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Post by Teddy Flair on Jul 30, 2022 11:36:06 GMT -5
Also my favorite part of this survivor is having absolutely no idea what will win. I have a general theory of what the top might look like, but that's it
Consider this: Kentucky is the Bluegrass state. D.W. Griffith is the director of the 1915 film Birth of a Nation which glorified the return of the Ku Klux Klan. He was born and raised in Kentucky. Kentucky is also currently home to the headquarters of the Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Three of Kentucky’s primary exports are banjo music, drive-thru fried chicken, and racism.
What’re we considering hyperpop? And why the fuck is hardcore still here?
Because some people still like to listen to shit that isn’t wimpy. We like to slam. We like to skank. We like to mosh. We like to headbang. We like to throw up gang signs and middle fingers. We like it hard baby.
Anyone going after jam this early hates mushrooms, weed, musicians, pasta, hippies, laughing gas, grilled cheese, crystals, pets, North Rhine-Westfalia, their grandmothers, DMT and themselves.
Anyone going after jam this early hates mushrooms, weed, musicians, pasta, hippies, laughing gas, grilled cheese, crystals, pets, North Rhine-Westfalia, their grandmothers, DMT and themselves.
For me, I think the drugs are the best thing at jam band concerts.
I also have a low tolerance for Reggae aside from the classics. I enjoy it for about 4-5 songs and then I tap out.
I will take blues and jazz over reggae and jam bands any day. That doesn’t mean you won’t catch me at a jam band show, though. 😎
I know my opinions on jam bands and reggae are likely unpopular on this board so don’t throw me into the dumpster….
Jam bands were a huge part of me discovering the festival scene and expanding my music tastes. My first Bonnaroo introduced it to me and it was my go-to concert experience for like 5 years.
But then I moved to Asia and learned that jam bands are like the american football of music, in that no one outside of the States gives a shit and even make fun of it for how silly it seems from an outside perspective. So after a decade of not being around anyone who had an interest and not having access to the right drugs to enjoy it, it very much fell off for me.
I won't cast a vote for it, but am fine with it leaving at any time.
Anyone going after jam this early hates mushrooms, weed, musicians, pasta, hippies, laughing gas, grilled cheese, crystals, pets, North Rhine-Westfalia, their grandmothers, DMT and themselves.
Jam bands were a huge part of me discovering the festival scene and expanding my music tastes. My first Bonnaroo introduced it to me and it was my go-to concert experience for like 5 years.
But then I moved to Asia and learned that jam bands are like the american football of music, in that no one outside of the States gives a shit and even make fun of it for how silly it seems from an outside perspective. So after a decade of not being around anyone who had an interest and not having access to the right drugs to enjoy it, it very much fell off for me.
I won't cast a vote for it, but am fine with it leaving at any time.
hows the live music scene in Seoul? also that makes a lot of sense re: jam, its never been my cup of tea and now im starting to realize it never appears on any international lineups I see
I’ve seen maybe a couple hundred jam shows or sets, and most of them were good. From Dead, Allman Brothers, Phish, Lotus, Umphreys, Tauk, Goose, PPPP, STS9, TAB, even minor acts like Magic Beans were almost all good to great. But then there is the Jamflowman. I will vote for jam if that hellacious song is ever linked - unless it’s in the final round with pop, disco or modern R&B
hows the live music scene in Seoul? also that makes a lot of sense re: jam, its never been my cup of tea and now im starting to realize it never appears on any international lineups I see
My early years in Korea I tried to make an effort. There was a yearly festival that had pretty big names mixed with local acts. In 2012 it had Radiohead, James Blake, Stone Roses. They moved it elsewhere, changed the name but still got acts like The Cure, Gorillaz. EDM is pretty big. They have Ultra Korea every spring that a lot of my friends would go to. There were several EDM festivals. Only one-off shows I caught were Deerhunter, The Flaming Lips, and DJ Shadow.
But it is like the third biggest metro in the world, so any noteworthy act doing a world tour would be bound to stop in at some point. Just you'd be paying a lot more than usual to cover expenses of air travel. I remember some of my friends going to Grimes, Thundercat, Cigarettes After Sex, FKJ, Tom Misch.
Local scenes are mostly acoustic singer songwriter, experimental, DJs, hip hop. I worked with a Korean American guy who was an aspiring hip hop artist. I saw him perform in a couple of clubs. He was pretty good. And of course the mainstream is the giant Kpop machine, but no one I really associated with cared too much about Kpop outside of a cultural, patriotic manner, unless they were my teenage students, or "Korea Baes" which are like the female equivalent to Korea of white guy otakus are for anime in Japan.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 30, 2022 14:39:32 GMT -5
I think the two best genres here that are specific enough to have an identity, are generally almost always enjoyable, are punk and house.
Genres like "pop" can mean anything from Charli XCX to Dave Matthews Band, and "rock" anything from Led Zeppelin to Daughtry.
While punk and house both have their subgenres, if someone says they are going to a punk show, or to see a DJ playing house music, you pretty much know what you are going to get. And while any genre has bad music, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be smiling and having fun seeing either punk or house live.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 30, 2022 14:41:11 GMT -5
Also punk and house music are more spiritually connected than I think most people realize. The originators of Chicago house were incredibly punk in their attitudes even if they didn't realize it. It's all music for misfits and misfits are generally the best kind of people.
Not mentioned much has been Soul. Motown and Stax put out some of the grooviest shit ever. I knew dozens of songs as a kid. It’s probably my favorite aspect of pop where it crosses over in the 60’s and 70’s.
I get reggae’s time is up. I’m not even going to accuse bigotry as people can judge for themselves on the early eliminations. I’m not generally paying extra, but I never at least didn’t have a chill time at a show. Even most of the white guy shit was a party live whenever I saw it.
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