I've listened to too much Oasis recently, I desperately need new music.
Julian Scott
or infinite war
Aiden Fisher
Its been 3 months for me, all other music sucks now.
Jordan White
I once met a traveler from an antique land, who said unto me “traps aren’t gay”
Luis Campbell
Wrong
Nature is constantly producing new species/races/sub types
This will always lead to competition.
Jayden Myers
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Mason Williams
Here's my current bookshelf
>Politics Plato's 'Republic' Aristotle's 'Politics' Mussolini's 'The Doctrine of Fascism' Marx and Engels' 'The Communist Manifesto' Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Mosley's 'My Life' Hobbes' 'Leviathan' Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government'
>Philosphy Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' Aurelius' 'Meditations' Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' Hegel's 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation' Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morality' Locke's 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'
Landon Powell
Space and the zutons and that other band of fat cunts that harmonise a lot
The Smiths are 10/10, and I think loads of Morrissey's stuff is great. Vauxhall and I's my favourite, I like his new album as well.
Don't care, Clash are still great.
>I've listened to two Jam songs on youtube and not a whole album: the post
good lad
one album wonder but still a great band
I'll add
>New Order >Velvet Underground >The La's
Owen Anderson
reminder that the fall of rome was the end of the world
Oliver Miller
wow thanks plato
Chase Roberts
just don't waste your time trying to reinvent things
Colton Martinez
>The Jam hit wonder I disagree, I think 'In The City' is one of the best debut albums. Up there with 'Definitely Maybe', 'Never Mind the Bollocks' and 'The Clash'. You should give it a proper listen if you haven't already.
Jose Diaz
Reminder that Elvis Costello's first single was about how he hated Oswald Mosley
Carter Cox
I like how the guardian article doesn't even mention the rape
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved. In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
Carson White
It's up to our generation to retake that throne
Unfortunately our society has been overrun, and grime/hip hop has spread its tentacles like some huge octopus ... even if a 'working white man' band became big it would just appeal to VK-drinking soyboys like the Arctics do
you did remind me I had a pasta bake in the fridge though
Zachary Jackson
>I have never listened to any of their music: the post Seriously, go and sit down and listen to Abbey Road all the way through and then try and tell me they are just a commercial band
Fucking hell lads the sugar in Dr Pepper has dropped 7g since last week
Gabriel Cruz
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially. Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.
Contemporary musicians never spoke highly of the Beatles, and for good reason. They could never figure out why the Beatles' songs should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that the Beatles were simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to "Beatlemania", which had nothing to do with their musical merits). That phenomenon kept alive interest in their (mediocre) musical endeavours to this day. Nothing else grants the Beatles more attention than, say, the Kinks or the Rolling Stones. There was nothing intrinsically better in the Beatles' music. Ray Davies of the Kinks was certainly a far better songwriter than Lennon & McCartney. The Stones were certainly much more skilled musicians than the 'Fab Four'. And Pete Townshend was a far more accomplished composer, capable of entire operas such as "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia"; not to mention the far greater British musicians who followed them in subsequent decades or the US musicians themselves who initially spearheaded what the Beatles merely later repackaged to the masses.
