So I spend too much time on twitter. Leamealone

Twitter, me, too much, leammelone

but if i do then you’ll go back on twatter and disintegrate into 280 character madness

Albert Ayler ‎- Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGq5-n_AL-0

Everyone, really? Up until now I'd have been hardpressed to find anyone who'd say so. Maybe I live in a bubble, but it's Joy Division over New Order all the way. And I strongly agree with that assessment. Not that I don't like New Order, they had a few absolute bangers, but their output doesn't even come close to the impact Joy Division had on me - both on an emotional level and relating to my listening habits.

Weyes Blood - Rough Trade Session (EP)

A condensed, stripped-down cut with the perfomances of three of the (imho) best tracks of the most recent album. Her voice can really shine with this arrangement. If I were to nitpick, then I'd say it's a pity that arguably the most impressive track of the album - its showstopping opener "A Lot's Gonna Change" was reduced to a short instrumental intro. And granted, the featured tracks had added layers of arrangement on the album that worked in their favor. But it's a really solid release that perfectly accentuates both the vocal and songwriting skills of Weyes Blood and all of the tracks I thought were kind of meandering on Titanic Rising are blissfully absent. So I enjoyed it a lot more than the album. Highly recommended.

I think I’m just falling into a recency bias and letting some thread on twitter impact my reasoning. Must be.

I like New Order too, but I can’t quite concede that they’re better or even at the level of Joy Division, despite being VERY different groups.
It’s not, like, a Minor Threat/Fugazi situation, where the original band is just outclassed in every way by the band that grew from their ashes.

Not saying it’s a Nirvana/Foo Fighters or Beatles/Wings situation either. New Order is great, but ... I mean, JOY DIVISION.

Oh well.
I’m dumb.

What did you think of this?

These guys — who I’ve known about since like 2012 or something, unless I’m forgetting something — have become a HUGE thing on 4chan and reddit and other places I refuse to go for obvious reasons. Apparently their debut (2008’s Deathconsciousness, which everyone thinks came out in the 2010s because of a reissue) is considered like GY!BE at their absolute best level post-rock by these kids.

I think it’s solid, but not THAT good. New album has some nice tracks too, but again, not THAT good.

Science Beat is cool.


Overall I like their 2014 album The Unnatural World because I’m a contrarian or whatever

Ah, god bless /mu/core.

Oh come ON, that's insane too. I love Fugazi and they were of course more multi-dimensional than Minor Threat, but they most certainly did NOT "outclass" the latter "in every way". "Filler", "Out Of Step"... Fugazi may have done music as good as that, but they didn't surpass it.

Fuck is this "Twitter" shit you get musical statements from, anyways?

A KCRW session from almost exactly five months ago is still alive on Dime:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=652872

By the bye, the Rough Trade Session was originally a bonus disc which came with the (yes) Rough Trade-sold edition of Titanic Rising. Not uncommon Rough Trade shenanigans - Anna Calvi's debut album featured a special collection of classical music selected by Anna, while Caitlin Rose's Own Side Now and The Stand-In both included special additional live/demo goodness. But, as far as I know, the Weyes Blood sesh is the only number which has made it to Bandcamp (in other words, it's the only one you don't have to bleed money to get in decent sound now that the editions with bonus CDs are out of print).

I love Minor Threat but Fugazi even did proper hardcore better, sorry.

I LOVE Minor Threat. But Fugazi matched the intensity, in different ways, and vastly surpassed MT in terms of dynamics and overall musicality.

Sorry dude yo.

No actually FUCK that shit.

Never been there never will visit. Any semblance of alt-right fuckery makes it a stain on the world.

Also, nobody shuts up about it and it lets everyone think they’re a goddamn expert.

REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAD TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY LIKED BY, I DUNNO, GOING TO MUSIC STORES AND SHOWS INSTEAD OF DIGITALLY SOCIALIZING WITH GODDAMN CULTURE TROLLS.

Sorry I’m touchy

Nice

I must spread some Reputation around before giving it to this guy again.

fuck stores for suburban kids with disposable income

long live napster & full access to all

i love that i can’t understand a word of the lyrics cuz that would ruin it for me

but yeah it did its thing

I needed to include the '/s', didn't I? :D

But yeah, it's annoying: whenever I see there's a 'cool' album that everyone online seems to be into, it's just because it's been circlejerked to oblivion on /mu/.
The frustrating thing is that they actually do have good taste. Even after avoiding Neutral Milk Hotel for months on end, I had to admit that it was pretty good (although that was only to please a friend of mine, who told me he'd listen to Aphex Twin if I did this for him).

