Not being sarcastic as i seem to always misread everything
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
Well there’s a ton of music that lots of people like that doesn’t end up winning ILM polls
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
one obvious post-punk precursor is the Flying Lizards, fwiw,
KABOOM! This had been bugging me since i first heard them but i couldn't place it and is absolutely spot on. it seems so obvious in hindsight.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
Yes. Whenever someone says "Flying Lizards" I think "monkey banana kitchen" but unfortunately that is pretty seldom what they mean, usually it's "Money" which is obv the case in this case
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
I can't *quite* wrap my head around 'the thing that makes music bad is other people liking it, now that i'm a poptimist,' i must be misreading that.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:33 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
More people liking it just gives it a higher bar to clear, for me. Doesn't make it bad. I'll give anything a fair crack
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 10:09 (one year ago) link
Deflatormouse has a good point re: the haughty, unearned arrogance of Wet Leg too - they come off to me as smug without the sound to back it up, emperor has precious few musical clothes etc. And they slipped SO quickly into stardom that it feels like somehow they always knew they'd be stars - like, the contracts had always been drawn up. Maybe a false perception, but it feels like it's been handed to them on a silver platter (yes I'm one to talk blah blah)
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
That said,
That all said,
I'm happier with ILM discussing Wet Leg than I am with ILM's slow descent into being a classic rock forum (witness that cheerful musicians thread)
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
Now that Wet Leg have showed up on Barack Obama's summer playlist we can all stop talking about them, btw.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, July 26, 2022 4:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
fine, but if you think this will get me to take this Arooj Aftab LP off my turntable, you're nuts
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
I'm happier with ILM discussing Wet Leg than I am with ILM's slow descent into being a classic rock forum
we will all sleep better knowing that.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
Classic or Dud: U2 [Started by Mark Richardson in March 2001, last updated two minutes ago by JoeStork on I Love Music] 55 new answersBruce Springsteen - Classic or Dud ? [Started by Patrick in February 2001, last updated three minutes ago by Josh in Chicago on I Love Music] 87 new answers
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
2001. An ILX Odyssey.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
willingness to meet the artist at least halfway
I think this is important, too. Both the part about meeting the art on its own terms (though I don't know how well -isms or agendas will serve anyone to that end) and also the meeting halfway, the collision between the music and listener, or the idea that art is something that occurs at this meeting point, it's alive, it can't just be stored away and preserved but has to be activated by an audience.
And there's no better example of this on ILM than the Bruce Springsteen thread. What Lily Dale has done there = completing art.
Whenever someone says "Flying Lizards" I think "monkey banana kitchen" Fourth Wall
I always get those two mixed up, apparently
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
hey come off to me as smug without the sound to back it up, emperor has precious few musical clothes etc. And they slipped SO quickly into stardom that it feels like somehow they always knew they'd be stars - like, the contracts had always been drawn up. Maybe a false perception
yeah, that seems a false impression to me. I've seen them twice and they seem to be having a great time, the 2 women clearly having fun together/friends, and perhaps bemused at the whole thing. and the crowds are having fun along with them.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Rhian Teasdale also did the DIY thing; that's probably how she met the bassist-with-management-connections that the Bandcamp writer feels is such a grave injustice (or maybe he's a family friend, who gives a shit)
The idea that each newly formed band has to start fresh and methodically build up a fanbase via touring and self-promotion, before being signed by a succession of ever-bigger labels over a decade, and finally Reaching the Top and Looking Back With Satisfaction is not only boring but like an ethos based on how it may have worked for a particular slice of bands in the '80s (talk about "classic rock")
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
Was looking at who was appearing at Lollapalooza and found another one:
Maude Latour was born in Sweden. Her father is Almar Latour, former executive editor of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones & Company, and her mother is a journalist for S&P Global. She lived in London and attended Hong Kong International School before attending the Brearley School in Manhattan. Latour graduated from Columbia University in 2022 as a philosophy major.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
The Wiki for Remi Wolf says she was born in Palo Alto to "a Sicilian mother and a Russian-Persian father." That mother is Kate McGarrigle, that father is Lenny Waronker. She grew up with Rufus and Lucy Wainwright.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Com3t is Dani Thorne, actor/model/sister to Bella (and other less successful Thorne siblings).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
So Remi Wolf is logstandard indie! (What is Sicilian about Kate McGarrigle, though?)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
remi wolf isn't bad, you couldn't pay me to listen to dow jones jr. tho lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
The dark hilarity of "rich kid indie" is that most of the rich kids who get into it are so fully committed to cosplaying DIY that you can be close friends with them for years and have no clue, none at all, that their entire thing is parent-funded
Generally if you want to know "who's rich?" just follow the loudest voices on Twitter complaining about how "poor" they are
Personally I like it when rich people decide to make albums and pay people to help them, better than them getting into bitcoin and real estate with that money
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
I think also
That it's brutally ironic that this thread is a pile of articles over fifteen years about "the music industry is dying" and "nobody is listening to new music any more"
And then it becomes a pile of shit talk about "a new young rock band comprised of two women signed to Domino records that has become too popular for people's liking" like
There is a correlation here, no?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
“Another one”? None of those artists Josh names are pretending to be “indie”
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
I didn't mean to imply they were pretending to be anything, just kids of privilege who likely had good connections.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
Also the irony of the apparent democratisation of "A full acceptance of all music as having a right to one's approval" - coupled with the proviso of it being judged by individuals on "a case by case base", with an erratic and bizarre set of prejudices (e.g. too popular, didn't pay enough dues on the touring circuit, received hidden patronage or benefited through contacts in the music industry)
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Would be a shame to see a child of Lenny Waronker make it as a musician, huh
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
As I explained already several times, popularity/instafame/loadsamoney/nepotism doesn't preclude it being good, it just means that the acclaim has a higher bar to clear so as to seem justified (to me, the subjective critic, who has a measure of cynicism about how acts sometimes make it in the popular realm). I went and examined my prejudices yesterday by listening to an entire Bad Bunny album - it was good! Maybe today I'll listen to the entire Wet Leg album.
