who is Bob Lefsetz?

the whole line wouldn't be a bad SZA lyric.

"I've been a fan of satellite radio since day one; I never listen to terrestrial EVER," said Bob Lefsetz.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bob-lefsetz-music-writer-and-outspoken-columnist-will-host-new-live-talk-show-exclusively-for-siriusxm-300700476.html

man of the people

Reminds me of that Lou Reed interview:

Sirius's impending merger with XM is anticipated to boost earnings. Do you own any stock in the company?
What are you, a fucking asshole? I'm here telling you the truth about music and you want to know if I have stock in the fucking radio? You fucking piece of shit. What did I do to deserve that?

The best place I’ve been in the last decade is Bogota, because I felt so alive, because everybody had had a relative assassinated, they were living the Grass Roots lifestyle, they were living for today.

so grotesque I can’t even zing

That sentence is amazing in every way, and should be memorialized in stone (in the Lefsetz Library, perhaps).

Hoo boy

This is kind of hysterical. The pussy-grabber in chief rapes and pillages our nation and its relationships, yet a comedian is unable to pursue his career. Have we lost perspective?

Hell, I'll step in a hole here, lesbians have weighed in on Louis C.K.'s return, and they're entitled to their voice, but I'm telling you now the average male is wincing, wondering whether we should take our heterosexual clues from gay people.

Heterosexual Clues: The Bob Lefsetz Story

Dude’s gettin pretty ugly here. Liked it better when he was talking about the Apple Watch.

he always sucked

ESPECIALLY when talking about women in any way

there seems to be little room for soul music in the black space these days

What is this "black space" you speak of?

I've got a black space, babe, and I'll white your name

A+

What is this rat bastardry

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/09/bob-lefsetz-jason-flom-join-for-no-holds-barred-tour.html

I am deeply insulted that there's no way I can buy negative tickets to this tour, ie tickets that force a venue to hold a space open, and where the money paid for them goes to anyone else but the people on stage.

Flom, who is the Founder and CEO of Lava Records, Lava Music Publishing, and Lava Media, LLC., and previously served as Chairman and CEO at Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and Capitol Music Group, is personally responsible for launching acts such as Lorde, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, and Greta Van Fleet

look, he might have waited a decade and four albums after teenaged Kid Rock got himself support slots for BDP to sign him, but Flom's taxes paid for the road Rock drove on to get to those shows. and he drank some New Zealand wine once, which means that he built the high school where Lorde won a talent contest. his grandmother made him go to church on Christmas, and gave him a dollar to put in the collection plate, so he basically funded Katy Hudson's Christian music career eight years before Katy Perry signed to Capitol as her third major label deal.

Sounds like a good date night to me.

start saving your tomatoes now so they’ll be nice and mushy

Your skin is better than mine.

Your attitude is better than mine.

I am the problem, I need to GET OUT!

Come on, you've been there, oftentimes without a condom. It's physical, you cannot fight the urge.

And it's the groove of the track, like building to orgasm.

You're no longer flaccid, the blood is flowing, you're erect.

Even better, it's reciprocal, you're not alone doing the hand jive.

WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?

the above, it should be noted, is his response to this def leppard lyric: "I've gotta know tonight / If you're alone tonight / Can't stop this feeling / Can't stop this fire."

but i mean, come on, you've been there!

goddammit why must lefsetz tear down everything good

“Oftentimes Without a Condom: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Bob Lefsetz”

credit where credit is due: his column this week about pledgemusic's failure to pay the band fastball, and the responses he published a day later from a bunch of other people who haven't gotten paid, was on the money and the company is now very publicly being called to account. good use of his little bit o' clout.

Corporations are not people. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE!

Then again, Depeche Mode said that as country artists work to blend products into their songs.

Arrest him.

You see the Sunset Strip was populated by castoffs, those not wanted, those who didn't fit in, not Ivy League graduates. It was a different era, your parents didn't bribe colleges to get you in, they expected you to leave the house after high school and stay gone. What you did...

Was your business.

It's hard to describe the power of rock and roll. It's something you feel, oftentimes in your genitalia.

an instant classic

Sunset Strip denizen Jim Morrison was a UCLA film school grad and extremely “intellectual” in his approach to rock ‘n roll.

And when the Beatles hit, everybody got a guitar. It was kind of like everybody buying a computer to be on AOL back in the nineties. Then again, today’s college students may not have even been born in the nineties. I’m trying to think of something that ubiquitous. And instant. We all have smartphones, but it didn’t happen overnight. Ah, I guess you had to be there.

We used to get it, there was a ladder to the top, a room where everybody was inside doing dope with the cool people. If you wanted to make it, you knew how to do it.

But not anymore.

They called Coney Island, "the playground of the world." There was no place like it, in the whole world. Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing. People from all over the world came here. When I was very small, I even got lost at Coney Island. But they found me, on the beach. We used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight. They don't do that anymore. Things changed, you see. They don't sleep anymore on the beach.

Bob's favorite theme is that we no longer have shared cultural points of contact in which we all take pleasure and from which we're able to draw lessons that help us in our walk through life, but then every time this thread wakes up, our communal joy is palpable

I guarantee you there are people sleeping on the beach in Coney Island tonight. Just not Bob's kind of people, if you see what I mean.

Don’t you talk that way about Murray Ostril

godspeed you! bob lefsetz

My sincere apologies to Murray Ostril (<3) for the weak joke. No apologies to Bob Lefsetz.

I'm simultaneously watching The Dirt on Netflix and reading the book Lefsetz Letter on The Dirt and posting to ILM about it

this must be how Siddhartha felt sitting under the Bodhi tree

honest to fucking god

The BMW salesman wouldn’t give Steve Lukather the time of day, until he came back with cash

I wish ILM weren’t in the middle of a “slow period” right now... I feel like having a good dust-up over something trivial.

morrisp, I keep meaning to mention this. it's 'Reba'.

👍, 🐸

Bob's favorite theme is that we no longer have shared cultural points of contact in which we all take pleasure and from which we're able to draw lessons that help us in our walk through life, but then every time this thread wakes up, our communal joy is palpable

Baseball is not only no longer the national pastime, it's certifiably NICHE!

Nothing catches fire anymore.

Unless it’s Notre Dame Cathedral.

Or to put it another way, we haven’t had that spirit here since 2012, with “Gangnam Style.”

It's always subtle at first. And then you know what's happening.

But they didn't. I said it. EARTHQUAKE!

What’s Bob’s take on the Swift/Braun thing? Didn’t he (semi-)famously dis Taylor back in the day?