Maybe it was Peppermint Lounge. What matters—PINK GINGHAM BUNNY SUIT. And Gang of Four showed up backstage all dressed as cowboys

Oh wow. Terrible news.

Mr. Zeke@mrzeke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And they were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today too. This sucks.

#RockHall prediction: Likely to be inducted: Carey, Collins, Hill, INXS, Sade, Buckley, Maiden Who should get inducted: Vandross, New Order, Maiden, INXS, Wu-Tang, Buckley, Carey

repost if you’re older than this calendar that’s been barely hanging on in grandma’s house since september 1996

One of his more overlooked singles. Great track, liebling!

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

I mean, Leppard were never really a “hair” band, so the guy’s opinion is suspect anyway.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I think they were talking more about bands like Ratt, but Def Leppard always kinda sucked

It had a lot to do with how record companies were selling CDs, especially for rock and alternative artists. They held back commercial singles to get you to buy the album, or marketed promo only singles to certain markets. Apple has five AAA Top 20 hits but only one Billboard Hot 100 due to this.

sam@samthielman.com · 10mo ago

I’m sure this is true for many people of different ages but a thing I really liked about growing up in the 1990s was that a band with one weird radio hit would have a whole discography of good stuff that only you wanted to hear. The Butthole Surfers, Ween, Fiona Apple—they all had exactly one hit

Every Breath You Take With Or Without You Love Hurts I Will Always Love You Without You Love The Way You Lie You’re Beautiful Crash Into Me He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss) I Will Possess Your Heart The One I Love Hello I Will Follow You Into The Dark Why do people not read lyric sheets?!?

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Fleetwood Mac 's "Silver Springs" is a trending sound right now at least on Insta, and people are using it for ... their wedding videos and getting brunch with friends. they hear "you won't forget me" and go "awww 🥹" 🫠 You don't even need to know the background, just actually listen to the song

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

This single (and album) changed my life.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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The album that kickstarted my Bowiephilia. Now I have just about everything he recorded.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Indeed. Changed my ears forever.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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I think about this a lot. There is an argument that “Hysteria” is the Mount Everest of the form. Mutt and the band threw everything they could at the structure of rock and this was as much as it could take and still wildly succeed. Try to do more and it’s nonsense. Try to do less, it’s reactionary.

The One True Poster@onetrueposter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's interesting that Mutt Lange production would prove a bit of a dead end in rock, which would instead sort of swallow its own tail over its own ideas of authenticity over the ensuing decades, and that it would instead get transplanted to country

Revisiting Kiss a bit since Frehley’s death. They’re really not that great a band, if we’re honest. They stumble on a hook, then underserve it with single-entendres. But this! This song has a great feel all the way through. Wonder if Frehley actually played on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_c...

Kiss - Sure Know Something

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There are some days I feel this is the best song Prince ever recorded. Today was one of those days. So was yesterday. Maybe tomorrow, too…

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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Women don’t care about the Cybertruck. The wonderful woman in my life wants only one thing.

Travels With Brindle is still composing a silent movie score@travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Women don’t care about the Cybertruck. Women want only one thing, and it’s a ticket to the 20th Century Limited.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

One of his very best singles. And that’s saying something.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · last yr.

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Remember when Tuesday ruled cuz new CDs came out??

Haven’t watched it in a while but Timberlake’s face. Iggy to the suits: “FEEL the music. Feel SOMETHING.”

🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ THRaKaTTaKeR 🤘🏻🏳️‍🌈@thrakattaker.bsky.social · last yr.

How am I only just seeing this now, 17 years after the fact!?! Iggy/Stooges/Madonna/Mike Watt nirvana!

I guess I have three therapists.

Travels With Brindle is still composing a silent movie score@travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · last yr.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist.

I love David Lee Roth saying “the reason the critics like Elvis Costello more than us is because they all look like Elvis Costello.” And also Tokyo Storm Warning rules. Blood and Chocolate is solid. I’m sure Costello hates Halen. Music is a land of contrasts

Notes on Camp: on David Lee Roth

The case for a Camp reading of one of rock’s greatest frontmen

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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

This is, by some distance, my favorite John Mayer song.

PORCELAIN

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I miss having shared cultutal moments that aren't traumatic.