CITY POP (70s-80s Japanese Pop)

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I love it whenever Kenneth Brannagh turns up as a Russian supervillain though.

I caught some of that Jack Ryan film on TV, but didn't bother finishing it.

 

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[luka]

i like this sat nav. hes got a mellow groovy temperament.

 

[luka]

 

[snav]

i like this sat nav. hes got a mellow groovy temperament.

the smooth jazz keeps me calm. that'll be the next thread, see how much disdain i can get Jan Hammer fans to summon up

 

[luka]

the smooth jazz keeps me calm. that'll be the next thread, see how much disdain i can get Jan Hammer fans to summon up

SMOOTH JAZZ with the "sickest, most insane sonics"

Like the Quai's bassist...

www.dissensus.com

thread features the 'amateurish but important' simon reynolds

 

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he's an interesting case study isn't he sat nav?

Gus probably convinced snav to join the forum and you're gonna end up recruiting them for your army of Gus bullies.

 

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Gus in a few weeks;

 

[luka]

the way he does that walk is so good

 

[snav]

One of the first things I ever wrote as an adult that wasn't for school, I don't stand by a lot of it and especially not the prose, but it happened. Wrote a buncha stuff like this in 2013/14 I've talked about this before on the board. Getting to youth culture in the big city in New York City getting to liberal arts school, after growing up in a smallish town, you expect to board the Mothership, here it is, exciting cultural things, I can integrate into the stream of the New, the avant, artistic innovation, and everyone's playing 70s throwback guitar music. Incredibly disillusioning. Took years of processing

i see you deleted the link to the essay but my only comment about it was the time i saw Mac DeMarco in 2014 in San Francisco and a fan stole one of his shoes when he was crowdsurfing and wouldn't give it back even though everyone on stage appeared visibly mad. only time i've ever seen a concert cancel their planned encore because he was so pissed about that. talk about fetishization, anyway.

 

[craner]

i like this sat nav. hes got a mellow groovy temperament.

I don’t know, this feels like the next stage of colonisation.

 

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[sus]

Snav can never be turned... the Dudes stick together

 

[sus]

Linebaugh messaged me this morning to say, Spendo, sometimes I say mean things to you in public but I'm just playing a bit, it's all part of the infiltration/colonization efforts, you have to win them over a bit, you need an inside man we can be good cop bad cop

 

[sus]

I said Linebaugh, I knew you were just playing around for the camera, Dudes always stick together, I never doubted you for a second

 

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[craner]

Linebaugh messaged me this morning to say, Spendo, sometimes I say mean things to you in public but I'm just playing a bit, it's all part of the infiltration/colonization efforts, you have to win them over a bit, you need an inside man we can be good cop bad cop

We are Athens to your Rome.

 

[IdleRich]

Japan had a tradition of jazz stemming back to the US occupation, and also were overtaken by the British in the same way as the rest of the world back in the late 60s, with bands like Apryl Fool as deep cuts.

Wasn't Hari Hosono in Apryl Fool?

 

[IdleRich]

i hate it it sounds like living death probably the most enervating music out but having said that i like the visual side of it.

Thing is the music doesn't have to be good for there to be interesting writing about it. I guess in the same way that sometimes I will be reading the sports section of a newspaper and I can read the report on a cycling race or F1 or even basketball, sports which are so dull they... well, they're not spectator sports let's just say that. I could never even attempt to watch a whole grand prix (a racing sport with virtually no overtaking) or basketball (a sport in wihch they score with every attack and the most celebrated bits are how extravagantly they put the ball in the hole when they are already certain to score), never mind cycling which actually goes on for several days.... and yet I can happily read about them at times, despite not knowing the rules or the context or the people they are talking about. This could be the music equivalent... except we're getting the rules and the context and so on. Count me in.

 

[luka]

I agree