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Post by Kapitan on Oct 15, 2021 15:07:35 GMT
I'm not sure who's dumber: celebrities who say and do stupid shit, or the people who care about them enough to watch them do it.
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Post by kds on Oct 15, 2021 15:33:29 GMT
I'm not sure who's dumber: celebrities who say and do stupid shit, or the people who care about them enough to watch them do it. I'm leaning towards the latter. Because if that didn't happen, maybe these celebrities wouldn't do stupid shit. And, I shouldn't limit this to the pop tarts. Rikki Rockett from Poison also had a YouTube channel where he dabbles in paranormal investigation. I've watched a couple of his videos, and they're not particularly good.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 15, 2021 15:39:20 GMT
It's not even that I would say with confidence "there is nothing out there that we don't know, nothing 'paranormal' to be found." I mean, I am very skeptical because when these things overwhelmingly turn out to be hoaxes, it's a "fool me once, fool me twice" kind of thing.
But the place for "research" is not lame celebrity-driven network or internet shows, for fuck's sake. It's like when you see a Discovery Channel show or History Channel show (neither channel contains much of its namesake, btw) hinting this might be the show in which they found Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. Um, pro tip: news of such a discovery will not be 'broken' on an overly dramatic nonsense TV show.
Dan Akroyd, Rikki Rockett, Demi Lovato, Kesha: forgive me for not seeing the path to enlightenment or salvation or groundbreaking discoveries among the likes of them.
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Post by kds on Oct 15, 2021 15:56:34 GMT
It's not even that I would say with confidence "there is nothing out there that we don't know, nothing 'paranormal' to be found." I mean, I am very skeptical because when these things overwhelmingly turn out to be hoaxes, it's a "fool me once, fool me twice" kind of thing.
But the place for "research" is not lame celebrity-driven network or internet shows, for fuck's sake. It's like when you see a Discovery Channel show or History Channel show (neither channel contains much of its namesake, btw) hinting this might be the show in which they found Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. Um, pro tip: news of such a discovery will not be 'broken' on an overly dramatic nonsense TV show.
Dan Akroyd, Rikki Rockett, Demi Lovato, Kesha: forgive me for not seeing the path to enlightenment or salvation or groundbreaking discoveries among the likes of them.
At least Aykroyd actually has Ghostbusting on his resume. Sorry to drive this into a paranormal tangent, but I remember back in the early 1990s, FOX aired a series called Sightings on Friday nights. It was presented similar to Unsolved Mysteries, with segments about ghosts, UFOs, etc with researchers, witnesses. etc. It was really well done, and really left things open ended. But, over the last 20 years, an interesting topic has slipped into the realm of reality TV fodder, where instead of well presented cases, you get garbage like Ghost Hunters or Ghost Adventures, which mostly focus on the various shenanigans of the "investigators" than the subject itself.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 15, 2021 21:12:44 GMT
In some non-paranormal news, Pitchfork (as part of that same anniversary I'd referenced earlier) released an interactive feature about its user-voted Top 200 albums of the past 25 years. (Note, they actually said "the last" 25 years, but I inherited a pet peeve from an old journalism professor: they weren't THE LAST years unless there will be no more years.)
Something I found very interesting is that, despite the obvious editorial push toward non-rock music, that indie-rock leaning music is still very heavily reflected in their readers' choices. It actually makes me wonder whether they are going against their readership's preferences in pursuit of a principle.
The overall Top 15 albums, as recently selected by their current readers (or at least selected recently by people who were presumably current readers), are hilarious. It's two-thirds rock, basically. (And one-third Radiohead, lol. Not really. Just 75% of the top four...)
1. Radiohead, Kid A 2. Radiohead, OK Computer 3. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 4. Radiohead, In Rainbows 5. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly 6. Frank Ocean, Blonde 7. Arcade Fire, Funeral 8. The Strokes, Is This It 9. Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d. city 10. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 11. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 12. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois 13. Kanye West, Yeezus 14. Frank Ocean, Channel Orange 15. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
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Post by kds on Oct 16, 2021 12:37:04 GMT
Predictably, my votes didn't count for much.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 16, 2021 12:57:00 GMT
Predictably, my votes didn't count for much. Heh, yeah. While the (indie) rock showing was stronger than you'd guess from their current focus, they've never been much for the harder rock and metal. You were definitely spitting into the wind.
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Post by kds on Oct 17, 2021 0:38:52 GMT
Predictably, my votes didn't count for much. Heh, yeah. While the (indie) rock showing was stronger than you'd guess from their current focus, they've never been much for the harder rock and metal. You were definitely spitting into the wind. I think my other choices were albums from aging legacy acts (ie. TWGMTR).
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 18, 2021 18:41:32 GMT
The RnR Hall of Fame can more or less go to hell, but anyway, here are some presenters:
Taylor Swift & Jennifer Hudson for Carole King Paul McCartney for Foo Fighters Dr. Dre for LL Cool J Drew Barrymore for the Go-Go’s Angela Bassett for Tina Turner
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Post by kds on Oct 18, 2021 18:56:28 GMT
While I'm not really a Foo Fighters fan, I could Dave Grohl mentioning some of his favorite hard rock and heavy metal acts constantly getting snubbed during his speech.
