Ice Cream and the Ice Creams ft. Ice Cream "Ice Cream" (Singles First Quarter 2015)

Apr 01, 2015 17:21

Missed most of February (and most of everything else). Ash-B is the great discovery here, a strong and throaty rapper like Choi Sam but with a tone that's more supple and subtle. Will say more when I post my 2014 albums list. "The Song Of Love" is a low-rent slow dance from Core Contents Media (yeah, it's not Core Contents Media anymore, but in my ( Read more... )

poll prelims 2015, alienation, pbs, mutual incomprehension pact, ash-b, rolling stones

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koganbot April 12 2015, 11:39:58 UTC
Btw, I still think my "PBS" metaphor is (i) important, (ii) half-assed and problematic, (iii) never likely to coalesce into something that isn't half-assed and problematic, and (iv) important nonetheless. Something to remember - two things to remember - is that the metaphor really had two parts, the parts not clearly delineated or conceptualized in my initial WMS writeups:

(1) Postpunk (etc.) as a cultural corner (or something): so the metaphor "PBS" wasn't particularly saying that this band or that performer had broccoli-like "good for you" tendencies.* Rather, the metaphor vaguely referred to a whole constellation of opinions and interests and attitudes that turned a broad and contentious (towards each other as well as towards the outside) group of people into an "Us" that believed itself better than a mainstream "Them." But what made (and makes?) the metaphor potent and shocking isn't that it fingered Talking Heads for being tasteful or the Clash for being socially progressive but that it also included stuff that the real PBS ( ... )

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Fact Checking koganbot April 13 2015, 03:38:54 UTC
Okay, here's the actual Rolling Stones question, submitted by Phil Milstein:

Isn't it time they put Johnny Carson out to pasture? And the Rolling Stones too, for that matter?
To which Byron Coley answered in Why Music Still Sucks or Why "Why Music Sucks" Sucks (WMS #2), sometime in mid '87:

If you mean, is it time that we take these persons to a field & then fuck them from behind, then I must say "No."

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