Thought Dump : Music Edition

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by Duff... Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:09 pm

undo wrote:At least that's my opinion, maybe one that's very easy and convenient to form in hindsight, and surely a sign that I'm growing old and getting very comfortable in my feelings that everything used to be "better" in one way or another. Or is there something to it?

Almost posted this a month and half ago because it made me feel seen (on topic: no one's saying that anywmore, right?) but at least someone out there at a noteworthy website agrees with you (apologies if it turns out this person is over 40):

https://www.stereogum.com/2228922/we-are-so-back/columns/sounding-board/

tl;dr yeah the charts suck right now.

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by Duff... Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:13 pm

James Brown
Jimmy Page
Axl Rose
Dr. Dre
and yeah, Kanye

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by Ned Braden Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:46 pm

Solid picks. Ugh, fuck I so often forget that certain people suck (Page, Brown… probably Iggy and Bowie too).

Statutory rape (even in the 70s while on all the coke) - not rad. But a Steven Tyler who basically doubles down on it in 202X gets less sympathy from me than a Bowie. I guess this is a roundabout way for me to say, 1. I don’t know who actually belongs on this list, 2. I’m probably not qualified to make that determination, and 3. The world has been really really bad for a really long time, as this conversation even existing is all the modern day “comeuppance” certain stars will ever get for acts that used to be perfectly normal (whoever wrote the “fuck her brains out” line in Animal House probably did so while thinking, “who hasn’t fucked a bunch of 14 year olds?)

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by undo Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:47 am

Duff... wrote:

undo wrote:At least that's my opinion, maybe one that's very easy and convenient to form in hindsight, and surely a sign that I'm growing old and getting very comfortable in my feelings that everything used to be "better" in one way or another. Or is there something to it?

Almost posted this a month and half ago because it made me feel seen (on topic: no one's saying that anywmore, right?) but at least someone out there at a noteworthy website agrees with you (apologies if it turns out this person is over 40):

https://www.stereogum.com/2228922/we-are-so-back/columns/sounding-board/

tl;dr yeah the charts suck right now.

Very little has changed since this was posted nearly 2 months ago. "Vampire" fell off hard after one week. I'm not seeing any Lil Uzi Vert songs from that album anywhere on the chart. This could be the dullest year in recent memory for "popular" music?

Little Neddy goes to war wrote:Looks like the kids are vibing with quite a bit of pop country and/or insurrection culture war country these days.

"Kids" don't buy mp3s on iTunes, which is what got both of those songs to #1.

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by Ned Braden Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:56 am

Statistics.khanacademy?online dot com reveals that the per-one-hundred-words-of-lyrics band champion for phrase=“semen” is:

41/100 words: N3gro League
256/100 words: Neutral Milk Hotel

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by Ned Braden Thu Aug 31, 2023 2:56 am

Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash and Hippie Boy by the Flying Burrito Brothers are two songs that deserve to be exploded at Comiskey Park and if, on my death bed, I had the choice of hearing one of them, I would much rather never hear them again and probably also recover and stop dying, but the point is that they suck.

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by BGwaves Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:04 pm

It starts at about 2:50, the most heavenly drone you’ll hear today.

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by undo Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:40 am

Should I check this album out if I've never heard it before?

Spoiler:

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by undo Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:47 am

BGwaves wrote:

It starts at about 2:50, the most heavenly drone you’ll hear today.

Is this unedited live audio

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by BGwaves Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:54 am

The only edits that I can see, happen when they show different camera angles. It sounds like you can hear some kid say the same thing twice. I imagine someone is just blowing the horn but because it’s in that giant warehouse it’s ringing around the acoustics of the building, similar to an old church.

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by BGwaves Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:06 am

undo wrote:Should I check this album out if I've never heard it before?

Spoiler:

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by undo Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:04 pm

I got a girl who lives with me
I got a girl, she smells so sweetly
I got a girl, she loves her dog
I got a girl, I love her dog too
I got a girl who stares in the mirror
I got a girl who blames it on her period
I got a girl, she is so right
I got a girl, she's my guiding light
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
I got a girl who loves good soul
I got a girl who dances to disco
I got a girl who wears cool shoes
I got a girl who wears them in the nude
I got a girl who speaks her mind
I got a girl, she'll argue anytime
I got a girl, she is so small
I got a girl, she'll knock down any wall
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Get a load of this
She's always bitching at me when I'm feeling down
Asking questions with her little frown
I can't take much much more of this
I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm
Get a load of this
She's always bitching at me when I'm feeling down
Asking questions with her little frown
I can't take much much more of this
I'm out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out
I got a girl I love to kiss
I got a girl I never want to miss
I got a girl who's my best friend
I got a girl that won't even hold my hand
I got a girl that makes me laugh
I got a girl, I'll make her laugh too
I got a girl, she has girlfriends
I got a girl, I like her girlfriends
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Well I know what I need (I need)
And I feel we're going higher and higher
Well I know what I need
And I feel we're going higher and higher
I got a girl
I got a girl
I got a girl
And she's got a guy

