The pinnacle of music was reached with the opening credits of Final Fantasy VIII. We can now safely shut down all of the radio stations.
Would I call it an all-out aural assault?
How about "the end of an ear"?
I think it will have very little to do with Robert Wyatt's first solo album.
Aggressive, arrhythmic, atonal, vaguely jazzy stuff
I'd listen, but I find vaguely jazzy music off-putting.
Assuming you're being sincere, it's probably not vaguely jazzy the way the vaguely jazzy stuff you don't like is vaguely jazzy.
I am being sincere, I'm willing to accept the 'probably', but that's the problem with 'vaguely jazzy', where to locate it in the penumbra of not-quite-jazziness.
Just out of curiosity, are these bands fairly obscure or am I just that old?
I think most of them aren't even bands.
7: Unless that one year really makes a difference, they're not exactly well-known bands even among neb's and my age group.
I had certainly not heard of any of these bands before this post. Not that I'm exactly a useful source for this sort of judgment.
John Zorn isn't that obscure.
The others I might allow.
9: We're on Internet time now. That one year makes all the difference.
I am being sincere, I'm willing to accept the 'probably', but that's the problem with 'vaguely jazzy', where to locate it in the penumbra of not-quite-jazziness.
In this context "jazzy" means "improvised". Most of these artists use ear-splitting electric guitars, at least the artists I've heard of. Except Dock Boggs.
Unless the, what was it, two months? difference in age makes a difference, I agree they're all obscure within my/neb's/Parenthetical's age group except for John Zorn.
Actually, I feel quite sure that asking a random person my age who John Zorn is would lead to blank stares.
So what I'm really saying is, I've heard of John Zorn and not the others.
Also, I'm avoiding work again. Someone tell me to go do some work.
I was afraid that Sam Hillmer was the Neil Diamond of his generation and I missed it. That said, I would listen to the Rempis Percussion Quartet solely because the name seems brilliantly understated.
I'm familiar with Zorn, Derek Bailey (but not Bruise), Nurse with Wound, and Dock Boggs. None of the rest.
I request an all-Adrian Sherwood show.
What is this Tackhead trash ?
Go do some work, essear.
Done. Hey, that worked! I should try it again sometime.
I'm now aimlessly clicking on music videos on YouTube. Did you know that Katy Perry kissed a girl? And she liked it? Even though it's not what good girls do?
Walt, go to bed and save yourself.
save yourself
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Too late. I'm now looking at videos for songs from Mulan. Like Marla Singer, I'm trying to hit rock bottom. (FYI, "rock bottom" is Jackie Chan singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You".)
What about Jackie Chan singing a medley from Paint Your Wagon?
Now that Sifu is married and shit, somebody has got to pick up the talking-to-yourself-in-public slack. "Mama Said Knock You Out" isn't as good as I remember. The Geto Boys are better than I remember.
I just got home from work and have tuned in. Play some funky music, white boy.
This is actually one of the swingingest tracks I'll be playing, that's playing right now.
This one reminds me to ask, neb: are you familiar with G. Crumb's recent folk song settings (he also set "Black is the Color")? I recommend them.
I am not! I like Crumb and I like "Black is the Color"; I should look them up.
Skin cancer is just a weird topic for bizarre avante-garde spoken word music.
It seems like a very fitting topic to me.