Musicological banter

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park, Editors, and Zutons hold up off this. Weird that those four are included but Franz Ferdinand is excluded for being “too art rock.” Uh ok.

my guess is if Franz had broken up after a couple albums they'd make the list, but over the course of their career  their sound has evolved…

Couldn’t you say the same about Arctic Monkeys?

I've honestly never listened to Arctic Monkeys so no point of reference

I was surprised by how many of these bands I had never even heard of
Although, that's an era I started having kids, so there are big gaps in hearing new music and seeing shows

I've never heard of these groups on that list

Pete and the Pirates
Guillemots
Les Incompétents
Good Shoes
Cajun Dance Party
Jack Peñate
Morning Runner
The Others
GoodBooks
Bromheads Jacket
The Automatic
Wolfman ft. Pete Doherty
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
Milburn
The View
The Enemy
Mumm-Ra
The Ordinary Boys
Larrikin Love

I remember seeing Razorlight as the middle band on one  those three band bills that seemed to be standard at the time and thinking what a waste of space they were…

Still one of my favorite songs from this period of indie landfill

Little Man Tate - Man I Hate Your Band


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urZ0UtZ9dWQ

probably taking the piss about other indie landfill band..

if Kosmo hasn't heard of your band…then you virtually don't exist

The Indie Landfill rebuttal

The term ‘landfill indie’ is pure snobbery from people who don’t know how to have fun

Last week VICE dredged up the term, an endeavour so sneeringly reductive it’s like your Grandad listing the relative merits of each Pokémon

https://www.nme.com/features/landfill-indie-snobbery-2741199

I need to start checking out some of the bands on that list I wasn’t aware of

of course it is a bit rich that NME is calling Indie Landfill a case of snobbery as they are quite adapt at tearing down bands

kosmo wrote:
of course it is a bit rich that NME is calling Indie Landfill a case of snobbery as they are quite adapt at tearing down bands

i know… they were utterly VICIOUS with coldplay.

kosmo wrote:
of course it is a bit rich that NME is calling Indie Landfill a case of snobbery as they are quite adapt at tearing down bands

Fratellis at #1 nails it though.

Interesting profile Rolling Stone did on Linda Martell, this and the Toots piece have been really well done..

Country's Lost Pioneer
Linda Martell was the first black female solo artist to play the Grand Ole Opry, but her promising country career was plagued by racism and ended almost as quickly as it began. Fifty years after her only album, she's speaking out

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/linda-martell-black-country-grand-ole-opry-pioneer-1050432/

Listening to her album on a evil steaming service and while the type of record I don't  than I usually listen to, I'm enjoying it

sweetcell wrote:

kosmo wrote:
of course it is a bit rich that NME is calling Indie Landfill a case of snobbery as they are quite adapt at tearing down bands

i know… they were utterly VICIOUS with coldplay.

A blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut.

posting this on all my socials.. i believe this combo is a road crews worst nightmare

Anyone else, hear the new john frusciante music?

Good Lord . . . I feel as though, my heart has been touched by Christ.

Rolling Stone just updated their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

When we first did the RS 500 in 2003, people were talking about the “death of the album.” The album —and especially the album release — is more relevant than ever. Of course, it could still be argued that embarking on a project like this is increasingly difficult in an era of streaming and fragmented taste. But that was part of what made rebooting the RS 500 fascinating and fun; 86 of the albums on the list are from this century, and 154 are new additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 versions. The classics are still the classics, but the canon keeps getting bigger and better.


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/

I don't agree with that list.  so, it is, wrong.  the, end.

Dark Side at 55? Psshhht.

500 arcDe Fire….don’t get love for these guys


499 can’t read my writing but says no

Rufus no way…ton better

498 suicide…oh yes!

497!soweto comp no… always on these lists

496. Shakira….now we are talking!

495 boys 2 men…can’t stomach

494 ronnettes…absolutely

493 can’t read but no

Marvin Gaye here my dear….always makes these lists cause of the storyline about being a big fuck you to wife and sister of Motown founder Berry gordy but the album is so damn slow…does anyone actually listen to this double album? No just no

492 Bonnie raitt…always the comeback story puts this album on lists …her second album give it up is ten times better

491 no just no

Here's your feel good story for today…

Q Magazine was set to hold their annual awards ceremony which was cancelled due to Covid-19 and Paul Heaton was scheduled to get the only known award there as it turned out he never got a Q award.  Anyways, shortly after Q shut down, Paul reached out and offered to make a donation to the staff of the magazine.  The donation was accepted after be politely declined at the outset and distributed to the remaining Q staffers.

link to twitter thread

https://twitter.com/TedKessler1/status/1314517069145288704?s=20

seriously Paul Heaton is total class act

https://twitter.com/PaulHeatonSolo/status/1314597762701369344?s=20

btw his album "Manchester Calling" is one of the best of the year for me…

That’s a great story