― imago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
It's just another way to skip to the front of the line, I guess. Of course, there *is* no line, and anyone that thinks they're entitled to success in the music industry due to their hard work is almost as bad as someone that uses their privilege as a shortcut. There are far, far more popular acts that came from nothing or nothing special than there are acts that came from particularly privileged backgrounds, and while there *are* some shortcuts, I don't think there is any real rhyme or reason as to who gets successful and how. Even actual talent is generally not enough to get you there.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
I think alsoThat it's brutally ironic that this thread is a pile of articles over fifteen years about "the music industry is dying" and "nobody is listening to new music any more"And then it becomes a pile of shit talk about "a new young rock band comprised of two women signed to Domino records that has become too popular for people's liking" likeThere is a correlation here, no?― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:22 (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:22 (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't see the point being made here. Those articles were surely nonsensical even at the time?
― imago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
xxp you're not a critic until you set out the case law - why you think it's good or not. Until then you're just a bogstandard punter.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
ooooh! well, you're on
― imago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
What is Sicilian about Kate McGarrigle, though?
Per Wikipedia, she was born "in Montreal, Quebec to Irish pianist Francis McGarrigle and French Canadian mother Gabrielle Latrémouille". So, not Sicilian at all.
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Got me. That's just what wikipedia says.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Did Waronker and McGarrigle have children together? Is this some secret thing? I’m suspicious of your intel, Josh
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
lol, maybe there is more than one Remi Wolf? This one apparently was also a competitive downhill skier.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
yeah apparently her real name is remi francis wolf, so idk where that last name would've come from
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
I see that biographical detail on this website (which lists her body type as “Medium fat”) – but it looks “sus,” as the kids say
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
That's just what wikipedia says.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, July 28, 2022 8:26 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the shit you posted wasn't even on wikipedia! christ
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
anyway, the real remi wolf is fun. she's got a song called "grumpy old man" that sounds like "brimful of asha" or "how bizarre," but with a "ramble on" bassline
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
xpost I know! It was just a weirdly generic but still specific entry. I found the other stuff when I googled her. And honestly the only reason I googled further was because she was from Palo Alto, usually a place of privilege, and a childhood competitive skier (ditto) and American Idol candidate. My first suspicion was that she was the child of tech people!
But yeah, I only stumbled on it when I was googling acts I'd never heard of. Frankly, I have a lot of trouble figuring out the Wainwright/Roche/McGarrigle family tree, anyway. I'm not even sure Lenny Waronker and Kate McGarrigle were ever a couple, come to think of it.
Meanwhile, Flea and the kids today
Girls and boys you might not believe this but there was a time when music journalists, when writing about youth culture music, wrote about the music.— Flea (@flea333) July 28, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
The Grateful Dead formed in Palo Alto btw
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
Wish I could go back in time and buy a couple of houses then.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
yeah come on the 2022 median home price in Palo Alto is $*dies*
― rob, Thursday, 28 July 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp)
did that.dog ever "make it"
how about charlie haden's kids, is it ok if they "make it" because he was a jazz bassist
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 July 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
fairly sure morris was being sarcastic
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
Yes, it was a joke (with Anna & Joey in mind).
― slide into my KMFDMs (morrisp), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
ILX: the future of the music industry is arguing about the authenticity of indie rock
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
I also was thinking 20 years ago, or I guess like 17 years.
Sorry, I wasn't intentionally being dismissive. My post was mainly a dig at Tracer Hand's 'post-punk was 40 years ago' comment
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
anyone that thinks they're entitled to success in the music industry due to their hard work is almost as bad as someone that uses their privilege as a shortcut.
definitely not nearly as bad
There are far, far more popular acts that came from nothing or nothing special than there are acts that came from particularly privileged backgrounds
any data on this? Because as far as I can tell this hasn't really been true for a very long time, at least not in indie rock and electronic music. In other genres - metal, rap, jazz, maaaaybe. But I also understand this is a thing we are not supposed to talk about for some reason
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
agreed with deej, this thread should go back to being about calling ted gioia an idiot
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 July 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Deflatormouse, gotcha, no worries! Didn't take it dismissively.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 July 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link