St Vincent
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Too Art School Precious for me. I like her playing well enough, but all I've heard (and I bought one album) seems so intellectual, calculated, bloodless. Same problem I have with David Byrne post Talking Heads, but at least he used to know that music comes from the pelvis as much as the brain.
FiguredMaple
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I like the music as much as the guitar.......NO.....sorry
http://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/st-vincent
http://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/st-vincent
Well, she is right that her uncle tuck andress is "crazy good"
Can't walk away from this. Need to say more. It sucks. Big time. Suxsuxsux
What the fuck is this? Ive listened to a lot of different music. ( Captain beef heart anyone? ) This, is just .... wrong.
What the fuck is being shoved in our faces these days. ... (auto correct tried to put feces instead of faces. Should have left it.)
God damn I need a joint, some jack, and some serious fukkin guitar playin. ....
Rant over, I'm going to bed,
C
What the fuck is this? Ive listened to a lot of different music. ( Captain beef heart anyone? ) This, is just .... wrong.
What the fuck is being shoved in our faces these days. ... (auto correct tried to put feces instead of faces. Should have left it.)
God damn I need a joint, some jack, and some serious fukkin guitar playin. ....
Rant over, I'm going to bed,
C
My fucking head just exploded.
Maybe she can play rhythm while he solos on his fucking toaster or his toilet, or whatever he's making retarded noises with these days.
Ting Ho Dung
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@ about 1:40 I saw a girl in the audience turn to someone and mouth the words:
Guys --I'm going to say that the music in the video is awesome -- but it's heavily edited and carved up --- you know that right? Like these are mashups of various breaks and noise from the whole show made to sound like a single long noise take. In context this stuff all works - mashed together it's harder to digest -- but in context with the whole performance in the songs she absolutely rocks it. Think Robert Fripp & David Bowie, or Adrian Belew -- some great stuff. It's actually less avant guarde than you think.
Shut it down at 2:45. Not interested, even though the ability and chops are there. Never been a fan of musical dissonance...usually 'coz it ain't too musical.
Happened to notice the matching outfits and the tippy-toe choreography, and perhaps that underlines that I didn't/couldn't relate to the music.
And while it isn't necessarily my opinion, one wonders to what extent such a presentation (and perhaps even the sig guitar) is interpreted by some as gender tokenism, even though I'm sure she could hold her own in a more melodic environment, if she chose to do so.
Someone once told me that the late Rahsaan Roland Kirk said: "Bad music isn't music."
YMMV
Happened to notice the matching outfits and the tippy-toe choreography, and perhaps that underlines that I didn't/couldn't relate to the music.
And while it isn't necessarily my opinion, one wonders to what extent such a presentation (and perhaps even the sig guitar) is interpreted by some as gender tokenism, even though I'm sure she could hold her own in a more melodic environment, if she chose to do so.
Someone once told me that the late Rahsaan Roland Kirk said: "Bad music isn't music."
YMMV
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You understand though that these are snippets of the whole show woven together just to feature this stuff? I'd have a hard time listening to 15 minutes of noise from Robert Fripp too but in the context of an actual concert I'd suggest judgment here is to be reserved. Imagine if we just had 15 minutes of Fripp Noise and Bowie doing weird dance moves woven together -- we'd think they were terrible and wouldn't be able to imagine they could actually have something remotely compelling with respect to a performance....
If the idea behind a "collage/"compilation" like this was to, er, "accentuate the abstract," so to speak, some folks could almost interpret it as a hit piece; i.e. the first cut is the deepest and could form an initial negative opinion.
And yes, it might be interesting to hear what she could offer (if and) when she plays melodically, but if some player's material is not sonically-attractive to some listeners at the outset, why would those listeners wanna proceed further? For many, it wouldn't be worth the time or expense.
And yes, it might be interesting to hear what she could offer (if and) when she plays melodically, but if some player's material is not sonically-attractive to some listeners at the outset, why would those listeners wanna proceed further? For many, it wouldn't be worth the time or expense.
I love what she does. Of course I understand why many don't, so it's amazing she's had as much success as she has.