.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
herman's hermits iirc
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
I often wish there was a way to just hard reset my discover weekly data, particularly when it drives itself into a rut like this one
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 13 October 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
i am requesting your fave "Dylan shouldn't / should have won that Nobel" pieces for this thread
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 14 October 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
they'll all be dynamite
― mh 😏, Friday, 14 October 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
When I wrote this :
I was more or less thinking of this song :
https://youtu.be/MWZrIXS62Qo
Lies by The Knickerbockers, which almost everyone would swear is The Beatles. Of course, The Dave Clark Five also works, as do some of Herman's Hermits songs, as dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏) mentioned.
― AMovieADayKeeps, Friday, 14 October 2016 07:48 (seven years ago) link
In fact, there are dozens of songs that people think were recorded by The Beatles that were written and recorded by other groups, that were hits during this time. Think how similar most boy bands have been since New Kids On The Block, or how for many of us we can’t remember if a particular song was done by *NSYNC or The Backstreet Boys.
I think 9/10 people in Denmark could name somewhere between 5 and 20 Beatles songs easily, and even though "Lies" is a great Beatles-knockoff, noone would bring it up - just like they might mistake A Public Execution for a Dylan track, but hardly anyone knows it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqmzLgoWl3w
Wasn't around when NKOTB was hot, but I'd never mistake an *NSYNC song for BSB (and BSB >>>>>> *NSYNC)
Also, I think you're misrepresenting early Beatles to make your point - those first albums r000l!
Same goes for Beyoncé, describing "Crazy in Love" as a catchy little pop song with her husband Jay-Z making an appearance on it - well... it's crazy talk imo
Artistic development isn't necessarily progressive in a sense where an artist gets "better and better", producing "more complicated material" - they just do something new / different, which is also cool
And finally, penis size as trope is not over and probably never will be
Sorry for all these banalities
― niels, Friday, 14 October 2016 08:08 (seven years ago) link
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― LUMBAGO MUJO, Friday, 14 October 2016 08:31 (seven years ago) link
Worst piece of weed writing ever.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 14 October 2016 11:46 (seven years ago) link
20 years ago this month, I was getting ready for work while my brother in law was plastering the walls. I absent-mindedly picked up the joint he was smoking instead of my roll up out of the ashtray and had one drag before realising my mistake. I had to go immediately back to bed. And I had to plead with him to phone in sick for me. He told me it was white rhino. Remarkably horrible stuff.
― Doran, Friday, 14 October 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Not really fair, but this is from a press release touting Alan White's return to Yes:
The 6-date trek, beginning November 21 in Tokyo, will feature YES performing the 1973 album YESSONGS, the band's first live album, as well as sides one and four of 1973's double album TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS, which received rave reviews throughout their 28-date U.S. outing this summer. Of the Tales portion of the show, Chicago Tribune Community Contributor Raymond Britt raved, "The pieces were nothing short of a tour de force of musical ambition, complexity and remarkable synchronicity. It sounded outstanding." Britt also added, "This version of Yes seems to play at a higher level, a more powerful level, like they've been together a decade or more. These guys are on no nostalgia tour. They play it like they mean business, with little intention of slowing down" (8/31/16). For their upcoming Japan tour, YES will perform at the Tokyo Orchard Hall on November 21, 22, 28 and 29, the Osaka Orix Theater on November 24 and Zepp Nagoya on November 25.
Yes, it cites "Chicago Tribune Community Contributor Raymond Britt." Pretty low when a press release quotes an internet commentator.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
says more about the complete lack of support for acts older than 10 years imo
(I don't even particularly like Yes)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 16 October 2016 06:37 (seven years ago) link
No one posted the hip hop golden age article huh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 16 October 2016 06:40 (seven years ago) link
Would require reading past the headline
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 16 October 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
here's the singer from landfill indie band The Enemy blogging about why the group are splitting up: https://tomclarkecoventry.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/pop-has-eaten-itself/
even allowing for what his music led me to expect he is a very very very bad writer
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
"But the song I want to tell you about most is “Rainbow.” If it ever emerges from private listenings, it will be your favorite Kesha song. It’s big and sweeping, and you can hear every instrument that Ben Folds and his associates played — it does recall a Beach Boys vibe, just as she wanted it to. And as Folds said, the way she sings the song is so rich and so real that it jerks you out of your expectation of a pop song. “I found a rainbow, rainbow, baby,” she sings. “Trust me, I know life is scary, but just put those colors on, girl, and come and paint the world with me tonight.” In the final section, her voice becomes stronger and more strained, and the effect is devastating. I asked to hear it three more times."
― maura, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
you can hear every instrument
"Can I hear it three more times?"
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
Up above the streets and houses, 'Rainbow' climbs high
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
"Want to hear it a fifth time?""No thanks, I'm good."
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
a blog by some guy i've never heard of from coventry is how far we have sunk? they don't actually teach writing at schools in the west midlands, you know. nothing but instructional sheepfucking!
okay, i made that last part up. i don't actually know if there are sheep there.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
The music industry used to be about two things, the appreciation of musicians creating art in sound, and the ability to monetise that art in order to fund its production. Now it is about one thing. Money.
orly?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
iirc the time it was about those two things was the 1600s and ppl were mostly writing music for the local duke
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eta2ulTm4iE
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
wait my post was in this spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY
― maura, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
everything sounds better when it was on home movies
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
true
― maura, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
i wont to schol in the west midlands and youm very rong, Scoot.
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah, the feature itself was very good but that last paragraph fell into the trap of conflating musical style with musical personnel. like, if this is the kind of music kesha wants to make then I absolutely support that and god knows she deserves it, but this is the writer editorializing.
(there *is* perhaps something to be written about how the bleak apocalyptic partying of early-2010s pop by women coincided with the people making it, but A) I'm sure there are assholes in literally every pop era and B) it's a little underbaked as a thesis)
also I know Ben Folds means well but if he only knows one musician who "has gone from being packaged to real" then he knows remarkably few musicians. (like, he for sure knows Tori Amos, right?)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Ben Folds and his associates
great law firm
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
too bad they didn't get a music writer to do that feature or we would have missed out on a great "Ke$ha is sitting in an uber." lede
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
she is sitting in her saturn return
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
kesha's last album, warrior, had a cover featuring the pop star staring off to the west, green dust exploding from her head, a polygon-laden dress covering her body at strange angles like a unraveled bucky ball. the california hills in the background were purple, not their iconic verdant green, suggesting that things as we usually know them are, in fact, not what they seem. it's fitting then that kesha has had to be a "warrior" fighting in a strange world for the last four years.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
i think "very good" is a stretch. i saw lots of lazy assumptions about pop and pop fans
― maura, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
lol @ "iconic verdant green"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
remember that period of time where music reviews in themselves were entertaining or inspiring? idk, it was probably an artifact of my age at the time
now I'm more interested in well-written and informative for music I might like, and failing that, a complete trainwreck of an article like this I can giggle at
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I really am baffled at the consensus about this article -- the thing that gives me pause is that a lot of these assumptions are Kesha's, and if anyone has the right to completely hate pop music and making it, she probably does at this point.
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
(btw I was referring to the indie dudes retiring, not the kesha profile, which I haven't read)
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
i also learnt to write in the west midlands so i guess i am a test case, terrible music-writing-wise
also there are lots and lots of sheep there
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link