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Belle and Sebastian were fucken robbed, but it might be salvageable. If I was able to help vote them in as "Best New Band" in the 98 Brits over Steps, despite never setting foot in the UK, I can probably swing something here.
Honestly, I'd put it as being the decade or so from Napster but before Spotify*. You could listen to anything you wanted, but due to home bandwidth limitations and needing to wait for people to be online to download, there was a degree of difficulty in actually doing so. People were more likely to listen to stuff that they'd already downloaded and were initially ambivalent about than play half of track 1 side 1, shrug, and just move on. Spotify removes the likelihood that people will try to immerse themselves in something multiple times before passing judgement. Paradox of choice is a thing. *This period roughly correlates with my 20s, and like all "the best X musically occurred in my 20s" arguments it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Depends on how many stages they have. I really wish festivals with small lineups and 1-2 stages were normalised again. Scheduling clashes are bullshit.
Woulda thought the Nevermind cover was designed by a fisher, if anything.
Dude, "Don't Worry, Baby" is fucken hard to sing (source: just ran through a couple bars of it myself and I think I'm now somehow retroactively complicit in Ronnie Spector's death. Oops!). If there's a lack of bad versions, it's because the released versions of it come from a self-selecting pool; there's no way to release a mediocre version of it and have it sound endearing in the slightest, so people leave their crap attempts locked in a vault. Rivers' version is cool tho.
"I wish i had a Rivers that would skate away with a fat sack of my cash" - some Joni-deprived chump
Saw them play at a festival a few months back having lost lost interest in them some time in the mid-90s. Holy shit can they still bring it. The Sundial EP had samples from a kids' read-along record about a teen band trying to grow their hair as a gimmick. I've wasted way to much time trying to figure out the source to no avail.
Fairly or not, I wrote Kingmaker off as a Wonderstuff ripoff, which is kinda dumb because "Queen Jane" - the one song of theirs I do have time for - is them at their Stuffies-est. There's a post-breakup Loz interview I go back to quite regularly that breaks down the maths on just how detrimental the UK practice of "formatting" singles was to mid-tier bands at the time (it was the main reason for their breakup):
"I dunno if you have [formatting] over state-side but it basically means there would be different b-sides on the 12 inch(2), cassette(1), CD 1 and CD 2 (3 on each). So if the album has say 13 songs on it and with three singles that means you gonna need 40 songs. 40 fucking songs! So the work load is near impossible and plus the fans get ripped left, right and centre to boot. What was also happening was that you did songs for the album and then b-sides but really fucking excellent songs were ending up tucked away third song on CD 2 and no-one heard them. "
The slow death of physical media is sad, but at least bands don't have to deal with bullshit like that anymore.
Rock and roll should be uncomfortable, and that's why the guy who wears a rubber mask under stage lights for an hour-long metal show is a poser.
All of those shoes are comfortable. If MGK really wants to be the figurehead for uncomfortable footwear, he should probably have a quick chat with Jimmy Hoffa's cobbler.
You probably made an account at gravatar.com at some time using the same email address you use here. Change it from there if you manage to log in.
The documentary needed those interjections, because after hearing repeated takes of 3 different songs for the previous 5 hours they'd really started to grate. The crowd interviews and the staff clowning the police was the best part. But yeah, it will be good to hear it as an uninterrupted whole once my exhaustion with the songs wears off.
Could not give a fuck about Whitney's warbly horseshit years, but this version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTf7x9XqtA This version breaks my heart every damn time. DON'T ARGUE WITH ME WHEN I'M CRYING.
His first three records were released in under 12 months, and it's just a stupidly loaded collection of songs he'd obviously been waiting his life to offload into the world.
They'll have to get past Betty Boo and the cheesemaker from Blur first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu8AjRAu4ok
First couple of episodes were a little one-note, but everything really started to fall into place tonight. Shame it has such a short season.
Did the early 2010s have this bit of pop brilliance jangling all about the place? No? Then fuck 'em.
I absolutely have issues with media institutions writing false stories, or not correcting themselves when they discover their stories are based on inaccurate sources; all journalist (and people existing in that space) should be held to a high standard. Not thoroughly familiar with most of the things you mentioned (not American), but none of them seem to be a direct widespread threat to public health, which is a whole different level.
I really don't want tech giants spending hundreds of millions of fucking dollars disproportionally amplifying the voice of people with no relevant medical background who think dewormer and vitamins are part of the conversation.
Exactly. That single message is "the longer we have to research something, the more likely our understanding of things is to change and we should adjust our actions and expectations accordingly". TLDR- science: same as it ever was.
Love Los Campesinos' version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zAPPYP0-qY It's not quite Enya, tho.
Yeah, it played in Australia. I watched every episode, and recall as much about it as Tom.
People assumed she was a right wing sympathiser for years because she couldn't be bothered responding to the accusations. I get why she can't be fucked letting things slide anymore.
Also, half the point of Gorillaz is stunt collaboration. Unless he wants to start offering up "Jim stops and gets out the car..." level raps to De La Soul.
Man I'm a sucker for shitty rap interludes. Once saw Jimbob do a South London set consisting of "The Only Living Boy in New Cross", "The Taking Of Peckham 123", and "24 Minutes from Tulse Hill". Dude's pun game is fantastic.
I've read some interpretations of the the music they were influenced by during their formative years, and regret to inform you that they're probably shooting up LSD and black tar heroin and/or praying to Jesus.
Not sure that the call of Cthulu begins with "hello". Dude's phone etiquette is fucken abysmal (or abyss-mal, amirite lolz).
If he has a better resource for worldly 13 year olds explaining in painstaking detail why every song is either about shooting up black tar heroin, shooting up LSD, or Jesus, I'd like to know about it.
Congrats! You now earn enough in about 10 minutes to buy a keyboard with functioning vowels. Treat yourself sonia, you've earned it.
Great news for fans of shoegaze Manilow covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7zKKVOscE
Notwist in actual twist shocker.
That bit in "One With the Freaks" where everything just kicks in helped me get through a really shitty year. Absolutely glorious album.
Probably listened to the original more than any other song last year after coming across it for the first time on the "Gunpowder Milkshake" soundtrack. Music rarely hits me in the ways it used to as a teenager, but this fucken song man... Lovely cover of it too.
Mrs Robinson wasn't on original pressings, they covered it for The Graduate's anniversary and it got tacked on after it did kinda well. Only weak song on the original album is "Ceiling Fan".
More interviews with casual Ned's Atomic Dustbin references, please.