I feel terribly out of touch not getting the Lana Del Rey thing. I'm finding it hard to do much other than wait and see. She hasn't bowled me over so far but I don't have any vitriol for her. Can someone from either side of the argument elucidate your thoughts on this?
I feel like Ke$ha caved into the idea that Dylan's work is sacrosanct and must be touched daintily with kids' gloves. What resulted was a bland, melodramatic reverence for the source material. What she didn't capture is the original's playfulness in spite of its bitter sentiment. Ke$ha of all people has no fun with it whatsoever.
That's your $120 box set. You really wanted it for Christmas, but you just had to treat yourself. You put it on when you have some time to yourself and sip a glass of white wine.
One artist, eh? I went with PJ Harvey and I'm not sure why. Also great: Shabazz Palaces, John Maus, The Men, Fucked Up, Wolves in the Throne Room, Altar of Plagues, Clams Casino.
The next time one of my conservative friends asks me if I'm a liberal, I'm going to say "Card-carryin' " in a thick Texas drawl and then spit on his shoe.
Actually, that was a common greeting in the old West. Whether the lady was carrying a rooster or not, it was just good form to greet a lady with a hearty Cock-a-doodle-doo.
This is off-topic for a music website, but since I'm not a sports nut, it makes more sense here. What bothers me about these guys announcing is that it seems like I'm listening in to two OTHER guys on their couches watching the game. They're very informed baseball fans, but some of their asides are so esoteric they seem like they were recalled off-hand by baseball minutiae fanatics. "Pujols has not been very good in the sixth inning with one out, two base runners on third and first after he fouls off the first pitch and the next pitch was called a balk."
Someone should clear this up for any future TV specials ready to break out a UV light and petri dishes. Your phone has poop on it. Every phone you check is going to have poop on it. Every door knob and every keyboard? Poop. Poop, just everywhere all the time.
Wash your hands because it is a poopity-poop poopy world out there just covered in excrement.
That's how I was with OK Computer; I bought that album on CD every time it broke or was lost, and kept one cassette copy, and also bought a vinyl copy.
I've never seen the Roses live, but if I had the money I most certainly would jet across the pond to see them.
"Fools Gold" is a great song but kind of a terrible way to introduce people to the Roses. I gave my friend their debut album on the strength of "Fools Gold" appearing on the GTA: San Andreas soundtrack. He liked it a lot but said nothing on there sounded like that song. I agreed and we both wished the band had released more material.
I may be in the minority but I'd understand a "last album" from these guys followed by a retirement. I would argue they've been far more valuable in their recent years than R.E.M. but both bands were formed in '81 and they both said what they needed to say. I don't think anyone in 1986 would have said Sonic Youth was going to become an establishment.
On the marriage itself; it really is sad, but we don't know the specifics understandably. I imagine the two will always share a certain love for one another; you can't erase 27 years of friendship no matter how hard you try. I hope they continue to be amicable and I'm sure it is a bittersweet thing having all their fans right there with them.
Oh yeah, Axl the multimillionaire with the work ethic of gold is the big victim here. He did gain some weight, let's not kid ourselves here. That is face fat I'm looking at, not his raincoat. As a fat guy, I don't care to poke fun at his weight but the guy continually asks for it by being altogether completely oblivious. He just doesn't get it. He's got no self-awareness, and he acts like he's the hardest working man in show business. The only reason we are talking about him now is what happened over twenty years ago. He has done nothing in the intervening years but smear his own damn name and then act like he doesn't get it.
I know plenty of GnR fans and the one thing they have in common is an almost pathological and masochistic desire to get fucked over by Axl Rose, the Stay-Puft Raincoat Man.
It was System of a Down's fault. Anyone who was there knows that. Actually, SOAD has been "systematically" ruining all of GnR's shows by showing up on time and leaving late like a bunch of dicks.
In terms of poor statements from rock stars past their prime, it's no Lulu. Can we all agree, whoever we are and whatever our differences, that Lulu is ridiculous?
I don't subscribe to any theory about how an artist should act. Every act should be evaluated in its context, not thrown into the context of its contemporaries. That being said, what has come from Lana Del Rey has thus far not impressed me. Whatever I say might come off as posturing, but I keep looking for an "in," something that really offsets Lana's songwriting, and I'm not finding much. Of course, technically the song is decent and it's not full of a lot of the tripe you find in "Modern Rock" but it didn't hook me. Of course, Tune-yards didn't hook me either, and I'm not going to deny that act's innovations. It's really a taste argument that I wish people didn't stretch out into an "Us v. them" construct.
My answer is Sunlandic Twins. It's weird to think that of Montreal is over fifteen years old. Kevin Barnes always feels like a kid on record no matter how much he talks about George Bataille.
I always kind of held this grudge against Pentangle, they borrowed a lot of jazz structures and progressions and rarely credited the original writer (this was probably their publisher's fault.) But there is no denying that among his contemporaries (Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Roy Harper, et al), Jansch was one of the most talented musicians technically that ever came out of the UK. And even though he's a bit of a fringe figure compared to the likes of Nick Drake, he's certainly partly responsible for every folk-tinged band to come out in the last decade.
Unfortunately a list like this is really lacking without the back story behind each of these bootlegs that Uncut provides. Either way, I second the love for Double Exposure, a kind of rough guide to Television's origins and punk bona fides. Not included on said bootleg is the Little Johnny Jewel single, which I believe the band wrote after Hell left.
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