Michael Snyder

Thank you, Dawn!

@YourFiendTina A lot of the album Blood Music (1993) by Chapterhouse fits the bill.

I kinda wanna listen to Rock music that has a Techno song structure does that exist?

I sort of space out as I’m re-reading Walker Percy’s THE MOVIEGOER (FSG, 1962) but I think that is the author’s intention, to put us in the headspace of his narrator. I can see why he liked James Purdy (Cf MALCOLM, FSG, 1959) and nominated him for an award.

@cheekygal777 What should the total novice listen to? I have to admit I couldn’t name a single song by Fiona Apple. 🍏 Though I’m sure I’ve heard her music.

Fiona Apple is the best songwriter of all time

Like...if I had to explain Prince in the most simplistic way possible. He was the most gifted student in the gifted class. He's like if Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Betty Davis, James Brown and Little Richard were all put in a blender. Unique artist.

All I will say about that New York Times songwriter list is: Jimmy Webb

A full 25-35 years after their being celebrated by a phalanx of hip music critics, several indie artists will be in the coming months performing in Oklahoma City for the first time. Hey thanks for acknowledging our existence as your booking agent targets the remaining “markets”

@murphdogg29 Social media is fake; I’m talking about real people in real life. Prince shreds on guitar.

@murphdogg29 I have never heard a white person do anything but praise Prince and prime MJ (the latter on a talent basis).

The same way I see some white folk downgrading Prince, prime MJ or even Beyonce, I see a lot of Black folk downgrading the Beatles. I get it. White artists get a lot of overhyped glory (see Elvis). But the Beatles were the real deal, mane. Broke a lot of ground. Just saying.

Mitski? Stevie Nicks? David Byrne? Joanna Newsom? What a stupid list.

Sorry, Westerberg.

The New York Times has no idea what a “song” or a “songwriter” is. Fudge them.

@HiddenYorkshire Elvis has scores of great songs. It’s true he could have had more if Tom Parker hadn’t forced songwriters to hand over a big percentage of their copywrite royalties fie the privilege to write songs for Elvis but even so it’s an astounding catalog.

Elvis is one of those artists with generational talent let down by awful songwriters. He has about 10 really good songs and mountains of absolute dross. Yes yes we can't judge it by our standards, but dear me, just try working through his 60s soundtrack albums. Imagine the power of his 70s voice with some actually good songs written for him. Rubbernecking, If I Can Dream, Burning Love, A Little Less Conversation, In the Ghetto are all BANGERS, but the rest of his discography is Clambake and Return to Sender.

@HiddenYorkshire @FacileTalk King Creole is a great rocking song with a tasty arrangement referring to Elvis’s mixed ethnicity. Not a good example.

@FacileTalk Elvis Presley in Concert is one of my favourite films. But I'm not going to pretend that King Creole is some masterpiece of music.

@mgoldsm University of Oklahoma Press

what book publisher or imprint in your esteem has the highest hit rate for “i can basically pick up any random book from their list and be very happy with my reading experience”

@defamationation You’re thinking of New England.

@AmLit7 England is part of America, dumbass

Elvis Costello lowkey slept on re: nyt greatest living songwriters

@spiccarella Rock and roll has a backbeat on the two and four. Reggae has a staccato guitar chord on the two and four and a bass drum hit on three. The Ramones being rock and roll have a backbeat on two and four but often have a crash symbol and bass drum on the one.

The innovation that distinguished The Ramones from the acts that preceded them is called the “forcebeat,” which is a unique rhythmic variant in which all four beats of the measure are accented rather than the traditional one and three of rock or the two and four of reggae

Dennis Wilson on “Constant Companion” sounds just like Elvis Costello, or vice versa.