Odds and Ends 005

There ain't no help, the Cavalry stayed home

There it is boys and girls. Whatcha gonna do about it?

is Louis K pazz or jop.  Isn't that the criteria for the list?

It's a rekkid of sound. You put it on. You play it. It makes noise. It's not a painting, a book, a play, a movie, a dance or a multi-media performance piece. If you become a music Inquisitor, then the question arises: how much music does a rekkid have to have on it before you don't burn it at the stake? Two songs? A little playing on half the cuts? A bit of music every track?

If I'd ever run across a new, no-question-classica​l recording that gripped me as hard as any record I'd heard that year, and one that had clear potential to affect a wide audience, it would have gone on my Pazz and Jop ballot, not as a "protest," but because I would argue it belonged there. (The finest Beethoven recording of the year, unless there was some miraculous audience-catnip innovation about it, would not belong.)

I think I was warm to the new ****ed Up before Michael posted his review, but he was warmer than I was at the time. Then I wound up voting for it in P&J and he didn't.

Like I said, excellent in pieces, not as a whole.  Much like the last Arcade Fire album (with talent differential factored in).

Jason once told me that good critics change their minds.  I'm not sure that's healthy all the time (and neither does he, I'm sure) but re-thinking your position is not such a bad thing.   Certainly, my take on the Weeknd changed with each successive mixtape.

Resisting urge to paste the usually astute Tatum's review of House of Balloons only because I still owe him for Cartagena! (Maybe F-cked Up too, or was that Joey?)