Pet Peeves

[astfgyl]

They're not exactly offensive are they like. I'd never throw them on of my own volition but like it isn't so bad as to bother me in the slightest.

Which might be the worst insult of all in a way I guess

I'd be the same, If an Oasis song comes on the radio I find I don't be as enraged by it as I do be with a lot of the muck that comes on.

As an aside man, we were on about Mr Bungle there a while ago and I said I'd give them another blast.
It is as I remembered it. its just a personal opinion, but to my lugs the "music" of Mr Bungle is the worst kind of scutter ever committed to tape.
Complete fucking rubbish, ear rot. Fuck them cunts and everything about them. I'm actually enraged thinking about them, I don't even have to hear the cunts. (sorry now, I know ya like them)

      

Fair enough, the last album wasn't their best like

[Thorn]

Feds. As in English tv dramas adopting this word for police. Even a Scottish thing I started the other night on Netflix had the young ones going on about the Feds catching them. This constant Americanization of everything. I keep thinking of what Brendan Gleeson in The Guard would have made of it. Feds me hole.

[Mooncat]

Posthumous releases.

I don't mind the idea in general, but the sheer amount being released is ridiculous.

I first noticed it with Bowie where there seemed to be at least one coming out every year. He's only been gone nine years and when I counted on Spotify there it's already 19 albums in that short time.

I've really noticed it with jazz though. Miles Davis died in 1991 and there have been 67 albums since then.

I've just recently started to get into Count Basie and it's 74 albums since he died in 1984. 74!

It's definitely all weighted more heavily recently. A lot of these artists often have 3 albums coming out a year at the minute.

The estates are trying to say it's for the fans etc, but it's just completely shameless utter fleecing of an intellectual property or brand for every single cent they can get.

It's frustrating as a new fan having to scroll through an ocean of crap to find the good stuff. Imagine how many new fans are unaware it's all posthumous cash grabs and that's what they're using to try and get into an artist as it's all at the top of the list.

Miles Davis had 5 albums come out in 2023, and 4 each in 2022 and 2021. Absurd!

/Rant

[StoutAndAle]

Posthumous releases.

I don't mind the idea in general, but the sheer amount being released is ridiculous.

I get what you mean.

It depends on the release - like if the artist was actively working on it before they died and it was completed/near completion then that's one thing.

I'll even stretch to things like the Manic Street Preachers album "Journal For Plague Lovers" which was released in 2009 - nearly 15 years after Richey Edwards' disappearance and a year after he was declared presumed deceased. The remaining 3 lads used Edwards' notebooks (which he'd given to them before he headed off) - he'd never really had much input musically in any case (beyond asking if Bradfield/Moore if they could make it sound like Magazine or PiL) so when the record came out, it had been created by much the same process as if he as around. And it's a stormer.

The same can be said of the upcoming Cardiacs' release, I think.

However - there are things like Frank Zappa that really frustrate me and I'm a big FZ fan. My issue with it is that Zappa recorded so much stuff  it means his (horribly run) estate can keep hoofing out half-baked shit til the Läther cows come home.

There is a specific type of Zappa fan - of which I am not - that seem to live for the cataloguing of his releases and where they were culled from rather than asking "Is this any good? I mean actually any good? No foolin'." I have neither the brain capacity of Excel skills to keep up with it.

Hendrix is the one that always comes to mind for me. There was a great MAD magazine one-er years ago when I was a lad. It was a drawing of Jimi and a tagline;

"Jimi Hendrix - 3 albums released during his lifetime... 957,317 more in the following 20 years." 

[Mooncat]

Posthumous releases.

I don't mind the idea in general, but the sheer amount being released is ridiculous.

I get what you mean.

It depends on the release - like if the artist was actively working on it before they died and it was completed/near completion then that's one thing.

