rolling enlightening music discussion thread

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that link to the daily swarm re: emp is pretty funny

I was being slightly tongue in cheek their Geir. I mean, pretending to be satan is just plain ridiculous.

-- Fer Ark, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 09:18

This track is indeed, excellent, so excellent. In fact, I'm now listening to it, sped up by 24%, with old rave tracks on top of it, to hear what it would sounds like as an actually happy house song. The question now is why?

-- mehlt, Monday, February 4, 2008 5:42 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

why because it so excellnt

''So I guess John Cage is the greatest punk rocker ever''
B-b-b-but he is!

-- Julio Desouza, Wednesday, June 5, 2002 8:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

Band A is/are the American/ British Band B......

is/are

Hmm, cannot say that I've especially noticed any particularly "hot" mastering on this. Might run it through Audacity later and see what tale the waveform tells.

-- Bill A, Monday, April 28, 2008 8:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

when did "running it through audacity" become the new audiophilia toy

when it became free and vaguely usable to the layman e.g. runs on OS X without having to fire up X11

here come the hot stamper

http://vestfs.com/fckeditor/Inspector.jpg

^ Bill A. yesterday

Hey here's a clip of Alice Cooper doing Eighteen on TV in 1972. This is a cool song, I've never heard it before. I really don't know Alice Cooper's music at all, I admit, except for "School's Out" I guess.

-- Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 12 May 2008 00:49 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

couple of thoughts:

- the Elzhi album/mixtape/tour cd whatever is really, really dope. he is sounding way better than Jay Electronica (not that impressed with this dude) and Guilty Simpson...not sure if this was ever really contested but I'm saying it anyway

- Pusha T is the best right now. The "Everybody Nose" remix is fucking crazy and he absolutely murders it (love the new beat for it, too)

- um, I guess this last one isn't a thought but is there a new(er) TI single floating around? besides "No Matter What"

-- chinchillas they can fit on gorillas, Monday, 12 May 2008 17:16 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Seriously? Cos,like, Kanye's fine by me, but Fiddy, no way.

-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:10 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

House music? OK. Fiddy? No way.

cos like, kanye's, fine, by, me, but, fiddy, no, way, house, music

This album is in need of a poll.

-- van smack, Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:48 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

while L&PT and beardo threads abound, this audacious album statement really deserves its own thread. i saw Lindstrøm DJ the album during SXSW, but nighttime there doesn't quite lend itself to critical faculties (much less remembrance of details like where you parked or how many Shiners downed or what was in that joint). i recall it being much like an extension of his previous DJ affair, epic and expansive yet taking it too far out at the breakdown and losing dancefloor momentum resolutely.

but as an album, it's a sweet suite, the logical extension of wishing that "Supernature" and "Oxygene" were the same song and that it took up a full album side. jokingly, i told a friend that this is the "Ys of Disco" but in retrospect it's the polar opposite of Ys. whereas i found Ys to be stiff, mannered, and decidedly cool, Where I Go is infused with some serious warmth and good vibes. a shame it's out at the end of summer rather than soundtracking it.

-- beta blog

a little of the "casually mentioning" going on in there too

i have kinda missed this thread

I once requested Galang or Bucky Done Gun and the DJ had no clue what I was talking about. I think this has happened more than once...

-- less-than three's Christiane F. (MyNameIsActuallyStev...), November 30th, 2006.

^^^All-time classic post

while L&PT and beardo threads abound, this audacious album statement really deserves its own thread. i saw Lindstrøm DJ the album during SXSW, but nighttime there doesn't quite lend itself to critical faculties (much less remembrance of details like where you parked or how many Shiners downed or what was in that joint). i recall it being much like an extension of his previous DJ affair, epic and expansive yet taking it too far out at the breakdown and losing dancefloor momentum resolutely.

but as an album, it's a sweet suite, the logical extension of wishing that "Supernature" and "Oxygene" were the same song and that it took up a full album side. jokingly, i told a friend that this is the "Ys of Disco" but in retrospect it's the polar opposite of Ys. whereas i found Ys to be stiff, mannered, and decidedly cool, Where I Go is infused with some serious warmth and good vibes. a shame it's out at the end of summer rather than soundtracking it.

