The Moodymann mix of Cosmic Slop towards the end of the record is amazing
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
"Shell Shocked" is the freestyle Ronika I think
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
why you gotta be so rmde (NickB)Posted: January 27, 2015 at 11:02:34 AMIs this one of those Cockney rhyming slang things
he's from detroit iirc, me old china
Haha I was making a joke about britsh people and this whole infantilism thing, but as usual I wasn't terribly clear
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
couldn't find a way into ronika after botanist & steve gunn. sounded like shallow 80s pop pastiche, and the songwriting wasn't drawing me in.
but fuck i LOVE the moodymann album. i went on a massive moody bender after "discovering" him a few years ago, and it's great to have new album of this quality to slot in with silentintroduction, black mahogani, etc. such a gorgeous front-to-back listen.
that's why i like this moodymann record so much actually, it's just as long as his others but keeps moving between ideas
^ brad nelson otm. you want longer grooves? there's a dj for that.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
I sorta admired and appreciated this when I heard it, but didn't deeply connect. Moodymann in general is obviously all time tho.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
The annoying infantilised adult is a fairly common archetype in gentrified London and a quick image search for Tune-Yards suggests her entire image is based around being a particularly egregious version of that, and that's before you even get onto the music itself.
Disclaimer, I've not listened to any of the lyrics.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
sorry jjj, i think i missed a few posts there
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
voted "lyk u used 2" in the tracks poll but i think this missed my albums ballot. good album
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
It's probably best if everyone logs out now and comes back in a half hour or so while #53 sits here uncommented upon...
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
lol
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UFgid4D.jpg
53 SUN KIL MOON Benji [292 points, 9 votes]
well i'm glad it's this low
ha
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Errr... whatever the opposite of mice is.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Rats!
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
hate this dude
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
this is one of the worst, most unbearable things I heard all year, wanted to kill the guy after about three minutes of his sad-sack routine
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
omg are they the people who did that hilariously pathetic diss track about that other indie band? lmao didn't realise they weren't a joke act
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Hope War on Drugs is next at 52
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Glad this album exists if only for provoking the greatest piece of music journalism this year.
And it's nothing to do with that diss track.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
xxxxps if you did you'd be giving him ideas for the follow up
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Still think Run The Jewels will provoke the angriest and most animated post-placement discussion
― ear sirrom (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theunitedpatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_54914eb0911e5.jpg
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
tbh i loved almost everything red house painters ever did but was never able to get in to anything he's done since
his set at pitchfork was kinda nice 4pm wash-over-you background noise i didn't focus on but enjoyed
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
? nah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
panerawave
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Matt, you should probably listen to tune-yard's lyrics, or at least read them (and bear in mind that this is coming from the #1 booster of never paying attention to lyrics)
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Most of the negative RTJ discussion has been along the lines of "not my thing, glad these dudes made it" with a side order of "El-P still can't rap". If it's the most controversial placement I'll be amazed.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
otm except i like the first two proper skm albums
his stream-of-consciousness death and bar decorations stuff basically revived his career but it's total garbage imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
There's some great stuff on this album but it's no Perils From the Sea (or any peak RHP/SKM obviously)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Same. It's weird, because it's not wildly different, but it just seems like he's been on autopilot for close to 15 years.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
xps hey look jason segel and billy crystal had a very angry baby
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
there is almost no way RTJ2 pisses people off as much as kozelek on any number of levels, though it'll def inspire some grumbling
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
this piece pretty much summed up how i felt about this ludicrous record:
http://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2014/02/11/sun-kil-moon-benji-sucks/
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
I liked it better when he wrote actual songs with actual melodies
glad to see steve gunn for some ilx brigade luv
kuhn narin is so awesome, i would have voted for both of those had i voted
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
yep
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Sun Kil Moon hasn't inspired much angry debate, as it's so obviously a load of terrible horseshit whose voters won't be able to defend it
― Scrabble: A classic board-game that Mark Kozelek likes to play with his (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
SKM's ghosts of the great highway from like, 2003 i think, is pretty all right, but benji is so far away from that sound it's not even funny
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
i mean i get it there's a ton of mundanity contrasted with the inexorable advance of death on this record which really resonates with a certain demographic, i just think it's lazy garbage
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
the self-consciousness of it is really off-puttng
It made me want to listen to 'I See A Darkness' and not any other Kozelek material.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
there's also a song on here about kozelek's early sexual experiences which no one needed
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
a certain demographic
like ian cohen and critics of his ilk who fancy themselves as like, inheritors and/or appreciators of this updike suburban anomie burden
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
if no one likes this album, how did it manage to get any votes?
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
haha that review :D
― Scrabble: A classic board-game that Mark Kozelek likes to play with his (imago), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
still kind of feel like Tavoris Cloud is his best song from this new period.Fave Kozelek iteration: Ghosts of the Great Highway
― campreverb, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
This is true.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Ghosts of the Great Highway is a near-classic, April is one of my favorite records ever, and Perils From the Sea, the record he did in 2013 with the album leaf guy, was really good too, but this one didn't work for me at all, i think it's his weakest record.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
From the moment I clicked 'submit' on that post I knew exactly what some of those lyrics were going to end up being about and reading some of them confirms that - zing revoked.
Her image and aesthetic are still terrible though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link