R.I.P. VMP Forum

Biscuit said:
I give Storf credit for being the only one on VMP's staff who cares about country. He's responsible for the Willie, Cody Jinks, Tanya Tucker, John Prine, Colter Wall and Loretta releases and exclusives. Without him, I'd bet we'd never see any country releases. I am surprised he'd like bro country though. When I have communicated with him, he tends to leans towards classic/outlaw and current trad country artists.
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He's very inconsistent. On one hand he holds up Great music like Townes and John Prine while simultaneously defending "Bro Country" a genre that is heavily responsible for why people hate country. I'm still mad that he got "For The Sake Of The Song" out of all the Great Townes records
 
Count_Vader said:
He's very inconsistent. On one hand he holds up Great music like Townes and John Prine while simultaneously defending "Bro Country" a genre that is heavily responsible for why people hate country. I'm still mad that he got "For The Sake Of The Song" out of all the Great Townes records
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Well, I think we all have those "Likes" that kind of fall out of rank with our norms, lol. We like what we like, I'm sure the most dedicated "insert genre here" fan, has something most would scratch there heads over. I mean Barry Manilow hardly fits into a group with David Bowie, but I still think the mans a great songwriter (He lost me with Copa Cabana) and not too shabby for a guy who started his career writing jingles. :)
 
AnthonyI said:
Well, I think we all have those "Likes" that kind of fall out of rank with our norms, lol. We like what we like, I'm sure the most dedicated "insert genre here" fan, has something most would scratch there heads over. I mean Barry Manilow hardly fits into a group with David Bowie, but I still think the mans a great songwriter (He lost me with Copa Cabana) and not too shabby for a guy who started his career writing jingles. :)
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I am stuck on Band Aids, cause Band Aids stuck on me! - Barry Manilow
 
Count_Vader said:
Did Storf really attack Clapton and Richards?
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HiFi Guy said:
Page 7 of the booklet. "White monarchists" - yep, I'd say he did.
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Clapton’s always been on shaky ground after his comments in support of Enoch Powell back in the 70s.

www.spectator.co.uk

How Eric Clapton’s racism sparked a musical revolution | The Spectator

On 13 August 1977, a demonstration by the National Front was routed in the streets of Lewisham by thousands of anti-fascist activists. The latter’s elation palled, however, when they saw the evening…
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gouis said:
They are also too thick. It makes putting the record in them too difficult. VMP has a strange obsession with weight (for both jackets and records) and think heavier -> better for all things.
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Well, hipster marketing translates to sales, not necessarily quality or ease of use.
 
The term "white Monarchists" really shouldn't be this controversial. Guys like Clapton and Richards got rich and famous appropriating black blues music for white audiences and are wrongly held up as blues torchbearers while people like Buddy Guy were killing it in the same era. That's the point. That doesn't mean Clapton and The Stones weren't great and that you can't like them. But the way people talk about them can be wrong.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
In this context, is “Monarchist” even a loaded term, or is it being used as a synonym for British? I sort of thought the latter; the phrase doesn’t connote a belief in the monarchy of whiteness, but does specify the whiteness of these particular monarchists. It has some implications by contrast to the non-monarchist artists in the genre, but I didn’t see it as inherently pejorative (this is my first post-cancellation month, so I can’t read it for myself to get a better sense of what Storf was saying).
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I read it as White-Brits taking on a Black-American art form
 
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