I gotta throw my experience in here too.
I am almost 27. I've been going to shows since I was 14 or 15. I'm 5'4; 135 pounds. I have a real job. I am so fucking over this stage diving shit. I'm additionally resolutely sick of people moshing, pushing, elbowing and slam dancing. The reason for this is, given my size, I'm gonna get absolutely fucking pummeled no matter what happens.
I moved to Brooklyn about three months ago to finish up my final two years of medical school, and I'm glad to be back in a place with so much live music again. I'm short so I like to chill in the first or second row of people to actually see the bands. But the last few shows I've been to (Nothing, Braid, Cymbals Eat Guitars) I promptly had multiple beers spilled on me, after which I got tossed around like a fucking rag doll. Nothing had Iron Lung open up for them (youtube that shit, see for yourself). There was a 5'9, probably 175lb dude wrecking people and stage diving. I got kicked in the head by homeboy at least twice. Likewise some girthy dickmunch at Cymbals Eat Guitars started everyone moshing, then later supermanned head first right into my knee. I thought he was gonna unhappy triad my shit (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhappy_triad). None of this makes the show fun for me. It just makes me wanna choke people out.
I get that people want to rock, escape from their lives and enjoy, but for Christ's sake. It's always like nine people out of a hundred fifty who make the fifteen feet closest to the stage positively unmanageable. I won't even to to see certain bands cuz I know I'm gonna get rocked in the head. That's no fun.
Some believe the life of a rat, mouse, cat, dog, pig, cow, etc. holds the same intrinsic value as you, your mother, your father, your brothers and sisters, and your children. Many don't hold this belief. I don't know if it'd be fair to characterize either as "fuckin' stupid and ignorant." Either way you've gotta deal with the consequences of your actions.
You said exactly what I wanted to, except in a manner that didn't garner endless downvotes. I am curious to give this a once through just on the basis of Tom's write up, but I don't think I'm gonna like it for the aforementioned reasons.
Tom's characterization of her in the second paragraph - "A coastal-elite pillhead, a girl who strings rich men along and falls for drug-dealer dirtbags." Etc... Nicely written, but I cannot for the life of me fathom what is remotely interesting about this "character," or why I should give a shit about her problems. This individual is, to borrow Wesley's language, lame as fuck. The lyrics are gonna pull me right away from whatever enjoyment I may be getting from the music.
And I'll bite constantino- I may be the only individual on the internet (though certainly not among my friends) who thinks tune-yards produce just about the most irritating music I've heard. Be a quirky white girl from Connecticut, make grating "wee-ooo" fire truck noises, put on a loop, sing about what it's like blah blah rasta, rinse, repeat. Proceed to garner critical acclaim.
Pretty funny - if I asked the same question a while ago I would've been downvoted into oblivion by the stereogum skrillex army, who have now been reduced to chirping crickets. I guess like many new release artists fawned over on this site from time to time he ceased to produce anything of lasting substance : / HMMMMM
It's time we agreed Coldplay is great? From my cold dead fucking hands, Stereogum. Coldplay is about as "great" as Drake, Mumford and Sons, Lana Del Re-OH. OH WAIT. WHERE THE FUCK AM I? How awkward. How did we get here? You are trying so hard to get me to break up with you, stereogum.
Now having watched the interview I actually like Seth Meyers a lot more than Jimmy Fallon, who has always struck me as a bit of a peepee toucher, like Pee-wee Herman without the vampire makeup
Pieces like this are why I read stereogum. Nice.
PS I'm halfway through my MD, known to partake every once and again, bottom line being life is about balance, and do your thing man!
I am a bit surprised, albeit pleasantly, at the amount of Drake bashing in this thread, which happens to be on a site that took the effort to write a "hundred best Drake songs" feature, where "started from the bottom" was prominently proclaimed the third best Drake song of all time, thus highlighting the fact that Drake's entire discography is about as weighty and prolific as the pasty dump I took this morning.
ACCCCCCCTUALLY oncogenic (cancer-causing) viruses that are sexually transmitted (like human papillomavirus) can metastasize if undiscovered aaaaaaaand the three most common sites of ANY cancer metastasis are generally liver, bone, and lung. So bit of a stretch but there's your sexually transmitted lung cancer :p
That also nails it for me - it sounds like a Hold Steady song with production straight off of The Colour and the Shape. I dig it for them actually.
Although Tommy B - he sounds more like a singer than a ranter on this track ?
Apparently your opinion doesn't come equipped with:
1) A sense of irony or realistic concept of what's widely considered "predictable"
2) Any ability to discern musical time signatures - because I just re-listened to the first half of that album two minutes ago, thus discovering two things: a) it's still destroys and b) LITERALLY EVERY SONG COMPRISING THE FIRST HALF OF THE ALBUM IS IN 4/4.
You're missing the entire point of what makes the rhythmicity of their music compelling, ace. They fooled your brain into thinking it was more than 4/4 when it never was - something entirely UNpredictable.
If this band's output was so trite and hackneyed then it should be pretty effortless to whip up a resume of preceding bands who executed rhythmically inspired, angular, assaultive, atonal-yet-catchy dance-punk in the same manner.
PS: have you ever listened to this argument you're taking up for, or are you just bitching on things you don't have the ability to judge?
Yeah Q were pretty famous for their use of nutty time signatures, like you know, 4/4 and 3/4. And for their "wankery" a la 2-minute songs, which was positively "avant-garde" around the year 2000.
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