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Sorry I'm late, everyone. I'm finally here. I messed up, but I'm here.
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 >>46111232
FUCKING KEN!!! FUCK KEN! FUCK HIS MUSTACHE! FUCK HIM!
>>46111228
Probably something Matty B did.
>>46111219
-Yeah, she's creative, interesting, original.
-Only the ones who I feel are experts in their field, or consistently turn me onto great stuff. Scaruffi isn't one, but that's not to say he doesn't have good taste or anything. However, I really don't vibe with that Beatles quote that people keep fake attributing to me, lol.
-I've been thinking about doing away with it all together. Oddly enough, it's something people are kind of used to / want.
-If you thought I did, would you actually watch my reviews / trust me? It's weird how people suspect shady shit is going on, and I definitely sympathize considering some of the symbiotic stuff that's going on in the music industry right now. However, no, I don't get paid my record companies. I studied with some of the best journalists in the state, and had the ethics of the craft hammered into my head early on. And for the most part, all record companies want these days is any sort of review--positive or negative. With all of the music that's out there these days, there's so much that's going unnoticed. Anything that draws attention to whatever record they're trying to put out helps. We can talk about this more.
>>46111215
Government plates? Or you mean those fake tracks?
>>46111214
Cal is currently not producing anything at the moment. He wants to actually up the quality of his equipment before he drops anything else.
>>46111199
Yeah, I was listening to it tonight. It's so fucking hard.
>>46111187
Def Nardwuar. That guy's an eccentric beast.
>>46111179
Nah, I tend to stay away from the ARGs initially after the whole PHONE thing.
>>46111157
America.
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Hey Anthony, not making any accusations, I'm purely curious, but how much of a desire to appear unbiased, not a fan-boy of one group, or being to shallow , factors into how you decide number reviews?
It just seems like where so many people care about and pay attention to what number you give albums, that if you gave one band all high scores or gave a lot of popular music high scores, people would care about you less
Again not accusing you of anything, I really respect what you do, just curious how to approach that
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 >>46111143
fuck yes! aqualung / thick as a bring are stellar records.
>>46111146
Can't say I've heard enough to say I have a fav. I tried a few of his greats after listening to Without A Net last year, which was a really intense album. I dug it, but didn't feel I had enough time to acclimate myself to his discog to do a decent review.
>>46111124
feed the animals
>>46111121
hair is regrowing as we speak, lol!
>>46111107
i think he's gonna be short-lived if he doesn't come through with a SOLID mixtape in the next few months.
>>46111103
no plans to right now. i might be going to a festival in australia this fall, but thats only cuz i might be speaking there.
>>46111235
I dunno. FUCK! I CAN'T PICK. I think I definitely had a flawless run w/NMH, godspeed, madvillainy, wu-tang, hot rats, and Dead kennedys. I gotta get my shit together on the next classics week. Do some big ones.
>>46111254
O_____o sorry.
>>46111265
no.
>>46111268
sometimes. not enough, tho.
>>46111292
i hate that fucker. he's a fuck.
>>46111307
trout mask replica or doc at the radar station, lol
>>46111370
you need to dig through nicolas jaar's label, because he signs people that sound like him all the time, lol.
>>46111326
Taste and creation are two completely different things. you can have the ability to decipher really complex arrangements of sounds, and acquire that through listening to music really closely.
For example, we're a very visual culture, and I'm sure that you yourself can decipher really complex, detailed images thanks to that. You can probably tell a masterpiece from a crayon drawing, right? You can tell there's a difference between the Mona Lisa and this drawing in the photo I just posted. And you understand that without being able to paint the Mona Lisa, right?
Some people are great at observing, and communicating what they observe. but good creators need to be good at observing as well.
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With regards to your Yeezus review:
Jesus, you are dense for someone into literature. You're thinking on the surface level. You're thinking, "If Kanye says something that comes across as clever or insightful, it's deep." But that's such a pre-modern way to look at art. The way he interacts with the listener, building and subverting metamusical expectations, commenting on multiple metamusical, sociopolitical and personal subjects with single lines is brilliant. What work has played jump rope with the line between irony and sincerity as effectively as Yeezus? From the opening seconds of On Sight, to the chorus of I Am A God, to the final spoken sample of Bound 2, no other work of any medium has worked with such an ambiguity of awareness of its context. I'm not saying Yeezus is brilliant because it showcases great technical compositional proficiency or especially novel aesthetic innovations (though autotuned Chief Keef, Justin Vernon, '80s guitars and trap beats have never been fused so artfully), I'm saying its ability to project outwardly from itself and work in a space so self-aware (yet somehow sometimes simultaneously ham-handedly solipsistic) that it shatters any post-post-modern dichotomy between affectation and sincerity sets it apart from other works of art. The whole album skips back and forth over the "is this dude serious?" line, only for Bound 2 to answer with a resounding "we have no fucking clue." Where the recent metamodernists have decided that continual sinusoidal oscillation between critical points of intense sincerity and irony is a valid solution to the nihilism inherent in extreme postmodernity, Kanye instead manipulates for the oscillation of the listener's perception rather than affecting a self-defeatingl y earnest oscillation of himself. In this way, Yeezus can be seen as a work of meta-metamodernism. To call the album "ahead of its time" would be a vast understatement.
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