Posts by James Butler
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Of course on reflection, it's pretty hard to pin down the difference between "pretention" and "being really good at something, and wanting to expand its boundaries". We need the latter, and maybe the former is the necessary price we pay.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
And as for switching time signature, well, was John Lennon pretentious?
Sometimes.
Or Radiohead?
VERY. And I say that as a fan.
Or this guy? (try and pick the time sig)
Yep, the faux-modernist strings are a give-away. And it's in 5/4 or some variation thereof.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to TracyMac,
Count me in as another c &.w hater. And yes, "alt" country is just as whiny.
Johnny ain't whining, he's just telling it like it fucking is:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
Sorry, I'm not trolling, I just have exquisitely bad taste in music. I rate ABBA for starters. Seriously.
ABBA were geniuses. What's not to like?
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
And it would've been fairer to say that Radiohead worked for me at a stage in my life that happened to coincide with them being good. But that takes the fun out of discussions like this.
Oh totes. But THAT'S WHAT ART IS. So ignoring the coincidence of time, space, experience and emotion with art is ignoring something central to the whole deal.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
You see I loved, and still do, the Two Good Radiohead Albums. The first rule of being pretentious is to have the chops to back it up; and the first rule of whining is to whine with intelligence and wit. Radiohead, much like The Smiths, had both of these rules totally down during their golden years.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to philipmatthews,
It's possible to love Nirvana and hate Foo Fighters -- in much the same way as you can like the Beatles and hate (as we should) Wings.
Not to mention Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, respectively.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to philipmatthews,
It's possible to love Nirvana and hate Foo Fighters -- in much the same way as you can like the Beatles and hate (as we should) Wings.
Ah, the band The Beatles could have been...
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
And then there’s the Beach Boys who possess all the sonic charm of a ambulance siren:
But... that's... I... </me gives up>
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
My favourite Moroder is this little-known piece.