The Batlord

Rev Biz are kind of easier, since they only have three full lengths, one being pure trad doom, the second being stoner doom with trad doom, and the third being a much more mixed combo with long, long songs between 20 and 30 minutes long where they just stretched themselves out as much as they could to have fun. But the first two albums were over an hour long and the third was a double album two hours long. And that's not counting the EPs that can be as long as many bands' albums. So they're absurd with sounding like they have less material than they really do. They're self-consciously ridiculous in a fun way.

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Neapolitan

I thought it was Joni Mitchell and Carol King who create the female singer/songwriter mold?

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MicShazam

They did, but Tori Amos, AniDefranco, Heather Nova, Alanis Morisette... they were part of a sort of revival of this archetype - only now more hip and edgy. You could say that Suzanne Vega was more of the old school, despite being from about the same time period as Tori Amos.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

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SoundboardTerrorSquad

later Coltrane> early Coltrane

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Frownland

Not sure how unpopular that is but I hella agree. I always wonder what jazz would be like if Coltrane had another 10 years.

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OccultHawk

On the annual 24 hour Coltrane birthday broadcast on Columbia University Radio two birthdays ago... I can’t remember the guy’s name but he’s probably the world’s foremost expert on Coltrane. He was very carefully explaining with examples how his sound developed. The point he was making was that even his most difficult stuff, the later, and even final recordings are very rooted in his early stuff. Everything he does is an extension of something that comes before. It may sound like you could say that about anyone but with Coltrane (we’re moving from his words to mine) it’s startlingly organic. Like his music actually has DNA or genetic coding. It’s important to appreciate the entire organism of Coltrane’s music as a single and sacred entity.

I realize it’s simply untrue to say there’s no such thing as late period Coltrane but at the core of it, it doesn’t exist in isolation, nor does his earlier stuff exist in isolation either. People who were alienated from late period Coltrane never really understood his earlier stuff. And that even includes Miles Davis. But the reverse is also true. His earlier stuff is held within his later stuff. It’s all crucial.

And Frown, there was nowhere left for him to go. He was expressing his death through his sound. The end of his career was an expression of his existence in the face of the infinite. He had to be dying to say this is me as closely connected to the universe as I can possibly be as I spiral off.

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i like this post.

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Lucem Ferre

I hate it when people crank the bass up in their cars when listening to rap (or music in general) so that the only thing you can hear is that bass and nothing else. I want to hear the music too, goddammit.

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MicShazam

Subwoofers are a lame invention. If your sound system is even remotely passable, there's no need for extra bass. You're just making the mix all lopsided.