-- beta blog

-- omar little, Monday, 16 June 2008 18:53

why the fuck are the proper nouns capitalized but the beginnings of sentences are lowercase

also, lol u read blogs

oh wait beta blog is a username

me = aspie rube

posts that are written like they're being submitted as writing samples are hilarious imo

haha "sweet suite" is the epitome of that

Ladies and gentlemen, the Ys of disco!

pet peeve--writers who do the following:

- they quote something clever an unnamed "friend" said
- they quote themselves saying something clever to an unnamed "friend"
- they quote something clever they overheard from an anonymous fellow audience member

all of the above occur as they're leaving the theater or venue

"soundtracking"

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re. fleet foxes:

I'm sick of Beach Boys affectations. I want people to affect you know uhhhh, something else. I don't know, what's there left to affect?

-- burt_stanton, Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I haven't heard them, but the only thing I read about them involves the Beach Boys

-- burt_stanton, Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:22 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So, Fleet Foxes...

some hard truths from shakey mo

everyone is FTT on the steely dan thread

does quality control just repeat the same hook over and over or was i just jamming a shitty limewire copy back in middle school?

-- J0rdan S., Friday, June 27, 2008 11:30 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

btw sorry for completely missing the point of this thread upthread

there's a big *big* world of context out there that's shaped how any number of acts are received, and Radiohead's a stellar example of one such act.

While I wouldn't argue that context plays no role at all, I guess I do feel pretty absolutely that there's no context in the world that could get me to enjoy or not enjoy the taste of a meal.

And thus with Radiohead, and thus with music in general.

My enjoyment of particular chord progressions and textures, etc. is far too visceral for that.

-- Melissa W, Monday, 11 August 2008 12:12 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

CSS "Rat Is Dead"

-- billstevejim, Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:43 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Flobots "No Handlebars"

-- billstevejim, Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:43 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Would the ting tings count as rock? If so their two singles 'shut up and let me go' and 'great dj' have been pretty big here in Spain and they're insanely catchy.

-- Moka, Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:59 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The Ting Tings count.

-- billstevejim, Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:01 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ugh

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:04 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

flobots and ting tings are so beyond awful

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:04 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Catchy music is for the most part awful.

-- Moka, Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

also rong

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

I have a very strong feeling this album will end up garnishing top slots at the end of the year.

-- Moka, Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:56 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hahahahaha

Jonas Brothers taking ILX by storm!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VQGSB4DXL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

It's hard to write anything too soon about them because it takes so many listens for the layers, details and surprises to reveal themselves. My third listen on headphones on a train ride is what put it over the top for me. After finishing it I was wobbly with vertigo. It felt like the songs corresponded with the neighborhoods that whizzed by, each packed with years of memories and emotions. It's like traveling in an unfamiliar country with a lover, having an intense conversation, getting drunk, arguing, and ending the night at 3 a.m. exhausted from intense make-up sex.

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― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:39 AM Bookmark

Please tell me that's about Alphabeat.

even worse, TV On The Radio

But am I the only person who thinks it's amazing that Norman Cook was in The Housemartins (and Beats International; and The Mighty Dub Katz; and...) before he was Fatboy Slim? Even when "The Rockafeller Skank" hit, no one seemed to think it was a big deal.

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, March 31, 2008 9:38 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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right about now, funk bozelka brutha

― bug, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:45 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Classic material

That Chris Gow revival is the worst shit on ilm for a long time.If you're gonna have gay circle jerk in-gags, at least include hte phrase "SNAKES ON A PLANE!" on them

― Dom Passantino, Friday, February 15, 2008 12:05 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, man! as opposed to the usual self-congratulatory, 'look, ma, i'm cooler than these nerds! no really!!', horseshit being heaped on as it it were going outta style here, right?

weren't you kids breastfed? or are y'all just despereate for any kind of attention you can get? sheesh...pathetic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/detector-1.jpg

oh, lordy! the truth--it hurts!!!