I'll even stretch to things like the Manic Street Preachers album "Journal For Plague Lovers" which was released in 2009 - nearly 15 years after Richey Edwards' disappearance and a year after he was declared presumed deceased. The remaining 3 lads used Edwards' notebooks (which he'd given to them before he headed off) - he'd never really had much input musically in any case (beyond asking if Bradfield/Moore if they could make it sound like Magazine or PiL) so when the record came out, it had been created by much the same process as if he as around. And it's a stormer.

The same can be said of the upcoming Cardiacs' release, I think.

However - there are things like Frank Zappa that really frustrate me and I'm a big FZ fan. My issue with it is that Zappa recorded so much stuff  it means his (horribly run) estate can keep hoofing out half-baked shit til the Läther cows come home.

There is a specific type of Zappa fan - of which I am not - that seem to live for the cataloguing of his releases and where they were culled from rather than asking "Is this any good? I mean actually any good? No foolin'." I have neither the brain capacity of Excel skills to keep up with it.

Hendrix is the one that always comes to mind for me. There was a great MAD magazine one-er years ago when I was a lad. It was a drawing of Jimi and a tagline;

"Jimi Hendrix - 3 albums released during his lifetime... 957,317 more in the following 20 years." 

Yeah there's exceptions for sure. Even Hendrix had one or two posthumous albums where they tried to curate it as close to the way they thought he intended as possible before the crap floodgates opened.

And yeah, Zappa and his infamous vault. Prince is another one beginning to get that treatment now.

[Pagan Saviour]

I'd add Jeff Buckley to the pile. I didn't mind Sketches which was obviously stuff he was working on and there's a good few gems on it. But his mam seems to find unheard live performances every year or two. Must be working her way back to an unearthed performance in the local scout hall at this rate

[Carnage]

You can understand (and I can excuse) the appetite for Buckley material though, that one album was so good and had such an impact that anything one could get their hands on will be highly thought of. Live stuff you could dismiss (though the expanded version of Live At Sin É is excellent) but the album with Gary Lucas and the album from his first session are both well worth hearing.

Sketches is hit & miss, I wonder how it'd be regarded in isolation without Grace to compare it to.

[open face surgery]

I don't think it would be regarded at all without that context.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Did you tag them with the art before adding them to the phone or did you do it through the phone? With the player I use (Blackplayer) if you tag them on the phone it doesn't add the art to the files.

Did it through the phone. I'll know next time...

[Thorn]

Season of Mist bombarding you about their great Merch sale and you go in and it's all either small or xxxl available. Hopefully I've just saved some of you the bother.

[Sworntothecans]

Season of Mist bombarding you about their great Merch sale and you go in and it's all either small or xxxl available. Hopefully I've just saved some of you the bother.

Evil Greed do the same shite. G'way ta fuck!

[Mr Barlow]

Covid. Get fucked !

[son of the Morrigan]

Jaysus you are looking a bit rough there man.
Did ya not keep up to date with your safe and effective vaccine boosters ya silly billy?
I hope it doesn't change your voice, apparently that's a thing with the deadly new variant.
Imagine the horror of your voice changing when ya have a flu. The humanity!

I am sorry to hear you aren't well man, hope ya shake it off quickly.

[Eoin McLove]

It shits me that both Antifa mongos and Neo-Nazi retards all show up to their events wearing all black. Can they not choose beige or pink and leave the cool one alone. There was a Neo-Nazi march in Melbourne at the weekend (actual Neo Nazis, not people who want to go to metal gigs) and they were doing themselves and their mummies very proud indeed. All dressed in black,  so now when I walk around all in black as I mostly do, and with a partly shaved/ partly bald noggin, I could easily be confused for one of these cunts. Or worse, a BLM cunt 

[son of the Morrigan]

Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin is of the opinion that the reason mass attendance is down is because we have all become too proud and lack the humility to genuflect or kneel before the creator. So its entirely the fault of the parishioners.
Good man Kevin, ya hit the nail square on the head there. The Romans weren't as accurate with their hammers when they were nailing our lord and saviour Jesus Christ to the infamous gibbet, ya fucking mook.
Those fuckers are beyond redemption at this stage.