"Overproduced" and "pretentious" come to mind.

"dated" less than "timeless" though, right?

was just thinking about this the other day, particularly dated. Dated in what way? relevance to modern music? Who cares?

A lot of what's considered timeless is really just dated stuff that's fashionable again. The drum sound on Led Zeppelin II, which has that room ambience that Albini seems to have branded so well... or the indie-friendly guitar tones on Revolver.

But, yes, "pretentious" is just as worthless - if not worse. "Overproduced" is valid, I think, although it's misused a lot.

Wait a second, Sid -- are you saying American Beauty won't always sound as "fresh" and "now" as it does in 2010?

Mr Hartha,

Please do me a favor and inform me when the synthesizer sound of the 1980’s becomes fashionable again. Thus restoring it’s timeless quality.

I anticipate I will be waiting for quite some time.

It happened about 4 years ago.

k, so i'm probably late to this game but the other day i stumbled upon moshcam and um....yyyyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Olivia has nice legs

anybody know what the instrument is that can be seen being played by the guy in the blue shirt (it looks like a coconut sprouting twigs) between :47 and :56 of this clip? like the veggie burgers i made tonight, this is some homemade job right?

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Yeah, the Rivers interview was interesting.

It irks me when musicians do a cover and change the lyrics to reflect their own gender, especially if it completely ignores the context of the song.

agreed

that's my ultimate musical pet peeve.

Hearing "Two" on Sirius this morning made me run to a stream of the Antlers album. Looks like I've found my weekend listening. Loving this.

I was reminded of this point last night, listening to Bob Dylan's "North Country Blues".

- which isn't even a cover, come to think of it.

I scribbled a lyric fragment from a tune playing in the background while I was on the phone yesterday - yes, I know I could Google it so go diddle yourself in the shed next to a rusty bottle of WD40 then cut your forearms in carnal shame before you waste keystrokes - anybody recognize it?

"I'll do graffiti if you speak to me in French
What're we doing here if romance is dead?"

Ring a bell? Oui or non?

I googled it--"Graffiti" by Maximo Park.

But I...but...

One of my biggest pet peeves in music. I'm not even that big a Jack White fan, but I remember being totally annoyed with Joss Stone doing The White Stripes song as "Fell In Love With a Boy". She also mangled the song and made it sound like a shitty Lenny Kravitz tune, so that didn't help either.

by contrast, Jack White does a very convincing read of "Jolene".

Love that cover.

Holy balls, the Village People did a New Wave album?

Watching this:

i'm curious what that new wave Village People album sounds like.

i am not.

Pretty sure he wrote that from a woman's perspective anyway.

"Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating"

I pretty much only want to listen to Talking Heads this week. Really, it could be every week, but especially this week.

Same as it ever was...

Hypnotized by the last two minutes of Broken Social Scene's "Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl".

suppose you have to be a spiritualized nut to really get into this...it's a project some guy did called 2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey. As you can probably guess from the title it is kubrick's film accompanied by the music of spiritualized. first part has been taken down from youtube but is still active on vimeo.
part one
part two and beyond

actually I think today it's the Police.

I am in the throes of yet another serious King Crimson phase, this time focusing on Red, Lizard and other mid-period stuff instead of my usual obsession with the classic 80's Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford output.

For some reason I am incredibly excited about seeing the new Lady Gaga video.

Is Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart's best album? If not, what do you think is?

I almost bought a Captain Beefheart record last weekend when I was at Laurie's Planet of Sound...but I punked out. I don't know that I could name a tune of his/theirs on a dare but they've always been namedropped so heavily...their music makes me think of Vietnam vet bartender bouncers. Same with Zappa.

I should post my Beefheart mix. That might be a good idea.

I always think this is the one to convince the unconvinced. The exact right blend of pophook and madness.



But



yeah, I'd say so

The name's Poochie D,
And I rock the telly.
I'm half Joe Camel,
And a third Fonzarelli.
I'm the kung fu hippie,
From gangsta city.
I'm a rappin' surfer,
You the fool I pity

ftr & fwiw I've always thought the association with Zappa is unhelpful and unfortunate. Yes they were friends/enemies/collaborators but the music doesn't often overlap. There is no smartarsery in Beefheart and his records are generally *tight* apart from some minor flab on the mid70s Virgin output )(and even that's alright). I don't mind Zappa like some do but imo he was not anything like the artist or the artistic achiever Beefheart was. Buy either of those records up there to get a feel, you won't regret it.

Lick My Decals Off, Baby is another contender.

TMR still knocks me out, though. Sure, it's sprawling as hell and all Zappa did was press record and let the band go. But that's 'cause that's all he really needed to do. A dauntingly long recording and yet in all honesty I could go for listening to a band that great for another couple LPs. None of what's there is unmemorable and even when I first heard it there was nothing that struck me as being "inaccessible" about it.

The dumbed down explanation of why the two guys are different, btw, is that Zappa was a musician in total obsessively intellectual control of himself as a composer, while Beefheart was a "non-musician" whose incredibly singular sense of creativity remains more unfathomable than that of almost any artist than I can think of, which people might say about Zappa but ambition and prolificness are bigger factors for him. There aren't many melody writers that I dig more than Zappa in his prime, but Beefheart is one of them. It's pretty fucking special when a dude with no conventional musical knowledge is able to sit down at a piano and have melodies like that just come out. And to then go and teach them to a group of musicians... damn.

OTM. That's what I meant to say but I was typing one-fingered on a train.

Plus Beefheart has songs about wanking.

Zappa might have a few of those, too.

amazingly beautiful

Amazing scenes at London's Barbican Centre. In the name of art, a room has been set up with 8 plugged-in Gibsons and 100 feisty zebra finches. Like this.

eerie similarity to this clip:

still, worthy of a bump

Doh!

Anyway, I went down there today. Not pictured here are the upturned cymbols in which their food and water are laid out and the mic stands used as perches.

Some of them have nested behind a fire extinguisher on the wall and, apparently, they had to shut the show for a while on Monday when one of them laid an egg on the neck of one of the guitars.

knowing this is an ongoing public exhibit makes me want to book a flight.

Nice to see they're working on new material. I'm hearing SunnO))) influence on this one: