I remember watching a BBC documentary about '70s brit heavy metal where a couple of interviewees (I'm 99% sure one was Tony Iommi) mentioned in passing an antagonism towards soul music (or at least the soul club scene of the time), the point wasn't really picked up on but it wasn't something I'd ever seen or heard mentioned before.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
It was Geezer Butler.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
Did surprise me because nearly all of those 70s bands started of playing Motown/ soul/ R&B covers (hence the redundancy of a certain other thread).
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Maybe they just got bored of that though and wanted to get HEAVY.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
can't believe there's a redundant thread on ILM
― Covfefe growing vpon the skull of a man (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
I was thinking last night that it wouldn't exactly be too difficult to lob a solid intersectional feminist critique against a band of bigamists, deadbeat dads and wife beaters but Marcotte took the brave path of "this is why boys like Tool, ew"
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:40 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ah thanks! Yeah I wonder where that break with r&b/soul came for that generation of rock bands.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
whiney, the beatles weren't a band of john lennons
― Treeship, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
that would've been really difficult given the level of knowledge of genetic engineering in 1960s Liverpool
― Covfefe growing vpon the skull of a man (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Clone Band
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
or would "Clonely" be better?
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
clonely is better
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
When I'm 64 clearly about cloning overkill
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
tbf original Paul was the philanderer
― mh, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
Yes, but the guy they replaced Paul with after he died has proven to remarkably faithful to his spouses.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
I Married Paul
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
at the end of the day, any band that can inspire something like this is inherently evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
that whole movie is a cringefest
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Tim Burton's Pepperland! would be the logical next step.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
at least the dumb bee gees one had earth, wind, & fire.
and aerosmith
― maura, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
yeah that was the only other high point.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
that movie is one long low point
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 4:25 PM (two hours ago)
this will totally happen in my lifetime, won't it
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
I remember watching a BBC documentary about '70s brit heavy metal where a couple of interviewees (I'm 99% sure one was Tony Iommi) mentioned in passing an antagonism towards soul music (or at least the soul club scene of the time), the point wasn't really picked up on but it wasn't something I'd ever seen or heard mentioned before
This feels more like Mids v. Rockers to me...? I've always suspected that punk & disco were two sides of the same Mod coin
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
*Mods v. Rockers lol
No, was definitely Geezer Butler. Was a story about how he met Ozzy, that he'd been at the blues club and Ozzy had been at the soul club and they glared at each other across the street on the way home. And through the miracle of YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCAUuBN0vI
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 2 June 2017 09:34 (six years ago) link
That's actually a different clip though! I was sure the original poster was referring to an interview in the Heavy Metal Britannia documentary and, through the miracle of YouTube, I found it. Geezer Butler, talking about the early days of Sabbath, says, at one point, "Everywhere you went it was soul clubs... I was just absolutely sick of going to places and listening to soul music..."
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
haven't seen the clip and so can't necessarily back this up as the source of the hostility, but there was a distinct split in 60s sensiblity between listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to dance to records (ideally by black american groups or singers) and listener-clubbers who liked to go to clubs to watch bands (which were on the whole white and local)
up to a certain point* there was a line of strong mod disdain for the very *idea* of live music as opposed to music on record (the who called themselves mods but most real mods disowned them) so this may be less a "northern soul sucks" line per se than a "live music rocks dude" line (which is after all what you'd expect a working musician to feel)
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
*apostrophe to extra suggestion when this certain point came, and why = mid-late 70s, by which time there were a lot more live shows featuring black music of all kinds, and also by which time the who -- via quadrophenia -- had reverse-engineered the meaning of the word mod, which sensibility began migrating away to descendent subcultures
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
Geezer goes on to say they were listening to Hendrix and Cream and wanted to do music like that - sounds like Ozzy wasn't though!
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
Haven't any recollection of seeing the one you're talking about at all! Must try and dig it out.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
This sounds right too. I wonder if it's an age thing too, Sabbath were a pretty young band, Geezer was born in 1949, seems like they hadn't done that thing of playing soul and r&b covers like so many 60s British musicians had.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
gotta check these guys out http://www.alternativenation.net/why-royal-blood-could-be-the-next-nirvana/
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 11 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Alternative Nation is such a weird site
― Sutcliffe Juugin' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 June 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
Thankfully, for every teenage girl singing Cyndi Lauper into a hairbrush, was her younger brother, listening to Misfits and Black Sabbath records.
Kurt would be so happy to know his fans are fighting to reclaim music from girls.
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Yes, how dare those young women sing along with music? Everyone knows music is only truly appreciated by boys.
― bleethal weapon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
hang on, didn't we do the exact opposite of this one last week?
― Number None, Monday, 12 June 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
ok, someone (*ahem*) shared that there is a notably bad Lorde review and I think I found it, but can anyone corroborate
― mh, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
i already regret posting about it
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
This is all starting to feel like the thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction, except it's a pile of dung.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
i wasn't a fan of the one that wondered if she was being held back by being a pop artist...
― nomar, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
generally there have been a lot of lorde thinkpieces
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
I don't know if it's the one Brad was thinking of, but the one on Uproxx is by someone who should be kept away from keyboards for at least a decade.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I don't know, as a general rule I would rather prevent old dudes from writing about Lorde than young women
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
I hear there is a really great Father John Misty interview out there!
― mh, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Katherine otm though
some young women need editors who aren't themselves
― maura, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
tbh everyone needs editors who aren't themselves
― maura, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/0ae4a458b02b1705c96dd846493e2aad/tumblr_inline_n3ghj9J3u91qcklud.gif
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 June 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link