I like the Strokes much more than Television. -- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), August 22nd, 2005 6:27 AM. (link) (userip
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)
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― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
It's more like the distance between being like RIGHTEOUSLY AGGRAVATED and being JON WILLIAMS seems v small if the expression of righteous aggro is this, sometimes.
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)
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― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)
I think it's a FORMAT thing for me, ie when I've d/l-d heap of mp3s & have been at a cybercafe w/headphones on staring at a screen for five hours & I get music off that in 700 megabyte chunks, IMMEDIACY (alt: music I can fall asleep to) is sort've important. as opposed to putting a record on & shit. SET and SETTING. sorry, this is a bit rushed.
Nigel Cox's Tarzan Presley got me into Elvis!
obv. I don't like to be considered part of the ILM hivemind (there's too many ILMs, I mean have you seen how many corny indie fuxx/nu-pigfuck/&c ppl are on it?), esp. as I'm situated on the other side of the world from reificatory &c&c&c's like Poptimism (which is a pretty tiny sliver of &c&c&c, plus they like Bowie anyway! as does, y'know, T1m Finney! & J3ss!) - blah blah being in a hall of residence w/rugbyheads, parents music collection as a teenage consisting of crowded house best-of, queen best-of, aussie cast recording of jesus christ superstar & um that's pretty much it (+ no older brother; best friend for high school had metallica's black album & bob marley's natural mystic; group of girls had spiceworld), unavailability of canonical &c when I was looking for it in dunedin in first year (y'know, when you HAD to get the right CD first, & I couldn't eg find meaty, beaty, big & bouncy & by the time I was in auckland my tastes had changed), blah blah blah. sorry, popped into work & typing this on bosses' cigarette break. gotta go!
― etc, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)
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― di, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
my other context thing wrt my attitudes - I'm knee deep in the pit of vipers/voles that is KARANGAHAPE RD SCENESTERS, people who (with exceptions) don't like pop (well, post-80s, obv) or hip-hop or house or whatever; there's the ex-hardcore kids who're into dancehall (MUSIC FOR BOYS) & that's about it.
― etc, Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)
I honestly do like The Strokes much more than Television because they write catchy pop songs where all the Television I've heard (and believe me, I really tried to get into it), sounded kind of noodling.
There was a bit of flippancy about it because Television's classic status seems to me like a kind of received wisdom (especially in light of my experience with them).
I also have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about how The Strokes are hated on because of the hype that surrounded them (and their privilege/looks/style etc) and all of the attendant hand-wringing on the part of "critics" who I felt were deaf to their obvious musical appeal.
Also, I assure you that I give a sh*t about music. I thought you knew me better than that.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)
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― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)
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― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)
I was also thinking today that I'm sure someone in 1977 thought that Television were better than the VU and I'm sure that someone else also took offense at that or thought that they were symptomatic of a particular kind of nu-crit. I'm also sure that both of those people eventually realized that a deep and shared love of music unites them in a profound way. This is something I have to remind myself when someone coming from a very different place/perspective (much more different than you and me, I think) has a take on some song or act that makes my blood boil.
(finished that while you were posting)
You did not offend me at all and I will listen to "The Blow Up" straight away!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)
i didn't get television until i finally heard "little johnny jewel," which is awesome. i think they're better than the strokes, but i have plenty of contrary opinions that make up for it (none of which come to mind right now...um, maybe i'm getting boring and canonical in my old age!).
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)
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― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
best debut opening segue of all time? i guess the most obvious competition comes from the ramones (blitzkreig bop / beat on the brat / judy is a punk) and VU (sunday morning / waiting for my man / femme fatale)...
― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― etc, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)
Maybe let down by the last one a bit, but easily made up for by a stong opening pair.
― Minty (Minty), Saturday, 10 September 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)
― Livvie (Livvie), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)
WTF THIS THREAD?????
― gershy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 22:24 (eighteen years ago)
bump
― chaki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 22:33 (eighteen years ago)