Off to a korean rockabilly show. Apparently, Kimchibilly is the preferred nomenclature…
Build Us A Rocket, You Rocket Building Cunt
Will. English Teacher, Seoul. Fan of assorted geekery. Things happen to me, sometimes.
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Jan 28
I feel like a pretty princess
VY Canis Majoris is about the size of our entire solar system.
I fucking love space.
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Jan 27
annavelociraptor asked: Lol, I hope that girls a troll, "Grow up!" Coming from a 13 year old! Haha clearly her experience of the music industry is so very refined at her ripe old age.
I was a pretentious little shit at the age of 13, personally, so i have no room to judge. Since i started teaching, i feel like a should go back to school and just apologize too all the teachers i had. Hindsight.
Speaking of music industry, don’t you have an essay on the future of music marketing to be cracking on with? If you want me to distract you, i’m always on skype. Get to work, little miss.
Oh, and, last night, i dreamt at some point i was giving you piggy-back rides around the bullring. And then Batman happened for a while. All in all, good stuff.
Anonymous asked: I think you're missing out on what makes Enter Shikari such a good band. It's the unique, daring attitude they have towards their music. They couldn't care less what most people want to hear. That's the music they enjoy playing and the 'wubwubwub' parts purely enhance the songs live. It gets everybody bouncing. Better than a simple sing-a-long
I wouldn’t say i miss out on it. I would say, i dont care. Or, i don’t like it. I mean, i like them as a band. I like their most of their previous stuff. But unique and daring got them Take to the Skies. A slight change in sound and maturity got us Common Dreads, and that’s lovely.
Flash Flood, however, isn’t as good. It’s the same song 11 times, basically. No thematic change throughout the album other than “We’re very upset with the actions of the previous generation”. Nothing new there. And, if they couldn’t care less about their reception, it’d just be Rou Reynolds recording an hours worth doing the laundry, tidying about the studio. Everything is made for an audience.
Going wubwubwub live, to me, doesn’t enhance dick, and there’s plenty of bouncing to be had in, say, every other part of any other song they have recorded to date. A tempo breaking chunk chucked in from another genre, in particular another genre i don’t like, weakens the song. Also, what’s wrong with singalongs? I’d be willing to bet cash money that when you see them live, you sing along to every word.
» Build Us A Rocket, You Rocket Building Cunt: Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
Oi, to the stupid shit who wrote that, Enter Shikari have their own meaning of music and have their own way of showing it. Perhaps nothing does rhyme properly with ‘sustainability’, but has an other band tried to use words like that in their music? NO. Enter Shikari are fucking amazing, and you probably think I’m saying that as a Lion (fan), but I’m not. They actually have meaning. They’re different. They’re proud to be unique. How many other bands are as special and meaningful as them? Yeah, not many. Enter Shikari are fucking amazing (yes I know I have said that already, I’m just expressing it). Grow up and stop hating on unique music; I bet you couldn’t make anything as special as they can. Cheers, Abbie.S (PROUD LION FOR-FUCKING-EVER).in which they stop half way through an otherwise enjoyable song to take a steaming dubstep dump that completely derails the song and makes no particular sense. Band of Thieves, Warm Smiles… all ruined by a dollop of WUB.
Also, really letting the message get in the way of the music at this point….
Woah now, woah now. Hold on a second. Aside from “having your own meaning of music” meaning… well, not much at all seeing as all words and experiences expressed within a common language are intrinsically linked with certain ideas and experiences (for example, calling a malt biscuit music doesn’t make it so), and that just effort for being eco-conscious doesn’t get anyone a free pass for ham-fisted lyrical devices. There are neater, more abstract ways of dealing with sustainability and exhaustible supplies rather than “A train called sustainability”. I get it. Recycling good, drill baby drill bad.
I’ll call back again at this point to what i said about meaning. The meaning of Enter Shikari, or any band, isn’t a single song, album, or anything they might record. Meaning and intention are bloody ethereal in terms of music or any artistic expression. All we have is songs to judge them by. Being special and meaningful is subjective, i have so much love for Reuben, Oceansize, Hell is for Heroes, I Fight Dragons, Look Mexico and a whole myriad of other bands. Making the claim that they are your favourite and thus immune from criticism in any way is just being unsociable.
Shikari aren’t even unique any more, partly because they’ve made such a breakthrough success that imitators and also-rans are inevitable, and also because there are so many other musicians out there with similar backgrounds and tastes. Friend back from birmingham, Rob Moore, put together a hell of an album with one other friend, patience and some good ideas. I remember Spineshank and Static-X doing the nu-metal versions of electro 10 years ago. But anyway.
I don’t hate it. I’m not hating. I am not a hater. I even actually quite like the album. But chucking in an obligatory dubstep breakdown into every song just because “that’s what we do now” does me no favours. As for making something… well, that’s the dream, isn’t it. To make something that outlives us. Gotta try, right? Maybe i’ll make it big and be famous with whatever i figure out i want to do with my life. Maybe you will too. That’d be nice, Abby. Wait and see i guess.
P.S. I’ve tried to refrain from personal comments throughout this defence of my having an opinion on something, but i would say. You are 13. Do not tell anyone to grow up. You look silly.
notpsychedforthevortex asked: *Pack of thieves
What did i say? Pack, band, you get the idea. Editing now.
Name aside, it’s a good song. Nice chorus, stuff about friends changing the world, all hunky dory, and then 2.40 just… lads. Really. Ssssnakepit, Arguing with thermometers, all otherwise cracking tunes ruined by WOBWOBWOBWOBWOBWOBWUUUUUUB
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Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
in which they stop half way through an otherwise enjoyable song to take a steaming dubstep dump that completely derails the song and makes no particular sense. Band of Thieves, Warm Smiles… all ruined by a dollop of WUB.
Also, really letting the message get in the way of the music at this point. Perhaps none more hackneyed than the lyrics in Constellations. Look, nothing really works in rhythm with Sustainability. No Sleep Tonight was a great sounding, chantable anthem for mass dissatisfaction with catchy music, lyrics and message. There’s nothing anywhere near as complete on here.
Shame, really. Common Dreads really grew on me, Take to the Skies was a bit of a hot mess but certainly something fresh. This just seems like… like an E.P. Like a B-side collection from an album i missed somewhere along the line. I listen to it, i like it for a while, but not the attention grabbing, zeitgeist anthem i was expecting.
A solid C. Acceptable, but could do better.
