Also note the ad for Edie, by Jean Stein. #onethread
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
Feel like "Herr Richard Wagner, where are you?" is the new "tell that to your new leader, Sting!"
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
The whole piece reminded me of taking my grandmother to a contemporary art exhibition when I was 14, and having her say “I don’t understand why people don’t make beautiful things any more.” The woman was a member of the Communist Party for thirty years and didn’t under shit about art.How can anyone expect a bootlicker like McWhorter to be any better? He might be the worst of the Times columnists afaic, up there with the conservative white dude crue.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 April 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an aesthetic.
This reminds me of that old Guy Tavares interview
― Xii, Monday, 2 May 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/148730/Morrissey-remains-centrestage-as-he-turns-63
What a god amongst us all....
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 May 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
This week - 22nd May, to be precise – music legend Morrissey will be celebrating his 63rd birthday. It's almost inconceivable to staunch critics that the artist has been able to remain so revered, relevant and respected for so long. In the somewhat fickle world of entertainment, to attain the kind of longevity Morrissey has, is an almost impossible feat. Impossible for some, clearly not for the singer himself, who has been releasing music for four decades and who continues to draw vast crowds in the live aren
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
😬
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 May 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
a big scoop for music-news.com
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 May 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
Imagine releasing music and touring in your early sixties. Never been done.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
Morrissey's dedication to music is only surpassed by his devotion to racism
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
It would be hard for even his most stubborn opponents to deny Morrissey possesses that extra “something” - that unique charisma and energy that keeps generations of music-lovers queueing at the barriers. Morrissey fills arenas, theatre stages and festival line-ups around the world, even after 40 years in the business. Looking back to those heady days of The Smiths, where his
etc
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
he fills festival line-ups
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
Did Morrissey write this?
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
Morrissey was a popular racist and he still is
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
My mama don't play no MozI saw her when she turned him off
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 May 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
To many, the Chili Peppers have always been synonymous with sexy time. Flea’s bass has always felt primal, like a playful slap on the ass during passionate lovemaking
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 24 July 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
i mean if you think of how the band envisions themselves . . . probably not completely missing the mark.
but yeah, gross. no.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
The band’s history of accusations of sexual harassment of young women in the music industry makes that gross.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
oof, you're right. even grosser.
(unless maybe the writer is just the smartest guy in the room and that's their way of drawing attention to the band's collective creepiness)
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Sunday, 24 July 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
oh my, curious to see how workshop's "Meiguiweisheng Xiang" was received on release (it's a curious & very successful piece of CAN worship albeit a little more querulous & fey) i stumbled across this on allmusic"While Workshop is similar to other indie-rock attempts at trip-hop (Broadcast, Portishead), the sub-par vocals and anemic production values sink the album."erm...
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link
I'm still dying of gross from that Chili Peppers review.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:05 (two years ago) link
Dig around in the context and biography behind a famously ambiguous and opaque song until you can find a vague snippet to support a tenuous reading in the service of half-assed fashionable politics, avoid looking at the content of the work itself closely enough that it might challenge your fantasy, profit (not really).
6.Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)As much as anything, it was a breakup song. “Who will be the king and queen of the outcasted teens?” Kurt Cobain asked in a discarded lyric from an early draft of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” One of his biographers is pretty sure he was talking about Tobi Vail, the “over-bored” and “self-assured” riot grrrl vanguardist. The two of them had had a brief romance, which she ended, and Cobain responded in the manner of so many thwarted, sensitive young men, turning rejection into a synecdoche for the oppressions of life writ large. He filled up his journal with violent fantasies and weird drawings. His friends started to worry. And somewhere in this burst of energy, Cobain wrote the perfect pop song.A denial, a denial, a denial. It hangs over “Teen Spirit” like bad weather. Call it the teenage boy’s blues—a young dude’s awakening to the fact that he is caught in the crosswinds of, like, the whole system, man, that panders to him, that fires his imagination, and then constrains him, tells him to chill. Very often it’s sex being denied. Sometimes it’s a car, which is just sex at one remove. Maybe it’s money or a fix. Whatever their subject, the teenage boy’s blues have been the very stuff of pop music since around the time Chuck Berry went motorvatin’ after that Coupe DeVille. The result has been a great deal of regrettable pop songs, but on occasion there have been transcendent exceptions, like the lead single off of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Above all it rips, even still, from that first Gap Band flam to the last, exhausted denial. It’s got a screamy part and a soft part, and right at the point where you expect the song to fuzz out and go totally to shit, there’s a crisp guitar solo that restates the vocal melody from the verse, almost as if Cobain were satirizing himself and having a damn good time of it.Well, he probably was, right? Self-doubt is everything in “Teen Spirit.” The song famously stands outside itself, mocking its own postures, hating its own apathy and irresolution, anthemic in its insistence on being unanthemic: “Oh well, whatever, never mind.” I remember the girls in middle school who had Cobain’s photo taped up in their lockers and thinking how funny it was that they were treating this king of the outcasts like something they'd clipped out of Tiger Beat. But of course they were the ones who were actually seeing Cobain clearly—that underneath all the marketing and self-mythology and fraying cardigans there was a true pop idol, beautiful, androgynous, too wounded to be threatening, a troubadour of their uncertainty. He sang as if he were owed something. That’s the teenage boy’s blues. In the next breath he wondered if he was worthy of any of it. That’s a blues for everyone else. –Tommy Craggs
A denial, a denial, a denial. It hangs over “Teen Spirit” like bad weather. Call it the teenage boy’s blues—a young dude’s awakening to the fact that he is caught in the crosswinds of, like, the whole system, man, that panders to him, that fires his imagination, and then constrains him, tells him to chill. Very often it’s sex being denied. Sometimes it’s a car, which is just sex at one remove. Maybe it’s money or a fix. Whatever their subject, the teenage boy’s blues have been the very stuff of pop music since around the time Chuck Berry went motorvatin’ after that Coupe DeVille. The result has been a great deal of regrettable pop songs, but on occasion there have been transcendent exceptions, like the lead single off of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Above all it rips, even still, from that first Gap Band flam to the last, exhausted denial. It’s got a screamy part and a soft part, and right at the point where you expect the song to fuzz out and go totally to shit, there’s a crisp guitar solo that restates the vocal melody from the verse, almost as if Cobain were satirizing himself and having a damn good time of it.
