My reaction is the same as with a lot of Pitchfork's stuff: yeah, there's some truth there but they way overdid it. The Doors are still pretty dang popular in my neck of the woods, so it's hard for me to assess how much their stock has fallen.
Oh, and I like the Doors.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Heston wrote:I'm still dismayed that XTC stopped touring in 1982. I've just been listening to a live mix cd and they fucking rocked live.
Wolston Manor is expanding.
Euwolston. Hell, I prefer XTC to the Clash.
Definitely a tighter live band, but as much as I love them, they still can't touch the Clash.
I think live Clash is better, but XTC were much better pop songwriters. Not that certain Clash songs don't equal them, it's just that there are a lot fewer Clash songs in that rank than XTC songs.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Heston wrote:I'm still dismayed that XTC stopped touring in 1982. I've just been listening to a live mix cd and they fucking rocked live.
Wolston Manor is expanding.
Stop, he's mine!
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
eumaas wrote:
Defending Tom Waits against the authenticity duo
I resent this condensing of my position. I'm going to have to cut your throat.
I thought the voice (box) was holy?
There'll be a hole when I've finished. A hole sized to match the exact width and girth of my penis.
My problem with changing your voice to sing is that it's the only instrument that is fundamentally inimitable. A layman might hear a bit of Ramones-style guitar and think it's Johnny Ramone, when in fact it's Daniel Rey or some studio hack on a beer advert. But no one can sound at all like Joey without our in-built bullshit detector hearing the underlying difference. You can try, but no two timbre's are the same.
The voice is the original, the most soulful and the easiest means of communicating music. Anyone can sing. That's why it's sacred. Strike that last sentence. That's why I prefer it unadorned.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
Holy shit. Replace "Common Rider" with "Germs," "Operation Ivy" with "The Adolescents" and "Sublime" with "The Sex Pistols" and I actually had this experience in the 90s at a convenience store:
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
Holy shit, I've had that experience so many times.
Although the most heinous offender is usually lack of timeline knowledge, e.g. when I was listening to From Here To Eternity, some dude actually said "that band sounds like a Green Day ripoff." That hurt to type.
Had a great t-shirt in high school that had Album-era Lydon on the front, almost from neck to bottom. A jock asked me if it was Pee Wee Herman.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
