Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Ghost said:
Yeah that’s cool but what you said is objectively wrong. Distinctions are important, people are allowed to enjoy whatever they’d like so you coming in and saying that this is objectively the worst ROTM pick ever is just unnecessarily toxic to those who actually enjoy the music of John Mayer. If you would’ve stated that in your opinion this is the worst pick ever then we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Wording it one way makes you sound like a dick, wording it another makes for good discourse.
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I really don’t care if you like it, or me. I’ll repeat: this is the worst ROTM VMP has picked. There is no way to stretch the term “essential” to make it apply to this record.
 
I love reading all the comments for this controversial Essentials ROTM pick! 🍿

Generally speaking, I’d much rather a controversial Essentials ROTM pick like this (even if I am not a fan), than the new release Essentials picks we get such as Torres, Lapsley, Sleater-Kinney, Tennis, Kevin Morby, Mitski etc! 💯
 
juiceless said:
I really don’t care if you like it, or me. I’ll repeat: this is the worst ROTM VMP has picked. There is no way to stretch the term “essential” to make it apply to this record.
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To me, the worst ROTM picks are the new release bland ones like Tennis, Lapsley, Torres, Sleater-Kinney etc because they’re forgettable, and seem like Store exclusives that should be limited to 500 copies!

I like a bit of excitement and this John Mayer pick is much more exciting than those I mentioned above in my opinion! Even Moby’s Play is more exciting than those new release picks even if I dislike that record!
 
Dead C said:
That's my take, too. I feel like they'd basically just be doing variants of Now Again, LITA, Mr Bongo, and Tidal Wave releases, which they "essential"lly already do in their exclusives. VMP is rarely digging anything up themselves.
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Exactly. They would be a more interesting retailer (to me) if they expanded their horizons a bit. My impression (from afar) is that their scope is pretty narrow, particularly within each sub. That may be a lack of or curation, or whatever...or it may just be that they don't cultivate a wider array of relationships to get the rights to press things. I imagine the latter is partially why there were these long runs of stax releases and cash money albums. I have no idea how those deals work but I imagine the deals and the perceived sale-ability of albums has a lot to do with what they choose to put out.
 
Dead C said:
I actually saw John Mayer once, when he was operating as the guitarist for Herbie Hancock. They did an almost entirely Headhunters-based set at Bonnaroo around... 2005(?) I was concerned and, while the one song that Herbie urged him to sing was definitely the weak point of the show, you could see him very aware of his place in that group, doing his job, while falling back to support a legend. In that position, he did his part, but it's a lot harder for me to take him in as a frontman.

What you're saying about him being apologetic.. I can see that to a degree. Over all, I, obviously, till don't think we should make too light of those past comments or act as if other people are looking for something to complain about, if they are still upset by them. That interview kind of reflected a guy who believed his own hype and was a real piece of shit. For him to be a success at all, someone like Mayer gets a huge pass for offering some pretty derivative material, putting a pop spin on stuff with a lot more soul and history. Once you start acting like you are some kind of god for doing it, it takes on a different tone. Once you say disparaging things regarding the culture you're taking from, it gets even worse.

In saying that I have an aversion to him in the Dead, I probably should have phrased it more as a continued apprehension.. I have no incredibly strong feelings about it one way or another, and I know people that fully stand behind it and others that definitely don't. My impression is that he might kill it on some tracks, and not so much on others. The early stuff I heard just wasn't jiving with me. I know it's difficult to win that base over. I saw it when they had Joan Osborne playing with them, back in the day, and actually enjoyed it. That was really short lived. I saw Phil's new band a couple of times last year, though, and did enjoy it quite a bit. I liked how they seemed to have the freedom to take those songs wherever they wanted.
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#LetTreySing
 
juiceless said:
There is no way to stretch the term “essential” to make it apply to this record.
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Y - words mean things.

according to google,
adjective: essential
1. absolutely necessary; extremely important.
"it is essential to keep up-to-date records"

Similar:
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It's difficult to imagine any of those terms describing this pick.... especially for however many 10s of thousands of people are Essential subscribers...still I'm sure they'll sell them. I mean Vinceron will buy at least 20 copies.
 
jaycee said:
Y - words mean things.

according to google,
adjective: essential
1. absolutely necessary; extremely important.
"it is essential to keep up-to-date records"

Similar:
crucial
necessary
key
vital
indispensable
needed
required
called for
requisite
important
all-important
vitally important
of the utmost importance
of great consequence
of the essence
critical
life-and-death
imperative
mandatory
compulsory
obligatory
compelling
urgent
pressing
burning
acute
paramount
preeminent
high-priority
significant
consequential

It's difficult to imagine any of those terms describing this pick.... especially for however many 10s of thousands of people are Essential subscribers...still I'm sure they'll sell them. I mean Vinceron will buy at least 20 copies.
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Like him or not, Mayer was a big deal in the 2000s. If you want a collection of artists representing a range of music of a particular time period, a Mayer album would fit right in.
 
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