Soul Jazz related

Don't. Be. Silly.

That is some big old slice of music to write off (Mars' Helen Fordsdale to Jackie Mitoo via Haitian Voodoo), Okay! you might not like the jass or ska or the way tracks are seemingly hand-selected and packaged into achingly hip compilations but I think they're genuine and committed to re-releasing what they think is great music regardless of how many twunts with old school flight bags buy the records. My life would be the poorer without some of their releases, esp. the Dynamite compilations.

They're also fucking lovely people in the shop - all the time and patience in the world, as far away from hipster bullshit as you can get.

cjh wrote:That is some big old slice of music to write off (Mars' Helen Fordsdale to Jackie Mitoo via Haitian Voodoo), Okay! you might not like the jass or ska or the way tracks are seemingly hand-selected and packaged into achingly hip compilations but I think they're genuine and committed to re-releasing what they think is great music regardless of how many twunts with old school flight bags buy the records. My life would be the poorer without some of their releases, esp. the Dynamite compilations.

They're also fucking lovely people in the shop - all the time and patience in the world, as far away from hipster bullshit as you can get.

I actually enjoy a majority of their releases. My problem is the fact that there is this group of people that drool over each and every release by this label as if there has never been another label that releases reggae or soul comps.
I personally think they're overpriced and could be put together a lot better.

cjh wrote:

Soul Jazz related

Don't. Be. Silly.

Dude, much as I agree with you here, we have to remember that this is only an opinion...


Not to sound patronising or anything...

Rimbaud III wrote:I'm sure that we all qualify as being 'hipsters' for listening to bands like Shellac et al.

There's a difference between having your own tastes and being a self-conscious hipster, though. Isn't there? I'm thinking of a guy who was at the Fucking Champs show who had an Interpol haircut- he kept walking around, showing off his ironic t-shirt and keeping his greasy hair neatly tucked behind his ear. Awwwww, but he was so cute...

mattw wrote:I'm thinking of a guy who was at the Fucking Champs show who had an Interpol haircut- he kept walking around, showing off his ironic t-shirt and keeping his greasy hair neatly tucked behind his ear. Awwwww, but he was so cute...

How many different bracelets did he have on, and what brand were his shoes?

But there's a whole other category of music that hipsters seem to like that hasn't been mentioned: cheese-rock, typified by Journey. This also includes REO Speedwagon, Styx, Boston, maybe even Van Halen. This hipster doofus lead singer I saw had a "vintage" Van Halen shirt on under his tweed sportcoat. He actually said, between shitty hipster songs and while adjusting his impeccably coiffed bedhead, "Doesn't my T-Shirt rock?" No, it doesn't, and neither does Van Halen, nor have they ever. Now shut the fuck up.

Holy shit, you hit it. I got my BFA from a certain college that is infested with these types. Here's a typical "conversation" I had to endure repeatedly:

Dude: "I Want to Know What Love Is." Dude, that track is so hot. Don't you love that shit? It's, like, so ironic, but not... (etc, etc, then Dude sings chorus... again)

Me: Oh, that's cool. ha, ha. Uhhhh... I'm kinda listening to Stones stuff again right now...

Dude: The Stones? Dude, everyone likes the Stones... I'm working on a record right now. It's like Bright Eyes... if you ever heard of Bright Eyes...

Me: Yeah, I know about Bright Eyes.

Dude: Oh? Because, no offense, but you don't look like you'd be into that...


And on it goes. You probably didn't need to read my post, I'm sure you've lived it.

HAPPY 4-20, DUDE

Linus Van Pelt wrote: No, it doesn't, and neither does Van Halen, nor have they ever. Now shut the fuck up.

Van Halen, for your information, has rocked. Not just in a very, very long time.

Just Ask this guy:

Lazybones wrote:

But there's a whole other category of music that hipsters seem to like that hasn't been mentioned: cheese-rock, typified by Journey. This also includes REO Speedwagon, Styx, Boston, maybe even Van Halen. This hipster doofus lead singer I saw had a "vintage" Van Halen shirt on under his tweed sportcoat. He actually said, between shitty hipster songs and while adjusting his impeccably coiffed bedhead, "Doesn't my T-Shirt rock?" No, it doesn't, and neither does Van Halen, nor have they ever. Now shut the fuck up.

Holy shit, you hit it. I got my BFA from a certain college that is infested with these types. Here's a typical "conversation" I had to endure repeatedly:

Dude: "I Want to Know What Love Is." Dude, that track is so hot. Don't you love that shit? It's, like, so ironic, but not... (etc, etc, then Dude sings chorus... again)

Me: Oh, that's cool. ha, ha. Uhhhh... I'm kinda listening to Stones stuff again right now...

Dude: The Stones? Dude, everyone likes the Stones... I'm working on a record right now. It's like Bright Eyes... if you ever heard of Bright Eyes...

Me: Yeah, I know about Bright Eyes.

Dude: Oh? Because, no offense, but you don't look like you'd be into that...


And on it goes. You probably didn't need to read my post, I'm sure you've lived it.

Yes, yes, you know what i'm saying. Do these people think that when Rock and Roll Jesus comes down on Judgment Day to separate the wheat from the chaff, he's going to Damn the other Foreigner lovers, but Save them because they only enjoyed them "ironically"? No, he is not. Written in the Book of Life is not the names of those who listen to Warrant because they like Warrant, nor of those who listen to Warrant because they like to make fun of Warrant; not the names of those who cover a Def Leppard song because they like the Def Leppard song, nor of those who cover a Def Leppard song because it's cute.

I played the Soul Jazz Chicago Soul comp at a party last night for some friends. What an amazing disc! I've got a handful of their releases, but I couldn't imagine wanting every one of them. Some are real turds but most are pretty good. The cost is prohibitive. There's a store here that sells them for $16.99, which is a bargain compared to what most shops carry them at.

Back on topic, my humble submission for this thread has got to be Tortoise. I saw them back in '96 or so. They bored me to tears. I rarely leave shows early but I just couldn't make it through that one. I met John Herndon around the same time and he was a complete prick, so that didn't cast the band in a better light for me. Pity, because I do love John McEntire so.

So is liking Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" ironic?


Turn around, Bright Eyes...