Albums are a valueless medium. They always have been

[luka]

I do enjoy this method of scientific proof which involves pretending to listen to them and then telling droid all his favourite albums are a load of shit, but other people might not be convinced by this rigorous method. They might not think its resounding enough. You might need to ratchet it up a bit.

 

[sadmanbarty]

luke, put on blue and then apologise for suggesting that the album is even tangentially cohesive aesthetically or emotionally. then admit i'm right about everything and we can start talking about how the time barrier means that albums become redundant in a way individual tracks don't.

 

[luka]

I do enjoy this method of scientific proof which involves pretending to listen to them and then telling droid all his favourite albums are a load of shit, but other people might not be convinced by this rigorous method. They might not think its resounding enough. You might need to ratchet it up a bit.

We need to move from the concrete ("this albums good" "no it's shit") to the abstract. Talk
General Principles.

 

[sadmanbarty]

I do enjoy this method of scientific proof which involves pretending to listen to them and then telling droid all his favourite albums are a load of shit, but other people might not be convinced by this rigorous method. They might not think its resounding enough. You might need to ratchet it up a bit.

you're using blue as an example. have you heard the bloody thing?! you can't honestly tell me that's one cohesive thing. it's clearly not.

 

[droid]

i'm definitely george and droid knows in his heart he's ringo.

Underappreciated but actually the quiet genius who underpins everything? Ill go with that.

You're Eric Clapton playing a guest solo on my guitar gently weeps...

 

[thirdform]

Don't know why this didn't occur to me, cos it is the more interesting way to look at it

Barty has grown up in a world of mp3s, happy slapping and political correctness gone mad.

He can never understand the frisson of sniffing 'Revolver' the first time before putting it on the platter.

the problem is the beatles were responsible for dick dale going through agonising pain to pay his medical expenses. i'll never forgive them for that. worse than Wagner.

 

[sadmanbarty]

you lot are just being difficult for the sake of it.

 

[luka]

luke, put on blue and then apologise for suggesting that the album is even tangentially cohesive aesthetically or emotionally. then admit i'm right about everything and we can start talking about how the time barrier means that albums become redundant in a way individual tracks don't.

I've listened to it hundreds of times. Not for years because my soul has evolved. I'm too coarse and loose grained for it now. But I know from having spent plenty of time with it that it is cohesive thematically, aesthetically, lyrically, and emotionally. It's all a woman singing over a guitar and there's some piano in there. It's not like it goes disco three tracks in is it? Corpsey, tel, him please.

 

[luka]

It's a very beautiful voice poised in a very exposed setting singing about earnest stuff.

 

[luka]

Maybe you're thinking of one of the other ones with jaco pastorious or something, you musos are always looking for an excuse to listen to jaco pastorious, it's weird.

 

[luka]

Where the fuck is corpsey? Explain having an emotion to this man please. I don't think he's ever had one.

 

[thirdform]

I mean the beatles killed this. how can you ever tell me they are remotely psychedelic.

 

[Corpsey]

Barty's sitting there listening to albums like one of the Dragons Den judges, poised to sneer and retract his interest

 

[luka]

"Songs are like tattoos you know..." Tell him corpse

 

[thirdform]

these 2 minutes are better than the beatles entire discography.

 

[luka]

There's no doubt that the way we consume music now has made it very difficult to appreciate or even sit through entire albums, even very good ones. No doubt at all.

 

[Corpsey]

For today's generation though, luke,

Songs aren't like tattoos

Songs are like snapchat filters

They don't even understand why it would be significant that a song would be like a tattoo because they're 75% ink by the age of 20.

TSK

 

[thirdform]

oi i acknowledge that surf rock and not psychedelia was the real innovation of the 60s.

 

[luka]

you lot are just being difficult for the sake of it.

I thought the point of these threads was to drag us kicking and screaming to enlightenment?

 

[thirdform]

come on corpse, resist this.