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I mean, Maron just "discovered" Captain Beefheart like ten years ago. By the time he discovers Morby, we'll be carbon-14 dating him.
That's an answer for people who don't drink or people who want to believe this trashbag isn't racist. The real answer is no matter how drunk someone gets, "the n word" doesn't spontaneously appear. Also, it's the kind of answer you hear from someone who hasn't hit their "bottom" yet. Excuses & backhanded "bragging" about partying...those aren't the words of someone with honest intentions of being sober. We'll be hearing more from this walking single-wide, and it's not going to be great...unless you like watching racists destroy their own lives, in which case grab some popcorn kids this gonna be one helluva ride!
That's the most Eastern European thing in the world.
Weak AF. Fake pyro matched with a fake instrument "smash" from a fake musician. I mean, it's modern SNL, so we're not talking the zenith of musical expression, but even by those standards this is dangerously close to Ashlee Simpson territory. Also, can we all just agree that destroying an instrument today is not only hackneyed, but also selfish. Want to "make a statement"? Donate the instrument to some kid who can't afford one. Guitars kill fascists. Keep them in circulation.
Hey, you actually get FIRE at a Great White show. This was, like, when a computer on the original Star Trek explodes.
"Unfortunately it was not Covid-safe anywhere in Florida." In other news, fire is hot and water is wet. What do you expect from Florida, whose state flower is bath salts?
I mean, she could be eating pork hot dogs. Or she might just be eating hot dogs and not read the label. Or she might just be a weapons-grade moron...at this point I'm open to any of the above.
I'm kinda tired of Nick Cave being called out for wanting an artistic piece being presented in the manner that it was originally created, and not in some form that a committee has deemed appropriate...especially since that committee likely has never written a note or a lyric in their lives. Is the word offensive? I'm sure millions find it offensive. So don't play it, and don't listen to stations that DO play it. There. Solved. Who TF even listens to OTA radio anymore? Those who don't find it offensive or can appreciate art as a product of its time (which is kinda what art IS...) can put it on whatever playlist they want and listen to it to their heart's content. I think at the most basic level here is the issue of someone censoring art created by someone else because an entirely different group of people MAY find a word or a phrase offensive. It's back to the ol' PMRC days where the government is telling you what's ok and what isn't. Jeez, man...we have the world wrestling with proto-fascism in dozens of places and left wing "progressives" are OK with giving government MORE media control? Strange times indeed.
Oh my goodness...Weeknd gets the snub. What ever will music do to recover? Maybe I'm just an old fart, but the Grammys sealed their "irrelevant" status when they called Jethro Tull "heavy metal". The minute people stop giving a crap about these self-congratulatory industry circle jerks the sooner we can start investing time & resources into stuff that matters. But here's Duh Weeeknd raising a fuss about something that matters less now than it did when Metallica was straight-up robbed on live television. (But even then, it didn't even matter...because everyone knew The Grammys are a joke)
It might be a small red flag, but if they're legally adults, how is their relationship (or lack thereof) any of our business?
"On The Beach" always gets overlooked on "best of" lists and "desert island discs" and whatnot. For my money, it's not only the best Neil Young album, but it ranks as one of the best albums of the 70s. I think the key word for this album is "vibe". Also, having Levon & Rick from The Band plus David Crosby make the greatest backing band ever for "Revolution Blues". If there was an an album that I'd classify as "mandatory listening"...bordering on "should be issued to every American at birth", it's this.
5150 is a solid album (drum tones aside). It's basically the next VH/DLR album, but with Sammy singing, because it was all written while DLR waited out by the pool on Coldwater Canyon Road, getting bored. If Dave didn't want to be a movie star/travel the world/not wait for EVH to stop doing coke in his home studio, it would've been Dave on 5150. Just...uh...just don't listen to the lyrics.
Yes, Wilson wrote all the Stillwater songs because she and Crowe were still married at the time.
"Dig!" is an astoundingly great rockumentary. There is another difference between the Dandies and BJM: Anton, for all his dysfunction on a galactic scale, wrote some incredible music at a breathless pace in the 90s. The Dandies, however, weren't as consistent by a long shot.
"...countercultural wiseasses like Frank Zappa..." Ah yes. Thank you, Stereogum, for boiling down all of Frank's anti-censorship efforts down to one, shortcut-to-thinking blurb. "Oh, the Valley Girl guy? Titties & Beer? Yeah, he's just a joke song writer..." Good lord, if there was anyone who legitimately posed a threat to the system in place at that time, it was Zappa (and probably also Jello Baifra).
