Musicological banter

abeyance-hatch wrote:
18 hours of music from Radiohead’s OK Computer sessions have leaked online

way to go radiohead…never negotiate with terroists
Radiohead officially release leaked OK Computer material after turning down $150,000 ransom

"For £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom"

Now, the band has officially released the leaked material through Bandcamp and is donating the proceeds to the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion.

I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…I saw a woman wearing a John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band t-shirt.

Space wrote:
I saw a woman wearing a John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band t-shirt.

nice!
still waiting for the release of A Season in Hell

The dark side, indeed.

Space wrote:
I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…I saw a woman wearing a John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band t-shirt.

If they lose John, they could be my favorite band.

Space wrote:
I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…

Commuting by the Newseum in the morning is the absolute worst.  Every field trip seems to be packed with MAGA kids.  And of course the irony of wearing a MAGA hat into a museum about free press is totally lost on them.

gavroche wrote:

Space wrote:
I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…

Commuting by the Newseum in the morning is the absolute worst.  Every field trip seems to be packed with MAGA kids.  And of course the irony of wearing a MAGA hat into a museum about free press is totally lost on them.

the MAGA hat thing on these school trips is now a middle finger to the libtards that live in DC

abeyance-hatch wrote:

gavroche wrote:

Space wrote:
I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…

Commuting by the Newseum in the morning is the absolute worst.  Every field trip seems to be packed with MAGA kids.  And of course the irony of wearing a MAGA hat into a museum about free press is totally lost on them.

the MAGA hat thing on these school trips is now a middle finger to the libtards that live in DC

I'll show 'em! I'll wear my Obama t-shirt the next time I visit relatives in Indiana, South Carolina, or upstate New York! Give that middle finger right back!

abeyance-hatch wrote:

gavroche wrote:

Space wrote:
I swear to god…while running on the Mall today, in addition to a couple of girls in MAGA t-shirts and a boy in a MAGA t-shirt AND hat (just too hard to choose one!)…

Commuting by the Newseum in the morning is the absolute worst.  Every field trip seems to be packed with MAGA kids.  And of course the irony of wearing a MAGA hat into a museum about free press is totally lost on them.

the MAGA hat thing on these school trips is now a middle finger to the libtards that live in DC

I don't think that 12 or 13 year olds are that politically aware, and especially not of the DC politics.  I think it's more a fashion fad that signals being within the "in" group much like a Starter jacket was when I was in middle school. 

gavroche wrote:
I think it's more a fashion fad that signals being within the "in" group much like a Starter jacket was when I was in middle school.

when I was in middle school….it was members only!

I think my dad wore a Members Only jacket right up until the day he died.

The whole story about all the Universal master tapes being destroyed in 2008 is a bit heartbreaking.  Lots and lots of history lost there.  As someone pointed out Universal never dived into their archives like so many others. It would appear that among other things Nevermind mastertapes along with loads of 60s, etc lost… I think Andy Partridge was eluding to some lost XTC masters and I wonder if these were them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html

Perhaps I missed the conversation on this tweet from Dec 2108 (and if so, I apologize):

I Shot The Serif:
Artists and bands with names that sound like they could be fonts/ typefaces



https://twitter.com/_Bands_FC/status/1076444503005904896

Apparently they're downloadable too!

kind of lazy that Husker du is on there twice…

but those are some cool fonts and will help me remember ones I like
as I am lame and Segoe UI all the time

Edit…it's only that image that is downloadable…not the fonts (as far as I can tell)
Bands F.C. Typefaces artwork. Available to download and print at (link: https://bandsfc.com/typefaces/) bandsfc.com/typefaces/

I Shot The Serif:
Artists and bands with names that sound like they could be fonts/ typefaces

what a lazy attempt at humor (is that even what they* are aiming for?)

first off, half of those would never be considered as names for fonts.  trent reznor?  big audio dynamite?  atari teenage riot?  please.

second, of the other half that actually sound like they could be fonts - it's because they ALREADY ARE a font:
- Bauhaus
- Rammstein
- Berlin
- Dion
- Blancmange
- Pulp (technically a category/family of fonts)
- Hole
- Rockwell
- Orbital
- Bastille
- Laibach
etc…

what's next?  "list of band that sound like a place: boston, alabama, chicago, berlin, phoenix, beirut, nazareth, … - look at me!"

signed,
your friendly neighborhood font nazi

*they = the person(s) who created this list, not smackie.

sweetcell wrote:
signed,
your friendly neighborhood font nazi

My anecdotal experience is that font nazi's are much more fun to be around than grammar nazi's.

I came here to say that The Dead Weather's Sea of Cowards is a fine, fine album.

Laughing-Stock wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
signed,
your friendly neighborhood font nazi

My anecdotal experience is that font nazi's are much more fun to be around than grammar nazi's.

here's a font you might like…probably make it impossible to read…but who reads anyway?
A font created by your congressional districts.

^ that is SO awesome