I like GY!BE and Kid A and Loveless and all that shit. But now I'm torn between wanting to listen to Spiderland or Soundtracks for the Blind; while also not wanting to feed the circlejerk.

blacktop audio recordings 1981-83

So on the Trump thread the barely regulated mechanisms of capitalism are A-OK and AOC is a nut; here, however, it's a literal free-for-all, to hell with those pesky artists who need reasonable monetary compensation for their work. A dicotomy arises on the horizon...

as many many nights im listening to eno’s airports because eno

i often try other albums but maybe nothing beats airportsso it’s airports again

earlier i got excited by the joy division youtubes. then im listening to closer. and im in the middle of isolation when i go “uuuffffffff...” and i turn it off.

it’s kinda like pink floyds the wall for me. once enthralled, now so done with such self pities.

transmission though, i could put transmission on a forever 45 with automatic return arm: RADIO (the way he makes that word sound), etc etc

Sand Enigma Orchestra - Related Projects Mixtape

Yeah, fair assessment. It's an alright album, but nothing spectacular. Science Beat and Tresspassers W I liked a lot. Lords Of Tresserhorn has something going for it too. But I feel like this album meanders a lot. A pleasant listen, nothing more, nothing less.

This is freaking fantastic!

I can’t believe that Trump thread is still at the top of the page.

Not gonna lie, seeing it depresses the crap out of me because it gives me flashbacks of a time when the psychotic idiot was only a worst-case scenario never-gonna-happen candidate instead of the leader of the free world.

(Sigh.)

It’s contributed to my being less active if I’m being honest.

i didn’t wanna engage with sopa’s bait originally because i was getting ready to sleep and who needs that,

but one big thing i love about online music is that i don’t have to go through a douchebag to get it (besides no physical storage, zero weight, etc)

so many douchebags kept me away from so many record stores over the years haahaahaaahaaa. glad to be done with the gatekeeper model. they can eat all the fucks. although there were some good ones.

the arrival of napster was a huge liberation to follow my tastes without having to go through music priests and their moral hectorings and inner circles of initiates.

now i find something similar with bike shop employees. fortunately i’ve found some friendly ones who get what i’m looking for and i can bring my business to because they’re really glad to help. but man... so many douches in that line too. anywhere a retail employee can claim little hipster lord status it’s gonna be a douche minefield.

The artist, Walter De Maria, was actively engaged in the New York music scene of the 60s and briefly was a drummer for the rock group The Primitives, an early incarnation of The Velvet Underground (1965). Cricket Music and Ocean Music feature De Maria's drumming mixed with field recordings of nature and were later used as the soundtracks for his film, Hard Core (1969). - Gagosian
http://ubu.com/sound/demaria.html

you're welcome. To be honest, I didn't even listen to it, but I will later on. Right now, I'm on a Bettie Serveert flow.
Starting with
Bettie Serveert instore @ Concerto 04/11/2016

then followed by






private suit

it’s a grey fucking day outside, with wet snow, so this fits the bill

https://open.spotify.com/track/3SqN09FlFXWggOVQ9pGWLR

Pavement - Stereo

of course i soon tired of the fucking gloom and energized all systems

Wet snow as in rain? Or wet snow as in actual snow that melts in an instant? If the latter than wow, NM has had its share of snow earlier than Vienna this season, something incredibly rare, I suppose. Anyway, great album choice. :D

yeah, snow that doesn’t quite stay dry. some accumulation but mostly slush. not the powdery kind.

we had first snow... 3 weeks ago was it? something like that.

then again we’re in the mountains at roughly 4 times your altitude (over 2200 meters).

-x

new mexico’s highest town is actually in the south of the state (2644m)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clou...%2C_New_Mexico

Oh yeah, I remember you mentioning living in an elevated area. Didn't take that into account. Makes sense. No snow around here yet, but plenty of rain and dreary grey skies. I don't mind still having some time before those flakes of unbridled dread descend upon me though.

Anyway, as to not veer off-topic too much:

Goddamn excellent choice

PLAINSONG!

Is it weird that that track is among my favorites by the Cure? Like top 3? Because Plainsong is heaven via audio.