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Go on then go on then draw for the choons. 20 goon choons. The illest drill. An impassioned defence of a much maligned genre. Why does it matter? Why is it life enhancing? Why should we bother? An explanation of what makes it top 20 worthy. Quotables. The great lost RA/Fact/Wire article...

What were your jams? My top 100 of the 2010s (1 choon per artist) is still in flux but here it is atm Compiling this has led me to think about how music has changed over ten years for me - from something I was personally invested in (making/writing about/going out to listen to) to something...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> No order top 30 Ariana Grande - NASA DaBaby - Suge Jamilia Woods - ZORA Solange - Almeda Young Thug - Hot (Feat. Gunna) 2 Chainz -...

I am listening to POLLEN, a Spotify-curated list of music, and I've never heard of 95% of these artists, who have tens and sometimes HUNDREDS of millions of plays on Spotify. (Anyone more than vaguely aware of Daniel Caesar, for example? Khruangbin?) Weird, isn't it? My "idea" of popular...

Everyone laughed at it. Partly cos the window broke, but also cos of how it looks. It occurred to me that what it looks like is very Harsh Angular Boxlike Sharp The modern trend is sinuous, soft, organic, fluid. So the disgust for this design (if it's not just that it's retro) might be...

Contrasting the nervy consciousness of social niceties, sensitivities, being "woke" and above prejudice and adverse to violence with Listening to aggressive, violent, money obsessed and/or apolitical music. And wondering if music is becoming more ID as the superego presses it's claims more...

What music styles wouldn't dissensus/music nerds touch with a shitty stick - are these styles irredeemable, are there good things about them, what is their fatal flaw or set of flaws, will what is uncredible change in the future and is that change as much a source of innovation as "futurism"?

To discuss new coinings, trendy terms, the shifting meaning of words etc. Prompted by noting the ongoing reappropriation of the word "snowflake" BY liberals to annoy conservatives. What current slanguage do you rate, and wot do you hate? What does the slang tell us (if anything) about the...

Some of my most cherished cultural artefacts are Charlie Boorman helmed TV series that aren't intended to be comedies but are. For example, Long Way Round, with Ewan McGregor, doesn't acknowledge that Charlie B is a failed actor whose best mate is one of the most successful actors in the world...

Favourite rap stuff I've heard lately... Vocally he's like one of them Migos blokes meets T.I. Beats bang. What's not to like? Luka reckons he's a comedy rapper but likes one freestyle he did.

Luka tosses this word around like a stanley knife in my face from time to time (and cudgels me with "kitsch") and I want to pin him down on what it means. Does it mean aspiring to be highbrow but not being sufficiently ... something enough? Is it a word for pseduo-deep, pseudo-intellectual...

Is it strange that I like him more than any poster on here? He's so non confrontational, gracious and helpful. I think the fact that he isn't really there makes him more likeable, too. It makes me think that the "dystopia" where we're all mates with robots instead of people could actually be...

It's the SS uniforms vs. Tie Dye trousers thread.

Doing absolutely ANYTHING to avoid doing the thing you SHOULD be doing. Even if what you should be doing is making a single five minute phone call, or buying some stamps, or something. Isn't it awful?

When I first used to lurk on here there were always 200 page threads about subgenres - old established titans like the Grime thread, but also Juke, UK Funky, Deep Tech, blablabla Is there nothing like this around now or is it just that we're all out of touch philosopher princes?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/john-lanchester/document-number-nine "‘Digitalisation has brought the Chinese people the historic opportunity of the millennium,’ the plan says. What does that mean? It means that China feels that it fell behind the West by missing out on the industrial revolution...

My friend just sent me this Got me thinking about a quality of modern pop music that I don't think there was so much of in the past - I'll now struggle to describe it but it would include qualities like "darkness" atmospherics filtered chords, hinting at barely suppressed emotions...

I know this is old news, but the tag system on here has given me a small taste of what it must be like posting on 4chan. (Only - hopefully - without the racism.) It's an interesting concept, isn't it? I wonder what discussions on dissensus would be like without stable identities to defend and...