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And I read your 10 other posts of entry-level trolling. Are you gonna come up with anything original, or are we gonna have to put up with even more of this "safe spaces"/"regressives"/"white privilege" YouTube comment section-tier shitposting that stopped being funny 5 years ago?
Tom made it through this entire article without writing "Ms." Lauryn Hill. https://media.giphy.com/media/Jf4FBs6JZhvKU/giphy.gif
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Yet she still made a video with him. BONUS BEATS: Google "Nicki Minaj brother" to find out why she of all people really shouldn't have made a video with him.
It was a shit hole that had the amazing luck of opening in the East Village in 1973. I went there once to see an all-ages Kid Dynamite reunion show back in 2005, right around the time it was closing. Watching the bouncers act like complete assholes to me and everyone else filing politely into the bar was not a good look, especially with "Save CBGB!" posters plastered everywhere. That's what happens when you use up all your cultural cachet to get away with treating your customers like garbage for decades and then ask them for handouts when you're struggling: They stop caring that Television played there 30 years ago.
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It's probably a bunch of things: -The original Latin phrase "a rare bird...like a black swan", coined at a time when no one thought black swans existed -The philosophical problem of induction: "all swans we have seen are white, and, therefore, all swans are white" -Black swan theory: the disproportionate role of unforeseen events in shaping history, and what limitations/biases we have that keep us from predicting them -The black swan from Tchaikovsky 'sSwan Lake -The black swan from Aronofsky's Black Swan, a metaphor for fulfilling your artistic potential at the cost of destroying yourself physically/mentally It's a great title when you think about it.
(Should've specified I'm quoting and responding to Jay-Z's comment from the article. Guy Incognito nailed it.)
"Do they regularly reject minority-owned businesses that want to continue to thrive and grow alongside his city’s people?" No, but thanks for race-baiting. There was that time the exact opposite happened, when former superintendent Arlene Ackerman awarded a no-bid contract for school security cameras to a minority-owned company not approved by the state—all because "she was tired of the district giving work to white-owned contractors"—lied about it, illegally fired the guy who leaked it to the press, and cost the school district and taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees. But to know that you'd have to...be from here, or...live here, or...read things.
This Wyoming Tapes situation reminds me a whole lot of when The King of Limbs or Random Access Memories came out. We get a mixed bag from an artist with a near-flawless discography, we have knock-down drag-out debates over whether it’s the most or least original thing they’ve ever done, and then we never mention it again. Does anyone talk about TKOL or RAM* anymore? *As an album—not just “Get Lucky”—and me constantly bitching about it on Stereogum doesn’t count.
While it’s been a million years since any EP has gotten a 9.0 or higher, I will say an EP from MBV has much higher stakes than your average artist’s 2-3 new songs plus a live track plus an A. G. Cook remix EP. Mitsubishi Macchiato is a toss-up. They’ll either get the Legacy 9.1-9.3 or the This Is the Beginning of the End of Your Buzz Band Career 6.7-7.9. Even with the two BNTs, I see .Paak getting an 8.6-8.8 max that maybe gets bumped up to a Top 5 AOTY. Everything else is spot on.
Fucken finally. Been waiting for this one for a long time and can't wait to hear it. Related: If Mitski gets an 8.5 (a.k.a. The Woman's 9.2), which Q4 contender will save us and end the Great 9.0+ Drought of 2018? ...Cat Power? ...Chromatics? ...Spiritualized? ...Low? ...Vampy Weeks? ...Chance the Rapper? ...Charli XCX? ...Anderson .Paak? ...Deerhunter? ...My Bloody Valentine? ...Robyn? ...Todd Terje? Stay tuned to this space to find out!
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Endless Summer by Fennesz is another all-time great emotional electronic album and one that really broadened my horizons. Not sure whether sampled music counts as electronic, but An empty bliss beyond this World by The Caretaker is one of the saddest, scariest, yet most beautiful albums I've ever heard.
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Anyone going to the Philly show needs to holla at me.
I bought a second one to replace my original, which was on its last legs at the time, the day they announced it would be discontinued.
The French call that l'esprit de l'escalier; Bubbe calls it trepverter.
