artists who plausibly appear to be good people

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I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's, but she seems so sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLavhf10UM

calzino, Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link

Paparazzi attack incidents aside (and tbh I feel paparazzi deserve being mistreated half of the time) I feel like Bjork is very sweet. She’s also bonkers so it can go both ways.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link

Has Kurt Cobain been mentioned? From what I’ve read he was a stellar dude.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link

surely giving us Courtney Love's career is some kind of crime

Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link

Grunge inherited a lot of cock rock imbeciles and Kurt was never happy about it. There’s also anecdotes like this:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/watch_nirvana_sabotage_buenos_aires_stadium_show

Makes it look like he was a class act.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link

Björk I totally believe. Cobain is another story all-together iirc.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link

AURORA seems like a kind soul (though her fans are a little over-the-top with their praise. I'm pretty sure she isn't an angel or an astral being or "too pure for this world")

jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link

Cannot believe nobody has mentioned Gaz Coombes

Top, top bloke by all accounts

stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link

I'd do anything for Coombes, but I won't do that.

calzino, Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link

I love her music but not some of her freak-folk US acolytes from the 00's

is Devendra as much of a sleaze as I suspect he is?
his background as a pick-up artist doesn't really count in his favor, but Joanna Newsom seems to be cool with him so idk

jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Thursday, 16 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link

From personal experience:

* Justin Broadrick of Godflesh
* Alex Paterson of The Orb
* Walter Becker

jon123, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link

mary j blige

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link

joan baez?

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link

Mavis Staples

rb (soda), Friday, 17 November 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link

rascall flatts seem like genuinely good dudes... they do a lot of philanthropy... play music for hospitalized children.

who knows though

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link

these guys, obviously

✞ CHRISAGIS BROTHERS ✞ TRIBUTE THREAD ✞

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link

Suzanne Cianni
Alice Coltrane
Masami Akita
Iasos
DJ Harvey
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Joanna Newsom

of course, who knows?

Yelploaf, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link

iasos seems to be into some suspect shit: http://iasos.com/services/index.html#GoddessCouncil

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link

Frank Ocean
Yoko Ono
Gustavo Dudamel
Deerhoof

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link

Oh, and "plausibly" doesn't feature here because I know him to be good, maybe the best person I've ever met: Dan Snaith

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link

that is weird I listened to Andorra today for the first time in ages, it's great

imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link

as he is such a good guy maybe he would lend a sympathetic ear if you asked him to recapture whatever it was that made that album so good

imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link

my parents went backstage during a eurthymics concert when clem burke was drumming for them. they said he was extremely nice and friendly, talked with them a bunch.

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link

oh wow, clem played on the garden too?? this would be on the revenge tour.

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link

"would have been"

brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link

Jack Johnson

banjoboy, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link

Janet Weiss seems fucking rad

― devvvine, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:12 AM

Ken Stringfellow (Posies, REM, etc.) disagrees: http://kenstringfellow.com/2015/02/common-decency/

Birds in Hell, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link

(Kind of over-dramatic, tho.)

Birds in Hell, Friday, 17 November 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link

that really sucks for that guy, for sure, but i feel like i'd need to hear both sides of that story. i mean there could be any number of reasons why she decided not to go through with that project (from his telling i can't tell whether she cancelled at the last minute or literally stood him up without offering an explanation).

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link

Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.

triggercut, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link

Alice Cooper Gibby Haynes Billy Corgan Johnny Ramone

ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link

Moe Tucker on drums

ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link

yeah that story up above isn't too bad, she did record an album with him anyways and plans fell through for further recording in 2003. Quasi released "Hot Shit!" that year and Slater-Kinney was touring with Pearl Jam. imo she kinda did have better things to do.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link

sorry Sleater-Kinney

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link

re upthread Bjork's very guarded about fans, but don't hold that against her. Imagine she's probably quite a good soul

Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 17 November 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link

Cosign Bjork.

Mastodon mostly come across as lovable dorks in interviews.

chap, Friday, 17 November 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link

I think Bjork started being more private after a fan sent him a tape of him commiting suicide.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link

Wait I was misremembering he was actually trying to kill her:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker)

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 November 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link

yoko seems like a v nice person, espec considering all the shit she's been through

Hmmmm, not so sure about that.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link

She might be nice now but I don't think that was always the case.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link

what did Haynes do?

gospodin simmel, Friday, 17 November 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link

Ted Leo... surely that guy's gotta be on this list

enochroot, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link

that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross

feels like this is the key sentence

Yeah, I probably harbored hopes about a relationship that were beyond the reasonable expectations of our encounter, but…I kept that to myself, as best as I could do.


butthurt romeo in massive over-reaction shocker

wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 November 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link

Leo Sayer is a really, really nice dude.

― triggercut, Friday, 17 November 2017 04:03 (nine hours ago)

Lol you are kidding right? His Big Brother appearance was narcissistic catatstrophuck

glumdalclitch, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link

most of you are looking in the wrong places

imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link

that ken stringfellow blog about janet weiss is fucking gross

Agreed. He sounds like a horrible mess.

how's life, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link

Paul McCartney?

prouders, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link

LOL

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link

most of you are looking in the wrong places

― imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:14 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imago, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link


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