Nonsense. I have sympathy for people with bipolar schizophrenia, but not Kanye nor his family. He is at peak privilege; he & everybody in his orbit is wealthy beyond everybody's dreams. He's not affected by mental health cutbacks. He's clearly paying for a psychiatrist who's telling him what he wants to hear. He's not affected by *ANYTHING* that you or I have to deal with on a daily basis, including ethics or a sense of moral direction. If there is a less sympathetic artist in the public eye right now, I don't know who it is. Honestly, there are plenty of artists out there who aren't actively causing damage to the political process, so let's just ignore Kanye and put focus on those folks, shall we?
So...can Sammy explain how "this economic thing" is going to kill more people than covid? Like, does he have concrete numbers? Is there any real indication that NOT having concerts and 100% restaurant capacity is going to kill more people than the Vietnam & Korean wars? Because covid's already killed more Americans than both those events...and in less than 6 months. I sure hope he doesn't actually think that a Sammy Hagar concert is going to actually *help* things. I mean, Sammy is a successful businessman. He's made millions from mountain bikes to tequila to restaurants. Surely he doesn't think America *needs* a 72 year-old man playing "Three Lock Box" at an Indian casino.
Nobody is calling it out...yet. I mean, they just pulled "Gone With The Wind". Straight Outta Compton is coming soon to a Cultural Adjustment Committee near you. Better archive all your favorite movies & songs just in case there's a whiff of "inappropriate messaging" that gets it pulled from the streaming service landscape.
"It’s possible that Hall and Oates were the biggest act in the world during the pre-Thriller moment. " I think this is absolutely correct. Anybody who was around in '82 remembers how bloody HUGE "H2O" was when it came out...but it surely stood on the shoulders of "Private Eyes". I mean, take a look at those albums: the're littered with candy-soul hits. Only a handful of tracks are over 4:30 in length, and only one track breaks the 6 minute barrier in those two massive albums. It's audio caramel corn...it doesn't last long, but it's good. You don't want to make a diet solely based on it, but a few won't kill ya. It also didn't hurt Hall & Oates that they cranked out cheesy videos fast for the then-constantly evolving MTV. They're not my favorite '80s relic, but damned if they didn't write some good blue-eyed soul with tasteful synths and rolled up blazer sleeves. Anybody with even marginal appreciation of this peak Hall & Oates period needs to run, not walk, and pick up The Bird & The Bee's "Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates". It's really, really good.
I can't imagine how much money was lost on this. The economics of a real live show (e.g. not some basement metal show) means that the venue...even if they only had a skeleton crew, lost a bundle. There are...what...two dozen people there? Barely enough to pay for the venue staff & electric bill. Even if each and every person there drank a case of Coors Light from the bar and bought every piece of merch it would still lose money once you figure in the performer fees plus insurance. But hey...if they want to hemorrhage cash by attempting to prove the "libtards" wrong, go for it. But yeah, cool dog man.
Fine...which other phrase is safe, then? Tiger part consumers? Pangolin poachers? Rhino horn snorters? Civet Cat connoisseurs? Because all of these practices are part of a whole, and that's the problem: the "exotic animal" part of *some* of those wet markets plays a major part in diseases making the leap to humans. And the consumption of many of these animal products are part of "traditional medicine", which is a nice way of calling it "witch doctor stuff", because that's what most of it is. What...rhinos should just go extinct because telling the Chinese "no" is "culturally insensitive"? Tiger hunting is ok because it's part of a "brave Asian tradition"? Bullshit. And finally...putting bats and pangolins in close quarters is fine and acceptable because it's a "cultural norm" and oh sorry about the global economy shutting down and a quarter of a million people dying in a month and a half? All because of hurt feelings? Because some idiot redneck walks into a Panda Express and says stupid shit? Fuck that. People around the world are dying and losing their jobs because of some outdated cultural practice. How many people have to die before we say enough? And fuck Bryan Adams.
I was heavily into the "Ween Scene" when White Pepper came out and don't remember too much bitching about "selling out" on the forum when it came out. There was the "not brown enough" bullshit, but that happened after every post-Guava album except Quebec. Next to Mollusk, WP might be the most consistent album they've put out. Each song is a killer. This review, though, gets a red card for going back to the "joke band" well too many times. Dude, they have a couple of funny songs, get over it. It's like the same people who think Zappa is all about "Dinah Moe Hum" and "Valley Girl" and never listen to the notes.
