Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!
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Dtknuckles
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Man I’m dizzy.
gaporter
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Haha my bad! Maybe I should put those pictures under a spoiler tag
Nee Lewman
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Warner Music Group with a hot take:
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Tillman
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what the fuck is a scrobble?
TenderLovingKiller®
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Last.FM has trackers that you can use to keep tabs on what you are listening too. It provides I interesting stats and info about your listening habits. The tracker is called a “scrobbler” and every time a song is tracked it is considered “scrobbled”.
Nee Lewman
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Basically I’ve listened to 16 Eminem songs and no Lil Uzi Vert in the last 5-6 years.
Nee Lewman
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Confession: I was this many days old when I discovered that Zanzibar is, in fact, not a Steely Dan song.
Nee Lewman
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Is it just me or does everyone else have a compulsion to play There’s A Riot Goin’ On after they play What’s Going On?
ByersVinyl
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There a thread alone here.
Songs you didnt realise were covers.
I was sure until recently "House of the Rising Sun" was written by The Animals.
Turns out no one is sure who wrote it - Uncertain Folk roots.
Joe Mac
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I have a confession regarding The Blue Nile's first album, A Walk Across the Rooftops, published by Linn, the celebrated maker of expensive turntables, in their opening move as a record label. It is superbly crafted and has a coherent aesthetic that stands out from, while belonging to, the new romantic pop music of its time. I hate it. I find the elaborate self-indulgence of romanticism repulsive in general. This album in particular has it so intensely distilled that it could be a caricature if only its creators and their fans could just see themselves. Morrissey at his best could manage that but these guys, like U2, never....
@Goodlivingav otoh loves it. In Part 2 of our Glasgow's Miles Better series of podcasts, we have it out. Includes reminiscences about Linn's disastrous venture into becoming a computer manufacturer (the Linn Rekursiv) and a rant about how businesses like Linn exploit the consumer fetish of the recorded object and its paraphernalia known as audiophillia.
EDIT: I almost forgot ... the video in which a formerly very good punk guitar band, The Fire Engines, that turned into 2nd-wave-of-post-punk band Win, who provided the music for a TV commercial for the beer of Edinburgh brewer McEwan's, which Gav and I enjoy and give high marks for both style and recycling.
You can find Gas Giants podcast in most of the apps (let me know if not). And you can listen on the web. Each ep has a blog article on Substack with interesting links.
gasgiants.substack.com
@Goodlivingav otoh loves it. In Part 2 of our Glasgow's Miles Better series of podcasts, we have it out. Includes reminiscences about Linn's disastrous venture into becoming a computer manufacturer (the Linn Rekursiv) and a rant about how businesses like Linn exploit the consumer fetish of the recorded object and its paraphernalia known as audiophillia.
EDIT: I almost forgot ... the video in which a formerly very good punk guitar band, The Fire Engines, that turned into 2nd-wave-of-post-punk band Win, who provided the music for a TV commercial for the beer of Edinburgh brewer McEwan's, which Gav and I enjoy and give high marks for both style and recycling.
You can find Gas Giants podcast in most of the apps (let me know if not). And you can listen on the web. Each ep has a blog article on Substack with interesting links.
Glasgow's Miles Better Part 2 A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile (1984)
Continuing the examination of lost times, Gav tries to get Tom into the gently introspective melancholy of The Blue Nile's debut album
gasgiants.substack.com
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DownIsTheNewUp
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Here's a hot take for you. 2011-2022 = the best era of rap music.
I hate cloud rap. But I'm taking Kendrick, Danny Brown, Tyler the Creator, Joey Bada$$, Earl Sweatshirt, (the best parts of) Anderson Paak, Feddie Gibbs, Lil Simz, RTJ, Vince Staples and genre busting stuff like Genesis Owusu / Brockhampton / JPeg over the peak of any other era. 90's included.
Plus, U.K. rap is in a really, really good spot where as I spent my whole life making fun of it.
Edit- after seeing more of Clint's takes:
A) Kendrick IS the GOAT and I don't think it's really a convo after his most recent album
B) Acid Rap is a stone cold classic and Chance often steals any track he cameos on
C) Drake is shitty pop music for people think they like rap
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TenderLovingKiller®
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I would rate the decades as follows: 90s>00s>10s>80s>20s. The 2020s have sucked thus far but I am old and out of touch so I am probably not best person to opine.
Tillman
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it may not be THE Golden Era, but it's definitely a golden era!
DownIsTheNewUp
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The first half of the 90s was stupid good. But the second half of the 90s? Despite adoring Outkast and the Fugees, I would argue not so much.
I detest most mainstream rap from the 00s. There are exceptions ala Jay-Z, early Eminem or artists that flirted with the mainstream ala Lupe or Common. But I definitely lived in the underground during that decade. And there was a LOT of good underground hip-hop.
But a lot of that underground stuff is getting lost to time now, and the past decade or so has had plenty of good underground rap too ala Billy Woods, Noname, Milo, OME, ext.
My general argument would be that streaming and mix tapes freed rappers to be whoever the fuck they wanted and keep their sound without overt label input. And it resulted in a ton of creativity and grounded lyrical content.
Edit-- And sustained peaks. Like how many rappers from earlier eras have one or two good albums and that's it?
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Viking Dan
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Let me start by saying - despite the pressing issues - I'm a huge fan of the last Phoebe Bridger's Album.
But I need the next release to LAUNCH into some songs and bring it.
She's worn me out on the quiet string intro build into the pseduo-ASMR tender/quiet thing she does.
Also - lose the skeleton bullshit.
I need the next album to open with a Barbaric YAWLP, please.
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But I need the next release to LAUNCH into some songs and bring it.
She's worn me out on the quiet string intro build into the pseduo-ASMR tender/quiet thing she does.
Also - lose the skeleton bullshit.
I need the next album to open with a Barbaric YAWLP, please.
Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Sidelines” on Fallon
She’s currently on tour in support of Punisher
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debianlinux
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Maybe she can try to take on Wet Leg for longest, loudest scream. Come to think of it, I'd love to see this become the indie rock version of a diss track.
Max Sterling
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She apparently worked with Big Freedia again. And still not properly crediting them.