invited me to a “listening party” yesterday. I knew it wouldn’t be anything I wanted to go to, yet she insisted and so I had to go to be polite. The guy whose records we were listening to is one of those OCD cats who has a special, very expensive amplifier and a special, very expensive turntable, very expensive speakers… you get the point.
This was going to be a real treat. No it wasn’t. Pro tip..never ask someone who makes their own records to one of these things. They’re going to hate everything you play them. That someone would be me, of course. I can’t help sounding like an asshole in these situations because I hate most things. To get started our friend played us “something you might not have heard before’.
Baby please do go
I’d heard it before alright and I didn’t want to hear it again. John Lee Hooker in a live recording with the Rolling Stones? Fuck no. I hated it so much that I can’t even remember what the fucking song was called. “Baby Please Don’t Go”? Yes, that’s what it was, it just went on and on for like 20 fucking minutes. John Lee Hooker like a lot of these “Blues Legends” is very overrated. He’s good at what he does, but it’s not the pinnacle of anything in particular.
I realize this is heresy to besmirch the accepted dogma that black bluesmen invented rock and roll or whatever, but that’s my opinion. This was boring and monotonous and the Rolling Stones sucked.. The recording was live from possibly a TV show in the 1960’s, and it was an awful melange of a mess. I told the guy it sucked, so then he thought I might like something else.
I have no idea what that was, but it was worse than the first thing. Oh dear, I hate having to say what I think, but I hate even more faking that I like something when I don’t. That was that, I knew it would be like that, but it could have all been avoided. Never mind. At one point, to try and listen to something halfway decent I said, “What about some Steely Dan?” Turns out he threw them away, so it was downhill from then there on.
Yes? No, he gave them away too. This guy didn’t appear to be into how good the recording process was, or even the skills of arrangers and musicians at all. Both of those albums would have been very listenable because the art of the recording technique combined with the great musicianship. When somebody starts talking about the “whimsicality” of a certain song, it’s a fair bet they don’t understand anything about the recording process or what the sonic elements of it are. I understand that, but if it’s a pointless musical exercise and it’s also a poor recording, it’s hard to find anything you’d want to listen to.
Can I interest you in a Ukrainian Timeshare?
Yesterday I saw a news crawl to the effect that Anthony Albanese, Cuckstralia’s village idiot prime minister was thinking of sending Australian troops to Ukraine as part of a “peacekeeping force”. I haven’t much of an opinion on this fellow, but that’s not the smartest thing I’ve heard come out of his mouth. Ukraine is nowhere near fucking Australia, does he think this is like ANZAC type stuff? The guy’s an idiot. They’re all idiots actually. I can’t stand it.
The loser in the middle looks a lot younger than the other two. maybe he didn’t get vaxxed like they insisted
Speaking of uber idiots….the good news down there is that “Californian stadium punks Green Day will be unable to complete their current Australian tour, with their concert scheduled to happen at the Gold Coast’s Robina Stadium on Wednesday night cancelled due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred.” Oh no, what a shame! Aussies on the Gold Coast will be denied Anti-American communist/progressive lame sounding record company weasel douchebaggery. It’s a real tragedy. Maybe they could stay there? Please don’t come back here, you’re not fucking wanted. There’s enough anti-American assholes here already.
Cyclone Alfred – saving Australians from shitty music
Can’t mention the weather without invoking the gods of climate change. It’s real mental illness at this point.
Ay yi, someone has a barking dog outside. Maybe it’s my neighbor. She doesn’t hate me thank goodness. I think she thought the listening party was funny. Our friend had no idea he was inviting Beavis and Butthead.