Stereogum has an incredibly stupid and naive commentariat, both on this thread and at large.
Couldn't agree more. In my other, longer Wildflower comment I talked about how great "Colours" is and how Jonathan Donahue's feature is the best one on the album partly because it blends in so well that it doesn't even sound like a feature.
Just fucking with you, dawg. I'm proud you made yr dream come true!
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Well run un up when you see me then WE GON SEE Wildflower is another one I need to qualify, especially because Since I Left You is my favorite album of all time. (Wrote a way longer comment about all this a few weeks ago.) It's not a bad album, just frustrating. Everything that works and doesn't work is right there in "Because I'm Me". It's got that classic sound with flashes of their old brilliance here and there—that "OOooOOAAOOooOOooOOOO" 45 seconds in is glorious—followed immediately by rappity-rap from a featured artist capable of much better that's way too loud in the mix and doesn't even need to be there. (The Go! Team did the same thing with Ninja on their also-good but also-frustrating second album.) And despite "Because I'm Me" being one of the best songs on the entire album, they go with "Frankie Sinatra". As their lead single. After a 15-year absence. Nah, son. So what we got was a potentially great album bogged down by shit that was beyond their control—core members leaving, label drama, sample clearance issues—and shit that was controlled by someone who should've known better—torturing their hardcore fans with vague updates and empty promises, too many unnecessary features, the most ill-chosen lead single in recent memory.
Did anyone predict Mission of Burma's comeback would be as good as it was? Or Dinosaur Jr.'s, for that matter?
I wrung my hands real hard over whether to include that and probably shouldn't have. Replace "forgettable" with "good but not nearly as good as their predecessors" and I think those are fair.
Follow-up Albums That Took Fucking Forever: Best The Wrens—The Meadowlands Portishead—Third Fiona Apple—The Idler Wheel... GY!BE—'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! My Bloody Valentine—mbv Aphex Twin—SYRO D'Angelo—Black Messiah Solange—A Seat at the Table Fever Ray—Plunge Worst The Stooges—The Weirdness Guns N' Roses—Chinese Democracy The Dismemberment Plan—Uncanney Valley Pixies—Indie Cindy Forgettable Soundgarden—King Animal Daft Punk—Random Access Memories Boards of Canada—Tomorrow's Harvest The Avalanches—Wildflower
I love Pavement and enjoyed some of the Jicks albums, but the funniest/meanest Stephen Malkmus burn I've ever read is this: "When you listen to [Stephen Malkmus solo] records you can practically hear the other members of Pavement rejecting the songs one by one. In fact, if you buy the Pavement DVD, you can see him with an acoustic guitar demoing Discretion Grove to his bandmates, who look about as excited about the song as a dog is about a stick of celery."
Democracy vs. benevolent dictatorship is a fascinating part of intra-band dynamics. Benevolent dictatorships have resulted in some amazing bands/albums—Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, the first three Belle & Sebastian albums, the first two Strokes albums, Treats—and it's hard not to notice things going off the rails as other band members get more creative control, writing credits, and lead vocals—"Take Me Down" and "Farewell and Goodnight" being the worst songs on Mellon Collie ("Take Me Down", jfc "Take Me Down"), FYHC, YWLAP being the worst B&S album, Angles being one of the worst Strokes albums, the diminishing returns of post-Treats Sleigh Bells. Then again, there are plenty of counterexamples where things went downhill as soon as the main songwriter parted ways with a band member who everyone assumed wasn't contributing. Remember when people shrugged when Girls broke up because "lol Girls is Chrissy Owens bb!", and then we heard Lysandre? Remember when people tortured Meg White for not being a technically proficient drummer, and then we found out her limited proficiency forced Jack White to get creative and rein in some of his worst impulses? You never know when it's the bass player shooting down bad ideas behind the scenes and keeping the rest of the band members from killing each other. True democracies in which everyone or mostly everyone can play and write and sing and vibe with each other are some of the greatest bands of all time—The Beatles, Queen, etc.—but those are very rare.
You've really committed to this brand.
LosingMyEdge goes easy on no one.
I went to the Other Site Music Festival in 2011. For all the shit I give them, that was a very well executed festival.