Random Music Talk CII: Brazilian Style, the longer it takes, the closer it gets.

[corianderstem]

HBD, you crazy kid.

 

[Hewson]

Happy birthday GAF.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Thanks. Go Illini.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I run into Bono at a bar, we're both drunker than hell:

But Bono, is there really an end to love?

Fuck yes there is, son.

 

[david]

So two girls appear on Songs of Innocence.

Edit: one girl and that wussy Chris Martin appear on Songs of Innocence.

 

[powerhour24]

Speaking if which, apparently Chris Martin performs uncredited backing vocals on Iris.

Subconsciously this must have been why I disliked that song so much.

 

[bono_212]

Some of you guys were hating on that new Grimes song (Go) if I remember correctly. I heard it the other day and liked it a good deal. The thing is groovy as hell.

Oh dear.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Edge's vocals are really all over this album. Digging his harmonies here on a lot of the songs.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Here's hoping Edge has a lead vocal on one of the two additional tracks coming, or maybe a lead vocal on one of the tracks off SONGS OF EXPERIENCE.

 

[powerhour24]

This is vaguely music-related:

Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash

 

[powerhour24]

Also, Happy Birthday GAF!!

 

[bono_212]

This is vaguely music-related:

Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash

I love this story.

 

[iron yuppie]

Oh dear.

You don't like?

 

[cobl04]

happy birthday GAF you motherfucker.

Some of you guys were hating on that new Grimes song (Go) if I remember correctly. I heard it the other day and liked it a good deal. The thing is groovy as hell.

The response to Go was so negative she shelved recording sessions for her new album http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/m...d-be-waiting-for-grimess-next-album.html?_r=1

 

[david]

Happy Birthday GAF!

 

[lazarus]

What's the over/under on GAF being currently:

1. unconscious
2. with vomit residue on lip/facial hair
3. in a holding cell
4. sporting a black eye
5. missing a tooth
6. slapped by uninterested/insulted woman

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

How about all of the above?

 

[powerhour24]

Yeah that's my vote. You can picture all of those things happening from a single incident.

 

[Hewson]

What's the over/under on GAF being currently:

1. unconscious
2. with vomit residue on lip/facial hair
3. in a holding cell
4. sporting a black eye
5. missing a tooth
6. slapped by uninterested/insulted woman

That's just a normal Saturday night, last night being his birthday you'd have to add a couple like:

7. at the emergency room
8. attempting to break in to US Cellular field at 2AM
9. in a tattoo parlor getting Taylor Lautner's face tattooed on his ass when the artist misunderstood his slurred request for a Taylor Swift tattoo.

 

[lazarus]

 

[cobl04]

thought this was a really interesting read, on how female artists' voices (much like their looks) are criticised far more heavily than male artists

Radical Strain – The New Inquiry

 

[iron yuppie]

thought this was a really interesting read, on how female artists' voices (much like their looks) are criticised far more heavily than male artists

Radical Strain – The New Inquiry

Interesting article. It does seem that Pitchfork especially treats a lot of music from female artists as a reaction to some element of femininity; I remember the FKA Twigs article being heavy on that. I.e. they cast feminine concerns on the artist regardless of the subject matter of the music.

I wonder what this author thinks about some of the more confrontational female-led music out there, though, like Savages or EMA. There's also a counterexample to the importance affixed to a traditionally "beautiful" female voice in all the praise afforded to Joanna Newsome. I will say that arguably my favorite female vocalist is one who doesn't align at all with a traditional female voice: Victoria Legrand.

 

[cobl04]

I genuinely thought the lead singer of Beach House was male until I posted something to that effect here and was immediately torn to shreds by peef, LMP, imps, et al. Rightly so, too. Her voice fits the music so well.

I think the author went a bit over the top when talking about male artists' voices though. Like I cannot fucking stand Neutral Milk Hotel because I hated Jeff Magnum's vocals so much.

 

[Kieran McConville]

I genuinely thought the lead singer of Beach House was male until I posted something to that effect here and was immediately torn to shreds by peef, LMP, imps, et al. Rightly so, too. Her voice fits the music so well.

I think the author went a bit over the top when talking about male artists' voices though. Like I cannot fucking stand Neutral Milk Hotel because I hated Jeff Magnum's vocals so much.

Probably about how I feel regarding the singer in Alt-J.

 

[gump]

The Tweedy (Jeff + son) album is streaming on NPR.

First Listen: Tweedy, 'Sukierae' : NPR

Cue the dad rock jokes.

 

[djerdap]

Subconsciously this must have been why I disliked that song so much.

I wanted to say the exact same thing.

 

[powerhour24]

Though since making that comment I've come around to it a bit. It's at the bottom of the pile of songs Bono's written on the topic, but there's still some genuinely affecting lines buried beneath the sheen of the pop production. With a better vocal melody and no Tedder it could work a lot better. We'll see how it goes live.

 

[david]

The new Leonard Cohen album is streaming via NPR Music: First Listen: Leonard Cohen, 'Popular Problems' : NPR

 

[martha]

My nephew likes "smoky" whiskeys. What should I get him for his birthday that I can afford?

 

[iron yuppie]