| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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nate should be listening to Can 'Unlimited Edition' to realize that the "jam bands" stemming from Phish and The Dead have nothing on their late 60s German counterparts. Spunky should be listening to Spiritualized live, in the front row with hopes that the sonic invasion could potentially bleed an ear drum and unlock some "spiritual" misconceptions. Both Heather and Sarah should be listening to Junior Wells on the porch sipping gin in the Texas July heat and act as if they weren't they sexy enough already. that is all *wafts wand* |
I'll bet $5 that he is currently listening to so 70's rock band right now. What should you be listening to Patrick? |
this is my kingdom come. i should be listening to Santana on the beach, spinning in circles and addressing banal bong load questions like "Is there a God?" |
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filtering down from the new neighbors upstairs. My five-year goal: home ownership. |
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What should I be listening to? |
I'm listening to Elliott Smith's "Figure 8" right now. I love him. |
what SHOULD I be listening to. pay attention people. the "I" could be you, could be me. It doesnt matter. Spider should be listening to Snoop at an elevated level for an office and acting like its perfectly acceptable. |
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but I digress. Saturday night I will be listening to some LIVE P-Funk. |
patrick, you should listen to santana. everyone should listen to santana. but here's what else is good: * groovie ghoulies * bis * the blast rocks * radon * gorillaz * organic this bike is a pipe bomb is coming to portland in a month and they're staying at a friend's house and playing their basement. i'm excited. |
My cow orker is listening to "smooth jazz" at high volume. He really likes this stuff. I've determined that smooth jazz is the worst music EVER. |
He's in a band. They're reasonably successful for a bunch of college kids (just recorded their 3rd album, have toured up and down the East Coast and have good followings in distant states, etc.) My dad lets the band practice in his basement. This enough should get my dad beatified. My brother has always been an ungrateful bastard, and within the last two months, he has organized 4 shows to be played in our basement. 50-80 kids have shown up each time. The horrible thing is: HE HAS NEVER ASKED MY DAD'S PERMISSION. He just sends out flyers and then tells my dad "by the way..." Last show, my dad found out about it from me. WTF?? Someone needs to smack him *and* my dad. He does nothing to punish my brother. He doesn't do anything! He doesn't talk to him...nothing. WTFFFFF??? Now, nothing has ever been broken, and they leave the basement in good order, but 1) That's got to be a fire hazard 2) There's got to be a noise violation going on 3) The music is obnoxious as hell, and my dad's almost 60 and still works very hard and deserves some peace when he gets home 4) What an assholish thing for my brother to do! I've asked my dad why ("WHY?!?!") he doesn't do anything about this, and he just shrugs his shoulders. What is going on?? The world is just turning upside-down around me. Where is the order? Where is the reason? |
the last basement show i saw was the DC band called Universal Order of Armageddon and a San Diego band called Antioch Arrow. Two very very intense mega political progressive groups. HAH groovie ghoulies. gotta love them |
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Blur is music for weenies. |
don't be such a prude, he can take care of himself i would be very pissy though, if i thought my sister was taking advantage of my parents |
She isn't working, isn't thanking them for the roof over her head, but rather disrespecting them at every possible opportunity. She beats the shit out of her son and only has to serve something like 8 days for it. Meanwhile, they are raising her son, come home from work to clean the disaster she has made of their house, pay her bills and do nothing else but bitch about it. They are enabling her and she is only getting worse. It is starting to effect their health and their relationship (which was rocky to begin with) and they still do nothing, but call me to bitch about it, ask my advice and never use it. Drives me nuts. |
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What does being a prude have to do with thinking my father is a pushover? My dad gave up on disciplining my brother years ago. Maybe I should print out eri's threads and hand them to him? "This is what you're teaching him! It will be your fault if he ends up like this!" |
thats the prudish part. you're applying your standards to his life. maybe he likes have rock shows in his basement....i think i'd might dig it if my son or daughter rocked out to 50 kids in the basement. at least i know where they are and what they are doing. if the kids are cool and don't trash the place, who cares? |
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then don't listen, make an excuse to go if they want to talk about it. if you stop tolerating it, it might help them find the strength to stop tolerating and let her go. |
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even i have grown tired of jambands. i want to write a big long essay about how all bands eventually feel like they have to do what the grateful dead did so that people can think that they are re-experiencing that whole deal. i wish some of the jam bands who used to be just regular bands would start playing songs again, songs with a beginning, middle, and end. antigone should be listening to Apples In Stereo. nate should be listening to Gomez. i should be listening to ocean waves. |
at the moment the new Jon Spencer single is playing on the radio "She Said". I feel a little fortunate because when I saw JSBX a few weeks ago, i heard all these cuts before they were released. This song in particular, "She Said", when they go to the chorus, i remember it being particularly cool...as they kick their guitars pedals in overdrive the stage lights blasted bright bright beams into the audience as they all yelled "She Saiiiiiiid!!!". I got chills during that moment. They cranked up the volume and bass so much from the soundboard your innards vibrated. fuck that was cool. |
