It's decent, it's just not great. Were the instrumentation and riffs a little more varied, it would be really good, but as it stands it's at least interesting.
That's making me think that distorted-organ-driven black metal should be a thing. We already have black metal with hammered dulcimer, so why not?
I would say that it would be interesting to see what would've happened to Billy Joel if Atilla had been a hit. Now that I think about it, though, he probably would've ended up putting out a pretty awful rock/classical fusion album at some point in the late 1970s that would've made ELP's Works seem dignified by comparison, so it's maybe for the best that we were spared from that timeline.
Technically those are both pretty topically atypical, being the hypothetical model of a Maoist pro-conformity rock song and an exploration of the desire to connect with pop culture from an alienated perspective respectively.
But then, that's breaking down the concepts rather than the content. The skewed view is what makes the songs weird.
That one's about existential terror, but the details are indeed intensely mundane for precisely that reason.
I think the basic point is that most rock songs tend to interpret "non-mundane events" in a literal rather than emotional or intellectual sense. Songs like the above or, to name two more, "Animals" from Fear of Music or "Sleep" from Deceit engage with really banal subjects from emotional and intellectual perspectives that are far from conventional.
Basically, you can make a song about unusual subjects from a mundane perspective, or you can make a song about mundane subjects from an unusual perspective. But good luck finding an audience when your subjects and your perspective are both mundane.
Windows Media Player decided one of these albums (Bars & Churches by Dr. Oakroot's Tonic) is actually a completely different album (Salt of The Earth by Fanny Grace), even though they're very clearly different.
worst by far so far is Haruko Kataoka's Piano School vol. 1 which is just a bunch of nursery rhyme tunes (eg. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". For 9 minutes) plinked out on a poorly-recorded piano.
But it was 10 cents. You get what you pay for sometimes.
John Coinman's Songs From The Modern West I basically stripped for parts, only ripping off a couple of the songs who have guitar ambience nice enough to sample.
Kathy Mattea's Time Passes By, tho, my goodness this is nice.
So I literally just found out that Crime and the City Solution released another album in 2013 and I'm just... WHAT?! I am very happy and very confused.
To the uninformed: Crime and the City Solution were/are Simon Bonney's band and were a mainstay of the Australian underground for about a decade—although counting very early incarnations with completely different lineups with the same name, they were around a good deal longer—and are best known for being the band Rowland S. Howard joined after The Birthday Party went kablooey. They are kind of hard to describe in that their influences and style aren't particularly experimental or outré but they don't really fit neatly into any pigeonhole so describing them is hard. The Nick Cave comparison is easy, but it's more a parallel development thing and I dunno. They're enjoyable and seriously underrated, in any case.
My sister was going to die but then When we visited I had my ipad and was playing the song and it was accidentally unplugged but then she asked me to leave my iPad with her I did since she was dying and how could I say no to her she is my sister, then the doctor called and said in 2 months she was going to come home and when my mom asked how my sister was perfectly fine all of a sudden he asked for me then he said it was because of the music it made her so happy her brain wasn't attacking her blood cells anymore which made time for her body to attack the virus and it got her better all because of my
apparently fetty wap's eponymous album is pretty good
anyone got any Krautrock recommendations? Preferably stuff I could find fairly easily, and stuff on the more relaxed end of the scale? Stuff like Cluster's Sowiesoso.
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It actually happened, though.
That's making me think that distorted-organ-driven black metal should be a thing. We already have black metal with hammered dulcimer, so why not?
I would say that it would be interesting to see what would've happened to Billy Joel if Atilla had been a hit. Now that I think about it, though, he probably would've ended up putting out a pretty awful rock/classical fusion album at some point in the late 1970s that would've made ELP's Works seem dignified by comparison, so it's maybe for the best that we were spared from that timeline.
His pretensions can get rather over-the-top at times, however, and combined with an art-rock remit could become disastrous.
Forgot how weird their early stuff could be. The original version of "You'll Miss Me" is basically a hip-hop track, but a really cracked one.
David Byrne would disagree.
But then, that's breaking down the concepts rather than the content. The skewed view is what makes the songs weird.
I think the basic point is that most rock songs tend to interpret "non-mundane events" in a literal rather than emotional or intellectual sense. Songs like the above or, to name two more, "Animals" from Fear of Music or "Sleep" from Deceit engage with really banal subjects from emotional and intellectual perspectives that are far from conventional.
Very fun album, by the way. If anyone here hasn't heard it, I highly recommend it.
To the uninformed: Crime and the City Solution were/are Simon Bonney's band and were a mainstay of the Australian underground for about a decade—although counting very early incarnations with completely different lineups with the same name, they were around a good deal longer—and are best known for being the band Rowland S. Howard joined after The Birthday Party went kablooey. They are kind of hard to describe in that their influences and style aren't particularly experimental or outré but they don't really fit neatly into any pigeonhole so describing them is hard. The Nick Cave comparison is easy, but it's more a parallel development thing and I dunno. They're enjoyable and seriously underrated, in any case.
Incidentally, Nicholas Royle considers his Bad Sex Award a badge of honour.