[Severian]

In fact I think that (admittedly quite awesome) cover art was made using the Paper by Fifty-three app for iOS 9.

[daydream]

Incredibly good, forgotten British post-punk from 1981...

 

[Severian]

Haha. Yeah. Hip hop is feeling a little retarded at the moment. I like Future well enough... at least I know he's capable of making good music... but there has been a LOT of mumbling about dumb shit in recent hip hop music.

Like... I don't know... Taking bitches to Chipotle? That's a Future line too. And j don't know what the fuck Young Thug is ever moaning about, but I can't bring myself to see the apparent "genius" behind his overtranquilzed word salad mush mouth lilt.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah. Hip hop is feeling a little retarded at the moment.

To me, hip hop has felt retarded ever since the goddamn Chronic went multikawazillionplatinum and the outcome of GUM v. Warner fucked The Bomb Squad up.

[The Soup Nazi]

 

Fear + Slow Dazzle + Helen Of Troy + a few stray tracks = what's not to LOVE!

[Severian]

I don't much like listening to music with other people anymore. Not unless I'm at a show, and it's necessary. For me, music is a solitary and meditative experience. Music for me is best when what's playing in my car can transcend my mood, and either fire me up for something or get me in an agreeable state of mind.

I put on music for other people and they're like "wow, this is redundant (swans)" or "wow, this is distracting (sonic youth, Aphex twin)" or "really?? (Kanye).

People tend to ruin things for me. I'm a crabby cunt.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Severian

Haha. Yeah. Hip hop is feeling a little retarded at the moment. I like Future well enough... at least I know he's capable of making good music... but there has been a LOT of mumbling about dumb shit in recent hip hop music.

Like... I don't know... Taking bitches to Chipotle? That's a Future line too. And j don't know what the fuck Young Thug is ever moaning about, but I can't bring myself to see the apparent "genius" behind his overtranquilzed word salad mush mouth lilt.

Yeah its on some literally mumbling dumb shit mode currently, hence why today Rap music is the Lakers.

[Severian]

Are those actually Luke Bryant song lyrics? I've heard the motherfucker's name I guess, but I never in my life imagined that country could get any stupider than Travis Tritt and Garth Brooks.

Yuck, yo. Motherfucking yuck.

[Antagon]

Originally Posted by daydream

Incredibly good, forgotten British post-punk from 1981...

 

YES!

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

 

Fear + Slow Dazzle + Helen Of Troy + a few stray tracks = what's not to LOVE!

This is so great package, Cale at his best!

[Severian]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

no, it's not like actually lyrics but, kinda. it's implied more or less. like too pussy to go the distance but, that's the gist of it. yes.

it's like another world down here. it's so weird even though I've been here my whole life. it's really really strange! beyond how I could describe it. like what you see on Tv and old history mixed with the new and yr fantasy of what it is, then there's the old school rednecks and rascism and....it's just fucking crazy man!!! everyday im surprised by something new. it's the south. it's very integrated but very segregated in white peoples mind because there's a nice little house on the prairie church then you turn the corner and it's crack, pill, and cocaine, weed. that's the shit they don't show the world.

Ah you're from the south? That's too bad man. I'm sorry.

[louder]

Originally Posted by Severian

 

... I'm pretty sure I'm too old to be listening to this kind of music. This is music for college students with love interests and aspirations.

I don't know what it is with this album, but it really wasn't my thing either.

[louder]

Originally Posted by Severian

Haha. Yeah. Hip hop is feeling a little retarded at the moment. I like Future well enough... at least I know he's capable of making good music... but there has been a LOT of mumbling about dumb shit in recent hip hop music.

Like... I don't know... Taking bitches to Chipotle? That's a Future line too. And j don't know what the fuck Young Thug is ever moaning about, but I can't bring myself to see the apparent "genius" behind his overtranquilzed word salad mush mouth lilt.

Young Thug has been the worst this year. But apparently almost every Pitchfork writer seems to think he's some genius who transcends the boundaries between hip-hop and free jazz, so who am I to argue.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

I don't know what it is with this album, but it really wasn't my thing either.

I've been looking forward to it. I liked Visions quite a bit, and I expected this album to really deliver. But it feels downright voyeuristic to be listening to such unabashedly youthful pop music. This album sounds like a slightly weirder and more electronic version of Taylor Swift. Not what I was expecting.

