Not sure I agree but that argument would be that a more narrative form is easier to comprehend fully when it's experienced fewer times?
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
Pop music is so mercurial; perhaps its impetus to endless, relentless mutation makes it seem more psychically intimidating to tackle critically?
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I ask that question particularly when the reviewer has one of those 27 disc sets to review...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
I believe a lot of albums got lousy reviews particularly when they were double (or treble) lLP sets, so god knows how etc..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link
who said that dancing abt architecture line? that is so annoying ppl always quote that like it's some big truth bomb no one's ever heard before
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Zappa, I think
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
that would make sense who could possibly have a big enough brain to understand zappa's complex 5/4 polyrhythmic varese-influenced doo wop dick jokes?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
who said that dancing abt architecture line
- Bob Marley
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
http://inspirationalquotes.gallery/wp-content/uploads/Talking-about-art-is-like-dancing-about-architecture.pngRIP
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
well, this is actually pretty fucking fascinating!
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/
so...Martin Mull! but it was sort of floating around in different forms since the early 1900s
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
would be more accurate if changed to "jumping off architecture"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
my preferred form is "writing about music is like bombing about architecture"
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
i know a lot of architects - i'd say writing about music is not that dissimilar to architecture, as far as bitterness, lack of remuneration, and fury at the incompetence of the successful goes.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
maybe life is like architecture.
i used to love writing about music and then i hit a point where i felt i had nothing interesting enough to say in the review/essay format about music any more (and i've since grown skeptical that 99% of other ppl have plumbed + exhausted the same wells) and then doing it just became tedious and rote. there are only so many adjectives, so many contexts. i did some ethnomusicology at that point which was better because then i could write about communities and do more intensive research and then sometimes transmute academic research into more publishable reviews. even then tho... there was something staid about the entire enterprise + i found it unsatisfying. when i found myself writing about emo + teenpop albums in the context of radical 19th century politics i realized that the jig was really up and i was just wasting my own time (and probably everyone else's). now i feel like the only music crit that interests me is "X is good," or "X isn't great," or "I didn't like X," bc at least these mundane value judgements are honest and useful if you can identify whose opinions are close enough to yours that their approbation means something is worth checking out. :/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol I was about 20 hours into a party on NYD and this dude with big shirt collars and bad facial hair kept quoting it at me to the point where I had to tell him that it's the actual most hacky thing you can say abt music writing
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda)
nah, life is like a beanstalk, innit?
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-x67MHl2U
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
life in an elevatorlivin it up while i'm goin down
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Terrible service in this place:
http://www.impawards.com/1992/posters/blame_it_on_the_bellboy.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
i'm not trapped in here with the music, you're just not twisted enough for this game
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/jared-leto-joker04.jpg
― goole, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link