Thought Dump : Music Edition

I think if anyone can come up with a list, we can. It won't be like the 80's, but that list isn't like the 70's etc. I'll start:

BOB/Ms. Jackson/So Fresh, So Clean
MAPS
Take Me Out
Mr Brightside (otherwise a worthless band, I don't need to tell you)
Untitled
Seven Nation Army
Umbrella
Drive
Insecure/Through the Wire/Golddigger/Power/Runaway/Flashing Lights/etc
I Love It
Float On
Clint Eastwood
Alright
My Love
Levitating
Adorn
Last Nite
Rebellion (Lies)
One More Time

Not everyone's gonna agree on all of these but it's a start.

Seven nation army, and mr brightside are absolutely canon at this point. My girl threw an arts event at her school last year and they had a talent show. The lone band at the talent show covered mr brightside. SNA is obvious in a way, they play it at sporting events all over the world. I was also thinking Paramore ‘misery business’ and Ke$ha ‘we r who we r’ should be on the list. Not a huge fan of either but I think they both inhabited a space that was indie rock friendly in their time.

BGwaves wrote: Paramore ‘misery business’

Absolutely.

I’m surprised they haven’t released some weird 28th anniversary box set for that album with outtakes and other crap you’d expect out of those things. A mix without Kedis has to exist, right? I’d actually love a version of breaking the girl without vocals, I’ve always felt that was a good song with dumb lyrics. In fact, after listening a second ago, I’d take a person humming the vocal melody but nothing more, no chorus. Breaking the girl? Ugh, fucking gross.

I’m looking at pics of Gathering of the Juggalos 2022 on Brooklyn vegan and thinking to myself, I wonder if they dig Oval?

BGwaves wrote:I’m looking at pics of Gathering of the Juggalos 2022 on Brooklyn vegan

Huh.

Is the radio edit of "Nuthin But a G Thang" truly superiour? Or do I just think that because I'd heard that version on the radio and MTV a million times before hearing the album?

Was almost ready to maybe stop being mad at Kanye West.

Did the film Network contain the original Vaporwave aesthetic?

If I could go back to the 1997 version of myself I’d offer the following advice: “These good times won’t last forever, buddy. Enjoy them while they last. And maybe listen to “Walkin on the Sun” a few more times.”

Did nirvana ever cover this? Cause I’m assuming they did.

Wild to me that Lizzie Goodman was able to write this book and get it turned into a movie. I could be way off but is there that large of an audience nostalgic for an era like 20 years ago that feels not that significant artistically?

I think if the had just moved away from the live footage right away into the montage that ends the clip it would work better. It’s crazy that they couldn’t find a good live recording, clearly the one that accompanies that footage was not usable or they would have used it. But you’re totally right about that crowd noise, WTF? I mean just make the choice to use the bad live audio or the album version but adding fake crowd noise doesn’t make any sense. With all that said, the history of VICE productions films does not have me excited for the care that they will put into this subject. Their film about Black Metal was sensationalist and not informative. To give it some credit it was presented as fiction, but still

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Nick wrote:Wild to me that Lizzie Goodman was able to write this book and get it turned into a movie. I could be way off but is there that large of an audience nostalgic for an era like 20 years ago that feels not that significant artistically?

People with skin in the game rightfully realized that the "inevitable" nostalgic revival for this stuff was actually never going to happen, that there's not going to be some newfound appreciation for this era and that they were sitting on a depreciating asset that needed to be cashed in before it was totally worthless.

Harsh realm but that's the world now.

The book is enormous, like 600 pages long. I bought it because I worried it might go out of print, but I'm still not going to read it for a few more years (I hope I don't die!)

I remember reading John Harris' The Last Party in 2003/04, and all that stuff seemed like ancient history to me even though it was from when I was barely paying attention to the cultural world around me. Now, 20 years on from all that New Rock Revolution stuff, it feels like only yesterday.

I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties and Daniel Rachel's Don't Look Back In Anger, as 90s nostalgia feels a bit more "in" than post-millennial tension and one book about Britpop every 20 years is enough.

Definitely x-post tv and elite music threads… but I really want to talk about the scene in Better Call Saul where McKean and Odenkirk sing “The Winner Takes it all” at karaoke night.

First and foremost, this is everything. The quality of the song. The bad (in the best way) and good (in the best way) performances by the principals. The balance of rivalry/unconditional love between brothers that fucking hits me right in the sad brain part of my heart.

This is not a good internet post. But I’m drunk after football losses, and I’m listening to Abba. And there is no way there is any art that is this good.

McKean and Odenkirk are in my forever head cannon. These two guys that are dork/clown unserious people are so much better at hitting human reality than “google searches best living actor.”

Life is an utter horror show of futility and depression. If you try to play it straight, you will fail. The reason Dr. Strangelove is better than Fail Safe is that without making clear the comedic value to our shared suffering, this entire enterprise takes the shape of masochistic awefulness. Let’s lean into the understanding of us all being totally fucked.

Anyway, fuck all that shit, life is amazing. One Fine Day just started playing on my jam box.

This whole "oh shit a kate bush moment" phenomenon is being written about a lot by journalists who I assume are like 12 and don't even remember Wayne and Garth headbanging to Bohemian Rhapsody which is weird, but I still hope this Wednesday show gives the surviving Cramps and their families a lot of money.