For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Mr Chonks wrote:
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Only if you click said link.
Curiosity wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Only if you click said link.
Which I’d expect anyone who was interested enough to click one link to do so
Mr Chonks wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Only if you click said link.
Which I’d expect anyone who was interested enough to click one link to do so
What link?
MaliA wrote:
What link?
Mr Chonks wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Only if you click said link.
Which I’d expect anyone who was interested enough to click one link to do so
Not really. Like 90% of the time or more that I am browsing Beex I don’t want to actually play music, or go on Spotify. It doesn’t seem crazy to think to mention it.
Curiosity wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Bamba wrote:
For anyone confused about the lack of the single most important bit of information there, they're called The Utopia Strong.
It’s literally in the link, dude. Even non-members can see that, surely?
Only if you click said link.
Which I’d expect anyone who was interested enough to click one link to do so
Not really. Like 90% of the time or more that I am browsing Beex I don’t want to actually play music, or go on Spotify. It doesn’t seem crazy to think to mention it.
So you didn’t care that much to find out then. That’s fine
Curiosity wrote:
Not really. Like 90% of the time or more that I am browsing Beex I don’t want to actually play music, or go on Spotify. It doesn’t seem crazy to think to mention it.
Why would you need to know the band's name, then? Absurd.
(for the avoidance of doubt, snooker's Steve Davis is NOT a member of notorious NSBM band Absurd, though that would be very funny.)
What a strange way to hold a conversation.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
You're thinking of Suggs.
Curiosity wrote:
What a strange way to hold a conversation.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
Bruv, if you had asked, I'd have cheerfully told you. I mean, the most important piece of information there is that Steve Davis is in a band with someone from Coil, c'mon.
Either you'll process that information—Coil? The lads that done the soundtrack to the Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex and the How To Destroy Angels thing with Marc Almond? That Coil?—and make at the very least a mental bookmark to have a look later, or you'll blankly pass over it with no regard for snooker, early industrial, or krautrock.
Besides, not putting the name in that post gives it an air of mystery, yeah? You can enjoy the thrill of discovering the name for yourself, savour it. Maybe pretend you're a wild journo for The Quietus or something.
Zardoz wrote:
Ha! He’s been DJing in Ibiza too, hasn’t he?
I didn't know that! He's a man of many talents, that Steve.
Curiosity wrote:
What a strange way to hold a conversation.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
If we were having a conversation, I’d agree, but you would have found out quicker and caused others less effort If you’d just clicked the link than to ask and then wait for a response. It’s just sad how lazy people have become.
What’s the name of the band then?
Satsuma wrote:
What’s the name of the band then?
The Steve Davis Interesting Popular Beat Combo
Zardoz wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/10/steve-davis-snooker-champion-radio-show-dj-interview
Interesting
Interesting
Might not be, i'm not clicking one link.
Curiosity wrote:
What a strange way to hold a conversation.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: Sure, just not right now. What are they called?
A: I’m not telling you. You obviously don’t want to know.
B: I do want to know, I just don’t want to check them out right now.
A: No, you do not want to know this or you would have checked out the link I already sent you.
Madness.
That’s not what happened, though. It was:
A: Steve Davis from the snooker is in a new band; I’ve sent you a link, give them a listen!
B: They’re called _______ by the way
C: People could just click the link
D: But why should they? What if they don’t want to click the link
E-Z: repetition of most of the above.
Z should clearly have been "Get a 360".
clipping, then. They're one of those cool and mysterious bands who are in all lowercase and release stuff on Sub Pop and that. Their new album dropped last week—it's called There Existed An Addiction To Blood, and it's superb.
They're a hip-hop thing, but in that weird, experimental way that bands like dälek and cLOUDDEAD were (see, more case weirdness. Must be something to do with drugs.) The producers are a Hollywood composer and a harsh noise artist, and the MC won a Tony for being in Hamilton and is apparently a regular on Sesame Street. But fucking hell. Fucking hell, they're good.