Well, he probably was, right? Self-doubt is everything in “Teen Spirit.” The song famously stands outside itself, mocking its own postures, hating its own apathy and irresolution, anthemic in its insistence on being unanthemic: “Oh well, whatever, never mind.” I remember the girls in middle school who had Cobain’s photo taped up in their lockers and thinking how funny it was that they were treating this king of the outcasts like something they'd clipped out of Tiger Beat. But of course they were the ones who were actually seeing Cobain clearly—that underneath all the marketing and self-mythology and fraying cardigans there was a true pop idol, beautiful, androgynous, too wounded to be threatening, a troubadour of their uncertainty. He sang as if he were owed something. That’s the teenage boy’s blues. In the next breath he wondered if he was worthy of any of it. That’s a blues for everyone else. –Tommy Craggs
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I remember the girls in middle school who had Cobain’s photo taped up in their lockers and thinking how funny it was that they were treating this king of the outcasts like something they'd clipped out of Tiger Beat. But of course they were the ones who were actually seeing Cobain clearly—that underneath all the marketing and self-mythology and fraying cardigans there was a true pop idol, beautiful, androgynous, too wounded to be threatening, a troubadour of their uncertainty.
He was a good-looking rock star, it's not that complicated...
― "Cool ranch dressing!" (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
yeah that is awful wtf
― rob, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Sometimes I see a vague resemblance between Kurt and a 1970ish James Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0FJUVo-BaM
Must be the sweater
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
kurt was way hotter imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
that's bcz he was beautiful, androgynous, too wounded to be threatening, a troubadour of our uncertainty
not even joking
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
I swear, something about this song produces the absolute direst music writing
― jmm, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
well, a key line is "here we are, entertain us"
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is a Men’s Rights anthem, and that’s okay
― SincereLee 'Scratch' Perry (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
treasure trove of lol terrible writing in here (alongside some not-terrible writing)
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/musicians-on-their-favorite-albums-of-the-90s/
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 October 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
Dawn Richard on Throwing Copper: "This album had a lot of layers for me. It was the lyrical journey that I found myself loving the most."
The 90s revisiting/revival has produced a lot of shocking takes but "I'm into Live for the lyrics" is one that I may never recover from
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
I'm not in the least surprised she'd like it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
harsh - i thought you liked her!
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
I do. Many artists like shitty music and write better music based on their affection for the shitty music.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
It's hard to imagine Dawn Richard's agon with Ed Kowalczyk, it's true.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
Jewel's entry is somehow far more embarrassing. Almost poll-worthy
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
xp I don't see the revisiting/revival in that quote. the album came out when she was 10.
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
not the quote itself but the piece that produced it, which is part of pforks current big 90s deep dive feature
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
lol that jewell blurb is gold
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
truly a masterclass in making everything about Jewel
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Mike Kinsella (American Football) Back in the ’90s, hamburgers sucked, moms and dads weren’t ironic, and “’90s albums” were just called “albums.” The one album that probably influenced me the most is Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.Hamburgers sucked(?) What does that mean
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
it means he thought they were bad not good
― mark s, Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
maybe he meant "Hamburglar sucked"
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
I really like what the American Football guy wrote. also thing the Slowdive guy wrote some good stuff about Cranes.
― charlie rex, Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
thing = think
How have hamburgers changedIs it a Mad Cow joke?(I also don’t get the “moms and dads” thing)
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Thursday, 6 October 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
We didn't have fast casual burger joints in the 90s
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 October 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
the moms and dads thing I think is in line with how every commercial and kids show is made by aging hipsters these days
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 October 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Trying to parse the burgers thing, since I'm procrastinating anyway: maybe he's talking about the rise of places like Five Guys and In & Out Burger and other relatively upscale (ie more expensive) franchises as alternatives to McDonalds and Burger King, but that's just a wild guess, I'm a vegetarian, I dunno
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 October 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link