Is the ending of this song supposed to be some kind of a "twist"?*

Or is he just literally saying that he has a girl, she has a guy (and that guy is him)? And there is no "twist" whatsoever in the song?

*If this seems like a ridiculous question, I have this feeling like a lot of songs in the 90s did this sort of thing but I also couldn't name them so maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about.

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by BGwaves Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:45 pm

My first thought was, this must be the lyrics to Girls Girls Girls and then I looked closer and was mildly disappointed

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by Ned Braden Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:28 pm

I love that tripping Daisy song and this is the very first time my brain has been introduced to the idea that this was a twist ending and I’m a little shook.

Honestly, my gut says he just meant that he, the singer, is the guy. Just based on delivery. But then I consider a lyric like “that won’t even hold my hand” and I’m like imlikewhoa

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by undo Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:47 pm

Oh never mind, it was about his gf

Thought Dump : Music Edition - Page 10 Gotagi10

You can actually look this stuff up and find out for yourself, wow

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by Duff... Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:21 am

Huh, yeah, always assumed it was a twist.

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by undo Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:15 pm

It's so weird that I was allowed to grow up in this weird little bubble of time where corporate elites were just throwing money at cool artists and just throwing everything at the wall just to see what sticks.

Half a decade later they were all just like "fuck it, we're going with Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace and this is just how it's going to be."

Really don't want to get too nostalgic in ways that blot out what was really shitty about the mid 90s but the baseline of what was "normal" in music was way more diverse and eclectic than anything that was to come.

Hope you enjoyed my Saturday morning Thought Dump

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by Ned Braden Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:47 pm

I was revisiting my playlist of songs from the EVERY BOY, EVERY BOY IN THE WHOLE WORLD CAN BE YOURS thread.

Thanks for reminding me of how good shit used to be.

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by BGwaves Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:27 pm

Did the public consistently need new sounds? Did artists need new sounds? Why did pop music go through a progression in the first place? Is it just because every generation has to have their own thing? Who decides and when is the cutoff? Was it all organic or were there forces at work??

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by undo Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:45 pm

Do we even get new sounds anymore?

I feel like pop/rock stopped evolving like 15 years ago and that's being super generous to it.

I'm probably parroting an opinion that gradually forms in the brain of everyone when they get to a certain age. Not necessarily people who lived in the middle ages but certainly everyone after WWII, I guess.

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by undo Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:56 pm

What even are these boxes / what are they for?

Are they like synthesizers that you have to plug your own (MIDI?) keyboard and into?

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by BGwaves Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:06 am

They are like effects pedals but meant for studios. Typically they are better at doing whatever the effects pedal might do, delay, reverb, etc. Downside is they cost way more and you need a rack to use multiple effects, as stacking them on top of each other is a quick way to burn them out.

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by Ned Braden Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:41 pm

In an effort to make the most indie music message board guy post imaginable, I gotta get something off my chest: I have a crush on Caroline Polachek.

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by undo Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:59 pm

https://www.stereogum.com/2174614/the-number-ones-silks-freak-me/columns/the-number-ones/

When I was in high school, dances were pretty much freakfests. It would just be kids grinding their junk into each other. Sometimes, it would be entire lines of 10 or 15 kids, all grinding their junk into the ass of whoever was standing in front of them, simulating some kind of unthinkable human-centipede group-sex situation. These kids didn’t move their feet, and they barely moved their hands. It was all just junk grinding on junk. Teachers and chaperones would passive-aggressively complain, but nobody ever stopped the kids. For a vast chunk of the ’90s, this was simply how kids danced. At least in my high school, we called it freaking, and those lines of kids were called freak lines.

Is this true?

I only went to one dance through all of middle and high school.

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by undo Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:01 pm

Little Neddy goes to war wrote:In an effort to make the most indie music message board guy post imaginable, I gotta get something off my chest: I have a crush on Caroline Polachek.

I don't get crushes on singers anymore or I try not to entertain the thought too much

but if I did, it might be for Yaeji

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