tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post8922672346619424600..comments2024-01-10T00:02:33.219-05:00Comments on The Unblinking Ear: Case Studies in Hype: Dirty Projectors and the BeetsPBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03129471960577860407noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-56650994250491996822009-09-03T17:25:28.919-04:002009-09-03T17:25:28.919-04:00CK, thank you for stating much more succinctly the...CK, thank you for stating much more succinctly the point I was attempting to make.<br /><br />For the record, I would like to say that it is possible to admire the sophisticated and the primitive. After all, Brian Eno produced <i>No New York</i>. The difference is that Eno let those bands be what they were rather than trying to change them into something else, which is exactly what Dirty Projectors did with Black Flag.PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129471960577860407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-55005137070271123922009-09-02T16:45:55.611-04:002009-09-02T16:45:55.611-04:00I saw DP at the waterfront and all I could think o...I saw DP at the waterfront and all I could think of is how bullshit it all is. There is no emotional involvement or passion, other than getting their "parts" right. It's just a jumbled mess of "let's do this weird thing here, float our voices like Mirah Carey all over the place and hit every fucking note in every scale to show we know them all" BS. Gimme Rush, Yes, hell gimme King Crimson, anything but this annoying crap.<br /><br />I've figured out this guy's formula: he does exactly what you don't want to hear everytime, in every song, so people can nod their heads and go, "aww yes, very nice, this is so NEW". Then he wants to have it both ways by playing up his "I like K Records, Black Flag too" indie/punk cred in interviews to downplay the pretentiousness of it all.CKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-5623108801408259452009-08-31T00:10:56.330-04:002009-08-31T00:10:56.330-04:00For the record, Paul:
1. Mission of Burma
2. The ...For the record, Paul:<br /><br />1. Mission of Burma<br />2. The Modern Lovers<br />3. Volcano Suns<br />4. La Peste<br />5. The Real Kids<br />6. The Remains<br />7. Big Dipper<br />8. The Lyres<br />9. The Girls<br />10. Classic Ruins<br /><br />The Pixies are somewhere just under the top ten along with Christmas, Come, Dangerous Birds and Helium. Oh and SSD too. I'll admit their later records were garbage but <i>Get It Away</i> is one of the best hXc records ever.PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129471960577860407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-26220415371823711712009-08-26T10:24:20.998-04:002009-08-26T10:24:20.998-04:00why can't you just write about the ten best bo...why can't you just write about the ten best boston bands of all time like everyone else?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353556731727323009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-53859011397078223692009-08-24T11:51:34.370-04:002009-08-24T11:51:34.370-04:00Is 'Stillness is the Move' fairly represen...Is 'Stillness is the Move' fairly representative as far as Bitte Orca goes? In the incredibly awkward big-pimpin'-by-way-of-Reykjavík video that they did for that single there is one unintentionally telling part: the llama, spying an open left, tries to gallop away before being reined in forcefully and nervously by the band's pointman down the right side. There will be no room for impulse and thrills with the Dirty Projectors. Challeging rock indeed.<br /><br />Also, if i have to take these dopey ass lyrics with my decent tinariwen guitar lines, i'll pass. <br /><br /><i>isn't life under the sun just a crazy dream?<br />isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?<br />why am i here and not over there?<br />where did time begin<br />where does space end<br />where do you and i begin?</i><br /><br />DEEP.dolahttp://www.pixifoto.co.uk/upload/images/Girl%20dancing%201_117441174321021.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-51736520176445249712009-08-21T16:18:39.931-04:002009-08-21T16:18:39.931-04:00Matthew,
Perhaps I should have clarified myself a...Matthew,<br /><br />Perhaps I should have clarified myself a bit. I'm not inherently opposed to music that engages one intellectually or comes off as pristine or calculated which I would hope is evident to anyone who reads my blog regularly. However, I happen to think that the Dirty Projectors' calculation doesn't add up to much. As far each enjoying each version of <i>Damaged</i> being an either/or situation, if you can enjoy both, bully for you. Personally, I don't see how one could plausibly claim to be inspired by the music of Black Flag and create music like that of Dirty Projectors. Sure their take on the material is "novel," but novelty is pretty much fleeting by nature.PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129471960577860407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-69812903737877876522009-08-21T15:05:55.648-04:002009-08-21T15:05:55.648-04:00I love the third paragraph, it's great.
The c...I love the third paragraph, it's great.<br /><br />The commenter above me, I'm not sure what he's talking about.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33368744.post-23913429802261064212009-08-21T14:59:02.298-04:002009-08-21T14:59:02.298-04:00While it's completely reasonable to find the d...While it's completely reasonable to find the dirty projectors non-palatable, I think to belittle others enjoyment of them by stating its something people just intellectually engage with is a cop out. When I listen to beat happening am I intellectually slumming it because of its rudimentary playing? That logic seems faulty. And yes, listening (or with Doc Brown's help) or seeing the Dirty Projectors is not as visceral as Black Flag but there must be another option of engagement besides throwing oneself off a stage? As someone who enjoys both takes on Damaged, I simply don't see them as an either/or proposition. At the very least, DP managed to take those songs and transform them into something completely novel with the source material as oppossed to the fun (yet often tiresome) homages that these songs routinely receive(d) in VFW halls on Sunday afternoons.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03809116726301161540noreply@blogger.com