― DG, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― keith, Sunday, 15 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Apparently, she invited him over to listen to records, and he was really upset when it turned out all she wanted to do was *listen* to records. Or, so sez Mr. Gossip.
And my question is... why do members of indie bands *always* unsuccessfuly fancy members of other indie bands who destroy their hearts and make them turn to writing endless miserable wibbling songs about it? Erm... not that that's ever happened to me. Oh no sirree.
― kate the gossip, Monday, 16 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patterson, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Steven James, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Noelle F, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
As for the question...oh, there are so many...
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Lex Johnson, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
On the Mira from Ladytron issue: Yes, she declined my advances. But, hey. One out of two electronica-band-girls ain`t bad scoring for someone resembling a Proclaimers dude.
erlend in kings of convenience
― erlend ΓΈye, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"Hello? Google?"
"We're sorry, but our 'off' switch has had its handle removed. If you don't want someone to find out what you're saying about them on the Internet, then don't post it on a public site. This is a recording." :-)
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fritz, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 26 August 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link
― dave k, Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
i fucking HATE autotune
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
i think of autotune now in the same way i used to think of fretless ebass. that isβ kind of cheesy and really bad when it's used in excess, which is unfortunately the only way some people seem to know how to use it. i still like how it sounds sometimes and think it can definitely make a good song better ("why why why why why" by sault is a fine example).
and hell, since i'm on my last leg anyway, might as well come clean and say it: i like the song "heartless" by kanye west. genuine first listen love on that one and maybe one of 5 or 6 things he's ever done that i think is just plain old good music. it was also one of the first things i ever heard that really
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 6 August 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
yikes sorry quick hands on keyboard
consider this intermission, rest of thoughts coming shortly
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 6 August 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
so yeahβ
"heartless" was also one of the first things i heard that really hammered home the idea of `trust the art, not the artist` in a profound way because i love it without reservation despite two things: 1) i hate autotune and 2) i really do not care for kanye west, as you might already know.
so yeah, definitely love/hate with autotune. i'd like to see it get "hacked" somehow ββ like some weird techy musician eccentric figures a way to hook it up to their marimba or something and hitting the "wrong" notes will actually make the "right" ones come out, albeit in this weird, somewhat unnatural sound. definitely has some mad scientist possibilities. i feel like sun ra would've really dug autotune.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 6 August 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, forgot to end with the most important part:
i love fretless ebass now, even when it's totally ridiculous and hammed out. so who knows? maybe if i live long enough, i'll love autotune just as much.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
believe me, i don't want to hate autotune. i want to be able to like just about anything. but at this point, the only autotune i want to hear is deep on the ocean floor, modulated by deep water flows, time-stretched to 400x length
i don't have too many dealbreakers like that, and whenever autotune comes up in real life i just try to think about other things and let it go by, because i don't want to be that guy who hates on autotune. except on this thread though
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
honestly i would like a #autotune tag on any review that covers it, though. the worst thing is when the review makes it sound like incredibly pop, and maybe it actually is, but...
another analogy. it is like a great painter who always uses the same exact bright neon yellow green, on top of everything else, very thick, impasto, always, on every single painting
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
the only autotune i want to hear is deep on the ocean floor, modulated by deep water flows, time-stretched to 400x length
it's been a long time since an ilx post made me weep for the beauty of it. ty The Postman
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
Autotune is to pop as eyelash extensions are to femininity; performative artificiality that highlights the underlying absurdity of idealised norms. It can either be super fucking hot or a total cringey bore.
― The Ghost Club, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
I couldn't quite ID why most modern pop music was exhausting for me to listen to until I watched hours and hours of "pop music producer shows you their Logic Pro workflow" videos. What kills me is that most songs now have at least 90+ tracks - each track tweaked and/or worked over.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
xp
<3 *puts 2 tacos into the mailbox*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
xp ghost club i think on my better days i agree with you, that it can be really good. i just think, imagine if there were a new song with a tambourine solo. and then suddenly, every single song had a tambourine solo. and this went on for like 20 years
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
no, but what you don't understand is that THIS tambourine solo takes place over some really innovative discordant stuff
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
("why why why why why" by sault is a fine example).
wow! have listened to this dozens of times and it using auto-tune never crossed my mind.
i'm out of touch with auto-tune use and not afraid to admit it.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
Like a lot of people I thought autotune was a fad that would wane, and so subsequently I've wondered if it would be analogous to something like heavy electric guitar distortion for people in the sixties, which also never went away (though rock has become marginal).
Funnily enough I was listening to Caetano Veloso's white album this morning and thinking "this is really good, but the guitar is like someone scrawling all over a beautiful landscape painting," which I assume must have been an intended effect.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link
wow, the guitar parts are one of the best parts in the '69 album. Lanny Gordin ftw
― fpsa, Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link