I hate the Melvins. Buzz is fucking annoying as a person, and as a songwriter, every album they've ever put out is composed of 1, maybe 2 good songs and the rest filler. Their newer stuff is just butt rock.

  • activelybustin [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Nobody actually likes Radiohead, they were just pushed because they're inoffensive and bland compared to even other pop contemporaries. And by pushed I mean they were favored by one part of the various intelligence agencies in this country that are at war with each other and dictate everything. This was also done with another dogshit band (Smashing Pumpkins) but from a more reactionary side of the intelligence blob. TNA wrestling is involved with this somehow and we won't know for another 50 years.

    There's no reason white hip hop artists can't be good, but nobody's grabbed the brass ring. It's either "Wash the dishes but behind car commercial beats" or "What if I fucked dora the explorer wouldn't that be fucked up huh?" The closest we've gotten so far is Eminem and he had like, a two album run.

    Love Mike Patton, obviously one of the best singers of his generation, Mr Bungle always fucking sucked. Also everyone who ever recommended them to me was a creep.

    Bo Burnham should be executed by the state. If you like "Inside", when the time comes to choose between socialism or barbarism, you will pick barbarism.

    Outside of whatever metoo biden-ass shit that he did that I am currently unaware of, Suge Knight did nothing wrong.

    Stone Temple Pilots, even during their early stuff which was very clearly trying to be stock grunge, was never that bad or vapid. Chester Bennington's work in STP beat everything he did with Linkin Park. Watch his live performances with STP, he has so much fun playing the hits.

    Superchunk is so fucking good, they were one of the only bands to take a decade long hiatus and put out an album that could easily stand by their old material. Not even Sweet Trip could do that, even if I like A Tiny House for what it is.

    Poptimism comes from the exact same dark void as "le epic bacon" shit came from, totally astroturfed to get you to eat garbage. If you fell for it, don't feel bad, nobody's immune to propaganda.

    Bon Iver was worse for Wisconsin than Scott Walker. The other Scott Walker is ok though.

    LSD and the Search for God? More like Boring To Me and the search for a song that I give a shit about.

    RHCP never really recovered from Hillel Slovak's death despite their best stuff coming after him, it's a bummer. Anthony Kiedis's vocals are endearing and fit the band well.

    The 80's might be the worst decade for music, both in popular music and the underground trends especially earlier on in the decade that we will hopefully ever see. Even today when all the music is either dumped on soundcloud for 20 people to hear, or made by the sons and daughters of pedophiles, it's still less grim than 1982.

    Good music doesn't come from drugs but from extreme trauma and being surrounded by instruments at a young age. In order to create a steady stream of bangers, I propose boarding schools similar to those from the movie "Never Let Me Go" be established but instead of tearing out their organs, we just verbally abuse them until they make the next classic album.

    Musical numbers in shows are almost universally terrible (see: that IASIP episode). Despite being a show that was taken over post season 3 by the NWO, Steven Universe bucks this trend.

    Weird Al is one of the greatest artists of our time. Nobody who has come before or since has done his shtick even "decently".

    Live music outside of radio acts or house sessions are dead in 10 years. Not because of a lack of demand or another service overtaking traditional touring and promoting, but because there just isn't enough fucking money on any end to make it work at this point. Can't keep local venues open, it's still not really safe to have concerts and running then over the long term will start to kill off your fanbase, can't afford lodging, can't afford just gas and sleeping in the van, probably can't afford the van and you probably can't afford the instrument in the first place. Especially in a working class family where if the choice is between a $300 switch or a decent $600 drum set that somehow has to fit in a run down apartment, you're getting a switch. Hope you get the KORG port.

    Burgerland music is going to be reactionary because the state openly promotes reactionary music + they're part of the only class that can afford to take music as a career seriously. Trying to avoid this puts an unwarranted morality on consumption (you can't consume product and be either "Good" or "Bad"). This will only get worse for the next five years until this country finally collapses.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      those are indeed some spicy takes.
      agree with radiohead. but I like the smashing pumpkins. I also think there are some fantastic white rappers out there. give Atmosphere a listen. Also Aesop Rock is widely recognized as a talented artist, and I agree.

      Parodies in general really suck, but Weird Al mostly gets credit because he was the first and did it before the YouTube era. The other thing he did extremely well, that I do give credit for, was the actual music production and stylistic imitation of the song he was parodying, where most parodies only take it as far as changing the lyrics without really reproducing the original song otherwise. I think Weird Al is a talented individual, but not an all-timer. And I'm not even sure his talent was best served by parodies.

      Suge Knight did a lot of stuff wrong.

      Trauma doesn't create artistry and this myth needs to die ASAP.

      • activelybustin [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        "Hey, why is this album called Labor Days?" "Because after Daylight, it feels like a job to sit through" (he's very inconsistent for me). He needs Breakdance Beach energy on an entire album and I haven't seen that from him yet.

        Weird Al to me is like winning a Street Fighter major with pre-SFV Dan. Parodies suck so fucking hard that just having a career based around them and not being universally loathed is a miracle. It's less his actual output which is like, fine for what it's going for, but if anyone else on the planet tried to do what he did, they'd be stoned to death.

