Musicological banter

No love for Pink Floyd's best album Wish You Were Here?

Do you not read your posts?

You are really coming off douchey.

You keep calling me ignorant, or implying that I am stupid. 

So, what is your problem?

You also attack my music taste. 

You like the horrible (to me) band, Antemasque, enough to make a thread about them, so you should be the last person to judge someone's taste in music

James wrote:
No love for Pink Floyd's best album Wish You Were Here?

of course.. its a great album….what else is there to say? It is the last Floyd album with some balance…. by Animals Waters is running the show too much…

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No need to fight, we are all friends here!

Rogue wrote:
You also attack my music taste. 

You like the horrible (to me) band, Antemasque, enough to make a thread about them, so you should be the last person to judge someone's taste in music

huh? I don't even know what Antemasque sounds like.. I mean that's why I started the thread..

Well it sucks.  You wasted some of the internet.

So 'song for josh' did not make it to the new frank turner The Third Three Years
looks good tho

Full tracklisting is below:

1 Somebody To Love (Queen cover ? RSD '12 7?)   
2 Hits & Mrs (Losing Days EP)   
3 Sweet Albion Blues (Polaroid Picture EP)   
4 Riot Song (Fuck the Fire EP)   
5 Something of Freedom (demo)   
6 Fields of June (w/ Emily Barker/Red Clay Halo)   
7 Happy New Year (w/ Jon Snodgrass)   
8 American Girl (Tom Petty cover ? home demo)   
9 There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner (Noel Coward cover ? Franz Nicolay split EP)   
10 Pancho & Lefty (Townes Van Zandt cover ? Spotify Session EP w/ Jim Eno)   
11 Big Foot (The Weakerthans cover ? home demo)
12 Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney/Wings cover ? iTunes session)
13 The Corner (Cory Branan cover)
14 Keira (Tony Sly cover ? 'The Song of Tony Sly' tribute album)
15 Plain Sailing Weather (w/Matt Nasir ? The Cutting Room sessions)
16 Tell Tale Signs (w/Matt Nasir ? iTunes sessions)
17 The Way I Tend To Be (w/Matt Nasir ? iTunes sessions)
18 The Ballad of Me and My Friends (live from Twin Cities, Minnesota)
19 Broken Piano (home demo)
20 Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen cover ? The Cutting Room sessions)
21 Dan's Song (full band - live)

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/artsandentertainment/bcp-blinded-with-science-hopkins-brings-in-thomas-dolby-to-do-a-neighborhood-and-evangelize-for-its-trou-20141104,0,6744251.story

http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcp-the-problem-isnt-if-thomas-dolby-fails-its-that-we-still-dont-know-how-hopkins-intends-for-him-to-succeed-20141106,0,7523058.story

So Thomas Dolby is going to magically transform Station North?  And turn it into: "as a major hub of innovation in the intersection between the arts and technology"?

Good luck Thomas!

From the rebuttal of Daniel Ek against Taylore Swift pulling her catalog off of Spotify; I only pulled one part out of it that pertains to myself, feel free to discuss any of it:

https://news.spotify.com/se/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-counting/

Today we have more than 50 million active users of whom 12.5 million are subscribers each paying $120 per year. That?s three times more than the average paying music consumer spent in the past.

I don't pay for (or use) Spotify and must be more than an average paying music consumer. 

Should our music consumption money include merch, ticket purchases, and music purchases (physical and digital)?

I did a quick estimate and the money I spend on merch, music, and shows in a year is an estimated total of $1680 (it probably is a lot higher, I used the estimates of 1 $15 show a week =, $10 for music a week, and $10 for merch a week; numbers are sometimes higher, and sometimes lower - lately I have been trying to limit merch purchases, though I have still picked up some t shirts and posters this year). 

So the average person spends $40 annually, according to that guy; so people who spend $10 a month are the heroes of the music industry? 

So that makes me, and people like me, superheroes of the music industry?

Rogue wrote:
So that makes me, and people like me, superheroes of the music industry?

Uh, probably yes, actually. You're nowhere near representative of an "average" music fan. Even by the highly skewed metrics of this community, you're still probably one of the most "supportive" fans.

From some clickbait link, 12 Flawless Albums that Only Have Great Songs:

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Revolver - The Beatles
2001 - Dr. Dre
Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains
Lateralus - Tool
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Boston - Boston
OK Computer - Radiohead
Graceland - Paul Simon

List fail no Big Star or Love here

grateful wrote:
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
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De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Lateralus - Tool

There's filler galore on Illinois, and the second two I highlighted are hysterically terrible records.

Nah man…De-Loused is awesome if you are into that kind of thing. Its ear grating to almost everyone I know. They can't stand any of it not even for a minute. But to a small contingent this is one of the best albums of the last 15 years.

I cannot comment on Tool though. I don't know if I ever heard anything other than the singles from it.

That industry middle man he says is no more is still there. It's taken the form of the PR industry rather than the record industry. Music doesn't randomly find its way from Bandcamp to Pitchfork. It's a nice thought but no. Yes, it's cheaper/easier to get your music out there than ever before but it's just as easy/cheap for everyone else. Music's still filtered through just as many channels unless you have an influential friend or two. Not to mention the fact that everyone seems to need to have management/a booking agent nowadays from bands that play houses to arena acts. Just ask Seth how often the Club  talks to a band itself as opposed to an agent when booking it.