The Poptimist is Always Disappointed
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Gabriella Cilmi ‘Boys’ from the 2010 album ‘Ten’
I’ve sort of overdone tweeting about this album, which is over a year old anyway. So let this be an end to it. I was not expecting anything from the album, like most people, as the stuff she put out in 2008/2009 was pretty dismal and uninteresting. Then ‘On A Mission’ was down as a one-off (and it was later overshadowed by Katy B innit).
I’ve played little else these last few weeks. It’s not quite as awesome as Come And Get It (which others had already compared it to) but it’s got a solid hit-rate of hooks and I’m still not skipping any tracks - not even the ballad. Blimey.
How To Listen To Music (via jakec)
I just don’t see what we gain by assuming bad faith in what people say about their tastes. Usually it just serves to uphold the bankrupt assumptions those claiming falseness have about the music in question. (“You don’t really like it, though.”)
I’ll defend an interpretation of the original quote. It’s not if you like it, but WHY you think you do or don’t that’s questionable. We are not transparent to ourselves as to the source of our instinctive feelings and reactions.
(I’m no good at tumblr etiquette so might have muffed up the post and attribution here, sorry)(via cureforbedbugs)
Guardian column day - this one’s about my ambivalence towards the new Fleet Foxes album, and ideas of consistency and comfort in pop.
Where I’ve obsessed over an album to the point of thinking ‘I just wish there was more tracks like this’ and then the artist’s next album was more of the same, it’s always been a disappointment. That I can think of. 00s example: Ladytron’s follow up to Witching Hour, 90s example: Moby’s follow up to Play.
Of course, I may well be conveniently forgetting ‘more of the same, good’
Deep Heat ‘89 - Latino Mix/Latino Rave
In relation to the post on Deep Heat 89 on Freakytrigger, this megamix 12” version, that was purely a promo for the album, helpfully de-duplicates the palette of sounds in common to those tracks. I played this a lot at the time, and I’m not sure where I lost my copy to (I still have my Numero Uno 12” from the same time)
The question “hold on, why are you paying attention to this stuff and not to that stuff?” is a) fundamental, b) often hard to ask politely, c) very much in the interests of the attention-payers not to answer.
I’m late to this party - and I’m sort of not getting into tumblr, so it’s vanishingly pointless of me to respond to this. The question is not fundamental at all - it is usually a presumptuous (“I paid enough attention for my liking, thank you”) and invidious way of wrapping the fundamental and unreasonable question ‘why don’t you like what i like as much as I do’ with something intended to sound reasonable. It is a cunt’s trick.
(Source: alexmacpherson)