Cucaracha is really, really good. I think it gets dissed for the same reasons why WP was apparently dissed: it's too glossy, not "brown" enough, etc. But really, the material (with the exception of Fiesta) is late-stage Ween. How can someone listen to Object, My Own Bare Hands, Your Party, and Woman & Man and say "No, it's not that good", while calling themselves a Ween fan? I'm not gatekeeping, I just think that Cucaracha is dreadfully underrated.
Look, the batting average doesn't lie: The Beatles had...what...one, maybe two legitimately substandard albums: "Yellow Submarine" and "Let It Be". But even Submarine had "Hey Bulldog" and LIB had "Dig A Pony". But overall the discography can't be touched in terms of consistency. The Stones? Ugh. For every "Sticky Fingers" there's a "Steel Wheels"; for "Some Girls" you had "Dirty Work". "Exile" is an outstanding single album but a dreadfully long-winded double LP...which is a complaint that could be lodged against the White Album, but I submit that the White Album has the sheer stylistic variety that legitimizes its length. Finally, the Beatles production wins. Under George Martin's production the Beatles had a sound that was otherworldly for the time, and *still* sounds better than most pop/rock today. The clarity and separation of the instrumentation (ON FOUR AND EIGHT TRACK MACHINES, PEOPLE) is the stuff of legend. For the record, "Sticky Fingers" is, for my money, the best Stones album under the sun with back-to-back killers.
Lindsey and Joey Kramer should start a band with Michael Anthony. Call the band "The Castaways".
Best New Artist, huh? So she'll fall victim to the "curse" and never be heard from again? Excellent...
Frusciante, Flea, and Chad are all awesome. Their chemistry is magic and when they play, it sounds like they are of one mind. The trouble comes when Keidis opens his damned fool mouth...
Is it Citizen Kane? Probably not. Will there be a semester at UCLA film school dedicated to its subtle plot twists and cinematography? Unlikely. Is it best viewed with a bong in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other? Almost certainly yes.
With his mouth sewn shut, he still shakes his butt 'Cause he's Hitler & Swayze & Trump & Travolta
I agree. I think even Guero is boring. Sea Change is probably the last album he made that was really wall-to-wall excellent.
You...you know Neil Young is not actually reading Stereogum, right?
You...you weren't around in the 80's, were you? He was indeed scandalous. Hell, the one major bipartisan effort during the 80's was the whole PMRC which was started because Tipper Gore's daughter bought Purple Rain. There was pearl-clutching and "what-about-the-children" moaning for a good long time. It wasn't until he laid a giant turd with "Under the Cherry Moon" that everyone figured out that, no, he wasn't some evil sexual deviant looking to corrupt the (white) youth (girls) of the mid 80's. But even then the PMRC marched on towards the goal of rating & labeling albums all because of Darling Nikki. And there are plenty of artists today who are plenty interesting (maybe even AS interesting as he was), but let's be real...after 2 Live Crew and Body Count and the massive shift in general acceptance of all kinds of music since the 90's, nobody really cares about "controversial" music unless the artist is unfortunate enough to share a conservative political viewpoint in an interview.
I like Foxwarren's album and The Party both, but I seem to listen to Foxwarren more...the material is a smidge more varied.
Little did we Gen-Xers in the 90s know that we were simply an evolutionary stepping stone to...this...
Yikes...they played the Fillmore is SF, which has less than half the capacity of the Masonic (where they were originally booked). I guess that makes 3 venue changes so far? Shame, because it was a spectacular show in SF.
I mean, I don't know for sure if she does drugs. But she talks like she does A LOT of drugs.
I put all faith in Honus Honus. I just saw Man Man on their most recent little West Coast run in January and they were so above & beyond anything I expected. We were not really stoked about either opening act (Locus Pocus and Jon Daly) but both killed. This current lineup is the best yet...like, "California-era Mr.Bungle lineup" good in terms of sheer talent and energy.
Uh no. Blood On The Tracks was '75. Dylan's Christian phase was '79 - '81. And Dylan took probably...what...13 years to really come back with something worthy of picking up where his early-mid 70's output left off. But anyway, as you were.
"Again, I just have to forgive them because it’s really just Stevie being so needy for a certain kind of attention and maybe not wanting to compete with the vitality that I have." The irony and lack of self-awareness in this statement is breathtaking.