Getting the spins

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:52 am

Mine's pretty boring, but that's mostly because Spotify is pretty much useless here at my office these days. Super laggy. have been having much better luck with Amazon Prime Music.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:57 am

I use Deezer, and am very happy with it.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:38 pm

Swamp Radio is the way to go, really.

(I think I signed up for Spotify years ago and used it perhaps 10 minutes.)

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 11:39 am

Torche has really been scratching me where I itch lately.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:48 pm

NPR's favorite songs of 2014.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:29 pm

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:15 am

I can't imagine listening to Bust A Move that much in one year. I'm a fan and all, but #5 for the year?

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:22 am

govmentchedda wrote:I can't imagine listening to Bust A Move that much in one year. I'm a fan and all, but #5 for the year?

Well, 1477 (minutes) / 5 = 295, so he must have spent no more (and more likely much less) than that listening to Bust a Move. Even at 295 minutes, that's only 65 plays. Seems pretty reasonable for such a classic!

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:19 am

My top album was Weird Al's new one, which I remember listening to once. The only other album I remember playing is the "new" Pink Floyd outtake thing. This is the result of creating a really big play mix and then not using Spotify much. My guess is it played Bust a Move twice. Young MC is really pissed at the committee. Procul Harum destroying that Wisconsin band should not have put them in the tournament.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:51 am

AB_skin_test wrote:I'm not a fan of newer country music mostly because I freaking hate "bro country"...I want my country drinking songs to be about lost love and lost jobs and running from the revenuer, not tapping a keg and partying on the tailgate. Which is why i kinda love this song--two women making direct fun of the whole Bro Country phenomenon

New Yorker has an article about it as well.

Guess who went No. 1? And predictably, the bros ain't happy.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:06 am

Brontoburglar wrote:Guess who went No. 1? And predictably, the bros ain't happy.

Thanks. Recommended for the sort of whiny quotes from the artist push back against the "bro country" label.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:21 am

rass wrote:
Brontoburglar wrote:Guess who went No. 1? And predictably, the bros ain't happy.
Thanks. Recommended for the sort of whiny quotes from the artist push back against the "bro country" label.

“All I’m gonna say about that is, I don’t know one girl who doesn’t want to be a girl in a country song,” Kelley said. “That’s all I’m gonna say to you. That’s it.”

This reasoning is used so often for a variety of other class-style conflicts. So, so, so rich.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:43 am

Brontoburglar wrote:
rass wrote:
Brontoburglar wrote:Guess who went No. 1? And predictably, the bros ain't happy.
Thanks. Recommended for the sort of whiny quotes from the artist push back against the "bro country" label.

“All I’m gonna say about that is, I don’t know one girl who doesn’t want to be a girl in a country song,” Kelley said. “That’s all I’m gonna say to you. That’s it.”
This reasoning is used so often for a variety of other class-style conflicts. So, so, so rich.

Very similar to this

On the subject of slavery, he writes in his book of the same name: "Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen?" Yes, he states, but "that debt . . . is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America."

That's from a movie that a Florida state senator is trying to make mandatory for 8th and 11th graders.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:48 pm

I need to check the full list when I get home, but my top song was Cinnamon and Lesbians by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:30 pm

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:37 pm

Great song, covered very well.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:06 am

govmentchedda wrote:Great song, covered very well.

I thought so as well. Those girls can sang.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:43 am

Shirley wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Great song, covered very well.
I thought so as well. Those girls can sang.

Paul thinks so.

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Post by **brian** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:45 pm

Watching this R.E.M by MTV and I'm reminded just how brilliant they really were. Every album they did until Bill Berry left varied from a minimum of "damn good" to "top 50 all-time great rock album".

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:30 am

Anyone heard the new Decemberists yet?

The new Ryan Bingham is badace.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:40 am

Pitchfork gave it a 5.6. Sleater-Kinney 8.7, Belle & Sebastian 6.6 round out the release day that should have happened a decade ago.

(Those are all factual rankings.)

((I haven't gotten to hear any of them yet. Always had a like / annoyed relationship with the Decemberists completely dependent on my mood that day.))

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:46 am

I just found it on Spotify. Not sure if it was there yesterday or not, I was too into the Ryan Bingham to notice.

It usually takes me 4-5 listens straight through to form an opinion of a Decemberists' album. The king is dead and Hazards of Love annoyed me for a while but I grew to appreciate them. Crane Wife had a few good tracks on first listen but it took me a while to enjoy the whole thing and now I think it's one of my favorite complete albums.

Castaways and Cutouts and Picaresque are still just OK to me. Few good songs, but not great overall in my opinion.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:01 am

He teeters a fine line of being weird and seemingly like he's actively trying to seem weird. Which again, could just be my mood that day.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:06 am

Decemberists...I feel like they were on a TV show that I watch.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:12 am

I hate when I can't tell whether something is an honest question or an obvious setup.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:13 am

Jerloma wrote:Decemberists...I feel like they were on a TV show that I watch.

They appeared on Parks & Rec during the unity concert.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:14 am

AB_skin_test wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Decemberists...I feel like they were on a TV show that I watch.

They appeared on Parks & Rec during the unity concert.

Loved that episode, and looking forward to watching the two episodes from this week on my DVR.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:15 am

mister d wrote:He teeters a fine line of being weird and seemingly like he's actively trying to seem weird. Which again, could just be my mood that day.

He's a creative writing major, so there's a good chance he's weird, but also a good chance that he can create weirdness when it isn't there.

So no help to you there.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:15 am

govmentchedda wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Decemberists...I feel like they were on a TV show that I watch.

They appeared on Parks & Rec during the unity concert.
Loved that episode, and looking forward to watching the two episodes from this week on my DVR.

They are phenoms.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:17 am

AB_skin_test wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Decemberists...I feel like they were on a TV show that I watch.

They appeared on Parks & Rec during the unity concert.

Oh yes, that's right!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:19 am

So a Glee joke would have worked, huh?

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:21 am

I know we already answered the question, but...

...anyway.

That French Guy · Post by **That French Guy** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:08 pm

mister d wrote:Pitchfork gave it a 5.6. Sleater-Kinney 8.7, Belle & Sebastian 6.6 round out the release day that should have happened a decade ago.

Cool, I had completly forgotten B&S had a New album out. Thanks.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:00 pm

AB. et al., I highly recommend the Black Prairie album of last year, it's a band composed of most of the Decemberists sans Mr Meloy.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:44 pm

Rush2112 wrote:AB. et al., I highly recommend the Black Prairie album of last year, it's a band composed of most of the Decemberists sans Mr Meloy.

It was awesome.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:53 pm

Rush2112 wrote:AB. et al., I highly recommend the Black Prairie album of last year, it's a band composed of most of the Decemberists sans Mr Meloy.

Is he the lead singer? If so, good move.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:07 pm

P.D.X. wrote:
Rush2112 wrote:AB. et al., I highly recommend the Black Prairie album of last year, it's a band composed of most of the Decemberists sans Mr Meloy.
Is he the lead singer? If so, good move.

Yes. Colin Meloy is the lead singer/songwriter. Black Prairie leans more toward the bluegrass and Americana than the Decemberists as well.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:03 pm

RANKING THE BILLY JOEL CATALOG

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:07 pm

1. That dorky song where you can tell he wishes he was cooler.
2. That dorky song where you can tell he wishes he was cooler.
3. The one about masturbating.
4. That dorky song where you can tell he wishes he was cooler.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:13 pm

I have all sorts of issues with that list but I'm guessing there's nobody that wouldn't have issues with mine either.