        Suge Knight probably did something wrong. It's like how Deng said that Mao was "70 percent right and 30 percent wrong". Similar ratio and method of determining Knight's guilt.

        damn I didn't see any issue with my idea of "screaming at a bunch of children while putting a plastic recorder in front of them" before but you may have a point

        • Quimby [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          I can get behind that take on Weird Al, sure.

          For Suge, he's a CEO, so gulag for that. But also, I believe that he was involved in the death of biggie, which is bad. And killing his friend with his car was bad, even if it was an accident. Accidentally killing your friend is still pretty bad.

      • activelybustin [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I'm willing to capitulate almost any other take but if Inside did resonate with you on a meaningful level, you're not my friend and I don't trust you. This rich fucking creep making bottom, rot gut level jokes about Instagram that fucking Simpsons in 2017 wouldn't have done while complaining he has it oh so bad while he has enough cash to have everything delivered to him and got to live with his girlfriend. Not a fucking peep about a loved one that died of this disease or killed themselves or having to live with brainfog and not being able to go up a flight of stairs without sweating, no, it's about how sexting is awkward. Most Frederick Wiseman documentaries don't make me as angry as that special. And the songs aren't even jams. This cretin who has had multiple netflix deals can sing about how troubled he is because he has to sit on his ass and game all day while someone working at Kroger has to worry about making rent, but at least make them like, good songs. God, it's like someone took one of the nerd rap losers from the late 2000's and scooped out their soul with a melon baller. You know why there were no pets in that video (other than him disingenuously trying to appear like the fucking victim when he's well on the other side of the fence)? Whatever animal they tried to bring on set kept attacking him. Every scene with a mirror is cgi enhanced because he doesn't actually provide a reflection in real life. Absolute parasite, he's such a little fucking ringworm. And everyone bought it! This fucking flea, in the middle of the worst time for his target audience (westerners) to be alive since the 40's got away with it, everyone loved when he was like "white girls do be texting tho and it makes me depressed :(". But hey, he said capitalism is bad! That means on your side! I guess! I hope every razor blade he uses to get that Aqualung meets Youtuber Influencer shave is dull and cuts him deep around his lips, and it just stings all day. One of the only pieces of media that manages to get me visibly upset.

        I'm gonna copy and paste a Letterbox'd review I love on the subject because the author puts it better than I can:

        probably the most damning thing i can say about this is that it's genuinely accomplished and impressive visually. the problem is that this is at odds with the ostensible conceit that we're watching burnham's emotional and creative collapse during the pandemic. there's a lot here that comes off as phony bullshit, but it's the visuals that rankle the most for this reason. a shot of burnham lying on the floor under a blanket amongst the tangles of computer cords and lighting apparatuses is supposed to project desperation and defeat, but he can't help but frame it all ever so perfectly, showing off (not for the only time) how much fancy and expensive equipment he has at his disposal. burnham's compulsion to aestheticize, even in interesting ways, only serves to reinforce the film's accidental message: that bo burnham is doing pretty well, all things considered.

        inside is a film that captures a very specific experience of 2020, that being the perspective of people who were well-off enough to stay 100% completely cut off from the world for the pandemic's duration. some of us had to go to work every day, bo. as in, outside of our houses work. for some people that involved setting up the packages of self-help books to put on delivery drones so that you could write a line about them in a song about how oh so sad you are to be disconnected from the people around you. bo burnham lives with his girlfriend, by the way. the film is dedicated to her but she never appears or is mentioned. i understand that the conceit of the room he's trapped in is partly metaphorical, but it's hard to take this seriously knowing that at the end of every day he walked the door and into the arms of the woman he's been in a relationship with for eight years. again, bo, you know some of us didn't have that luxury right? you know that for some of us the only thing we could rely on for human connection was the internet? the thing you depict (not, i'll admit, entirely unfairly) as a species-killing villain?

        i'm sorry but i fucking hated almost every minute of this. burnham hides behind layers and layers of irony and self-awareness and doomer bullshit to disguise the fact that not only is he out of touch, but out of ideas as well. so many insufferable moments of burnham making jokes that are corny and played out and bad but oh no it's okay because he acknowledges it, he knows that he's full of shit, which means it's okay for him to fart out a 90 minute stream of half-formed parody songs which universally feature lyrics repeated over and over and over so that maybe you won't realize he couldn't really get past the initial premise in the writing stage. so many moments where burnham hopes you forget that the last 5 years of his life weren't spent accruing millions of dollars and dozens of awards for his feature film debut, not to mention acclaim for his acting work in other films. utterly worthless, vile, narcissistic trash. grow the fuck up.

        Also to clarify if I did mean that we really should take children and subject them to years of verbal torture based off a movie I saw once while trying to get laid, yes. I do mean that. Rest of it is whatever, if you like snythpop and purple and yadda yadda whatever who cares

    • morte [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Dare To Be Stupid was almost more DEVO than DEVO

      • activelybustin [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        it was a 1.2 on the DEVO scale

        (0 being a total lack of DEVO, 1 being full DEVO)

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Outside of whatever metoo biden-ass shit that he did that I am currently unaware of, Suge Knight did nothing wrong.

      in 2015 he intentionally killed a guy with his car