Vinyl Me Please Essentials

NathanRicaud said:
Who knows, maybe will we get Prince's Love Symbol! ;)💜🔮💎

I hope VMP chooses an album you really want, so then you sign back up! What was the last ROTM you got from VMP Murfocakes? 🤔
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I already have Love Symbol. But it’s sweet so I’d be happy for the general populace. Gold Experience, Come, The Truth, they are the ones I’m after. I haven’t got Bone Machine so that would be a big draw for me. The last ROTM that I felt, wow, they are releasing that, awesome, was Veedon Fleece. There have been good ones since then, especially in Classics. I’m not a completist though. Except when it comes to Bowie, Prince, Beatles, Sparks, Dylan, Sabbath, Genesis, Queen, Steely Dan, Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, etc. etc. I have a problem.
 
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NathanRicaud said:
I think I'm going to grab this John Mayer Essentials pick. I really do enjoy around 5 tracks on Continuum and I think this album will be great as a listening experience, and will further help enrich and broaden my musical taste! I haven't really got many pop-rock/soft-rock albums on vinyl at all and this is an album I do generally like.
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OK, but what if you had to pay for it?
 
JonnyH said:
OK, but what if you had to pay for it?
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mmmmm, in regards to paying full price, that would depend honestly on what the pressing details for this VMP exclusive are! If Continuum has impressive remastering details and is like 45RPM too, then I guess I might be inclined to pay the full price 💰

But yeah, getting this record for free definitely makes it easier to keep! I mean, I could swap it for something else, but I'd rather this John Mayer album than anything in the VMP store I haven't purchased (except for the Whitney Houston boxset)!

Happy that I'll have this John Mayer album and can't to spin the VMP David Gray exclusive, which is on the way to me! They're both a bit challenging listens for me personally but I genuinely do enjoy the music on them both for the most part! :D
 
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Joe Mac said:
Read what I said fully before replying please.
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It is common to refer to all types of ska as just "ska" and ska punk typically falls under third wave. I don't understand your issue with that or why you mentioned appropriating the name, when the reason the name is used, is because there is an influence of elements from the original ska genre, just like rock and blues to whatever you want to call subgenres of that today.

My point still stands about replying to a post about someone saying they like bands in a genre with "don't call it that, that's not ska, that's ska punk, which is terrible" to paraphrase.

If you want to actually explain what you think I'm misunderstanding instead of being condescending, that would be cool too, as sometimes its hard for me to understand everything perfectly.
 
dhodo said:
It is common to refer to all types of ska as just "ska" and ska punk typically falls under third wave. I don't understand your issue with that or why you mentioned appropriating the name, when the reason the name is used, is because there is an influence of elements from the original ska genre, just like rock and blues to whatever you want to call subgenres of that today.

My point still stands about replying to a post about someone saying they like bands in a genre with "don't call it that, that's not ska, that's ska punk, which is terrible" to paraphrase.

If you want to actually explain what you think I'm misunderstanding instead of being condescending, that would be cool too, as sometimes its hard for me to understand everything perfectly.
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That was literally the first time I had ever seen someone refer to ska-punk as just ska in my entire life, they’re so different musically, and I spent a lot of time around the edges of the genre through friends in the late 90s early 00s.

You spoke about musical appropriation aggressively, defensively at length in response to a post that was talking about nomenclature.
 
NathanRicaud said:
mmmmm, in regards to paying full price, that would depend honestly on what the pressing details for this VMP exclusive are! If Continuum has impressive remastering details and is like 45RPM too, then I guess I might be inclined to pay the full price 💰

But yeah, getting this record for free definitely makes it easier to keep! I mean, I could swap it for something else, but I'd rather this John Mayer album than anything in the VMP store I haven't purchased (except for the Whitney Houston boxset)!

Happy that I'll have this John Mayer album and can't to spin the VMP David Gray exclusive, which is on the way to me! They're both a bit challenging listens for me personally but I genuinely do enjoy the music on them both for the most part! :D
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I’m glad you’re getting some joy out of it. One aspect of curation is to expose people to styles and artists they might not have thought about liking. If this worked for you, awesome! I think what some commentators have an issue with is that they believe that VMP didn’t really think this is an album of great music that should have a wider vinyl release but was part of a business deal package or just targeted to already-fans of JM to get them to subscribe. As a business decision, that might be the way to go, I dunno, I don’t care. Anyway, to the extent this selection gives you something you like, I’m happy for you!
 
Listening to Mayer for the first time in my life. Just three songs in and this is not at all what I expected. Everybody was talking about the good guitar player he is and I expected something more... Rock, I guess. This is harmless background music to play while I'm having brunch with a friend. It's like Des'Ree for white dudes. I'm not sure I I'd pay for this music on vinyl, but if I get it as a present I'd be happy.
 
Waitressboy said:
This is harmless background music to play while I'm having brunch with a friend. It's like Des'Ree for white dudes.
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Screaming, literally can't stop laughing at this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Life.....oh life.......ooooooooh liiiiife, oh liiiiife.......life - Love that song by Des'Ree even though me and my bestie giggle at that song! 😚
 
NathanRicaud said:
Screaming, literally can't stop laughing at this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Life.....oh life.......ooooooooh liiiiife, oh liiiiife.......life - Love that song by Des'Ree even though me and my bestie giggle at that song! 😚
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I like how she:

1. sees a ghost
2. tells us that it’s the sight she fears the most
3. but then naw fuck it, I’m going to have some toast
4. and sit down and watch the evening news

Great story!
 
Joe Mac said:
That was literally the first time I had ever seen someone refer to ska-punk as just ska in my entire life, they’re so different musically, and I spent a lot of time around the edges of the genre through friends in the late 90s early 00s.

You spoke about musical appropriation aggressively, defensively at length in response to a post that was talking about nomenclature.
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Sorry, I guess in trying to make sense of why you had a problem with the way that people who are fans of a genre refer to it, I misunderstood you. I'm sorry if you felt that was agressive, that was not my intent.

My intent was to encourage you to reconsider going out of your way to tell people they shouldn't refer to a genre they enjoy by the colloquial norm because you think that genre is terrible.
 
dhodo said:
Sorry, I guess in trying to make sense of why you had a problem with the way that people who are fans of a genre refer to it, I misunderstood you. I'm sorry if you felt that was agressive, that was not my intent.

My intent was to encourage you to reconsider going out of your way to tell people they shouldn't refer to a genre they enjoy by the colloquial norm because you think that genre is terrible.
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Fair enough. I think the genre can be fun but isn’t particularly good and there are big issues with acts within it but that wasn’t my point, I was being flippant, which I have an issue with, sorry if that confused things or rubbed you up the wrong way.

My point was about taking the full name of a different, prior, music form and whole scale attributing it to a later much different one.
 
supahypeag said:
Don’t you dare feel bad about ska! Reel Big Fish, catch-22, Less Than Jake, Pietasters, Mephiskapholes, mustard plug, the specials, suicide machines, Spring Heeled Jack, Dance Hall Crashers, and so on and so forth all put on really fun shows and/or had good albums! It’s ska, the music so ridiculous, you just gotta be happy!!
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I mean, two tone ska was pretty great, but the stuff that happened in the 90’s... ugh.

except the Bosstones, that shit holds up.
 
gouis said:
The Bosstones are like the most generic ska band there is (kind of like the intro to the genre). They're not bad, but there were so many more interesting bands out there.
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Disagree! I think they’re the link between American punk and two tone ska. They wrote good songs that were ska tinged, but without being slavish to the ska sound and the “pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!” silliness. They got shitty at the end when they got a hit, but their first four albums are great.
 
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