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Hm, Big Star vs Cheap Trick is tough. I def prefer the original "In the Street". Might take the first two Big Star albums over any given Cheap Trick album. Cheap Trick rock me harder but Big Star give me ~feelings~ in a way that Cheap Trick don't quite get to.

Cheap Trick playing Big Star tbf, but still a Big Star song.

― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was my point.

they sound like a box of cereal because there's a Box Top in them

If this setup/punchline was serendipitous (and not somehow coordinated), many +++'s

Big Star is better than these other bands mentioned come on

big star whips ass and anyone who thinks they suck sucks

sorry i thought this was the post your very popular music opinions thread

Jazzy/EZ stereolab is the best stereolab

read that as Jay Z/Stereolab, which, uh, wow

That was my point.

Oh, I get you now. I had missed man alive's post about the cereal box tbh. I should probably not post hurriedly during work breaks on long days.

Brad otm tbh

if the music you make isn't mostly autobiographic, it's trash. worthless.

Props on the controp, I'm a little tilted now. This is the wrongest opinion that has ever wronged.

Bruce Springsteen is shook now

how the fuck would you know if any art is "autobiographic" `

music with lyrics is for children

My 6 year old daughter whenever I put some music on at home: "Is someone going to start singing?"
Me: "No"
Daughter: "Then I don't want to hear it"

some of us saw the tec on tour with Large Professor xpost

anyway, my opinion on lyrics in music is that in 90% of cases music is better if you don't pay attention to the lyrics

Agree with silverfish. There aren't many good lyricists out there, and "autobiographical" lyrics are the hardest to do well.

By Austin's values recent Sun Lol Moon must be the best music of all time

Sun Lol Moon

ty autocorrect, and I mean it this time

Pink Floyd would have been a much better band if their name was Sun Lol Moon

ahahaha son lol moon

Carry Me ROFLMAO

with their big hit, Another Brick in the Lol Part 2

Mark Klolzelek

Lowl

living it up at the joketel California!

helter skelter is the only good beatles track

tru

Man I know I probably bang on about this too much but Stereolab's transition from "perfect simple dual-vocal Neu! tribute band with communism" into "terrifyingly twee and overly complicated The Free Design tribute band with jazz hands" is the biggest bummer I can think of. I cannot imagine getting listening to anything they recorded after Emperor Tomato Ketchup for pleasure. It is such a bummer! I have never heard a band go so pivot so suddenly from "perfect" to "zany"

Stereolol

too bad for you

they were more twee early on anyways

agree. I like both versions of the band, I just don't think they had the songwriting ability to do morricone / cool jazz as well as they did the neu indie rock stuff, which takes more of a conceptual commitment than songwriting chops

I honestly can’t determine if “they don’t have the range as songwriters” or if my own personal taste favours monolithic two-chord monuments to human synchronicity (which mirrors the sentiment of the lyrical content) which effectively mars my capacity to appreciate their subsequent pivot to kindergarten rock

Emperor Tonato Ketchup rules

oh wait do you agree with that

uwe schmidt > autechre

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup?

lol

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

Was D&L where you and Stereolab parted ways?

lol

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:10 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It goes with everything

it's a Candiment

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup

stealing this, tyvm

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

AHEM

I can pin-point the exact moment chronologically that I get off the Stereolab bus and that's "Monster Sacre" toward the end of Tomato Ketchup. (The title track right before it is of course one of my favourite Stereolab songs)

i listened to Dots and Loops once and knew it was over for me. I wanted buzzy punchy moog-heavy dance/pop

^^ that's what my experience was

"Monster Sacre" is such a pretty and forlorn song though! Also interesting rework of an Erik Satie piece.

This is the thread for controversial music opinions. This is the thread for all this Stereolab talk: "Their early stuff was better"

Dots & Loops is best Stereolab LP, Margarine Eclipse is #2, there's your controversy?

ETK is ruined by Cybele's Reverie, a great single which does not fit on there at all.