i consider myself a fan of the 1975, like their albums, seen them twice. I know their whole thing is to be exhausting and too much (that kind of what makes them cool). But this album rollout has been tooooooo much. They first said it was going to be a few months after Brief Inquiries... (that was over 2 years ago!) then every two months they kept pushing it back, and releasing singles. I hate the long drag, and I really hate that half of the songs are already out before the entire album. The whole process of rolling out albums these last years has been disastrous but this one is almost insulting to us fans. I'm excited to hear the album tomorrow as a full thing, but it;s been very annoying having to avoid all the singles because i'd rather hear it first as a whole statement than piecemeal. I've been rocking the song "people" for a year now, and now tomorrow when I hear the album for the first time when that song comes on it won't be exciting anymore because i've heard it a bunch.
there's lots of ways to roll out an album, and there's lots of things that can hold it up, so i have sympathy for that. But don't burn us out on the thing before we get a chance to hear as a full thing. (this is especially true because 1975 are an "albums" band that diluted the album by having so much of it out there before it comes out).
I'd never heard his music when I saw him a couple years back and he was an absolute blast in concert. For his intro he looped the 2 second segment of Dave Grohl singing just the words "the best the best the best the best the best the best the best" over and over again. Those two words over and over for no joke like 3 minutes before he came on stage. It's one of those had to be there things, but that shit was so hilarious for some reason. After he finished his set the crowd roused him to encore by chanting "the best the best the best the best the best". I miss live shows so much, those little goofy moments really make for great things to be the memories of concerts.
I can't believe a show as awesome as Pete and Pete actually existed. Amazing plot line (two brothers, both are named Pete), absolutely amazing music, and crazy cameos. Iggy Pop was the neighbor. I can't be remembering this right, there was really show that was that awesome???!!!
last show i saw before lockdown was Destroyer with Eleanor Friedberger, a great show to go out on. The article is right in saying they were incredible shows but I've seen Destroyer 3 times over the last 15 years and everytime it was amazing. If you haven't seen them yet and want to, don't fret, Dan is a real artist that will definitely be in it for the long haul. If you haven't had the pleasure yet you will, and it will be awesome.
the problem with Sky is that she doesn't want to make and/ or put out music. She made very little music and her live performances have been disasters. Most of the problem lies with the media always hyping up her every move. Granted it doesn't help when Sky does teases and acts like new music is coming, maybe she should stop doing that. But the media writing her up equals to pressuring her to make music when she's clearly not into or not in a good space to do it.
If you read interviews with her she always seems anxious (that one in pitchfork a year or so ago was wild) and doesn't enjoy talking about making music or music really at all. Her last album came out over 8 years ago. She's done a lot of (pretty good) acting and directing and other projects since then, maybe we should all let her focus on that. The media should admit to themselves that she just doesn't like making music and let her do other things
I'm a silverback millennial and my friends and I got pretty into Ween in the late 90s. I'm guessing we started with Chocolate and Cheese. We were too young to understand the humor in the way Ween deconstructs what it means to be a song and mocks the hell out of it. I do remember at that age saying "the best joke Ween does is they make their great songs really short and their bad songs really long." So I knew they operating on another wavelength, I just enjoyed (most) of their music and didn't look at them in any academic way. The Pod and Pure Guava were amazing. By the time of 12 Country Golden Greats I finally realized how deep their sense of humor went. It was fun to be young and love Ween on a pure, musical level. When I go back to Ween now I'm finding all sorts of new levels of hilarity and genius in their songwriting. Amazing band!
these kids are so freaking rad! Probably the best live show I saw in all of 2019. Love to see artists doing random, weird stuff, especially in these random and weird times
Amanda is probably the worst offender of what this article is talking about. There's multiple youtube compilations of her gleefully singing the n-word while covering rap songs on the ukulele. it's hard to watch. And her "explanation" (it wasn't an apology) for it was ludicrous and behind a paywall. So yeah, she's basically still the worst
I personally like the Stones more. But I see the Beatles merits and don't begrudge anyone their opinion of their unanswerable question.
But what Mick is saying here makes sense. The Beatles weren't around through the 70s and 80s. They didn't have to wade into the insane terrain that was 70's music. The Stones did some risky, innovative, and amazing music in the 70s. I think if the Beatles would've kept going it would've have been a lot of boring standards. I just can't see them making through the 70s without devolving into some schmaltzy, corny lounge-act kind of thing. The Beatles cemented their legendary status by breaking up before the 70's. The Stones kicked ass all throughout the 70's.
The Stones were amazing! So cool, good song choice, great all around. But I could not watch any of the other performances. It was so depressing, everyone had their heads down like they were about to cry and were performing their most melancholy songs. I'm depressed enough as it is. It was like watching a funeral for the earth.
i couldn't either! Bummed. they were joking right before they played the album about "only people that we actually know joined up for the Q&A" and I didn't know what they were talking about. the comments were flying, a lot of people were watching. I think somehow you to sign up for the Q&A part but I couldn't figure it out and missed it. The album rocked though at least!
remember when Fiery Furnaces got a 9.8? It was an amazing album, very polarizing at the time. maybe not quite worthy of a 10 but to give a record a 9.8? That was annoying, just give the 10.
