Curious thanks for the tip on The War on Drugs. I am enjoying the album. There is a bit of a Tom Petty
feel to some of the songs.

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What an odd thing to be a little bitch about.
I so sow-wy.

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pharrell writes feel good dancey disco funk type stuff. that's what he does...

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yeah, i know
it just seems like something that sounds good, is enjoyable to listen to...but ultimately will never have me saying "damn i really want to listen to that album right now"

you probably won't. the n.e.r.d. stuff is always better anyway.

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You don't think it is a bit obnoxious?

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The old standby.

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Its like Funnel Cakes. They're great, but unless you see one, youre not going looking

No, but I do happen to think that your posts are ALOT obnoxious.


Meow.

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Oh Snap

HIPSTER FIGHT!!!!!




Im kidding relax

This is true

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oh yeah, i havent heard this album in a few years so i gotta give it a spin.... it was recommended to me by ex-friend and chicago underground rapper robust who said that this album was likely the prehistoric version of my "IDM" (read: post-aphex-twin-music) that i love (as always click on the album cover to be transported to a youtube of the best song on the album)



yeah i think this thing came out as one of those rare/ish 16" records? it was freaking huge.... and well, if memory serves i used to get frustrated/bored with a lot of the tracks but that dreams one (that i linked to) is utterly fantastic.... a bit longform as it's a 7-8min song, but man by the end it's rocking the fuck out and the drummer in the stark reality is just.... * hats off * cuz that man can get the song rolling. the guitarwork tends to be a bit jazzy in nature, or at least since i'm not a guitar-driven-music-guy i call it "jazzy" in that the riffs tend to ebb and flow and evolve over time and as such the music tries to constantly expand outward like tetsuo near the end of akira, as opposed to many a rock song where you're trying to grab a catchy riff that literally embodies the "sex"of the song/groove and ride it out with memorable lyrics to drive the point home.

also near the end of that song "dreams" you hear the hoagy carmichael's children's music lyriics which crack me up.... but man that hoagy carmichael lived a full life.... i can even go to my 97 year old grandpa and be like "do you know hoagy carmichael?" and he'll snap back "stardust!" --- indeed, i think the etymology of this album is that he kicked the bucket in the late 60s / early 70s (cuz i wanna say this was ~70-72?) and when he did his son got all the rights to his music, so he went out and got his favorite jazz/ish band the stark reality to do versions of all of dad's old intellectual property, and yeah, the result is as follows. good stuff that an avowedly-not-guitar-driven-music-guy can vouch for.

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funny story i once read about mr. beck hansen.... as you might or might not know, both of his parents are true-believer scientologists, even though beck Himself actively goes out of his way to downplay/not-talk-about that..... but yeah, i guess as he was coming up in the musical world he wanted an "authentic" musical experience, although it's quite fair to conjecture that scientology was fully behind him and willing to support him, because one of his buddies told a story where they were down and out of cash and him and beck were sitting in the new york subway begging for change to get to wherever they were going or get food or something..... and then at some point during the panhandling beck had to grab something out of his pocket and casually/matter-of-factly moved a stack of $100 bills aside to get whatever it was out of his pocket and this guy was "DUDE WTF YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING OUT ON ME!?!?!?" and beck was like "uhhhh..... oh yeah. sorry dude i just wanted to hang out" and yeah, suffice to say for that day only they gave up on the panhandling and then beck was very quick to never accidentally brandish $1000-2000 in front of his friends again, as he resumed being "poor" / "struggling" / "up and coming" beck.

so yeah idk what you think about scientologists (cuz with all of the negative media coverage, clearly there has to be a counterpoint to where they're really an upstanding group of citizens who has their beliefs, sure, but they're not all fucked up and dangerous cult members as you believe.... i mean you know the proverbial happy medium is usually true when you come across a person and/or group who gets 100% slanted/biased media coverage like that) however it seems to be a fair point to say that they've invested in beck cuz if he ever was willing to eventually come out and say "hey you lot like me and look, i'm a cool/happy/functional well-balanced scientologist!" it could be a massive bit of positive PR for them.... however idk if he's ever really embraced that aspect of his past/life, though it'd be fair to assume that when he was having his early days he was never as skint/destitute/whatever as the legend would say..... he was always backed up by LRH/miscavige's coffers because they knew having him ultimately succeed, even if his ties to scientology were (veritable) urban legend, was some of the best PR they could get.

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My first stab at a Grateful Dead album. Should be interesting.

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My guy!

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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I don't know about this one. It's hardly as if Scientology lacks for successful famous people who do well. I mean, they'd have to be investing in dozens of people. My guess is that his parents' families were a quite a bit better off than he let on. It's sort of like how the inability to traditionally monetize rock music has taken it from a populist pursuit to a hobby for twentysomething children of the wealthy, because no one else can afford to live that life.

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Revisiting some Tortoise and Isotope 217, more importantly the Isotope 217. Man, I forgot how good some of this could be. Check out "Harm-O-Lodge" off Who Stole the I Walkman? This track sounds like what 21st c. Frank Zappa might have sounded like. That's definitely his kind of guitar line, followed by some circa-Waka/Jawaka trumpet noodling, all grafted on some Stereolab-esque grooves and bleep-bloops. Sure, some of their tracks are just wastes of time, but when they get it right, like this one or "La Jeteé," they get it right.

TELL JORR I SAID THAT. TELL HIM I SAID THAT!

EDIT: oh, and of course "LUH," whose organ blasts remind me of the best/worst of Get Up With It back to haunt me once more.

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Johnny "Machine" Herndon's best band was Precious Wax Drippings back in the 80s:

https://soundcloud.com/pat-daly-1/empir ... ious-wax-1

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that's an awful band name

Shame the B-sides from The Bends never got a proper EP like the ones off OK Computer and Hail to the Thief. "How Can You Be Sure?" and "Maquiladora" are hidden gems, and "Talk Show Host" is a classic.

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I just could never make it to Kid A

They started losing me with Ok, Computer. But partly because I had them compartmentalized as a straight rock band.

It was a long time ago. Maybe Ill give it another shot.

OK Computer is a pretty straight-ahead album other than "Fitter Happier," which isn't even credited as a full track on the back of the case. Maybe it was out there for 1997, but there's really nothing that unorthodox about it today. Usually there are guitars. Sometimes there are keyboards. The lyrics are kind of hard to figure out at first. It's closer to The Bends (particularly "Planet Telex") than it is to Kid A, which I'll give you as a bit of a departure, but definitely worth a chance.

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I felt like Ok Computer was halfway between The Bends and Kid A


I liked Ok Computer actually, but you could see where they were going.

I don't think there's much there at all that anticipates Kid A. Even How Am I Driving? doesn't hint much. Maybe the quarter-tone strings on "Climbing Up The Walls" leading to "How to Disappear Completely," and maybe "In Limbo" is like a dissociated "Subterranean Homesick Alien," but a lot of Kid A and Amnesiac seems to have appeared with no warning. I certainly wouldn't have guessed that anything they had done would have led to "Idioteque."

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Maybe the title got into my subconscious and I took it to mean they were giving in to electronic music.

Fitter happier more productive in the robot voice, as you mentioned.