Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Yasha wrote:

Manson's Triptych-- in order of "story", Holy Wood, Mechanical Animals, and Antichrist Superstar.

I actually went and sat through these in order just because the other day. I realized, listening to a live cut of Mechanical Animals, that I hadn't sat through a Manson album as an album in too long.

Mr. Manson is a very smart man, and a lot of the things he talks about really hit my buttons. You know the song Dissociative? That song was like my theme song between 2008 and 2011. Also, when I was 7/8/9ish and just grasping the concept of space, the idea of floating away in space unable to do anything but look back at the earth and know that you were never going to get home freaked me out so terribly badly that sometimes I couldn't sleep.

Oh god, I'm tearing up thinking about it. Terrifying.

Video included below because lulz. Don't watch, just listen.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

And now, my new music question: Do you take your hometown/home-state/province scene seriously? Friends' bands or just local scene stuff?

Sadly, I have not participated in the music scene in Edmonton since I was in high school. I am very pleased that it's still as independent and vital as it was back then. I was shocked when I first realized that not every city has a thriving underground music scene, because it was such a normal part of life for me; you can hardly go anywhere downtown or on Whyte Ave without seeing handbills three deep on anything that will stand still long enough to staple them on. Although I am sort of upset that the old bus barns where I used to go to gigs is renovated and is now "The Arts Barns", mainly concentrating on theatre. Don't you guys know that was the last place I saw the Satanic Surfers in concert????

My ELO recommendation was dissed.

This is why I break out in a sweat when someone younger than I am tries to initiate a conversation with me by asking "what kind of music do you like?"

Nova wrote:

My ELO recommendation was dissed.

This is why I break out in a sweat when someone younger than I am tries to initiate a conversation with me by asking "what kind of music do you like?"

I didn't mean it as a diss. I enjoy listening to them, but like, for example, Cheap Trick or Transplants, I get the idea I should be enjoying them differently, or on a more serious level. Sorry if that didn't make sense.

I love Janelle Monae's albums starting with Metropolis (EP), The Archandroid, and her most recent album The Electric Lady. Heavily inspired by the silent sci-fi movie Metropolis it tells the story of Cindy Mayweather a droid who has fallen in love with a human which means she is now doomed for eradication. 

Reading old Pitchfork reviews, because I dunno I sinned and now I have to. And, I came on this gem in a Donnas review that is such a clear example of what I can't stand in reviews/criticism:

"Tommy Lee is a pretty fucking good drummer, but that's no reason to buy a Mötley Crüe record."

If the music isn't why you're buying a Motley Crue album, wtf is the reason?

Being a good/great musician is the primary reason anybody should be buying any non-charity albums. That's the sell. Are they hot? Do they have nice clothes? Good politics? Fine. But, if they can't sing or play or keep rhythm...

On the flipside, of course, I can't listen to stuff I know Jack Nitszche had a hand in, without thinking about what a horrible horrible person he is, but man he's had a hand in some brilliant music, from pioneering the Wall of Sound to his soundtrack and backing work. I'll never buy an album, or a song, because I owe it to him, or because I want to support his career/legacy, w'ev, but some of that shit sounds brilliant.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Has Marilyn Manson done anything interesting in recent years, or is he pretty much a (mildly out of date but still cock-first) rocker these days?

I don't follow Marilyn Manson especially closely, but I heard that his last full-length album "The Pale Emperor" was pretty decent.  Nothing that would set headlines ablaze like Antichrist Superstar or Mechanical Animals, but pretty decent and mature for someone at this stage of his career.

As for my own music likes, my tastes are all over the map (as I think is the case with most people), so I'll just post a couple things I've been listening to lately.  I've been REALLY hot on Kero Kero Bonito's album "Bonito Generation," and I highly recommend it if you like pop music of any kind.  It's British pop inspired by, among other things, J-Pop and video game music.  I'm also super late on listening to Nujabes, but holy moly, he's fantastic (rip).  Trespassers William are a nice dream pop/singer-songwriter kind of band that I've been enjoying lately, and Joanna Newsom's "Ys" has been cropping up a lot, too.

Giovanna wrote:

Trump however is just the kind of fuel he needs. I expect music, like comedy, to be fucking gold the next few years because misery is a lot easier to comment on.

Amen.  I'm a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails.  During the Bush administration he put out some of his best work (imo), Specifically With Teeth and Year Zero.  Year Zero was sooooo chilling, not for it's music (which was great) but the way he promoted the album with hidden messages on band-tees and leaving thumb drives with incomplete music and more clues on it at concerts.  It was crazy!  There was even a phone number (or three) you could call and get a voice mail like recording of meetings of people being broken up and people drug off to jail.

With Trump still in office (please impeach him, please impeach him) there is bound to be many responses.  As Trent Reznor said: AIR
Art
Is
Resistance

So look forward to Trump trying to destroy any kind of artistic expression that doesn't jive with his insanity.

All I've been listening to lately is rando Classical, "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" (the album) by Neutral Milk Hotel, "On Avery Island", also by Neutral Milk Hotel, and  the new(ish) Jay-Z album 4:44

I really fux with "Bam" on that album, it's SO GOOD