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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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Fatboy Slim

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“Praise You”, which is now stuck in my goddamn head too, features a sample from the theme from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, so adjust your prejudices accordingly.

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Moby-Lookin’ Monday

 

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Credit where it’s due: I just listened to Moby’s self-titled debut for the first time in ages, beginning to end. It’s pretty enjoyable actually. I really think it was the stench of Cool World.

 

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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"

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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