Does anyone know anything about "John Maus"

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So "Cop Killer" only referred to the cops guarding the Capitol?

i saw him once and he blew. he just like punched himself a lot and his band was boring. people are such marks.

sure he is as bad live as you say, and it's turned out he's a truly terrible human being too, but Believer is still an astounding piece of music, and the reason people went to see him play is probably not because they are "marks" ffs

Is the terrible human being status solely predicated on his attending the Trump rally? Feels like Ariel Pink doubled down on that whereas Maus backed away from it quick smart.

Or is there other stuff? I think I remember a bit of uncomfortable correspondence with the subject of Bennington.

Like most, I have found it fairly easy to set the music aside as the vibes are bad and it feels a bit edgelordy to try and push past the badness of the vibes. But I did enjoy his records a lot back in the day, and his ridiculous live show too.

It does frustrate me that I really like that album he did and especially "Believer"

"Terrible human being" just based on the Trump rally, yes, not sure how successfully he has backed put of this one.

Agree with you emsworth and dog latin, unfortunately our opinions count for nothing as we are marks, and most likely rubes too.

his first three albums are still quite good. my impression is getting an actual backing band made him worse live but i've never seen him.

re: the january 6 stuff, he just made some kinda weird evasive disavowals of the far-right (as he had in the past when pressed on his association with MDE), not quite backing down but also certainly not doubling down like pink did. idk if he's at all truly a trump supporter but at best still he's like, a credulous moron who overthinks things until he's arrived at some bizarre and pretty stupid perspective.

i did just learn though that maus & pink fell out last year because maus asked pink to be his sound engineer for a festival set, the festival said "sorry we're not having ariel pink here" and maus refused to cancel the set because he needed the money which made pink mad.

I think I remember a bit of uncomfortable correspondence with the subject of Bennington.

iirc there are also some creepy blog posts or something similar from back in the day on the same topic

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Songs and Screen Memories were (oof past tense?) my favourites. Particularly as the latter is/was one of the only unabashed darkwavey/synthpoppy pastiche albums of recent years I've been able to get into - matched only to such an extent by LoneLady's Former Things.

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