So I disconnected the Bridge attached directly to the ethernet cable twice, but that didn't work, but then I remembered there was a Bridge hidden on the stereo rack and I unplugged and replugged that and voila! I can hear music! But then the desktop app asks whether I want to update it and I'm worried it's going to install the new app which won't work with one of my old Bridges but I took the risk, and it all worked. I need everything to work. Of course I could have just used the iPhone app, which was up to date and worked fine, but I'm a stickler, I get satisfaction when everything works right, it makes me feel good, it's that extra one or two percent that gets you to the ultimate, which was what I was trying to achieve listening to this new MoFi Ultradisc vinyl Eagles album, but...It sounded great, but it sounded slow.
It sounded great, but it sounded slow.
Would like to hear Wallace Shawn read today’s letter.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 26 September 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link
And Kelefa Sanneh, the "New Yorker" writer, has a new book about major labels and "Seven Genres." Sanneh was born in 1976, if he wants to write about hip-hop, fine, but what does this guy know about the history of rock and roll, this is the guy who popularized the inane word "rockism." Huh?We were addicted to the radio, to music in a way almost no one is today. And we didn't go to the show to shoot selfies, it wasn't about us, but them, the people on stage.
We were addicted to the radio, to music in a way almost no one is today. And we didn't go to the show to shoot selfies, it wasn't about us, but them, the people on stage.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 25 October 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
christ what an asshole
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 October 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
"if he wants to write about hip hop, fine" is pretty fucking odious
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 October 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
Wow fuck that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 October 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
WOW
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 25 October 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
What does this guy know about the history of Rock'n'Roll, this guy who is <checks notes> 45 years old?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 October 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
really gross
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 25 October 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
lefsetz says some silly inelegantly-expressed things but he doesn't strike me as a bad person. popism was a not so thinly-veiled attack on boomers so let's not head for our fainting couches when a boomer gets ticked off.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 25 October 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
are you a boomer yourself
― Murgatroid, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
And you were fans of certain acts and bought their new albums without hearing them first. But then you listened to FM radio to find out what else was great. That was the culture, you needed to know, the country ran on music, maybe the entire world. The musicians were testing limits, pushing the envelope, and then it all imploded. It was a golden era and you only know this if you lived through it and most people did not and get it all wrong.
This feels to me like someone who judges the current state of literature by what books are sold in his supermarket
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Based on what I saw in said section yesterday in Walgreens, it's a lot of shirtless cowboys.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
But I like Cormac McCarthy
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
how does this guy make his money
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
first they came for the boomers and i did nothing, for i was not a boomer
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
Doesn't he give expensive speeches to tech executives and corporate scumbags older than himself who want to feel clued-in?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
I wonder if he gets a percentage of the streaming money for “Fuck Like A Beast”
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
Sanneh was born in 1976, if he wants to write about hip-hop, fine
sanneh's next article: why hiphop exposes all previous genres (and their fans) to be the assholes that they are.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
There’s “out of touch Boomer,” and then there’s “telling a Black music critic he should stick to hip hop.”
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
i guess? 63? old enough to think that deliberately misreading his (admittedly silly) comment on age as being about race is disingenuous.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 25 October 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
ok boomer
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 25 October 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
the rap against ageism
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 25 October 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
I just finished the Sanneh book. It's good, and it's nothing if not well-researched. It's about more than just one generation's perception of rock 'n' roll, which may be what throws Lefsetz. Also, it's explicitly about the evolution of the major genres from 1970 on so it's not trying to tell the whole history of rock 'n' roll (although there's some backtracking to provide relevant context).
Not being that familiar with Lefsetz's schtick, I would be curious when exactly in his opinion "it all imploded."
― Josefa, Monday, 25 October 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
when exactly in his opinion "it all imploded."
When they stopped playing Doobie Brothers deep tracks on the radio.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
the exact moment he crossed the 50% baldness threshold
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 October 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
When he caught WRKI I95 NOT playing three Led Zeppelin sings in a row without a commercial break on “Get the Led Out Monday.”
― Typo? Negative! (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
it's important to remember who the real victim is here!
So this ignorant punk uses the N-Word. He's so dumb and uninformed that he doesn't realize only Black people can utter it, like Dave Chappelle at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. But Wallen, like the rest of young America, has listened to a zillion rap songs, he's invested in the culture, because hip-hop is American culture, but since he's living in the boonies he doesn't know how to behave, what he can say or what he can't. It's not like he used the N-Word as a put-down, in fact it was as a term of endearment. That doesn't justify its use, but the penalty here far outweighs the crime.
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
i think i'd like to start an online harassment campaign to get this fucking dunce to just shut up. I'VE HAD ENOUGH DAMMIT.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
lefsetz can't be canceled because nobody knows what the hell he does
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
that's what i mean, i don't want him to be "CANCELLED" or whatever — just stop talking, friend. we're all tired of it.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
nobody knows what the hell he does
Professional Cloud Yeller At-er
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
in that case, maybe he can be canceled by a lightning bolt
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
yes, there are record stores, selling vinyl, catering to the diehards, but the truth is the masses have moved on to streaming, on demand, and there are always Luddites and fetishists keeping the old game alive. Hell, people ride HORSES!
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKFaGDrOfrI
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
it's amazing how his big insight is "streaming is popular" and he just keeps repeating it forever
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
And the biggest star to die is John Madden. Bigger than the passing of Harry Reid. And you know why...BECAUSE HE WAS HONEST!
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 December 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
i've written about a dozen different responses to that and have deleted all of them because i think it's reached a point where i don't understand the joke anymore. legitimately confused here.
but i mean . . . okay, sure. get 'em, lef!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Friday, 31 December 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
When was the last time we had a "Squid Game" in the music business...GNARLS BARKLEY?
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 January 2022 05:05 (two years ago) link
Put this man out to pasture
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 January 2022 05:06 (two years ago) link
A similar dynamic is at play when comparing BTS’ Butter with Adele’s Easy on Me. Easy on Me was the cultural moment, with the massive initial wave of listening soon dropping off, while Butter was a cultural movement, which sustained throughout the first 6 days of release at pretty much the same level. Adele was Bond, while BTS was Squid Game – perhaps no coincidence that their nationalities match too.
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/adele-is-bond-and-bts-is-squid-game%EF%BF%BC/
The letter is interesting because he makes an interesting observation but just absolutely whiffs on the follow-up and clearly has no metric for anything beyond "people I talk to on the internet"
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
Like if the numbers/cultural impact reveals anything, it's how much the "conversation" is — and always has been — driven by the likes and whims of middlebrow white people
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
Easy on Me is 10 on the US Spotify Top 50 US and 6 on Top 50 GlobalButter isn't on either chart
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
Lefsetz should stick to rapping.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 January 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
I need Lefsetz to get into NFTs. I need this to live
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 27 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
I just got a Mellow Leffy NFT
https://media.wired.com/photos/5a9f4096afa4b44b413e5695/master/pass/mf_lefsetz_f.jpg
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 January 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
omg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 January 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
OK, years of giving him shit, so going to just say this one on Neil Young, Rogan, and disinformation is good, despite
So we're supposed to give Rogan a pass because there are worse offenders? How do we stop the insanity? Where's Susan Powter when we need her!
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 29 January 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
Awards shows are dead. Come up with something different. I could give and have given multiple ideas, but the Grammy organization doesn't listen
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
lol
― ass time permits (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link