An unprintable modifier, you guys! Pop music is sure crazy these days, lol
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
I too am faggot about leaving
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
Felcher
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
lmao fgti
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 06:03 (four years ago) link
I checked out the song; it’s a few degrees better / more interesting than the description makes it sound, IMO (another failure of the writing).
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 06:30 (four years ago) link
Wow, you know, I’m really excited about Alex Cameron (musician) and I couldn’t imagine that somebody could be presented with his brilliant and rich and ripe-for-analysis body of work so far and instead rip it to shreds while doing a diarrhea
https://www.beat.com.au/the-best-and-weirdest-alex-cameron-lyrics/
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 July 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/magazine/neil-young-streaming-music.html
― maura, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
you will not trick me that easily, maura
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
wow that was awful, and I love Neil Young
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
You weren't kidding, huh. This a masterclass in abysmal writing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Also, lol @ '“I really wish this interview hadn’t happened,” he later said, seeming more downhearted than angry.'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
That’s another thing about Young that rescues him from nihilism and self-pity: He does stuff, even if what he does sometimes seems loony.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
One thing I really do appreciate about Young is all the....ugh what do you call it (*gestures*) you know “stuff” he does.
― omar little, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
From the comments section:
This article is painstakingly beautiful. If you have a child that is atypical in your life, it will pierce your soul. This sentence at the end made me cry. “His lesson Is that everything human is shot through with imperfection. Filtering that out doesn’t make us more perfect; it makes us sick. He’s a great artist, which means that he sees and hears more, which may make him a loon, but is also why he is still worth listening to.” The way David Samuels wrote this article conveys such love; love of Neil’s music, love for his son, love for something we’ve lost in streaming music. Thank you, thank you for reminding us that music touches our souls, hearts, and brains and that to dumb it down is just plain dumb!!!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
comments are awful as well, do not wade in
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs.
Neil, I have some good news for you my dude.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
lol they shit on Zuck only to praise Edison further down
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
this article is now frontrunner for the thread title imo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
His ire this afternoon, directed through me and my notebook and my Sony digital recorder,
I was hoping to soothe the old rock star, who spoke to me through the headphones of my Sony Walkman at the moments I felt most isolated and alone.
someone tell me at the end they reveal this is an advertorial for sony
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
no such luck, but did you hear that "high-end consumer digital-sound-recording systems" were made by companies such as Sony?
― maffew12, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
His music helped shape the melodic-depressive post-Beatles catalog of Pacific Northwest angst, which was brought to its songwriting peak by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Elliott Smith, the Irving Berlin and Cole Porter of suicidal ideation and addiction. Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994. Smith, who was an even more intimate songwriter, in the same catchy, brilliant, self-pitying vein, stabbed himself through the heart and bled to death on Oct. 21, 2003, in an apartment in Los Angeles. While the circumstances of both deaths are disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably still here.
sorry this is outstandingly bad
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
the Irving Berlin and Cole Porter of suicidal ideation and addiction
idk this is p hilarious
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
anything goes
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Kurt Cobain jazz hands
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
sirius should be simplified to 3 stations: pre-Beatles, Beatles, and Radio Margaritaville (post-Beatles)
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
post-Beatles catalog of Pacific Northwest angst
I think my favorite part of this is the implication that between 1969 and 1989, *nothing* happened in the Pacific Northwest
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
like, why are the Beatles even in that sentence?
i'm fascinated by the choice to wait until the fifth time he mentions elliot roberts, 20 paragraphs in, after describing elliot's porch, after watching tv in elliot's living room, and after elliot orders pizza for everybody, to point out that elliot is not currently alive.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
the reveal happens in this sentence, a masterpiece of bad editing:
His second studio album — and first with his longtime band Crazy Horse — “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” is my personal favorite Neil Young record, and was also Elliot Roberts’s favorite (he died two months ago).
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
last sentence from Brad's quotation is also a tour de force of bad independent clause usage
― rob, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Courtney Love paid the Mentors dude to kill Kurt, but Neil Young is still alive
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Biggie killed Elliot Smith
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
he killed elliot roberts, too, iirc
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
How in the world does that sentence quoted by fcc even make it through the lightest of editing?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
While the circumstances of both deaths are disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably still here.
this is, indisputably, an amazing way to make a non sequitur immune to criticism for being a non sequitur
― j., Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
what's with all these comments about how ppl don't know how music is supposed to sound bc they only listen to streaming? i go to concerts regularly, play piano every day -- i think i know what music is supposed to sound like. i also use spotify extensively. it sounds fine.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
pbbbbbblt
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
that's why it's so bad, it's even ruined your ears for real music, ruined. ruined!!
― j., Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Soon as I saw the thread revive, I knew it was this article. One gem is his description of Mozart as "perhaps the most perfectly structured and at the same time most effortlessly fluid sound that human beings have ever made." [fart joke redacted]
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
While the circumstances of both deaths are disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably still here (Elliot Roberts died two months ago).
― mick signals, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Was this piece edited by a quahog?
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
while kurt cobain and elliot smith were perhaps "chris gaines" style projects of neil young, "neil young" is indisputably an ongoing project of neil young
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Young got mad about his Facebook user agreement, which not even his high-priced lawyers can untangle. “I’m pissed off about my user agreement,”
― devvvine, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
...Young says, using an unprintable post-Beatles slang phrase for anger [make sure to check w/NYT whether actually unprintable]
― mick signals, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
While Bush's involvement in 9/11 is disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably there in the melodic-depressive grunge music of Bush.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
I would like to be thought of as the Lorenz Hart, or possibly the Ira Gershwin, of suburban ennui and tipsiness.
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
a heartless suggestion
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
well I don't think we should overlook Queensryche, the Rodgers/Hammerstein of 80s Pacific Northwest fantasy metal
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
ÿ
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
ÿeah ÿeah I wasn't sure how to make that sÿmbol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link