The new album is a horrorcore throwback; that strange little 90's subgenre where tension and, well, horror replaced gangsta bragging. The music is strangely drawn out, drones and NOISES and enormous beats that sound like (and probably are) manipulated concrete recordings. Actual Noise, too—Pedestrian Deposit and The Rita are guests.
It's not just pretentious noise wankery though, there are hooks and beats and some absolutely ridiculous rapping. 'Story 7' has actual polymetrics, flipping between 5/4 and 7/4 with a rhyme scheme that pulls them both into a standard 4/4, as if Meshuggah decided to have a go at the rap singing. There are all sorts of playful modulations, with bars suddenly dropping into swung triplets as the story get more tense.
I dunno. It's just really, really, really good hip-hop, dressed up in a musicology PhD thesis. Don't go into it expecting hit singles (though 'Club Down' and 'La Mala Ordina' could do the trick if they got the airplay), but do have a listen; it's on Spotify.
To damn it with the faintest of praise, it's my favourite rap album since ICP's The Great Milenko!
They're a hip-hop thing, but in that weird, experimental way that bands like dälek and cLOUDDEAD were (see, more case weirdness. Must be something to do with drugs.) The producers are a Hollywood composer and a harsh noise artist, and the MC won a Tony for being in Hamilton and is apparently a regular on Sesame Street. But fucking hell. Fucking hell, they're good.
The new album is a horrorcore throwback; that strange little 90's subgenre where tension and, well, horror replaced gangsta bragging. The music is strangely drawn out, drones and NOISES and enormous beats that sound like (and probably are) manipulated concrete recordings. Actual Noise, too—Pedestrian Deposit and The Rita are guests.
It's not just pretentious noise wankery though, there are hooks and beats and some absolutely ridiculous rapping. 'Story 7' has actual polymetrics, flipping between 5/4 and 7/4 with a rhyme scheme that pulls them both into a standard 4/4, as if Meshuggah decided to have a go at the rap singing. There are all sorts of playful modulations, with bars suddenly dropping into swung triplets as the story get more tense.
I dunno. It's just really, really, really good hip-hop, dressed up in a musicology PhD thesis. Don't go into it expecting hit singles (though 'Club Down' and 'La Mala Ordina' could do the trick if they got the airplay), but do have a listen; it's on Spotify.
To damn it with the faintest of praise, it's my favourite rap album since ICP's The Great Milenko!
Sounds up my alley. I love cLOUDDEAD and also like Dälek (to a lesser extent).
Mr Chonks wrote:
Sounds up my alley. I love cLOUDDEAD and also like Dälek (to a lesser extent).
It's a LOT more aggressive than cLOUDDEAD, but definitely cut from the same 'found sound and strange timings' cloth.
Their last album Splendor and Misery is worth a shot—it's a hip hop concept record about a spaceship's controlling AI who falls in love with the last human alive, with hilarious* consequences!
*spoilers: not hilarious
Eminem & Joyner Lucas have done this track called “What if I was gay” and it’s kinda great.
https://soundcloud.com/russprod/eminem- ... ay-premera
https://soundcloud.com/russprod/eminem- ... ay-premera
Trooper wrote:
You're thinking of Suggs.
This did actually make me LOL. 50, no, 100 bananas.
I heard this live version first and I think it's waaaaay better than the somewhat tame sounding studio version.
Just purchased for Mini Top who is going through a Nirvana phase. And for myself, obvs.
But 9 fucking quid!
But 9 fucking quid!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... ts-at-amas
Not great
Quote:
Taylor Swift’s performance at the American music awards is in doubt, as is the future of a new Netflix documentary about her, the singer has claimed, thanks to an ongoing feud with “tyrannical” music managers Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta.
