Random Music Talk XCVIII: When the Music's Over...

[Danny Boy]

 

[lazarus]

The one I met?

I don't remember who you met. A pretty blonde?

Flaming Lips Members Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd Announce New Album as Electric Würms, Share First Single | News | Pitchfork

ZOMG THEIR SO WIERD!!!1!!!!1

 

[LemonMelon]

Flaming Lips Members Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd Announce New Album as Electric Würms, Share First Single | News | Pitchfork

Steven must be the only person on earth that still likes Wayne.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Pretty excited to get this new Jack White album in the mail tomorrow and give it some spins. Been avoiding the reviews and the dedicated thread here.

He just did the title track on Fallon and it fucking kicked ass. That ending rocked so hard. Great guitar tone, great interplay with the drummer.

 

[cobl04]

GAF fell in love with the drummer
He fell in love with the drummer
He fell in love

 

[cobl04]

I don't remember who you met. A pretty blonde?

Nah the bloke from Nerd Melt, whose name I got wrong when I introduced myself

 

[lazarus]

That guy is straight and doesn't have a boyfriend.

 

[cobl04]

I see. I didn't know you lived with more people.

Also, fuck U2.

 

[cobl04]

I'm streaming that Death Grips x Björk thing here ... and I'm actually kinda liking it

Bjork “thrilled” to star on new Death Grips album

 

[LemonMelon]

"Star?"

She's incompetently sampled on every track, that's all.

(I did like the album slightly more than the last one, so their streak was broken)

 

[cobl04]

Try and find me a website that doesn't use clickbait headlines.

 

[Danny Boy]

Try and find me a website that doesn't use clickbait headlines.

CDC - MMWR Weekly: Current Volume (2014)

 

[bono_212]

Oh look at DB...look how clever he is!

 

[IWasBored]

What is click bait, anyway? Isn't the purpose of a headline supposed to make people want to read it?

 

[cobl04]

It is, but up until Buzzfeed and Upworthy started dominating the landscape headlines didn't seem to be so pointedly misleading, nor did they exclude information.

Now it's all 'You Won't Believe What Happened Next'

 

[IWasBored]

I'm pretty sure I've never read an article on either of those sites.


i dislike headlines that tell me everything that's in the article, though. It irritates me that someone really got paid to re-write the same sentence 5 times and call it an "article."

 

[Axver]

It is, but up until Buzzfeed and Upworthy started dominating the landscape headlines didn't seem to be so pointedly misleading, nor did they exclude information.

Now it's all 'You Won't Believe What Happened Next'

It's depressing to notice mainstream and "respectable" outlets increasingly adopting this, and all the more depressing to realise they're doing it precisely because it works. You won't believe what other opinions I hold on the current media landscape. What I could say next will blow your mind!

 

[martha]

People click on those?

 

[IWasBored]

Wait, is buzzfeed that site with all those "10 celebrities that failed high school algebra" "4 new ways to tie your shoes" garbage links that lets me know the actual article I was reading is really over?

I assume the same people who buy people magazine read those. I can't imagine caring less.

 

[IWasBored]

i made a smoothie to rival mofo's gross smoothie from the other day. it actually tastes ok, it just looks like a glass of liquified snot.

 

[martha]

Mmmmm.

 

[PhilsFan]

 

[u2popmofo]

There's a new New Pornographers song on Spotify today called "Brill Bruisers". I can't find anything about this song anywhere yet, not sure if it's from the new album or something else.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I smell another Pulitzer!!

 

[cobl04]

There's a new New Pornographers song on Spotify today called "Brill Bruisers". I can't find anything about this song anywhere yet, not sure if it's from the new album or something else.

Destroyer > New Pornographers

Spoiler

 

[cobl04]

Four of the most beautiful minutes of sport you'll ever watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpThWWgoM8

A master at work

 

[cobl04]

It's depressing to notice mainstream and "respectable" outlets increasingly adopting this, and all the more depressing to realise they're doing it precisely because it works. You won't believe what other opinions I hold on the current media landscape. What I could say next will blow your mind!

Just wait until Pitchfork starts doing it...

"We Listened To The New Coldplay Album And You Won't Believe The Score We Gave It"

 

[phanan]

There's a new New Pornographers song on Spotify today called "Brill Bruisers". I can't find anything about this song anywhere yet, not sure if it's from the new album or something else.

According to their own site, it's the title track from their upcoming album, due out 8/26/14.

 

[cobl04]

I'll listen only to the tracks that feature Dan Bejar on vocals.

Spoiler

 

[nielsgov]

Four of the most beautiful minutes of sport you'll ever watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpThWWgoM8

A master at work

I watched this and had no idea what was going on. The commentators are just talking as if nothing is happening.

Even the players seem to be doing stuff at random. Really weird sport.