Posts by TracyMac
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Ngaire BookieMonster,
Thank you for trying to bring us back down to first principles. Perhaps we need a separate 80s nostalgia thread?
And, dear old Heart. They were awesome musicians, really stuck it up those who said "rock is for men", but dear lord, how tedious I found their stuff.
It also reminds me of What's Up by 4 Non Blondes, which I am not even going to post a link for. If you're a dyke who was reasonably social, and lived in a flat with other lesbians, and had a partner who was into this kind of emo rock, there was no escaping the frigging song in '93. The rest of the album - which no-one seemed to play - was actually quite good with some bluesy-styled moments.
But to continue the merge of 80s and crap - and my use-case against all those trolls on YouTube who say "80's music was all AWESOME and music today is all CRAP" - I present darling Tiffany. Complete with boofy acid-washed denim jacket with shoulder pads. Which looked naff even then.
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Ahah, I would actually vote for Misty Mountain Hop as probably one of the more embarrassing moments of stadium rock. :-)
But despite it being mangled by generations of 16-year-olds with 2-fingered chords on untuned guitars, I still rate Stairway. Smoke on the Water, on the other hand, is a bit borderline...
Also, for those of us mostly on mobile devices right now, could any further submissions include artist/song description?
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Danielle,
I know every word of that Charlene travesty as well, which just adds insult to injury. The fact that some of my braincells are occupied with that dreck...
And yep, totally confirms the thesis about the spoken-word interlude. :-)
And what AIN'T a woman supposed to see indeed? That teeth-clenching nauseating ridiculousness of that line really helped gel my nascent feminism when I was an adolescent. And got me thinking about the utter utter lack of logic in pretty much any misogynist "rationale" you can think of, so I suppose that's a good thing?
Also, what I can now call "slut-shaming" contrasted with the perfect life of the perfect wife-and-mother? Yerggggh!
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Tom Beard,
Ah yes, you are absolutely right in terms of the distinction between vocoders and autotune. The former is an effort that can make a crap song truly rotten, but has a few of the good use-cases you link, while the latter I really can't bear - it offends my brain.
Ok, Autotune the News is a crack-up, but I can't actually listen to entire "songs" there. I'm sure there are more subtle uses I can't discern, but top-40 radio at the moment? Eep.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
I think you might have it there, Sacha. I don't really feel guilt about much at all (other than stuff affecting other people I might have cocked up), but the fandamily were Irish Catholic and some things are kind of stuck in the cultural inheritance...
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to James Butler,
Lol, I did my Cash rant before I saw you post that clip. 'nuff said. :-)
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
Nup, my ethnicity is as Irish as Paddy's pig, and yet I can't stand bear to be in the same room as the schmalzchiness. Mind you, he's not as bad as Tom Waites, which for some reason I had inflicted on me by the same set of ex-lovers over the same period. And Johnny Cash (see above, re country).
Morrison/Waites/Cash - all so different, but so emblematic of a certain period and the tastes of certain of my girfriends. Who I still loved all the same. Walkmen and headphones so I could blat out my DnB/electronica to my heart's content were the inventions of the gods.
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But for the worst song evurrrrr, nothing beats Charlene.
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Count me in as another c &.w hater. And yes, "alt" country is just as whiny. 99% of metal is boring in the utter extreme. I'm just allergic. Whiny "rock" of the Nickelback school, which just sounds like someone is trying to pass a massive turd.
Morrissey should have been my god when I was 16, but blergh.
Tom Beard encapsulated the Whitney, Celine, Kenny G axis of evil.
....but nothing surpasses AUTOTUNE! I cannot even stay in the room with that effect on. This includes Peter Framptom's effort from the late 70s or whenever it was.
Guilty pleasure: Fleetwood Mac. I know, I know. But who the hell mentioned Radiohead and Oasis in the same breath? Fie, fie on thee!
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Jackie Clark,
*puts hand up to join the anti-feijoa club* I think it was compulsory for every old-skool state house with a section in Auck to have one of those trees.... :-(