Taylor Swift returns to US court after appeal over copyright lawsuit
Read more
“Don’t know what else to do,” Swift wrote in a tweet, which contained screenshots of a long statement in which she alleged that Borchetta and Braun, who own the rights to her early albums, were preventing her from performing her own work at the upcoming AMAs, at which she is set to receive the artist of the decade award.
Taylor Swift returns to US court after appeal over copyright lawsuit
Read more
“Don’t know what else to do,” Swift wrote in a tweet, which contained screenshots of a long statement in which she alleged that Borchetta and Braun, who own the rights to her early albums, were preventing her from performing her own work at the upcoming AMAs, at which she is set to receive the artist of the decade award.
Not great
Listening to Taylor Swift's Christmas songs* is pleasing. Not sure about the Last Christmas cover, but the rest is pretty decent. Santa Baby remains pure filth.
*"Alexa, play Taylor Swift's Christmas songs"
*"Alexa, play Taylor Swift's Christmas songs"
Kylie's version of Santa Baby is still best, reckon.
Grim... wrote:
Kylie's version of Santa Baby is still best, reckon.
Oh god, I can’t bare to listen to that. I can’t stand the song to begin with, but Kylie’s simpering, infantilised breathy baby voice makes me feel so grossed out that I feel genuinely angry if it comes on the radio. Combined with the lyrics I can’t off the top of my head think of a song I like less.
Yesterday Russell listened to This Ole’ House (both the Shaky and Rosemary Clooney versions). Choooon.
Mimi wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Kylie's version of Santa Baby is still best, reckon.
Oh god, I can’t bare to listen to that. I can’t stand the song to begin with, but Kylie’s simpering, infantilised breathy baby voice makes me feel so grossed out that I feel genuinely angry if it comes on the radio. Combined with the lyrics I can’t off the top of my head think of a song I like less.
Baby shark
Mimi wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Kylie's version of Santa Baby is still best, reckon.
Oh god, I can’t bare to listen to that. I can’t stand the song to begin with, but Kylie’s simpering, infantilised breathy baby voice makes me feel so grossed out that I feel genuinely angry if it comes on the radio. Combined with the lyrics I can’t off the top of my head think of a song I like less.
Edited: Fixing Mali's YouTube link, even though he's been coming here for a decade
Grim... wrote:
Kylie's version of Santa Baby is still best, reckon.
I am doing research
Deconstructed!
Edited: Sigh
I agree with Mimi. Santa Baby is cringe, no matter the singer
Seen on a toilet wall in Liverpool
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Eminem dropping a surprise album this morning got me fully erect.
...ft Ed Sheeren.
Then I went back to bed and waited for the alarm to go off.
...ft Ed Sheeren.
Then I went back to bed and waited for the alarm to go off.
Remember that time when Dan Akroyd and NWA were just hanging out on a music video?
Mimi wrote:
Yesterday Russell listened to This Ole’ House (both the Shaky and Rosemary Clooney versions). Choooon.
I was never a fan of Shaky or that song, by anyone. For some reason it's inextricably linked in my subconscious with "Green door."
This is all very nice but you'd never get these banjos on a bus.
Squarepusher's latest album is a harsh ride but this tune off a recent EP is a beaut.
Here's an article on Elastica. A band a billion times better than Sleeper.
https://thequietus.com/articles/28034-e ... ewartifice
https://thequietus.com/articles/28034-e ... ewartifice
MaliA wrote:
Here's an article on Elastica. A band a billion times better than Sleeper.
https://thequietus.com/articles/28034-e ... ewartifice
https://thequietus.com/articles/28034-e ... ewartifice
As much as I love Louise Wener, that's a pretty low bar.
The it Girl is a decent album. I never really got into Elastica.
Mr Chonks wrote:
The it Girl is a decent album. I never really got into Elastica.
Definitely better than the first album. I have huge affection for Sale of the Century and What Do I Do Now?
Elastica are good though, hard to argue with songs like Stutter and Vaseline.
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