Hold up, Ryan. Are you telling me it's almost like THE CITY ITSELF IS A CHARACTER??!?!?
For real, I love seeing them compared to The Clash here. That's always been my touchpoint for PC. Not that they sound like them, but their approach to music seems very similar to me.
Stereogum is like my kids trying to get me to watch dumb shit on YouTube. "Hey dad, Watch Pete Davidson & Rami Malek sing a country-pop Squid Game song on SNL!" No. Leave dad alone. I'm tired. I don't want to watch that stuff.
When it first came out?
I always just listen to what I'm listening to when my kids are in the car. It's led to them getting into some interesting stuff. My daughter used to love to sing along to Vitamin C by Can.
My four-year-old son asks to hear "I Don't Live Here Anymore" every morning on the way to daycare. He's apparently asked his teachers to play it when they have their "dance time" in class. They did not and he yelled at them that he "doesn't like 'cute' music anymore, he likes 'cool' music!"
The "screening committee" is just a cowboy sitting in a room with a pair of headphones on. They play the various candidate albums for him and he simply gives a "thumbs up" if it's country or a "thumbs down" if it's not.
I'm sure you all know this, but that's the state of online media everywhere now. It's "Oh, this oughta get them all riled up!" It seems like 95% of everything posted everywhere is posted with that goal in mind. I also don't like it. The problem is, it'll only stop if we stop falling for it and putting tons of comments under these types of articles.
Now I picture some kid in a record store with the Le Tigre album in one hand and the Barry Mann record in the other being confused as to which one they should buy.
I like it when SNL takes a thing that's in the news and then they do a sort of parody of it by making it funny and we all have a good laugh because we've seen that thing in the news, but it's maybe a little more ridiculous than the real thing that happened and some famous people play other famous people and it's all a big goof and everyone laughs. I like it when they do that.
Quite the double standard by SNL. Musgraves shows up naked with her guitar on their stage and they cater to her every need. I show up naked with my guitar on their stage and they call security.
Ok, ok. I love this. Is anyone else hearing a little Def Leppard in this song?
And, no, I didn't just type that to fuck with you all who are Howsing this.
Pitchfork rated the new Lindsey Buckingham album higher than both Kanye and Drake's new ones. Let's just throw that on the pile of weird shit that's happened in the last year or so.
Goddamn does that White quote at the end of the article tug at the heartstrings. Sigh.
I always feel like the best follow-up albums take what the band/artist was doing and bring it up a notch. Girls brought their shit up a lot of notches on this one. This is just a perfect album. There's just this sweetness, maybe innocence, about this band that makes it all so wistful in a way. Like the article mentions, they sing about these wonderful things, but they are in the past. "All of it’s gone, gone away..."
I have a deep love for the first four Hold Steady albums. I was telling a friend recently that had never heard the band that they sing about what happens after the parties. This Girls' album came out right when I was hitting my "after the parties" phase of my life, and I felt it hard.
I also have no memory of this song. A lot of times, in this column, I might not recognize something by name right away, but once I listen to it, I remember it. Not this one. Doesn't sound the least bit familiar. That's weird, too, because I was very heavily listening to the radio at this point in time. I'm sure I heard it, and probably a lot, but it definitely didn't stick.
Ben Folds Live got mentioned in the article. I know the guy who yells "Rock this bitch!" and prompts Folds to make up a song on the spot by the same name. He's the older brother of my college best friend. He probably should've got some sort of royalties from that.
I thought the dude in the upper right corner was a badly-drawn Leonardo DiCaprio, and I thought one of the songs might be about Shutter Island.
Is that the guard in Silence of the Lambs who gets beaten to death with the baton?
If you mean, "Living Proof, ain't it?" as in, "Man, this performance is just 'living proof' of how great this band/song is", then yes. If you mean it as "Living Proof ain't it" as in, this song ain't it, it's not good, then no.
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