tylermunns
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| Is blasphemous Music ok? Ugh. This again. I grew up in a country where all speech that was not an explicit threat or an explicit incitement of violence to people or property was protected in the constitution. I thought that was a pretty cool way to grow up. I would li... | |
| What I really hate about some music @tony1954 When one says Neil Young can “barely hold a tune,” and has “no vocal range,” it makes me wonder if they’ve ever heard Neil Young before. I’m a huge fan, from his best songs with Buffalo Springfield to today, and, funnily enough, I’ve be... | |
| Creedence on vinyl A friend of mine recently went to Norman Petty studios. They don’t let you take video in the tour, but his wife took a quick video and I got to see it. This made me want to get some quality Buddy Holly vinyl. After some internet research, I dec... | |
| Creedence on vinyl Came across Gray/Hoffman’s Analogue Productions vinyl pressing of Green River at a record store a few years back in NM condition. Considering how spendy those pressings are now and that the owner of the store gave me deals on used vinyl frequentl... | |
| What I really hate about some music Not sure how many people here have actually written or attempted to write a song, but one may be surprised how difficult it is to write a “simple” song. Simplicity often overlaps with vulnerability. It can be (certainly not always) a daunting pro... | |
| What I really hate about some music Repetition doesn’t bother me in the least. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. No one here seems to be lamenting I-IV-V chord progressions or the I-VI-IV-V chord progressions or the several chord progressions we’ve heard a trillion times ov... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Here’s an unheralded gem: 1970’s “Performance.” Jack Nitzsche, Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, Ry Cooder, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Russ Titelman, Lowell George, Gene Parsons, Bobby West and Milt Holland. In various incarnations, this “band” created a re... | |
| NEWS FLASH!! Listening to Music is NOT a "Distraction." @waytoomuchstuff That sounds great. If the neighbors are cool (if that’s even an issue) sounds like an awesome way to enjoy music outside! Martin Scorsese said something in an op-ed I really appreciated. Paraphrasing, he lamented a certain deval... | |
| What I really hate about some music @emrofsemanon I find that track tedious as all hell. I wouldn’t hold the “I knows” necessarily responsible, though. I just didn’t find it a remotely interesting or satisfying song the first time, let alone the 756,921st time. The fact that ever... | |
| NEWS FLASH!! Listening to Music is NOT a "Distraction." @waytoomuchstuff I appreciate your sentiments. As someone for whom music is central to existence, I was offended when my good friend Matt said, while we were doing hard work on a commercial fishing boat, “I just want to listen to something with e... | |
| What I really hate about some music @moonwatcher Uh, man, amen. I’ll raise ya with a ANY USE OF AUTOTUNE. It’s never once made anything better, only demonstrably worse. | |
| Owning Up To It @boxer12 I think you have us all beaten with that one. Well done. | |
| What I really hate about some music @frankmc195 I share none of your complaints. Your #3 grievance I can’t make heads or tails of. You say “carrying a tune to me doesn’t make a good singer” immediately after saying you hate “singers who can’t sing well but think they can.” I don’... | |
| Owning Up To It @roxy54 ”Saved” is a great choice for this topic! 👍 Meg Remy of US Girls, via a semi-recent Dylan-related interview, turned me on to a Dylan song that I’d never heard before, one from right before this unfortunate turn in his work (this being adj... | |
| Beyonce releases first album in six years RENAISSANCE @garebear Suge Knight and Jay-Z, again, are not, “one and the same.” One was a violent criminal-entrepreneur and the other is an artist-entrepreneur. It’s sad to me that someone would issue such a blanket condemnation of rap/hip-hop “culture,”... |