Gus's Top 100 Bootlickin' Nonce Anthems

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RHCP are a bit of a touchstone band for me. I went into our price to buy doggystyle when it came out (93 is US release date so maybe 94? I would have been 14).

And the guy wouldn't let me have it cos he said there was too much swearing in it.



So I had to look around for what to spend the tenner I probably had burning a hole in my pocket.

And went for "blood sugar sex magik" cos I liked the cover and it had a sticker saying "offensive lyrics" but not the parental advisory one like snoop.



And the video for "give it away" was going around at the time. A good un



87 million views!

Video directed by Stéphane Sednaoui who also did this excellent Tricky one



But i think all this was before the unprecedented rise of under the bridge, which seemed to be everywhere for at least a year. Got a bit sick of that one. But like it again now.



Years later when I was making a bit of music, I remember talking to a guy cos I recognised he had the tattoo and we ended up doing some tunes together.

I think I did go back and listen to it recently, but not something I was grabbed by. Favourite tunes on it are suck my kiss and the transition into funky monks.



Weirdly, these kiedis shorts popped up in my feed recently.

Anthony Kiedis speaks candidly with Joe Rogan about his recovery process.

Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers sits down with Joe Rogan for this harrowing and open chat about his battle with addiction and his path to recover...

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Anthony Kiedis shares Joe Rogan his nowadays diet 🍗

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Anthony Kiedis on Workout Routine

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He looks insanely well, almost too well, to say what he's been up to in his life. Probably some deep fakery going on. Hair looks plastic.

 

[sus]

Posting a handful of other depressing songs that I listened to post-breakup.







And guess I'll throw a slot to "First Days of Spring," because this + Funeral + Andrew Bird was my first exposure to chamber pop/orchestral folk, and that was a real eye-opener. Everything I still loved about classical, but with all the novelty of these new musical worlds I was starting to enter. It took me a couple years to appreciate slightly more sophisticated chamber pop—John Cale, Joanna Newsom, Van Dyke Parks, Owen Pallett all just registered as sorta weird and difficult at this age (14).

(26/100) Noah & the Whale, "First Days of Spring"



The other thing that made this track/album load-bearing, developmentally, is that critical consensus is really split on it. Normie publications like The Guardian and NME loved it. Spots like Pitchfork and Quietus hated or shunned it. And man, some of the lyrics could be really corny—"This is a song for everyone with a broken heart"? Jesus Christ. I think my Brazilian exchange student friend Igor turned me onto this band, and the singer had a weird accent, so I sorta just assumed he was Latin-American and English was his second language, which helped me narrativize why the lyrics were so bad? But it turns out he's a normal British dude named Charlie, so no excuses except laziness. Gorgeous string arrangements though, I have heard very little else (in the popular music world) able to do so much texturally.

I always wondered about the name. Do you reckon he got Jonah and Noah mixed up?

 

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Think its time for the list to shift phases. Dont know if people are getting bored or the early teen music is so embarrassing people are avoiding it all together but the thread is in a low vibrational state right now

 

[thirdform]

Think its time for the list to shift phases. Dont know if people are getting bored or the early teen music is so embarrassing people are avoiding it all together but the thread is in a low vibrational state right now

he broke up with a wee lassy. So what? He should be thankful he didn't have a forced marriage like his great grandad!

 

[sus]

Think its time for the list to shift phases. Dont know if people are getting bored or the early teen music is so embarrassing people are avoiding it all together but the thread is in a low vibrational state right now

Fair enough but what options avail themselves to me? I could skip ahead but I doubt people are interested in, say, my college taste. I could start posting Don Cherry and Alice Coltrane and stuff I listen to now, and people might respect that, but would they care or be interested?

 

[sus]

I do think that parts of the C story say interesting things about American high school dynamics. I think it was more interesting textually than it's getting credit for. But I too feel the low vibrational frequency.

The thread works/worked in part off novelty. That's what I need to remember. How to keep changing things up swerving in unanticipatable directions. The first half hour of the movie is always the best.

 

[sus]

What are people interested in hearing about.

Rich I know you like the stories. I've been trying my best on those. If you scroll to end of page 33 there's a good one.

 

[line b]

Fair enough but what options avail themselves to me? I could skip ahead but I doubt people are interested in, say, my college taste. I could start posting Don Cherry and Alice Coltrane and stuff I listen to now, and people might respect that, but would they care or be interested?

Maybe you could talk about music you hate?

 

[sus]

Maybe you could talk about music you hate?

That's not a bad idea I could talk about the way LMFAO descended like a plague of locusts on my high school

 

[sus]

@Dissensus—do the people want to hear about "Party Rock Anthem"?




Do the people wanna hear about "Fly Like A G6"?

 

[DannyL]

@Dissensus—do the people want to hear about "Party Rock Anthem"?




Do the people wanna hear about "Fly Like A G6"?

I agree with you that it's a crime against music.

 

[thirdform]

That's not a bad idea I could talk about the way LMFAO descended like a plague of locusts on my high school

better reading
than angsty 6 music smelly socks packed lunched bois break ups.

 

[thirdform]

I agree with you that it's a crime against music.

It's shit but this stuff is infinitely more worthwhile than talking about blandodie.

 

[sus]

better reading
than angsty 6 music smelly socks packed lunched bois break ups.

If you're going to be a snarky critic at least be cutting and interesting with it

This is a half-assed regurgitation of cliches. And before you go and argue, save it; you're just making excuses to yourself. You're better than this; step it up or be a good sport

 

[DannyL]

It's shit but this stuff is infinitely more worthwhile than talking about blandodie.

I don't know what there is to say about that particular song tbf. Dance music with absolutely zero threat and all the interestingness stripped out? It's like the opposite of your personal aesthetic. Dance as total pop has always existed but that seems like a particularly virulent example.

 

[DannyL]

Fuck, just looked it up and the guy in LMFAO with the specs is Berry Gordy's son!

 

[Corpsey]

Like a G6 is a gym banger though

 

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What are people interested in hearing about.

Rich I know you like the stories. I've been trying my best on those. If you scroll to end of page 33 there's a good one.

I want a few more formative stories please. But perhaps you could experiment with the form of them a little? Maybe we could have bulleted lists? Or haiku format poem?

Maybe a few more ambitious reaches and connections with the music.

I don't mind all the skeletons in the closet, who cares, it's only music.

Some bands yoh could consider ibclud8ng:

4 non blondes
Spin doctors
The Simpsons (TV prog) or the ones one by same peopoe

Dinosaur jr
Lana del rey

What about the food you liked to eat when Mary dumped you?

 

[sus]

I remember very well when "Video Games" dropped. I was hanging out on tumblr and reading a ton of music journo blogs/pubs it was all anyone could talk about.

 

[sus]

Everyone knows Born To Die was a banger. Just because it took several albums for people to hop on the poptimist train doesn't mean Norman Fucking Rockwell is better than Born To Die.