Rolo Tomassi
Is Rolo Tomassi a sacred cow? Because that shit sucks worms out of a dead possum rectum
Some, but not a lot. Earlier in this thread I mentioned that I don't get Elliott Smith, Ryan Adams, Bill Callahan, Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, or any of these types who people think are so moving and powerful but who just fall flat.losthighway wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 5:05 pmDo you dig much by way of singer songwriters?zircona1 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:41 pm Nina Nastasia. What you all hear in her music that you love, I don't hear it.
i will fight you.tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.
I get it, it took me a while. Kind of seemed like an elaborate joke to me for a couple years, and then one day it clicked like hearing a lost blues recording for the first time.tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.
I should clarify. Nothing in the vocals reminds me of Zappa. Think Shut Up and Play Your Guitar, but metal noise rock with terrible vocals added.motorbike guy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:40 ami will fight you.tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.
love HM, hate Frank.
So yeah, Frank Zappa sucks. So does Steely Dan, as if they haven't ever been mentioned in this thread or its predecessor.
it was a piece of crap, it was not fine. Desperate to be Dr. Strangelove but came out Southland Tales. I don't think we need to bother with what it knicked from Melancholia.tommy wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:29 pmRotten Tomatoes is showing 55% critics and 77% audience for Don't Look Up. I personally gave it a 6.25 out of 10. So I'm almost exactly in the middle. I thought Melancholia was a LOT better. It's showing 80% critics and 67% audience. Normally I side with the audience on there so I'm not sure what that says about these two meteor disaster films.Curry Pervert wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:04 pmIs that from people you know? Because every review I've seen is panning it.penningtron wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:19 am
True as it's like a week old, but I've heard mostly praise for it so far.
Don't Look Up was fine. Not great. Most of what I saw on social media were people panning it. I laughed out loud a few times. I guess that's all I can really ask for.
Yeah, sorry. California Dreamin' does not inspire those feelings in me.DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:44 pm Re: The Mamas and the Papas hate: "California Dreamin'," though! (At the risk of pointing out the obvious.)
Off the top of my head, I couldn't even name any of their other songs (even if their greatest hits LP is sitting around here somewhere), and who knows, maybe their output in toto doesn't measure up to their apparent stature. "California Dreamin'" is also not necessarily indicative of my very favorite music from the sixties. And yet it's an AMAZING track. (Yes, I'm using the word "amazing" here unironically.) It's the sort of thing, like "Eight Miles High," "Happy Together" and the Animals' version of "House of the Rising Sun," that you can't really deny if you like post-war popular music. (I mean, you can--it's a free country--but it's not a great look, is it?)
Press play, and in under three minutes a whole world of vibes gets uncorked. There's a reason Wong Kar-wai got away with playing it so many times in Chungking Express. There's a reason the late Bobby Womack covered it (to great effect). Even if nothing else The Mamas and the Papas did were worth writing home about in the harsh light of 2021 (soon to be 2022), "California Dreamin'" is the business.
You mean the best singer ever?tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.
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