Murphy Lee - What da Hook Gon Be -- Most post-modern pop song ever?

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Truely the "Adaptation" of songs. Am I right?

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck to thread :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

But Beck gets tagged as postmodern for his eclecticism/collage aesthetic/the whole there-can-be-no-new-art-just-old-art-in-new-ways shtick. "What Da Hook Gon Be" is a different kind of postmodern: the self-referential. Murphy Lee is the John Barth of pop music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

And classic, of course, because the first time I heard the song, I said, "Yeah, you're right man, you don't need to fuckin' hook!" And then the gradual realization: that is the hook!

I guess wanting to deny the convention/formal structure while simultaneously embracing it is a key element of a lot of self-referential postmodern art. (And yeah, I think Adaptation is a good comparison.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"you don't need to" = "you don't need a" (obv.) (unless Murphy Lee is a male prostitute, which I kinda doubt)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

no way. "ceci n'est pas une pipe" was only interesting because it was true. if he'd said "ceci n'est pas une painting" everyone would be like "you fucking idiot OF COURSE it's a painting" just like they did when they stopped buying ashley bickerton or peter halley or whatever.

i was going to say something about autechre's flutter but then i realized that MY postmodern electronica opus was going to be a vocoderized vocoder voice over a 4/4 kick drum going

"THIS BEAT

THIS BEAT

THIS BEAT DOES NOT REPEAT"

for like eight minutes straight.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 6 February 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Xiu Xiu and/or LCD Soundsystem?

― minolta (minolta), Friday, 6 February 2004 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

duh, "addams family groove"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 6 February 2004 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

man this song sukked

― cankles, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

heh, i used to love it

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 September 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

relistening now again... that beat is amazing. the offbeat bassline. so good.

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 September 2007 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

Classic.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Thread title = Dud.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

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