Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:March 1 is Shane Gillis and someone named Taint McRae

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

wease wrote:

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

What do you mean what they did with the chorus?

Farmer John wrote:I'm with spike on this one. I was not a fan of that performance.

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

What do you mean what they did with the chorus?

it was a rhythm thing i think, didn't flow like it should. i dunno, i'm not going to expose myself to it again to better recall.

wease wrote:

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

What do you mean what they did with the chorus?

it was a rhythm thing i think, didn't flow like it should. i dunno, i'm not going to expose myself to it again to better recall.

I don’t think it was much different from the Prince version. The structure was a bit different from the Family version in that it had different instruments and such but overall it was quite faithful to the Prince/Family version.

Not so much the Sinéad version.

And I totally agree with you re: Miley’s voice. Smoking has ruined it. I’ve never been a big fan anyway, but her voice is absolutely terrible now. She won’t even be able to sing in 20 more years.

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

What do you mean what they did with the chorus?

it was a rhythm thing i think, didn't flow like it should. i dunno, i'm not going to expose myself to it again to better recall.

I don’t think it was much different from the Prince version. The structure was a bit different from the Family version in that it had different instruments and such but overall it was quite faithful to the Prince/Family version.

Not so much the Sinéad version.

And I totally agree with you re: Miley’s voice. Smoking has ruined it. I’ve never been a big fan anyway, but her voice is absolutely terrible now. She won’t even be able to sing in 20 more years.

she also appears to never blink, which is off putting.

wease wrote:

spike wrote:

wease wrote:

spike wrote:the nothing compares 2 u performance was maybe somehow the worst of the bunch. miley has smoked away a lot of her voice, and what they did with the chorus was not good. lay off the cymbals, questlove.

What do you mean what they did with the chorus?

it was a rhythm thing i think, didn't flow like it should. i dunno, i'm not going to expose myself to it again to better recall.

I don’t think it was much different from the Prince version. The structure was a bit different from the Family version in that it had different instruments and such but overall it was quite faithful to the Prince/Family version.

Not so much the Sinéad version.

And I totally agree with you re: Miley’s voice. Smoking has ruined it. I’ve never been a big fan anyway, but her voice is absolutely terrible now. She won’t even be able to sing in 20 more years.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

zeb wrote:Miley was serviceable, Brittany Howard sounded exceptional as always.

The singer I was most shocked by on the night was McCartney. He sounded really old and croaky, nothing like when I saw him live in 2023.