king lear is discussed throughout the article
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
at least throughout the first couple paragraphs, which is all i read
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
CORDELIA: I cannot heave my heart into my mouth
― all we are is durst in the wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
Cordi B
― jmm, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
but Regan Thee Stallion
― rob, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
Omg y'all I'm dyyyyin over here lol
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
thou borest thy ass on thy back o'erthe dirt
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 August 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
shall I compare Thee to a Hot Girl Summer's day?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 17 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
i thought you meant country matters
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
once a week is ample
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
i looked up the author and slack-dare pieces like this are his wheelhouse
― maura, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
“Megan Thee Stallion” sounds like a Billy Childish project
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
If, like me, you spent an unfortunate amount of your young adult life digging through the record stacks at thrift stores, you probably realized it at some point: Nobody actually listened to Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. Setting a period picture montage of Vietnam protests and assassination to footage to "All Along the Watchtower" is Boomer Whig history. The crates don't lie: Most people were listening to Andy Williams and Herb Alpert, not whatever San Francisco Blueshammer crap you just bought in a deluxe vinyl reissue.
Until very recently the ghost of easy listening still haunted FM radio. But Train and Savage Garden were just neutered and spayed version of the same adolescent product you could hear on the top 40 station in the late '90s, not an attempt to do something radically different, much less "adult." The good news, though, is that nothing really stands in the way of an easy listening revival. (The only reason Cheek to Cheek didn't work is that Tony Bennett no longer has the pipes and Lady Gaga never will.)Spend a month alternating between old Angel pressings of Beethoven symphonies and Perry Como. I bet you will never want to hear an overdriven guitar again.
Spend a month alternating between old Angel pressings of Beethoven symphonies and Perry Como. I bet you will never want to hear an overdriven guitar again.
https://theweek.com/articles/827454/strange-death-easy-listening
Someone needs to tell this guy about the Easy Listening revival that happened around twenty-five years ago, it'd blow his mind.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
That was more of a hipster thing, though, right? In the 80s, we still had radio stations that played this stuff. Sitcom themes were sung by Johnny Mathis instead of Barenaked Ladies. "Feelings" was a song that everyone knew. Someone who wants that world back is still waiting. Even the adult contemporary chart is now topped by people like Maroon 5 and Post Malone; there's not even a Celine Dion. (Maybe Adele??)
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
That said, I have a bunch of these records and I still prefer Hendrix (who I don't think was ever sold to me as 'what everyone listened to in the 60s').
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
That opening is stupid though. Obviously "nobody listened to Hendrix" is hyperbole, which fine I'm not that pedantic, but then saying it's anachronistic to play it over footage of protestors, presumably among the small minority of people who maybe actually did listen to Jimi (unless dude has never seen Woodstock?), makes you seem like a bullshitter in the Frankfurt sense.
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, not saying the article is any good. Do non-Nrx people talk about 'Whig history' btw?
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
I've never heard that phrase.
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
what is NRX? In my line of work "Whig history" is definitely something people talk about.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Whig history is a standard designation in historiography ime
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
NRX = dark enlightenment
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
i.e., neo-reactionary
(I am also today literally working on Whig history, as in, history of the Whigs (well, of one prominent Whig in particularly, and of his Whigness, fwiw))
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
dark enlightenment? think I will stay away.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
I feel like Mordy started a thread on it at some point, but maybe it was just a strand within the alt-right one?
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
yeah I don't touch that stuff
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
I also don't get the premise of the crate-digging revelation. Maybe he's not finding a lot of Hendrix records because everyone's hanging onto them(?)
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
Oh cool, thanks, genuinely didn't know it was a mainstream historical term. Yeah, you're fine staying away from NRx.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
yeah I'm not a chart nerd, but this whole list seems like a solid refutation of the claim: https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-10-19
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
It's a shame about Land amidst other NRx stuff, because some of his earlier thought is really insightful. He allowed me to feel like I really understood Kant for the first time. The turn toward fascism, while not totally surprising in retrospect, is very disappointing.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Whig-Interpretation-of-History-300x460.jpg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
"whig interpretation of history" is absolutely a milquetoast idea in the political analysis history, not something invented by or a gateway drug for the nrx
this is the classic text: https://cdn.waterstones.com/bookjackets/large/9780/4137/9780413772701.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
correct
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
Yeah, completely believe it, not contesting that at all. Just a testament to my ignorance of political history scholarship that I came across it in the context of NRx guys who wanted to redpill the Whig version of history.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
which tbf is what the easy listening guy wants to do
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
it's not actually a very good way to think about history!
ps i am not a nazi
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
mark s confirmed nazi, just as I suspected.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
lots of questions already answered by mark s’s “i am not a nazi” t-shirt
― solo scampito (mh), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
mark s is the lead singer of Laibach.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
eighteen thirty four, i took the whig party to war,
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/10/1/21494313/radiohead-best-songs-ranked
Radiohead is immune to hyperbole. Many will say “Radiohead is the soundtrack to my life,” and those people aren’t wrong. Others will say “Radiohead is so boring. I don’t get it,” like Kid Rock did in 2001, and … well, who is going to argue Radiohead with the guy who wrote “Bawitdaba”? The fact is Radiohead is Radiohead, existing in its own musical world. Similar to predecessors like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and R.E.M., Radiohead has legions of fans, and endless cycles of rereleased, remastered, and reappraised albums. It’s with good reason. For the past 25 years, these five creeps have defined alternative rock.
The fact is Radiohead is Radiohead
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
For the past 25 years, these five creeps have defined alternative rock.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Christian suburbanites
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
where is the lie???
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
… well, who is going to argue Radiohead with the guy who wrote “Bawitdaba”?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Furthermore, I am me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Anticipation for the OK Computer follow-up built a comparable head of buzz to Britney Spears doing it again, Eminem threatening moms, and Mystikal yelling, “Shake ya ass, but watch yourself.”
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Just saw the author's name. What if this is all a ploy by the similarly named Icelandic band of Ágætis byrjun fame to dislodge their direct competitors in the annals?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.cjnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Burning-Bush-Moses-Ten-Commandments-Movie.jpg
Radiohead is that Radiohead is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
head of buzz to Britney Spears
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link