Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[Jorge]

Hahaha half of this interview is about how he wishes Ariel Pink was as popular as Ed Sheeran

[Anders]

Julian Casablancas is embarrassing



http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/julian-c ... _medium=s1

[Anders]

I skimmed through it, but he does make some good points though. I'm not an expert on how successful Hendrix was or wasn't, but that came out really funny.

[Jorge]

"David Bowie was underground" is another good one

[Higgs]

Julian Casablancas is embarrassing



http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/julian-c ... _medium=s1

That is a crazy interview. He is embarrassing.

[Jorge]

I’m not sure I understand how you’re delineating between music that’s artistically valid and invalid other than by your own taste.
I’ve dedicated my life to analyzing this stuff. It comes from a belief that I developed when I was 15 years old — probably from my stepdad — that art is not subjective. I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?

I don’t know.
Don’t you, though? Let go of your conditioning.

[LoathedVermin72]

Jesus fuck, what a dickhead. What kind of adult is espousing ideas they formed at 15?

How popular are The Strokes these days?

[surfndestroy]

I’m not sure I understand how you’re delineating between music that’s artistically valid and invalid other than by your own taste.
I’ve dedicated my life to analyzing this stuff. It comes from a belief that I developed when I was 15 years old — probably from my stepdad — that art is not subjective. I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?

I don’t know.
Don’t you, though? Let go of your conditioning.

I think he's on the right track here and then uses a poor example of artists to compare.
Was having dinner with my son and the singer in his band and the first Black Sabbath album was playing and I said it will be great if your new album has a hit or two but to have a song that's still played nearly 50 years later would be amazing. Being a hit and having a lasting impact can coincide but not very often. I can't imagine someone putting on a Britney Spears song 40 years from now on anything but a dare.

[LoathedVermin72]

lol

[Jorge]

I’m not sure I understand how you’re delineating between music that’s artistically valid and invalid other than by your own taste.
I’ve dedicated my life to analyzing this stuff. It comes from a belief that I developed when I was 15 years old — probably from my stepdad — that art is not subjective. I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?

I don’t know.
Don’t you, though? Let go of your conditioning.

I think he's on the right track here and then uses a poor example of artists to compare.
Was having dinner with my son and the singer in his band and the first Black Sabbath album was playing and I said it will be great if your new album has a hit or two but to have a song that's still played nearly 50 years later would be amazing. Being a hit and having a lasting impact can coincide but not very often. I can't imagine someone putting on a Britney Spears song 40 years from now on anything but a dare.

Let go of your conditioning.

[surfndestroy]

I’m not sure I understand how you’re delineating between music that’s artistically valid and invalid other than by your own taste.
I’ve dedicated my life to analyzing this stuff. It comes from a belief that I developed when I was 15 years old — probably from my stepdad — that art is not subjective. I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?

I don’t know.
Don’t you, though? Let go of your conditioning.

I think he's on the right track here and then uses a poor example of artists to compare.
Was having dinner with my son and the singer in his band and the first Black Sabbath album was playing and I said it will be great if your new album has a hit or two but to have a song that's still played nearly 50 years later would be amazing. Being a hit and having a lasting impact can coincide but not very often. I can't imagine someone putting on a Britney Spears song 40 years from now on anything but a dare.

Let go of your conditioning.

I'm bald, I don't use conditioner.

[epilogue]

I think I can finally pin-down my top 5, all-time, favorite bands/artists.

1. Pearl Jam
2. Beatles
3. Tom Waits
4. The Decemberists
5. St. Vincent

[Jorge]

All white huh? Argo was right about you

[epilogue]

What did he say?

[bune]

That you're all white.

I mean...

Alt-right?

No wait...

alright.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Throw the Beastie boys in there, Joey, then Jorge will leave you alone

[epilogue]

Throw the Beastie boys in there, Joey, then Jorge will leave you alone

[LoathedVermin72]

To be fair, even if a non-white artist were on the list, the inclusion of The Decemberists would make the list 100% white again.

[BurtReynolds]

And only one woman?!

[BurtReynolds]

Does a song being popular fifty years later mean that it's better than a song that's popular now?

Not really.