I think it's definitely good in an objective way. I'm sure people will mostly adore it. But it's like looking through a peephole to being 21, and I don't enjoy that feeling.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

Young Thug has been the worst this year. But apparently almost every Pitchfork writer seems to think he's some genius who transcends the boundaries between hip-hop and free jazz, so who am I to argue.

You've caught on to that too huh? Yeah, I recently read a Flipboard article that asserted that the "old school" was threatening to kill hip hop. It was about how the current hip hop climate is the best ever, and nobody (not Joey Bada$$, not Underachievers) should be trying to bring New York or LA back.

The author admitted to growing up post-Eminem, which means to me that he can't possibly know much about the old school of anything, but he had undying praise for Thug, comparing him to fucking David Byrne of all people (I think it was Byrne), saying that YT was reimagining the meaning and delivery of language by transcending rapping and moving into more of a space between words, which is somehow a good thing.

But by all rights, the fucker should know even less about David Byrne than he does about Wu-Tang Clan.

I'll try to find the article. It's well written but incredibly smug. I hate young smug writers. Hate em more when they can actually write.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

i thought you knew that? it's not that bad. it has it's moments. it is my home after all and im pretty good at dealing with people here. i can talk shit with the best of 'em.

Never been farther south than DC. Not in the east anyway. I come from the dead opposite part of the country, so I'm worried that the sun would burn my skin.

[Mortte Jousimo]

About the stuff discussed here I just read from somewhere when Finnish people came to USA as immigrant in sometime begin of the 20th century, klukluxklan blamed they were thieves and all the way just bad people and they didn´t want them. When knowing that it was really ridicilous that somebody threw "molotov coctail" into house of immigrants here in Finland this year and that guy had klukluxklan clothes.

[evollove]

Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

About the stuff discussed here I just read from somewhere when Finnish people came to USA as immigrant in sometime begin of the 20th century, klukluxklan blamed they were thieves and all the way just bad people and they didn´t want them. When knowing that it was really ridicilous that somebody threw "molotov coctail" into house of immigrants here in Finland this year and that guy had klukluxklan clothes.

In trying to look up this story (which I couldn't find) I came across this:

Finns attack migrants

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/0...0RP0T420150925

[_tunic_]

felt a sudden urge to listen to these two albums, which I hadn't heard in a long while

 

 

that's Rivulets - We're Fucked


Apart from that I've been heavily addicted to Nina Simone for the last couple of months. Bought a couple of her old albums and shit, basically all the boxsets at once that are on sale on amazon. This was after watching a Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on Earth in which he and Warren Ellis are raving about her almost continuously.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

if you've never been farther south than DC then why do you say sorry? if you've never been here then how do you know how it is? do you judge something based on stereotype or by my neurotic say so behavior?

im curious? lots of people come here looking for the worst and getting the worst because they're expecting it. it's that bullshit hateful liberal mind that they were taught in school when black history comes around. not saying you're one of those but, these people are not welcomed and get the eye of "get the fuck out" because we know. you got that vibe... black and white feel this. we know.

maybe what you're feeling sorry for is my tolerance for BRO COUNTRY. UGH!! I love it and hate it. and the birth of modern mush mouth hip hop. yes...Georgia!!! I can tell a Georgia rapper from a thousand miles away without looking him up. it's the accent and cadence. that's ATL shit right there. no other state can claim or fake it because it's one of a kind.

maybe Boston has the same problems with people looking for irish sea shanty sing alongs but, that's too many goddamn white people for me.

I was really initially talking about the weather. I wasn't kidding about the heat. It scares me. I've been to, like, Texas and stuff... But it's dry there. Florida and Louisiana just seem like another planet to me. I feel like the humidity and heat would paralyze me, and that's I'd never be able to get out once I got in. One of my best friends just moved to Florida though, so I've been thinking about it a lot.

I guess I was also referring to the ATL hip hop culture. I've never been much of a fan.

But I actually wasn't talking about racism or anything. Sorry. I have spent time in places in Washington and Illinois and Michigan that have such a deeply embedded fear of color that I don't consider the South to be a peak location for racist attitudes. That shit is everywhere.

No offense intended. Sorry for the misunderstanding