"A real realism about kind of aging." What?
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“The people seem nice and passionate about music, but this is another podcast "like-sortof-kindof" plague victim. Hard to justify allotting just 5 seconds per song sample while allowing such a flood of adolescent hipster affectations to ear-wade through each episode. Conversational naturalism is fine, but not verbal diarrhealism.
For example, nice to hear a pro like David Fricke speak adult human English well in the Iggy Pop episode, but then here's Jon Dolan's review of the album, after kindly saying he loved it and found it moving [and this is transcribed, not typos]:
"I was not sure what to expect from a new Iggy Pop solo album in 2016 really what it would kind of be like and like his going back to that, not, it doesn't necessarily always sound like that but this, the kind of predatory, stripped down kind of uh slithering sort of stoicism that has been kind of a quality of those records kind of comes through a little bit but the mood is a lot different like in those records like with Nightclubbing or I am Bored it was sort of 'gimme something' you know, 'I'm at the center of this, but show me something, I'm out,' you know.
"Now there's a sense, there's one song on here called Sunday where he's kind of like, 'I wait for Sunday, I can relax.' You know and there's other songs like you know, 'get me outta here,' kind of like you know 'I'm really thinking about I've seen this this stuff happen, I've seen my friends die,' you know, you just mentioned so many names you know and like he's he's seen his own life sort of, he's seen his own mortality and there's intimations of that on the record as well.
"But it's still trying to fight and find that kind of essential defiance and essential you know I don't know for a cliche, 'raw power,' that has that has been such a big part of his music as well. And and this sort of also this sort of sexuality, there's the thing about the 'America's greatest poet was ogling you last night,' in the hotel or, and these kind of lines that kind of like really balance these things or kind of almost maybe come to a kind of sense of 'I need to sort of close chapters but I still am this person who feels these things' and it's a very honest album and a and a there's a real realism about kind of aging as this figure and as almost maybe as this character. It's a moving record."
I suspect there's a nice thought in there. The record may move, but this review is a self-unmotivating breakdown. And unfortunately it's typical of much of the commentary and discussion, not just Dolan's. For me, it's often too much work to get through so I bail. But if that review looks like the language you speak, then you're home.”Read full review »
wjhn via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/22/19
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“I enjoy this podcast quite a bit. However, it does seemed rushed on occasion. The Grunge Album review episode seems like they could have discussed it longer, but chose not to for whatever reason. Also, I tend to be out of touch with many of the artist they cover, but that's a person problem....”Read full review »
IluvME66 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/17/19
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“Loved the Bowie episode”
Sam Hinton via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/15/16
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“Good content, but vocal fry makes it unlistenable.”
Fifi Jones via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/08/16
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