Mastodawn

I love how on Goo the song Mary Christ ends with the intro to Kool Thing.

I'm sure the original plan was to merge the two songs together but for whatever reason, they decided not to. I think that's why it is how it is.

But I like how they just left it as it was, without rerecording or editing Mary Christ.

Maybe they just realised they preferred it that way, or maybe they just couldn't be bothered to change it, or maybe the change would bring less pleasing results.

Whatever it is, it is what it is.

But that's how art and creativity is sometimes. Happy accidents as Bob Ross would say.

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Lydia Conwell Jan 18

Me listening to Goo

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Lydia Conwell Jan 18

#KimGordon

Girl in a Band #Book is good, but some things are just completely skipped over, not given any attention.

I'd like to know what the recording process was like for each album. Not necessarily technical stuff, but what it was like working with different people, what they were trying to achieve, how stressful it was, etc.

She mentions what certain songs were about and that interests me - the ideas that inspired the lyrics, etc.

But she cherry picks the songs and doesn't talk about all of them. I'd like to know a little bit more sometimes, especially since #SonicYouth lyrics can be a little bit abstract at times.

When she reveals the thinking behind a song, it makes me see the song in a different way, and lyrics that meant nothing to me suddenly become a little bit more interesting.

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Lydia Conwell Jan 18

... the writing of Bottom is mostly about the jokes. There's a clever interweaving of ideas, how something is mentioned, a joke is made, but then it is later referred back to, to make another joke. But there's a clever contradictory nature about these jokes, where one minute they say one thing, the next they are saying something entirely different. All that matters it that the joke is made.

So storywise, Bottom episodes are all over the place but it doesn't matter. But there's still a clear 3-act structure to them - and initial set up, a middle, a conclusion.

As for Kim Gordon, I think it's common for musicians to just play stuff and when they like something, build upon that. But Kim mentions her band Free Kitten and how people saw it as maybe a joke band and how she didn't have a lot of time to dedicate to it.

But I love Free Kitten and I've never seen it as some kind of ironic endeavour. Sure, it's kind of a loose-ends sort of thing, but that's what makes it great when it works.

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Lydia Conwell Dec 14

The last #PunkSunday was in 2024. I think I posted some after then but my last instance was liquidised.

Here's Xray Spex

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?index=5&list=PLd8Bxzvyv9jm2vuIOTP47ejjcdA9Pv3p-&v=htLQMXl3fx4