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USCHO Music: From Queen to The Beatles to Lady Gaga
- Thread starter MissThundercat
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MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Prince died 10 years ago today.
I hit repeat on "Purple Rain" at least 10 times while in the car.
I hit repeat on "Purple Rain" at least 10 times while in the car.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
At least he never saw any of this shit.
Prince's love may have been all that was holding the world together.
Now that is a story that needs a resurrection myth and a cult. Get on it, you Minneapolitans.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
The world has gone to shit since Prince and David Bowie died.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Slap Shot
I got nothing
"I did not know that"
til that the rock duo Barnes & Barnes which created the bizare late 70's song Fish Heads included former child actor Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from Lost In Space tv series) and actor Bill Paxton ("Game over, man!") directed and appeared in the music video for it.
til that the rock duo Barnes & Barnes which created the bizare late 70's song Fish Heads included former child actor Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from Lost In Space tv series) and actor Bill Paxton ("Game over, man!") directed and appeared in the music video for it.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Lots of MAGAts outing themselves in the comment section with their whining about "smug" Millennials.
Also, while Beato does explicitly state that you don't have to have a music degree to be a music critic, it sure does feel like that is what he's arguing when he scoffs at the panel of Ivy League literature and history majors.
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Kepler
Si certus es dubita
It's not age. It's not education.
It's that sniffly posturing that makes 97% of Ivy liberal artsies want to give that 3% of our fellow alumni a razorblade-tipped enema.
The problem is the Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic are composed entirely of that 3%. They're all wealthy / wealth-adjacent smugshits and they have been perpetuating themselves as a nepotistic American critical class since the Algonquin Round Table, with less and less talent every generation.
Billy Joel doesn't suck because he's a one-trick pony or because he didn't make any impactful change on popular music. Billy Joel sucks because Billy Joel sucks. You can just say that. We don't need the pseudo-analytic, pseudo-intellectual trimmings, and you sure as shit don't need CRT to understand it. Dude gets up there and from the third note you want to drag him into an alley and have the Ramones curb stomp him. Or better, the MC5. It's a healthy reaction of the human psyche to pablum.
The Beach Boys were hit makers and they were brilliant composers, but their lyrics suck. They don't make the songwriter list.
The Beatles, for all their overhyped consumerist marketing slop, had great talent in songwriting, albeit not in musicianship. Despite the Microsoft Corporation install base of their users, John Lennon belongs on the list.
Nirvana wrote great lyrics. The Replacements wrote great lyrics. Rush wrote politically dimwitted but outstanding lyrics.
NOFX and the Dead Kennedys and Dolly Patron and Springsteen and the Pretenders and Biggie and Digital Underground and poor, fucked up, old Marshall Mathers should all be there too. Aside from the rest of their merits, they are all brilliant lyricists.
Finally, any list of greatest songwriters that does not put Carole King #1 is ipso facto disqualified.
It's that sniffly posturing that makes 97% of Ivy liberal artsies want to give that 3% of our fellow alumni a razorblade-tipped enema.
The problem is the Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic are composed entirely of that 3%. They're all wealthy / wealth-adjacent smugshits and they have been perpetuating themselves as a nepotistic American critical class since the Algonquin Round Table, with less and less talent every generation.
Billy Joel doesn't suck because he's a one-trick pony or because he didn't make any impactful change on popular music. Billy Joel sucks because Billy Joel sucks. You can just say that. We don't need the pseudo-analytic, pseudo-intellectual trimmings, and you sure as shit don't need CRT to understand it. Dude gets up there and from the third note you want to drag him into an alley and have the Ramones curb stomp him. Or better, the MC5. It's a healthy reaction of the human psyche to pablum.
The Beach Boys were hit makers and they were brilliant composers, but their lyrics suck. They don't make the songwriter list.
The Beatles, for all their overhyped consumerist marketing slop, had great talent in songwriting, albeit not in musicianship. Despite the Microsoft Corporation install base of their users, John Lennon belongs on the list.
Nirvana wrote great lyrics. The Replacements wrote great lyrics. Rush wrote politically dimwitted but outstanding lyrics.
NOFX and the Dead Kennedys and Dolly Patron and Springsteen and the Pretenders and Biggie and Digital Underground and poor, fucked up, old Marshall Mathers should all be there too. Aside from the rest of their merits, they are all brilliant lyricists.
Finally, any list of greatest songwriters that does not put Carole King #1 is ipso facto disqualified.
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