stuff that's utterly irrelevant now, but was critically lauded 100 years ago

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Eddie Cantor

Chris L, Monday, 9 October 2023 19:47 (two years ago)

Connie Mack

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:49 (two years ago)

"utterly irrelevant" is such a shitty rock critic kind of phrase, i fucking hate it. sorry just had to get that out of my system.

ꙮ (map), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:49 (two years ago)

the Chicago Cubs

frogbs, Monday, 9 October 2023 19:49 (two years ago)

The Ten Commandments

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:51 (two years ago)

Proust

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:51 (two years ago)

talkies

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:54 (two years ago)

Laughing records

you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 9 October 2023 19:57 (two years ago)

the League of Nations

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:58 (two years ago)

xps map very OTM. "Relevance" is...irrelevant to the value of all music IMO. That's a different discussion for a different thread though!

feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:58 (two years ago)

Old-time records consisting solely of animal impressions

Oh sorry, more 95 years ago I suppose.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 9 October 2023 19:59 (two years ago)

PUZZLE PLATES

you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:00 (two years ago)

Enrico Caruso

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:00 (two years ago)

Fascism

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:02 (two years ago)

80rpm 5½" shellacs

you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:09 (two years ago)

temperance

insert nothing here (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:10 (two years ago)

Leaded gasoline

Hideous Lump, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:16 (two years ago)

Warren G. Harding

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:30 (two years ago)

Fascism

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, October 9, 2023 1:02 PM

hoo boy, do i wish this wasn't relevant anymore

the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:37 (two years ago)

bloodletting

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:43 (two years ago)

Doop

PaulTMA, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:44 (two years ago)

Tutankhamun

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:49 (two years ago)

eugenics

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:50 (two years ago)

Using funny ways to tell people that you don't have bananas

kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:55 (two years ago)

killing rabbits to determine pregnancy

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:56 (two years ago)

All those shiny new tenement apartment buildings

Hideous Lump, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:57 (two years ago)

Funny title but HBO did a Bessie Smith biopic not too long ago

kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:57 (two years ago)

Warren G. Harding

His erotic letters have seen a minor resurgence.

Chris L, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:58 (two years ago)

Eddie Cantor was never critically lauded.

The real answer to this is loads of boring opera.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:04 (two years ago)

was this guy lauded? sounds like it...

"November 11 – Première of John Foulds's A World Requiem (composed 1919–21) at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It is repeated on that date each year until 1926."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_music

all the other classical stuff I recognize, but not this guy

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:11 (two years ago)

Old-time records consisting solely of animal impressions

Oh sorry, more 95 years ago I suppose.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, October 9, 2023 7:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ my speciality.

ian, Monday, 9 October 2023 21:16 (two years ago)

fact: 78 speed was not fixed until 1929 and even then some companies pressed records that were recorded closer to 80rpm; before '29 a lot of the major label things are really better played at 76.5rpm.

kill me.

ian, Monday, 9 October 2023 21:18 (two years ago)

Music critics in 1923 would never for a moment take pop music or jazz seriously - the first tiny crack in that came with Rhapsody In Blue, which premiered on February 12, 1924.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:23 (two years ago)

Music critics in 1923, indeed, even worse than they are today.

ian, Monday, 9 October 2023 21:23 (two years ago)

Most critically lauded contemporary composer in 1923 would possibly be Jean Sibelius?

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:25 (two years ago)

Monologuists?

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 10:55 (two years ago)

Gigantic bathing costumes

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 11:17 (two years ago)

Theosophy

Josefa, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 12:23 (two years ago)


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