But i think what she was saying, and what I was definitely trying to say, is that these drugs work but it does take the right combo and regimen for every individual. I don't know about you but I had many different combos of SSRI's and Anti-Anxiety meds. it took a while for it to really feel right for me. It took 12 years but I think I have it right now. I'm so thankful for that.
I don't get the impression she's anti-meds, she's just had a lot of trouble getting the combo right. She says she's doing good now, and I'll take her word for it.
So i'm loving the song "For Her". Does it seem like she's referencing Kanye when she drops that beat at the end and repeats "GOOD MORNING"??? haha, maybe it's just me. She's such a beast, i wouldn't put it past her to throw something like that as a reference. It's things like that (the wondering) that make art so special. Fiona nailed it to the wall.
I always loved that quote when Kanye said in an interview "I love Fiona Apple so much, i try to replicate her singing as much as I can. She always sounds like she's singing from the top of a mountain." As much as we all hate Kanye know, dude had some wisdom and that quote is an example. She's on mountains on this new album!
So pretty new to commenting on SG so i don't how to @ or give someone credit but I read someone on here (or maybe twitter) say this was like Tweezus (Yeezus + Twee) and I have to say that was an awesome comment. Especially because the last time I remember absolutely having to listen to an album again immediately was....Yeezus.
haha, i might need to revisit Soul Asylum. When I was in fifth grade i was in a Nirvana cover band, and even at that early age we totally adopted that "nirvana is the realest, everyone else are posers" stance, we hated Soul Asylum and Pearl Jam. of course that's lame, but we were 12 at the time.
Our band name was Grounded (isn't that a cool name for a tween garage band?!!). We named ourselves after the Pavement song but it definitely fit our circumstances at the time, haha. Unfortunately the only Pavement song we could play was "two states", so we were a Nirvana cover band by default because we could actually play Nirvana songs that also rocked the hell out of "two states."
but back to the nature at hand...Dogleg is an awesome fucking band. Really sucks there is going to be no concerts this year because I would've definitely caught them in the act
I did hear the Soul Asylum song from the end of Clerks on the radio like a year ago and being like "this is pretty cool song actually" despite specifically remembering i hated soul asylum and that song at the time
They do! and i absolutely love the Clerks callback. I haven't watched that film since i was in 5 th grade when we watched that and Mallrats constantly. I have a feeling a lot of those early Kevin Smith films probably don't hold up today but I could see Clerks being the one that does.
i have been prescribed many different anti-depressants meds and it took a while to get the right mix. Thankfully I am ok now, as this pandemic is affecting people with mental issues especially hard. the withdrawal symptoms from coming off of (or even just changing) anti-depressants / anti-psychotics is incredibly painful. What she describes is right- weird, unexplainable side effects. When I was going through it I couldn't look up at the sky, and eventually I couldn't leave the house. I had this intense feeling that I was going to spin off the earth, like gravity was going to stop working and i was going to float away. It wasn't just a feeling, i was completely convinced. I had a complete breakdown at the beach and was convinced the sun was moving in small, concrete circles and my friends were really scared from me. And of course insomnia is probably the worst pain you can imagine. Its scary stuff. I've never touched junk but I've heard from former addicts of both that heroin/ opioid withdrawals are a lot less severe than from anti-psychotics. I always feel so weird when people take these drugs to get high. They are scary, powerful things not to be taken lightly. If you don't need these meds, I strongly recommend finding something else to get your highs from.
"Murder Most Foul" was something else. Such a beautiful song. I can't believe he was just sitting on that. Bob's might just have a vault of unreleased bangers bigger than Prince
This is cool! i live in Silverlake, blocks from where he died. Living here I hear stories about him all the time (of course I know most are bullshit) but it is fascinating how 'in the scene' he really was. Before I moved here, I always pictured him as a loner, not really communicating and being friendly with fellow artists. but he really was active in the scene and was friends with a lot of people. And from every account I've heard he was nice and encouraging and not as melodramatic person as if often portrayed.
One of the ones that I really trust is I talked with Conor from Bright Eyes (another Silverlake local) about Elliot for a while and he told me some stories about him that were really interesting and illuminating.
Wait, why does the end of this article say "Dear Tommy is out"?????? There is something called "Faded Now" on spotify that seems pretty recent. Is that what they're referring to? I'm confused and don't want to listen to this until I figure out what is going on. Anyone know whats up?
There's a word for when a shitty one-hit nu-metal band from 20 years ago goes after the guy who's been a household name for over 4 decades and became famous for being a badass gangster and writing songs about killing cops. I don't think "headstrong" is the right word though.
the whole point of this article is to show how Metallica was over the hill and they were ridiculous for it. How did you miss that? I don't know how you can argue 1) that metallica did the right thing here 2) that the record industry needs protecting or sympathy (they're vultures that hurt music).
The last show I saw before the lockdown was Destroyer with Eleanor opening. Amazing show of course. I can't wait until live music becomes a real thing again, but Destroyer was as good a show to go out on as any.
this song is so boring- you're right he's not trying at all. i didn't watch the whole video- it was infuriatingly awful. And there is nothing worse than knowing an artist has (or could create) incredible bangers, (Drake has a ton) only to do lazy shit like this.
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