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Michael Snyder

@AmLit7

Literary Man; Author of JAMES PURDY: LIFE OF A CONTRARIAN WRITER (Oxford UP); OUR OSAGE HILLS; JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS: LIFE OF AN OSAGE WRITER. jazz, dreampop, 60s

Oklahoma, USA Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
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”
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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
@murphdogg29 Social media is fake; I’m talking about real people in real life. Prince shreds on guitar.
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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
@murphdogg29 I have never heard a white person do anything but praise Prince and prime MJ (the latter on a talent basis).
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Keith Murphy
Keith Murphy@murphdogg29·
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.
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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
Mitski? Stevie Nicks? David Byrne? Joanna Newsom? What a stupid list.
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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
The New York Times has no idea what a “song” or a “songwriter” is. Fudge them.
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Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
@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.
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Catherine Warr
Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·
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.
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Catherine Warr
Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·
@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.
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michael 🙆🏻‍♂️ goldsmith
michael 🙆🏻‍♂️ goldsmith@mgoldsm·
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”
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defamation nation@defamationation·
Elvis Costello lowkey slept on re: nyt greatest living songwriters
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Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
@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.
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Stephen Piccarella
Stephen Piccarella@spiccarella·
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
donaldparkinson🇵🇸@donaldp1917

The Ramones are just evidence that you can do nothing innovative at all but be praised as trailblazers by the music press if you are in the right place at the right time and marketed right

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Michael Snyder@AmLit7·
Dennis Wilson on “Constant Companion” sounds just like Elvis Costello, or vice versa.
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Joel Berry
Joel Berry@JoelWBerry·
Writing with AI is becoming so ubiquitous that it's going to start changing the way people write naturally. In other words, we'll soon start seeing completely original writing that reads like AI, because the author is reading AI writing all the time. Need a term for that...
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
There’s nothing like the joy of reading a book so strange you wonder how it could ever be filmed. Today I’m sharing some of my favorite WEIRD CLASSICS:
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ tweet media
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
I strongly encourage you to ignore the bestseller lists & seek out niche, forgotten books. Algorithms make this harder than ever, so you have to be intentional about finding fiction that resonates uncannily. We become interesting over a lifetime of reading strange books.
Salomé Sibonex@SalomeSibonex

It’s very important you read random, weird obscure books nobody puts on lists and aren’t part of some well-known tradition. The unpopular books that inexplicably intrigue you are meant to shape you.

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Jomana
Jomana@cheekygal777·
My favourite Fiona Apple songs Fast as you can Largo Tymps Carrion Ladies A mistake Rack of his Criminal Better version of me Werewolf The way things are Extraordinary machine Heavy balloon I want you to love me
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Michael Snyder
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@gooolixx Don’t forget all those tasty Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 LPs of the 60s.
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