shakahislop
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it never crossed my mind.
ari up had something to do with the police? a quick google brings up nothing
Gus's Top 100 Bootlickin' Nonce Anthems
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- absolute cringe ari grass you up basic boy scout ted bundy coachella 2024 at the nonce hotel cum cult dad was a casual whistler fit mom! gandalf had to sell the home grandad was a cuck gus lord of darkness high school shooter memoires joanna newsom come to butthead jordan petersons gremlin child let the wrong 'un in no theory at the merch table! nonce upon a time pete doherty qpr plod pizarro was fastidiously kept in a bolivian tomb power bottom thems the rules spatial cathexis spots like pitchfork superstitious middle aged italian woman neurosis the deplorable product of craner's infamous fling these boots are made for lickin' undercover plod
ari up had something to do with the police? a quick google brings up nothing
Benny Bunter
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"I don't know. It never crossed my mind"
We've all been there 😂
We've all been there 😂
yes. exactly. Poptimism was dreamt up by writers like Tom Ewing because they felt invalidated by Genp, Moscow, Kingston and São Paulo. You see Indie isn't conservative because of its sonic properties necessarily, but because it situates the student and thereby the critic as luddite. You are correct to note that poptimism in this respect comes out of indie rock here more than it does rnb, notwithstanding its jennuflection to pretending to be in tune with contemporary musics. If you look at Finney's recent posting on ilx, it''s very much in an insufferable middle aged aussie mould. But of course this was inevitable, he was never going to follow drill religiously.
But for me, pop is only interesting as a field of conflict and contestation. Pop as pure pleasure matrix is all welll and good, but it's no different to rhapsodising about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or BFG. Where Luke, Benny and even the late Fisher went wrong was to think that pop as stasis is interesting because its mass culture, petit-bourgeois inanity. If you say you are not into underground or arty wank music, then you have already conceded. A real poptimist would have had no need to check out the junglistic or grime pirates. They would have been happy with kws, pete tong tedium.
and in fact, this is why even the poppiest of hardcore anthems (sl2 - on a ragga tip) could not get to number 1. It was edged out by
this stinking pile of crap.
@blissblogger, I've thrown down the gauntlet, sort these reprobates out!
shiels
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dunno about that mate. when I was a nipper it was more like
Gran Turismo ; Jazz Funk ; Car Racing ; Fast Pace ; Car Chase ; Formula 1 ; Driving ; Motorsport ; Car Music ; Ferrari ; Lamborghini ; McLaren ; Mercedes ; Music for driving ; vintage cars ; 70s funk ; vintage music; vintage style
mvuent
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predictably, that beautiful narrative has been "complicated" in recent decades by envious marxist academics hellbent on destroying western culture https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274195289_Mozart_as_a_Working_Stiff
good. liberals like you deserve everything to be ruined.
sus
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Remembering how people at my high school were really into mashups. There was sorta a period of mashups being popular broadly, right? That Danger Mouse Jay Z album. Feel like I associate it with parts of ~2010 EDM culture. All my preppy girlfriends would say "Oh Gus your taste is so hipster, we don't get it, but we like those mashups, give us more mashups." Everyone had really bad taste bla bla bla we know this it's not interesting to point out. Let's all be good anthropologists and employ a curious spirit of cultural relativism OK great, now here are two mashups all the kids liked, I got many social points if I played these on speakers in 10th grade
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Gus is the psycho copper.
sus
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(27/100) The Books, "Enjoy Your Worries You May Never Have Them Again"
This track was a lightning bolt at 15. I had no idea people made music like this. My exposure to sampling was Kanye West's "Gold Digger," or shitty Notorious B.I.G. mashups. I was obsessed with the video, watched it endlessly on my Dell Inspiron. I loved the spoken word bits, the random crowd interruptions and birdsong, how percussive the acoustic guitar was. I loved the bit where the woman talks about depositing a check, and her voice gets higher and higher and higher til it squeaks off. I loved the ecstatic closing fiddle melody, the hypnagogic final looping beat. I couldn't show this to anyone; maybe I tried once, but none of my friends would've gotten it; they were Red Hot Chili Peppers people, Eminem people, Linkin Park people, Kid Cudi people. So it was this very private thing.
I'm putting out pretty poor writing at this point in the thread, lot of cliches, style getting rusty, hoping I'll catch a groove again and start saying something interesting.
This track was a lightning bolt at 15. I had no idea people made music like this. My exposure to sampling was Kanye West's "Gold Digger," or shitty Notorious B.I.G. mashups. I was obsessed with the video, watched it endlessly on my Dell Inspiron. I loved the spoken word bits, the random crowd interruptions and birdsong, how percussive the acoustic guitar was. I loved the bit where the woman talks about depositing a check, and her voice gets higher and higher and higher til it squeaks off. I loved the ecstatic closing fiddle melody, the hypnagogic final looping beat. I couldn't show this to anyone; maybe I tried once, but none of my friends would've gotten it; they were Red Hot Chili Peppers people, Eminem people, Linkin Park people, Kid Cudi people. So it was this very private thing.
I'm putting out pretty poor writing at this point in the thread, lot of cliches, style getting rusty, hoping I'll catch a groove again and start saying something interesting.
shakahislop
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come on, you've got 73 left!