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Stereolab + JP both profitably recycling old German ideas
― Ward Fowler, Friday, August 3, 2018 6:32 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFZnvTfFAs
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
yeah that post justified this entire revival
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
i really dig WF's dour minimalist style!
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I'll grant that he's not obscure, I will also argue it's p easy to avoid this guy or be ignorant of him why because the internet
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
like, Drake is really really famous. otoh I have never heard an entire Drake song
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I think it is also very easy to avoid JP if you are in the US
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
I would likely not be very aware of JP if I wasn't made aware of him and therefore easily noticed his name in passing, I mean lots of people are out there and we just pass over their names when we see them because we have no context for who they actually are. Also this tweet was from February, which could arguable be in the period before JP became a bit more notorious (on the other hand i've lost all sense for the passing of time, cf Trump was elected almost two years ago now i guess???)
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah, exactly as Omar sense - my capacity to gloss over names until I learn about them is vast.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
True, and I'll also add that if a person's primary claim to fame is being a colossal shitbag, I don't generally put a lot of effort into learning more about them.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
If only Laetitia had said that.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
It's hard not to take the political very personally in this era. When you see skint young single parents bringing their skinny kids to the local park for a pauper's picnic, and old friends en route to the church foodbank with that hauntingly defeated look. You need to throw some pelters at some of these cosseted idiots, playing silly bugger roleplay games that will have no bearing on their own comfortable lifestyles.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
xp
Or many people ITT, for that matter.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
that apology is really depressing. she doesn't owe anyone anything.
I didn’t make that public. I should have done and I am sorry for that.
good lord that is scary
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
So... she apologized. You all happy now? Can we go back to the lab now?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
she built a career off being a left-wing political artist. she might not owe anyone anything, but her career is tied to her politics in a way that wouldn't be true for most artists.
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Calzino's thing, AIUI:
https://img.cdandlp.com/2013/12/imgL/116409235.jpg
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Her apology is a bit weird though? She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute. Also she apologized like 6 months after the incident?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Amazing that people think that Stereolab are like Billy Bragg with keyboards.
― everything, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
I thought you wanted to back to the lab? (xp)
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
... go back, that is.
i still can't get over the idea of "libertarian marxists"
guess i'm relieved laetitia was only tangentially involved w/ mccarthy
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to be fair people only complained 6 months after the incident
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
because it's a reply tweet, for anyone not on twitter any tweet that begins with an "@" does not show up in peoples' timelines, you have to look in a person's replies. that's why I don't understand how she would have gone about making her "changing views" public. no one was upset, no one knew about the tweet, then she comes out and says "hey, this peterson guy, oh boy, definitely dig him, not this stuff though" - no one would ever do that, and people would still be pissed off.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
I'd be more inclined just to use it on myself these days, Tim!
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
it's also easy to forget how bad a lot of (often otherwise intelligent) people are at the internet. especially social media. and especially if they weren't raised on it.
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
https://d2ymzkn1ailq93.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/old-lady-using-computer-snapmunk.jpg
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
is this "I've never even heard of this bloody Oscar Peterson/Goebbels/Antonescu/Petain limey before " feint, more annoying than "I don't even own a TV" ? y/n.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I do not, in fact, own Jordan Peterson's TV
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I've never even heard of a TV.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
i'm Mark Perry the founder of Alternative TV
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Man I forgot how great Peng! is
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
do Stereolab have any good album's
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
hang on, we're reformatting the canon
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute.
tbf the mainstream media has been selling him in a way that if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
"some credit for outing herself as a hapless boob"
am I too late to say "hapless boob outscillator"
outer hapless décolletage
etc etc
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit
this is true to some extent (I followed a link to a lecture video which was kind of persuasive up until he said something annoying but not all that outrageous or political and I went "huh wait, isn't this that guy ILX are mad at?"), but, the article she was complaining about - if it was the D0rian Lynsk3y one - has a pretty thorough list of reasons he annoys people, and the first few paragraphs before it gets onto that are fairly neutral-to-positive, so...
still, glad she's backpedalled a bit, and of course it's none of my business
(and yes, I was disappointed by the Spiked retweets too)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Also Spiked/LM types are hardwired to disagree with anything published by the Guardian - and also to support any attack on political correctness from whatever quarter.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
So, she couldn't really help herself tbh.
Duophonic reissues of the Switched On series incoming:
https://bleep.com/stereolab?utm_source=Bleep&utm_campaign=666133f9f6-Stereolab&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db8ca97389-666133f9f6-346575
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
I know what I want for Christmas
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
drooling atm
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
why must bleep always find new reasons to separate me from my money
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
The dilemma with these new remasters / colored vinyl bothers me so much. Will the remaster be good? Will there be pressing issues? Will the black vinyl sound noticeably better than the color variation. Will the color variation sell out quickly then be worth 2-3x the black vinyl.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
hi, and welcome to Stereolab
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Clear vinyl doesn’t have inferior sound quality
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
I already have these on CD
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Also on Bandcamp where you can get coloured FLACs guaranteed to sound the same as black FLACs.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
black FLACs
This feels like a racial slur, even though I know it isn't.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Actually I think clear vinyl has *better* sound quality than black vinyl. All vinyl is clear until they put the color in it. or something. I don't know. heard that once
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
The additive that makes it black (graphite?) supposedly gives the vinyl a smoother texture or finer grain or something. So it's claimed, anyway.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link