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Agreed.

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I like music journalism that reveals music scenes I have no ties to whatsever. I cant say I am a metal head but I think of metal as being similar to techno or dub, huge genres with tons of good and tons of bad, genres that demand discernment and research to pick through the duds to get to the gems. I have heard of Sepultura, and their influences and references, are all things I am rooted in, be it an aknowledgement of indigenous culture and african riddims. Cool article time well spent.

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We owe it all to them.

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Houndstooth Bob Dylan in Paris 1966, looking as pleased with himself as he should, my edit of original via forestdweller

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one of the more bleak things to acknowledge is that if you pirate literally all of your music and then set aside a spotify subscription's worth of money each month to spend on a single pay-what-you-want album, it would almost immediately amount to you supporting those musicians more than streaming does

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blur: i am the top hat man and if i didn’t work at the british bank then maybe i could tolerate the youth of today lalalala

pulp: come closer… cause i’m going to tell you a secret… last friday night i had sex with your mother. (inhale) oh yeah. and let me tell you another secret… this coming thursday… im gonna do it again. alright.

oasis: i’m never going to die i’ll touch the sky and sex drugs and rock and roll will keep me alive

suede: is your boyfriend as bisexual as me

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Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af

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kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

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what if instead of being called TOOL they were "tulle" and they wore tutus

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SXSW 2025 Festival Guide - SXSW Doc Tells the Story of Local Psych-Punk Legends Butthole Surfers: Never sacred, always profane - Screens - The Austin Chronicle

"Fact(?): The Butthole Surfers were the best live underground rock band of the 1980s. Some would contend you don’t even need “underground” or “rock” in there."

I get that. But I'd need some convincing to take Crash Worship out of contention for that title - even Alien Sex Fiend is worth a mention.

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Unknown girl, David Johansen, Nina Hagen, Johnny Thunders, Kate Simon, and Syl Sylvain at The Begger's Opera in Queens, NY. March 15, 1980. By Bob Gruen.

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Christian Death (David Glass, Valor Kand, Gitane Demone, Rozz Williams, Constance Smith) - London, March 24th, 1984.

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i don't care if mondays fucked, tuesday wednesday kiss my nuts, thursday this shit fucking sucks, it's friday im in love

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The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.