random music thoughts today:
-Al Stewart is kind of awesome and possibly an unrecognized influence on Belle & Sebastian
-"Sick of Myself" by Matthew Sweet is one of the best singles of the 90s
random music thoughts today:
-Al Stewart is kind of awesome and possibly an unrecognized influence on Belle & Sebastian
-"Sick of Myself" by Matthew Sweet is one of the best singles of the 90s
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
That's the most Pitchforky-list ever compiled.Quoting ThePlashyBubbler (view post)
Animal Collective AND Grizzly Bear? I'm feeling sleepier by the second.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Grizzly Bear are sleepy-inducing, but not as much as swipes at Pitchfork for being Pitchfork.
Tell me that is not a Pitchfork wetdream of a concert lineup and I will retract my statement.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
I doubt I'd be a profound GB apologist, but I really only got into them after the recent Daniel Rossen EP. I find many of their compositions wacky and unique, kind of like Dirty Projectors.
Sweet is an all-time great.
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Some of the best guitar tone ever produced - period.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the 90s power-poppers in general: Sweet, The Posies, Lemonheads. Even the first Weezer and Gin Blossoms records could fall in there.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Totally. First Fountains of Wayne also.
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
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The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
Daniel, thought you'd get a kick out of this:
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(the album is pretty sweet, too)
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
I'd add Material Issue to that list as well.
Yup! I like both those bands.
Meanwhile, cutting edge, non-sleepy-making band The Delgados accrue 1000+ plays on trans' last.fm page (whose top ten includes perennial Pitchfork-hater faves Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, The Fiery Furnaces, Deerhoof and LCD Soundsystem).
The Delgados are a million times better than either Animal Collective or Grizzly Bear.
Okay, maybe not a million.
Two million.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
They're fine, nothing offensive, but basically a textbook example of a middling 90's indie band that's been understandably shrugged-off in recent years. See also; Grandaddy, Clinic.
I know what I'll be listening to at work all day.
Pretty fucking cool.
The 2CD Andy Stott EP comp has dominated my speakers this year.
Pretty fucking cool.
Oh hey, another killer new Aussie band
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Swell Maps (band) - Jane from Occupied Europe (album)
Good stuff. Proto-post-punk. I guess.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Definitely one of the best band names (not to mention bands in general) of all time.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Second one's a lot better than the first one, which might as well be a Tim & Eric sketch. Still, outsider music = thumbs up.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
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