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Mazzy Star
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The Dictates of the Format
Whether you realize it or not, the way that you listen to music is dictated by the way it’s sold to you.
The “record album” was crippled and marched to extinction by a file-sharing website called Napster. Once users could cherry-pick the songs they desired for free, there was no longer any reason to package them together, or design art for them. Ipods were created once Apple saw the fortune to be reaped from people wanting a computer just to fill with audio files. Because there was no more incentive to craft a suite of tunes, or a concept album, everything went back to short pop music again. Because the convenience had redeemed it profitable.
I don’t like to lash out and spread negativity, but I truly hope the kid who created Napster sucks cocks in hell for eternity. It’s all that punk-ass’s fault. Continue reading
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Axl of Nazareth
I never liked Guns ‘N Roses, and this might surprise you, but my reasons are weird. On the surface, I found Axl Rose grating and embarrassingly trashy, although the other band members were really good, and their album Appetite For Destruction was my earliest exposure to the art of Rob’t Williams. But I never could abide a poseur, and in my opinion, Axl Rose has built a career impersonating the lead singer of Scottish hard-rock band Nazareth.
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Hole
The closest you can get to “a good Hole song” is the following. If there exists a female voice that science could prove is subconscious torture to heterosexual men, it would be Courtney Love’s. Continue reading
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Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers
BUM BUM BUM BUM BOMM BOMM
NOW IT’S IN YOUR HEAD
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Duran Duran
This strip is from ten years ago, and the last panel takes place twenty years ago. I didn’t get into weed heavily until around 1998, though. Sometime around the creation of the initial run of strips, interestingly enough. I don’t know, it’s hazy. Wonder why.
While an art school sophomore, I got a homework assignment that involved duplicating a known master’s art. I chose Rembrandt. This other kid chose Nagel. While the class spread our hard work out on the hallway floor for critique, an eccentric and stout professor (with a wonderfully incomprehensible name) dropped in from next door to speak with our teacher. As he did, he trod upon the counterfeit Nagel, scuffing and mangling it. He played it off like an accident, albeit halfheartedly, but we all knew it was a deliberate mercy killing.
Duran Duran takes their moniker from the Jane Fonda science-fiction ort Barbarella, a film so godawful, the director wisely stuck all the nudity in the opening credits.
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Four Songs That Fudged Christmas
Behold, I softened the strip’s headline in a way that doesn’t make me want to puke (one could argue it’s a ‘topical reference’), but also won’t scare off potential sharing visitors. Of course, when they read the strip itself, then they want to puke. As long as you share, in the spirit of the season!
From 2004:
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U2: F U
Let’s be realistic. U2, the band, has never, ever been good. I know you’ve been deluded into “thinking differently”, after all that drunken bellowing you did in junior high to “In The Name Of Love”. But I’m sorry. U2 sucks shit. Bono is a total asshole and “The Edge” is a clown. No U2 album has ever been worth listening to, that’s why no worthwhile artist, musician or critic ever springs to their defense. Their fan base is made up solely of people who would give anything to feel like they did at that U2 show in ’89… or just to feel filthy, stinking rich. This is why U2 has become the ultimate corporate sell-out joke. No one will ever listen to their music unless they are literally forced. And now, that’s exactly their sales gambit.
U2’s Free Album Downloaded By Less Than 5% of Users
These whores tried the same shit with Apple almost ten years ago, while pushing their last rack of inanity. Because St. Jobs loved U2 so much, so shall all the Macfags in lockstep. Because they “think different”.
From a 2005 BIUL, “New Year’s Resolution Suggestions”
This is what happens when you hit it big, get famous, and spend decades farting around a mansion instead of developing what bought it for you. The same thing happens every single time, and every musician starts out saying the same thing.
“I’ll never sell out like those whores.”
And every time they do, and we all get to suffer for it.
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