Random Music Talk LXXVIII: Crashing Miley's Toluca Lake Pad

[bono_212]

So,

Guys.

I really don't know what to think.

I put off purchasing tickets to see Stars on March 23rd for about a month or so. Yesterday, for no particular reason, I finally picked them up. I never hesitated about going, I was just being lazy about buying the tickets.

So, I get my weekly e-mail from JamMail (concerts) today and I see that the Stars show sold out. I think to myself, "Wow, that would have really sucked if I'd been just a day later".

Then I scan further down the page.........


.....Guess who rescheduled his Chicago date.........


...for the 23rd of March...


You know what's easy to sell? Morrissey tickets. It's not easy to sell tickets for an Indie show. Now I've dropped about $60 (total) to see Stars on the same night that Morrissey is supposed to be here (third time's the charm?). There's no way I'm going to be able to unload those tickets...


I think I may be getting close to a point of being able to take on Sicy for Morrissey disappointment stories.

Thank God I didn't sell my tickets.


I'm never going to buy tickets to a Morrissey show, ever at this point. I almost sold my Stars tickets, but I knew it would be a mistake. Thank God.

If he ever comes back, I will buy tickets to one of his shows an hour before he's supposed to hit the stage. And even then, I'm going to hold my breath. Holy shit.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I'm sorry he's ill, I really am and I hope he gets better. But wow.

 

[cobl04]

I finally got around to listening to Darkness on the Edge of Town today, you guys! It's very good. Seeing Bruce in like two weeks.

I'm also off my P plates today, which means I can drink and drive provided my blood alcohol is under 0.05%. Been waiting for this moment for three and a half years.

 

[cobl04]

But in sadder news I just discovered a bloke I used to play cricket against was stabbed to death in the next suburb over last night. He was only 21. Hard to imagine him having started or flared up an altercation either. Real sad.

 

[Axver]

But in sadder news I just discovered a bloke I used to play cricket against was stabbed to death in the next suburb over last night. He was only 21. Hard to imagine him having started or flared up an altercation either. Real sad.

Holy shit, is this the guy who copped it in Fitzroy?

 

[cobl04]

Yeah. His name hasn't been officially released though.

 

[IWasBored]

I finally got around to listening to Darkness on the Edge of Town today, you guys! It's very good. Seeing Bruce in like two weeks.

Nothing Cobbler says should surprise me anymore. Yet...

 

[Axver]

Yeah. His name hasn't been officially released though.

That's fucking terrible. And just a bit unnerving, since I walk around that very intersection often.

Thank God I didn't sell my tickets.

Especially since Stars >>>>> Morrissey.

Their show here last month is undoubtedly going to make my Gigs of the Year list.

 

[cobl04]

Yeah I parked my car near there on Wednesday.

What do you guys make of this? Do bands play for too long?

I think it's total bullshit. If a band has the material to do so then they should play for a long time and I'll be happy. I could have watched Radiohead play for five hours.

 

[IWasBored]

That guy is a moron, trying to make a big enough deal out of the simple fact that he doesn't like long solos or any band enough to listen to them for more than half an hour, just to fill an article's worth of space. The tiger blood reference alone renders any opinions he had invalid. And I hope that Springsteen show he goes to reaches the 4 hour mark.

 

[cobl04]

He's the dude who read my Kendrick review and told me to email him, get me writing for that website. So I did. He never replied and shot off a vague tweet saying "memo aspiring writers... instead of talking about yourself, try coming up with ideas..." Douche. I hope Bruce plays for ages when I see him.

 

[LemonMelon]

Yeah I parked my car near there on Wednesday.

What do you guys make of this? Do bands play for too long?

I think it's total bullshit. If a band has the material to do so then they should play for a long time and I'll be happy. I could have watched Radiohead play for five hours.

I made it one sentence in. Jay Reatard is the best at nothing, least of all live performances.

And Neil Young rules.

 

[Axver]

What do you guys make of this? Do bands play for too long?

Easily one of the dumbest articles I've read on FL in a long time.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

(Paul is dead)

Hahahahahah

That's funny as fuck. Good shit.

 

[cobl04]

Easily one of the dumbest articles I've read on FL in a long time.

It's meant to drive hits, which it's doing successfully.

 

[cobl04]

I'm sitting in my onesie drinking and listening to Flying Lotus' most recent on vinyl.

 

[LemonMelon]

I've been listening to Suede and Bowie for the past couple hours. Very good combination.

 

[Danny Boy]

I'm sitting in my onesie drinking and listening to Flying Lotus' most recent on vinyl.

 

[lazarus]

I've been listening to Suede and Bowie for the past couple hours. Very good combination.

Perhaps you'll now agree that Valentine's Day sounds very close to Suede? Muslcally and Bowie's vocal?

There's another track near the end of the album, I think How Does The Grass Grow?, that also sounds like them. It has that "Ya ya ya ya!"

 

[Jive Turkey]

He's the dude who read my Kendrick review and told me to email him, get me writing for that website. So I did. He never replied and shot off a vague tweet saying "memo aspiring writers... instead of talking about yourself, try coming up with ideas..." Douche. I hope Bruce plays for ages when I see him.

I hope you responded to his fuckwit tweet with something equally passive aggressive

 

[Jive Turkey]

It's meant to drive hits, which it's doing successfully.

And you're helping him, Cobbo! Goddammit!

 

[No spoken words]

Listen, JT, calm the fuck down.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Selection Sunday

 

[No spoken words]

Selection Sunday

One of my favorite days of the year, and it marks the beginning of a great stretch for sports fans. March Madness, Opening Day, NHL Playoffs, NBA Playoffs.

Toss in the season premiers of Game of Thrones and Mad Men, plus Arrested Development in May.....and it's going to be a good Spring, Hawk Jr. Will you enjoy it with me, please?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Hell yes. Couldn't have said it better myself. And for some reason I keep forgetting that new Arrested Development is right around the corner. God damn, that's beautiful.

Also in May is the release of the new LP from THE NATIONAL.

 

[No spoken words]

Holy shit, yes. YES. THE NATIONAL.

And, I should add that A Tradition Unlike Any Other goes down soon too.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Or, as Impy so hilariously put it a few years back:

"A tradition like many others."

 

[PhilsFan]

I'm watching golf right now, as a matter of fact.

 

[LemonMelon]

Imagine Dragons need to go back to their home on whore island. What a shitass album. My favorite part is when the vocalist (who sucks) sings about the importance of being the "underdog." lolololol Interscope didn't think they would be underdogs for long.

The album sounds like The Fray and Kings of Leon fucking with the Lumineers jerking off to it.

 

[martha]

From that description, I'll never need to hear anything from it.

 

[iron yuppie]

I don't believe there has ever been a more kick-ass drum line than in When the Levee Breaks. Bonham is the king.