who is Bob Lefsetz?

The soul of an investment banker.

Steve Perry At The Orpheum

It was wasted on the Eels’ audience.

Lmao

Uber is kind of like the Beatles

And what did Uber do best…STICK IT TO THE MAN!

Who’s sticking it to the man in music?

I’d opine that music IS THE MAN!

who among us is bob lefsetzest?

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But that was back when music ruled the world. When it was seen as the preeminent art form. Before nitwits like Iggy Azalea ruled and a big hit song was entitled “Wiggle,” back when there were two avenues, the mainstream and the underground, and the true music fans were members of the underground, forget all those pop charts, no one listened to hit radio back then, we all smoked dope, grew our hair and dedicated ourselves to the slow-talking deejays on FM.

Hit radio sucks today, but it's not like in the 60s, man, when hit radio sucked.

from the excerpts people are posting it feels like his newsletters are being "written" by an AI program called CrankyBoomerBot

(i unsubbed a while back and man my inbox/sanity are all the better for it)

It's not like it's the first song named Wiggle though!

Put your money where your mouth is Bob, grow your hair again

I actually love his assertion that no one uses printers anymore, and that each of us would have to really think to remember the last time we did.

When last did I? Yesterday did I print!

The printer thing is hilarious because it's more an indication that big Lef hasn't had an actual job in a long time

haha yeah, it also felt like older fellow proving he was up on things. "No one prints anymore, they just download the newspaper to their Google glasses!"

But that was back when music ruled the world. When it was seen as the preeminent art form. Before nitwits like Iggy Azalea ruled and a big hit song was entitled “Wiggle,” back when there were two avenues, the mainstream and the underground, and the true music fans were members of the underground, forget all those pop charts, no one listened to hit radio back then, we all smoked dope, grew our hair and dedicated ourselves to the slow-talking deejays on FM.

Hit radio sucks today, but it's not like in the 60s, man, when hit radio sucked.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:32 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly don't know if this is real lefsetz or parody

real.

And I'm not complaining. Well, maybe I am. What I'm saying is I can't feed back, can't have intellectual discussion, because if I respond just once, I'm going to be the recipient of e-mail for YEARS!

And I know so many of you are reasonable. But I want to give you the perspective from where I sit. To know that you are not alone. That we live in an incomprehensible world where the dumb reign and the smart check out.

Can totally see this dude going down in a government standoff, felled behind a barricade built out of boxes of unsold Seven Mary Three albums.

[Ezra] Klein has a new perspective on the news. That it’s being covered like a sport, with daily winners and losers, and if you’re not paying attention, you’re left out. Klein says he’s into stories that live on the web, that have life after their initial posting, kind of like the page on the secret menu at In-N-Out, which got little traction at first, but over the years has gotten tons.

(Hey, there’s a music analogy there! Your record may be number one for a week, but have the shelf life of milk, listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?) So Klein’s new site has explanatory stories, for those who don’t follow the news with a passion, like the above one on Iraq. I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.

I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.

listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?

I am literally listening to it right now while using my printer.

the future of music is "what is a solange"

Tarfumes, get with the times! All the cool hip young ppl are listening to Journey in Spotify and scanning Ezra Klein headlines

lol

This all so tragically pathetic and then you still have to factor in the fact that Lefsetz pops the collars on his Polo shirts

The guys were not only topless, but bottomless. You could see their wee-wees only inches away. And being a guy, I’m icked out by the visuals, but I’m always comparing and contrasting, wondering how I measure up. And I must say, for all the limp dicks, I did see some tiny units, that would make Howard Stern feel like a man, and unlike George on “Seinfeld,” on this hot nearly-summer day they couldn’t claim shrinkage.

And then came the women. Like I said, at first I thought it was a gay thing, men letting their freak flags fly.

And the first women weren’t topless. They had halter tops.

And then I saw breasts.

Tiny perky ones. Lumpy ones. Huge ones on skinny girls. It was a cornucopia of tits.

And being the red-blooded male I am, I surf my share of porn, I’ve seen pictures, it’s not like the sixties and seventies, the days of stag films and adult book shops. All you’ve got to do is Google.

But this was different. Because these were living, breathing women. Real people. Who chose to let it all hang out.

And I’m getting the sense that Felice wants to move on. But I can’t really let this opportunity pass. It’s like keeping a kid from candy. I wasn’t gonna cry if pulled away, but I was going to be disappointed.

omg

someone get lefsetz a doctor

love that he got a it's-not-like-the-sixties in there.

YOU COULD SEE THEIR WEE WEES

the nipples were different then

And as the parade wound on, there were more and more women, it turned out the men were leading. And they had their coochie-coos on their bike seats. Didn’t this hurt?

Then again, on the ride home, Felice kept saying that the men’s penises must have made for an uncomfortable ride. I said this was not the case, that it was no worse than usual, that our balls…sat on the saddle. But didn’t women’s, er, vaginas, wasn’t that painful?

Felice said nope.

it took him a second to remember the word for vagina

better than saying coochie-coo to felice

worked on mrs robinson

ur-vaginas

that was so thoroughly embarrassing that I actually feel bad mocking this guy

I do like his bold assertion that there is a qualitative difference between seeing nudity in person v. on the internet

he really succeeds in communicating to his audience that it's his first time seeing boobs in real life

lefsetz is what happens when you give every 50-60 year old man who writes 400-word diatribes in the comments of every major newspaper article a website and a newsletter

Poor James Taylor, done in by tech at first, but now maybe he has a shot

Late last night doing my back exercises I decided to compare streaming services. Spotify is my default, I recreated a playlist in Beats Music and then I did the same thing in WIMP, and I was wowed.

Now let's be clear, getting lossless music from Norway ain't that easy, there are streaming interruptions, which is why I decided to sync/download the tracks, and they were a REVELATION!

I'm a big believer we get the music we deserve, that the reason compressed beat-driven music dominates is it's the only thing that sounds good on the listening devices we're employing. In other words, you're not gonna get a new James Taylor if you've got to listen to compressed music on your phone via earbuds. But if you improved the quality of the sound would that not only make people take more care in the creation of sounds, but also branch out and put an effort into that which today is so often a second-class citizen?

Now I'm not talking 256kbps, never mind 320. Lossless is equivalent to CD.

Whenever I see this thread title I think of:

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Lefsets saw Five Seconds of Summer and One Direction at the Rose Bowl:

The opening act was Five Seconds Of Summer, and I kept listening for the hard drives, but there were none. Yes, the popsters faking it should be very afraid, because 5SOS could actually play! And sing! And harmonize! I was nearly flabbergasted. This is not how it's supposed to be!

But they're Australian. The Aussie acts have always been superior players. Because down under you earn your stripes gig by gig, if you don't deliver live, you've got no chance.

bwa-ha-ha-ha! I admit though, I haven't been to a big rock show in years upon years. Is this "listening for the hard drives" anywhere close to a real thing?

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You left out the best part

"And that was who were there. Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a 1D show. You won't see odds this good at the prison of "Orange Is The New Black." An endless sea of barely pubescent girls, screaming their heads off."

Lmao

OMFG.

barfs, calls police.

...

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