god damn all the good music from this time, place & era and THIS garbage is a 9 out of 10? eesh. this shit is the worst, or tied for the worst at least. I'm not sure this or other schlock of the times like jesus jones is particularly 'hard to categorize', they just took what happy mondays (another massively over-rated band, but still better than this) were doing and made it more bland and generic, then used connections in the industry to get gigs as bands playing bland, generic pop with the 'baggy' drums using the off-beat to make it dance-able. good examples of bands doing this well are stone roses' 'fools gold', MBV's 'soon'. this is not a good example of a band doing this well, but it is a good example of a 'band' doing, uh, something...this doesn't really sound like it's influenced by MDMA, more like a bunch of silly kids who are just having their first few cups of coffee.
a good write up! song is garbage. band is garbage. so is "heaven" by warrant, but tough call which is worse. paved the way for "to be with you", its deformed cousin of a song that's somehow even worse while not as creepy. if only all hair metal were viewed with as clear an eye around these parts! oh well, seeing this song likened to shit spilling out of a bag is still gratifying at least.
the last time I felt like (what I imagine) you're describing here, the album that helped me more than any other was the first Cut/Copy album 'Bright like neon love'. not sure if that's up your alley, but could be worth a shot. 2nd album that comes to mind is Cass McCombs' 'Wits end'...good luck, life can really fucking blow sometimes.
that score for the Carpetners is pretty crazy juxtaposed with the 8 for this silly dreck, which seems to be just because this guy is "shy" and not a "usual pop star" or whatever. well, that goes for Karen Carpenter as well! so shy she starved herself to death. and her song beats this song in every conceivable way, even though it's corny AF. strange criteria 'round here!
I'd understand being this forgiving toward someone who's a novice and had never been seriously warned about this kind of thing before. but as we all know, this guy's been warned, and seriously. he willfully and deliberately refused to learn from those warnings and here we are.
I love how these past couple of years the Halloween fear-o-matic stories changed from "strangers are putting razor blades in candy!!!" to "strangers are giving weed edibles to your children!!!"
seems odd to write a posthumous kiss-off song dissing a person you were dating when they died accidentally...? I mean, 'eternal flame' is not a love song...
yeah, I'm guessing it's because somebody involved heard it peripherally and was all like "that song is majestic AF" and didn't pay much attention to the lyrics...
yes it's really like that. nobody who was actually into music liked mc hammer or vanilla ice, they were running jokes of artistic non-integrity akin to poison and warrant and the like. that shit was for, like, little kids.
I have no doubt that he is, but Lisa Bloom is a scourge as well, after doing all she did to help Harvey Weinstein, which included basically pretending to be Ronan Farrow's lawyer while actually being a mole for Weinstein. If she's the only person left to take your case when real lawyers refuse to, you may not have much of a case.
counterpoint: this song and "...Dead or alive" are both lukewarm garbage. they don't generate enough heat to be flaming garbage, which would at least be interesting. dressing like a cowboy to sing laughably self-aggrandizing schmaltz rock ballads is like the ultimate in silly poser bullshit. nobody's trying to kill you, Jon Bongiovi, calm the fuck down and get over yourself!
ugh Madonna has many great tracks. this isn't one of them. clunky, awkward, terrible lyrics. the whole thing feels so forced. there are great house tracks from this era that aren't weighed down by Madonna's (at this point) increasingly growing baggage, and they should get some of the endlessly undeserved credit that this clunky song gets.
i read anthony lane's review of it last night, and he said it was funny, while not being particularly good at what it's actually trying to do. but I'd see it based on just that, he's not someone to give undue credit for funny-ness...
gotta largely agree with the people saying they admire this track more than they actually like it. for me the non-building slowness, the sameness of it, doesn't work at all. this song is like when someone tickles you and then keeps going after you tell them to stop. it feels like it's being inflicted on me, and I don't think i've ever listened to it all the way through. i hear a bit of it and buzzers and alarms just go off in my brain and I do whatever's necessary to make it stop.
ripping up the evil Pope on SNL and telling our national anthem to fuck off, however, are both 100 out of 10, and "heroic" as described here. also, some time in late 92 or early 93, I think, Rolling Stone did a feature on her and reading her thoughts about various things (particularly hiphop and weed) genuinely altered my brain for the better. her life story seems like quite a sad one..and what is with all of the dudes who publicly talked about wanting to physically hit her back in the day? real tough guy there, joe pesci...
yeah I love her and all, but I wonder if she ever thinks maybe her dad shouldn't have committed fraud, money laundering and conspiracy? I mean, this was shortly after the financial crisis, and those crimes have real people's retirement savings and homes in ruins at the other end of them...
some part of me thought it was really possible that he would never die. damn. one of the most influential musicians and musical geniuses ever. ever. oof.
yeah.
um, "...one that blew through trends as voraciously as Bowie or Madonna while still feeling of a piece..."
you guys, really? this level of hyperbole isn't necessary to convey that you like it and think we might as well!
but Peter Thiel is an idiot, and plenty of people on dialysis have their blood replaced on the regular and die way before the average lifespan is up. sorry, just can't let any praise for that titanic douchebag go unanswered.
hah, I still have that Soviet album in my iTunes! 'candy girl' was alright, but 'circuit love' and 'modern day love' were my faves from that album. sadly but understandably short-lived band
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