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It is so complicated. I wish I could just tell them all to fuck off and not call me unless someone was dying or something, but it doesn't work that way. He needs someone. It is killing him that we moved to Texas. I was his sanity link and now I am too far away. Blessing to me but curse to him. Spider, I can totally understand where you are at, though. My sister has never been made to take responsibility for any of her actions all of her life. She still doesn't. She has this warped sense of reality. She doesn't appreciate a single thing she has or ever has had. She just bitches all of the time about how much better I had it than her. The only difference between what we had was that I got something and made it last for years and she would get something trash it get something trash it over and over again and then bitch about me having it and she doesn't. Yes, we have our own place to live in and she doesn't but that is because we pay rent and she doesn't. Yes, I always had a nice stereo, but that is because I got one for my 15th birthday and took care of it until it finally died on me in January, wheras she got one and decided she didn't want to take care of it and trashed it and got another and trashed it and got another (I think she is on stereo system number 15 in 12 years) and none of them were ever "good enough". She complains that I was pretty and popular in school and had lots of dates and she didn't, but that was because I took care of myself and my appearance and had good hygeine habits, when she trashed her teeth when her braces came off and her teeth have this disgusting yellow glow (wish Spunky still had the picture) she never took care of her acne and never cleaned herself, let alone shave her pits. She looked gross and wasn't nice to other people she met so no one ever liked her, but somehow that is my fault not hers. Enabling someone like this, who takes advantage and feel like it is their right to do so and it is owed to them, can be dangerous. It isn't just a matter of "they can take care of themselves" because by doing this they aren't taking care of themselves but taking care of those causing the trouble. When it is someone you love who is doing this, you can't help but speak up for their best interest. |
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he lives in oxford, mississippi - a college town. he just said "i live with all that indie rock. i had to figure out who's better than ezra. i decided i didn't care." (but he's still in fat possum country.) there's supposed to be an article about him in vanity fair in june or july. i thought patrick might dig the photos. the one of son house and mississippi john hurt is a classic. so is the one of mance lipscomb. he says he has a picture of junior wells giving mick jagger a harmonica lesson, but it's not on this page. maybe in the v.f. article. listen to more blues. (is it just me, or does phil ochs look like k.d. lang in that picture?) |
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the second one sucks ass. that song exemplifies exactly what is lame about system of the down. a good friend directs a lot of heavy, thrash, alt-metal videos. the guitar riff (i could make the impression for you in person) is the same god damn riff in every other lame metal song thats out there. of course there are exceptions, there are good bands. system of the down just isnt one of them. the last link was cute, fucknoodle. "new york art fag wanker" whats wrong with ny? what you got something against art? what are you a homophobe now? everyone is a wanker. At least spence can drum a different riff for each song. Judah Bauer is a totally under rated blues guitarist. He spent some time with Hooker before he died, not to mention RL. thanks droop ill look that sight over. |
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it was as profoundly boring as anything he or pussy galore ever did. maybe it would sound better if i were a new york art fag wanker or if i had a vagina. |
La la la la! |
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it was all about pez. seriously. pez is BUST magazine. at first i thought, AH! This is where pez gets her WHOLE GODDAMN PERSONALITY. she's a fraud! but then, no... everything is BUST is what pez was talking about six months ago. as if.. BUST is a slightly delayed journal of pez. BUST is pez. i had that backwards up above. and there was a bit on the new john spencer album. who knows if pez likes that. she probably is over it by now if she did. she was probably in on the recording sessions. she probably made suggestions that john spencer didn't take seriously. if he had, dave. would be a fan. surely. |
I never really talk about what music I listen to hear because half the time I have no idea who the fuck you're all talking about. |
I like System of a Down. Actually I like a lot of different styles of music. Half the time I never know who you guys are talking about. There. Now I make sense. |
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with the article on knitting. |
oh. damn. |
One of the Finn brothers sons has a band now called Betchadupa. They are okay. I like Goodshirt better. |
at least ny art fag wanker types are pretty and talented. Im sure you like other art faggy bands dave...they just may not be from ny |
new yorkers . . . art . . . fags . . . wankers by themselves, not a big deal. roll them all up together and throw 'em on a stage and that's my hell. wanna torture me? force me to go to a the strokes show. or sonic youth. blech. |
They are borderline metal bands, which to me is a genre that is terribly hard to be good and innovative at and easy to be terribly cheesy at. I wouldnt bother to see the strokes for other reasons. Their music ain't bad, its just its been commercialized for Gap ads. They rip on NY Dolls, VU and Television, which i can't knock them for, but they shouldn't be enjoying the commercial successes for emulating. |
can you describe to me what it felt like at that moment when you first realized that you knew it all? |
i think of music genres like the the color spectrum, and bands like them are in the shades moving from punk into thrash then metal. i prefer bands on the otherside of punk, moving towards indie, college rock and then straight up rock. i was too little to recognize that moment in my life. |
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so punk is what - yellow? green? which side is metal -- blue or red? does that mean you like the dwarves more than green day? the fall or the buzzcocks? the smiths or the cure? the mekons or the ex. how much distortion and reverb is too much? does it have to be overdriven amp distortion or can it be some pedal-type distortion? why? what if it's a pedal but they told you it was an overdriven old fender amp and you believed them but they lied so you thought it was good but you were wrong? would you automatically hate it when you learned the truth? do you think the morley pedal destroyed rock n roll? why does it matter either way? what if john spencer joined meshuggah? what if les claypool joined jsbx? what if mike patton joined boys 2 men? |
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You go Dave. |
say it in that sing-songy bugsbunny way now i miss boston motherfucker |
maybe my associations are more conceptual than literal dave. i see influences where most don't. |
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