shitting on their own legend

[blissblogger]

"legend" may not be the operative word, but the way that Animal Collective have eroded whatever standing they had about 11 or 12 years ago is quite remarkable

 

[craner]

Hell on Earth is really good. Albeit not The Infamous.

There's some good tracks on Murda Muzik too. After that it was pretty much over, bar a few songs here and there.

They really suffered from Prodigy's (presumably health related) decline.

About every five years we get around to arguing with Luke about the relative merits of Hell on Earth, and I guess it's that time again.

 

[maxi]

hell on earth has a cheap and sinewy quality that i love. just film noir grit and no jazziness or soulfulness like infamous. not saying its better but..

 

[linebaugh]

Honestly Death Grips is The Crystal Method for the 2010s generation and that's all I'll say. Get some Tatsuya Yoshida down yer gullet.

had I ever heard a crystal method song Im sure this would make me quite mad

 

[linebaugh]

this does sound alot like something hill would do though

 

[thirdform]

this does sound alot like something hill would do though

And about 30x times better.

 

[thirdform]

As for the concept of 'teenage music', it's a petit-bourgeois microcapitalist mentality.

 

[luka]

What is a microcapitalist? Tiny like the monopoly man? Like you could pick him up and drop him down the plughole?

 

[version]

had I ever heard a crystal method song Im sure this would make me quite mad

Need for Speed: Underground classic,

 

[IdleRich]

the golden age has now been temporally dwarfed by its not-golden-age by a factor of three or four or even five

With this comment I'm picturing a cigarette that is eighty percent filter.

 

[version]

Is there anyone who's shat on their legend so spectacularly they've somehow enhanced it?

 

[linebaugh]

Kanye probably

 

[thirdform]

What is a microcapitalist? Tiny like the monopoly man? Like you could pick him up and drop him down the plughole?

You could, yes.

 

[john eden]

Is there anyone who's shat on their legend so spectacularly they've somehow enhanced it?

Maybe Lee Perry. Incredible music in the 60s and 70s. Then mainly terrible music, but nobody minded because he just meandered around the world being bonkers.

 

[bunnnnnn]

Laibach really should've knocked it on the head some time around 1989 but still, there they are. Not sure they've really destroyed their legacy, more milked it beyond its worth, playing in North Korea, receiving endless indulgence for their persistence by being art-world adjacent and also being that funny Austro-Slovenian are they/aren't they fascist band.

 

[blissblogger]

Maybe Lee Perry. Incredible music in the 60s and 70s. Then mainly terrible music, but nobody minded because he just meandered around the world being bonkers.

I saw a Lee Perry live gig at Dingwalls in 87 or 88 that was fucking awful. the bloke i was went with said it was like going to see Johnny Thunders.

 

[sufi]

I saw a Lee Perry live gig at Dingwalls in 87 or 88 that was fucking awful. the bloke i was went with said it was like going to see Johnny Thunders.

I went to his 80th birthday at the Fridge - he was luminous, and rowdy

 

[sufi]

I tell you who has done the opposite of shitting on the legend, though you won't thank me for it,
Rick Astley has some sort of innate meme genius that he is just beginning to cotton on to

 

[version]

I tell you who has done the opposite of shitting on the legend, though you won't thank me for it,
Rick Astley has some sort of innate meme genius that he is just beginning to cotton on to

This, from his Reddit AMA, was good,

 

[blissblogger]

It's a singular act of defecation more than a prolonged self-enshitenment, but all the members of Talking Heads - with the exception of David Byrne - did reform in 1996 as The Heads, releasing an album No Talking, Just Head, with the vocals handled by people like Andy Partridge, Gavin Friday, Maria McKee, Gordon Gano et al.

They then toured with all the vocals supplied by Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde.