Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!
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Tys1
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He said it, not me
And people try to say South Park doesn’t have an impact. Dude probably got around to watching those episodes and had an epiphany.
Joe Mac
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Joe Mac
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U2 were far better as a post punk act before he came and Eno’d the whole thing up.
Also sorry Eno is, with a couple of exceptions, my kryptonite lol!
avecigrec
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U2 were far better as a post punk act before he came and Eno’d the whole thing up.
To be honest I don't think I realized he had anything to do with it until just the other day. I should've gone with my gut rather than the credits list.
avecigrec
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Dtknuckles
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Hey everybody I’m about to push the leaver to blow up the dynamite in Joe Mac’s head.
The only good Bowie album had Eno involved.
Joe Mac
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Yeah I mean our music tastes are so utterly opposite in every conceivable way that I’m struggling to feel surprised.
The three Bowie albums are one of the exceptions of which I speak.
Dtknuckles
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LiamGallaghersBucketHat
Go on, geezer.
I don’t believe Bono
LiamGallaghersBucketHat
Go on, geezer.
And there’s still time to change the name. Look at Lady A. Maybe circle back to U-Boat.
Dtknuckles
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U2 were far better as a post punk act before he came and Eno’d the whole thing up.
It may be my ignorance but I never thought of U2 as post punk, just rock pop for me.
Joe Mac
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That’s what they came out of and where their original influences were. Would you believe that they were invited to see Joy Division recording in studio as a young unsigned act. There is a definite bent of that in the sound of Boy and October and a remanence of it still remaining in War which for me remains by far their best album. Then came Eno and then came the stadium rock.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Same. Wire, The Fall, U2… one of these things is not like the other.
Joe Mac
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I don’t think the fall and Mark E Smith were ever or will ever be quite like anything or anyone else. They broke the mold with that grumpy old misanthrope, god rest his soul.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I mean, you’re right especially from a music standpoint I guess they always seemed a lot more optimistic than most post-punk bands.
Joe Mac
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Yeah I think sometimes we define acts by what they end up as or what the incarnation of them was when we first encountered them, particularly if they go on forever.
I think the defining thing about post punk in Britain was that there was no defining thing. Punk ripped up the rules and what followed was a bunch of bands emerging that were able to pretty much be what their curiosity led them to be. It’d hard to say that even two bands as closely related as Buzzcocks and Magazine particularly sounded that much alike.
Dtknuckles
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Can we please add Gang of Four to this list?
Nee Lewman
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So all the talk about Spotify recently got me thinking… is the royalty per stream really that crappy (I mean I know it is in comparison to other platforms) but If you think about it pay per stream is different than radio play. Radio play you were getting x amount for every play that reached a variable amount of people… Spotify is paying for each time a song is played…. Many of the folks getting these itty bitty checks probably weren’t getting any checks in the past…. Just a thought. Feel free to rip me a new one.