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Post by kds on Oct 20, 2021 12:29:59 GMT
I see that Elton John is doing some more work with....sigh...Dua Lipa. ultimateclassicrock.com/elton-john-cold-heart-original-songs/Maybe I'm reading wrong because I find Lipa's music to be the typical cotton candy style fluff, but I feel like Elton's quotes about remaining relevant come off as a little desperate.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 20, 2021 12:36:58 GMT
I see that Elton John is doing some more work with....sigh...Dua Lipa. ultimateclassicrock.com/elton-john-cold-heart-original-songs/Maybe I'm reading wrong because I find Lipa's music to be the typical cotton candy style fluff, but I feel like Elton's quotes about remaining relevant come off as a little desperate. His new album is full of collaborations, mostly with far younger artists: Gorillaz, Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X, Brandy Carlile, Eddie Vetter, Stevie Nicks, and Stevie Wonder.
Personally I dislike the modern norm of collaborations. Not that I don't think artists ought to collaborate, but that they very rarely feel like actual collaborations between artists. They usually seem like people forcing their material together in an obvious marketing move to cross and build audiences, whether an old artist bringing in a new one or vice versa, or a rock artist bringing in a rapper or vice versa. I mean, does anybody think Brian Wilson sat down with Sebu to collaborate on "Runaway Dancer"? Of course not. Wilson did his thing. The files were given to Sebu. He did his thing to them and returned them. Wilson finishes it off. "Collaboration"...?
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Post by kds on Oct 20, 2021 12:45:24 GMT
I see that Elton John is doing some more work with....sigh...Dua Lipa. ultimateclassicrock.com/elton-john-cold-heart-original-songs/Maybe I'm reading wrong because I find Lipa's music to be the typical cotton candy style fluff, but I feel like Elton's quotes about remaining relevant come off as a little desperate. His new album is full of collaborations, mostly with far younger artists: Gorillaz, Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X, Brandy Carlile, Eddie Vetter, Stevie Nicks, and Stevie Wonder.
Personally I dislike the modern norm of collaborations. Not that I don't think artists ought to collaborate, but that they very rarely feel like actual collaborations between artists. They usually seem like people forcing their material together in an obvious marketing move to cross and build audiences, whether an old artist bringing in a new one or vice versa, or a rock artist bringing in a rapper or vice versa. I mean, does anybody think Brian Wilson sat down with Sebu to collaborate on "Runaway Dancer"? Of course not. Wilson did his thing. The files were given to Sebu. He did his thing to them and returned them. Wilson finishes it off. "Collaboration"...?
I'm still not convinced that Brian could pick Sebu, Nate Reuss, or Kacey Musgraves out of line up. Also, at least Brian is audience on these, unlike Paul McCartney's "collaboration" with Rihanna and Kanye West. I generally agree. In my experience, and granted I'm swayed because of my general dislike of most mainstream music of the last 25+ years, I find the multigenerational collaborations just don't work 90% of the time.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 29, 2021 13:50:14 GMT
Elvis Costello announced a new album, A Boy Named If, to be released in January 2022 on Capitol Records. It is apparently a rock album and it features his touring band, the Imposters. This story gives more details and links to the first single, "Magnificent Hurt."
Somewhere on this board--possibly the RIP thread after the death of Charlie Watts--we were talking about who would be left as widely regarded giants of the music business as the legends of the '60s and even '70s pass away. Springsteen was one mentioned. Well, I'd say Elvis Costello is another one. What's more, I think the quality of his work has been tremendous even in recent years, despite what seems like a general apathy toward it. I know that between his unique voice, his sometimes off-kilter sensibilities, and the huge variety of his music--a person might like his rock and roll only to find the next album is chamber music, country, or even hip-hop infused--can put off some people. But I think he's brilliant, and am fond of a lot of what he does. (I've actually thought his catalogue might be fun to go through in detail, but I don't think the board has enough interest to sustain it.)
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Post by kds on Oct 29, 2021 14:11:45 GMT
Elvis Costello announced a new album, A Boy Named If, to be released in January 2022 on Capitol Records. It is apparently a rock album and it features his touring band, the Imposters. This story gives more details and links to the first single, "Magnificent Hurt."
Somewhere on this board--possibly the RIP thread after the death of Charlie Watts--we were talking about who would be left as widely regarded giants of the music business as the legends of the '60s and even '70s pass away. Springsteen was one mentioned. Well, I'd say Elvis Costello is another one. What's more, I think the quality of his work has been tremendous even in recent years, despite what seems like a general apathy toward it. I know that between his unique voice, his sometimes off-kilter sensibilities, and the huge variety of his music--a person might like his rock and roll only to find the next album is chamber music, country, or even hip-hop infused--can put off some people. But I think he's brilliant, and am fond of a lot of what he does. (I've actually thought his catalogue might be fun to go through in detail, but I don't think the board has enough interest to sustain it.)
I'm pretty ignorant to Costello, so this is a legit question. Does he have the mass appeal of a Springsteen or a Metallica or a (sigh) Foo Fighters to fill up larger venues when the McCartneys, Stones, Who, etc are no longer around?
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