What the Fucked Up?
Everyone's favorite limited edition 7" pressing Canadian "hardcore" band Fucked Up has taken some interesting turns lately. Putting out a long winded 2xlp on Jade Tree, releasing a mix tape w/ professed love for c86ers the Shop Assistants (can't find a link to the tracklist), putting out a long winded PROG-HARDCORE 12" on home-of-Cause Co-Motion label What's Yr Rupture, and covering hip-for-now French House duo JUSTICE via VICE RECORDS. WTF?
Who are they targeting? Who likes indie-pop, techno, prog & hardcore? Unfortunately it would be someone like me (or most hipsters cool kids these days who have post-napster omnivorous taste). Unfortunately because these new paths, new directions, new fusions could be good, but aren't. Or better said the fusion is not inherently bad, just not successful because the songs are CRAP. So I'm not saying Fucked up needs to stick to 1:30 hardcore ragers, but if they wanna branch out they got to do better than they've done. The "Year of the Pig" 12" might be the least listenable piece of music I've bought this year (after the new Circle LP Katapult - how's that for hype/buzz leading to kill dick crap) and the Justice cover does nothing for anything. I wanna cut them some slack because they recorded some ragers, but when they jump in bed w/ Vice (which is fine, doesn't seem to have affected Black Lips, yet) but don't back it up w/ more raging good tunes, ummm, it's kind of a killjoy. (and to claim allegiance to mid-80's brit guitar rock and to stop at the shop assistants is a typical travesty of punk/hardcore branching out myopathy. Um, you think there might be some other good bands in that realm?)
oh yeah. Diamondbacks in 7. (can the baseball prospectus & espn & other prognosticator types stop using the d-backs run for various pro & con BS around the value/non-value of sabrmetrics? I haven't read it, but I imagine Men At Work is short on statistical analysis, and wouldn't that be a better ideal for sports (and especially) baseball writers?)
Who are they targeting? Who likes indie-pop, techno, prog & hardcore? Unfortunately it would be someone like me (or most hipsters cool kids these days who have post-napster omnivorous taste). Unfortunately because these new paths, new directions, new fusions could be good, but aren't. Or better said the fusion is not inherently bad, just not successful because the songs are CRAP. So I'm not saying Fucked up needs to stick to 1:30 hardcore ragers, but if they wanna branch out they got to do better than they've done. The "Year of the Pig" 12" might be the least listenable piece of music I've bought this year (after the new Circle LP Katapult - how's that for hype/buzz leading to kill dick crap) and the Justice cover does nothing for anything. I wanna cut them some slack because they recorded some ragers, but when they jump in bed w/ Vice (which is fine, doesn't seem to have affected Black Lips, yet) but don't back it up w/ more raging good tunes, ummm, it's kind of a killjoy. (and to claim allegiance to mid-80's brit guitar rock and to stop at the shop assistants is a typical travesty of punk/hardcore branching out myopathy. Um, you think there might be some other good bands in that realm?)
oh yeah. Diamondbacks in 7. (can the baseball prospectus & espn & other prognosticator types stop using the d-backs run for various pro & con BS around the value/non-value of sabrmetrics? I haven't read it, but I imagine Men At Work is short on statistical analysis, and wouldn't that be a better ideal for sports (and especially) baseball writers?)
posted by furtanic at 4:03 PM
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okay i was wrong about nlds... maybe wrong about nlcs too? rox in 4? maybe it's the reverse sports illustrated curse. i just opened the newest one (with jeff francis on the cover, so much for curses) and it says "brandon webb to be first 3 game winner since randy johnson." inside-the-issue curse!
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