New Hatred Unearthed

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm getting more easy-going in my old age but some music is just TOO bad to pass - viz Jeffrey Lewis who co-worker R. saw live the other week and bought the CD of and is now PLAYING the CD of IN THE OFFICE oh my heaven this is POOR, maybe even Arlo Guthrie poor, maybe even UNREST poor.

"Good lyrics" are starting to annoy me, I really am becoming a crank. Not good lyrics, "good lyrics", I take it you perceive the difference?

And gently strummed acoustic guitars too. I don't even LIKE coffee.

It's so intimate, though.

(apologies to skillextric who I know likes him.)

I'm going to do a poll now. Because I CAN.

[Poll #612927]

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

"Good lyrics" = oh yes. I had a GRATE REVELATION last year when I realised I don't like "songwriting".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like "songwriting" unless it's done by a "wordsmith".

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

On announcing this to all and sundry immediately post-revelation, it was pointed out I was wearing a 69 Love Songs T-shirt. My hurried retort: 'yeah but Stephin is so good it doesn't matter, plus to large a extent 69LS is abt SONG itself innit?'.

It's when a song sounds like it has been written with the intent that it be an example of good songwriting CRAFT that I tend to dislike it. Which is funny, cos I like craft in music generally - it's just that songcraft (esp. in ROCK) normally means adherence to a particular set of (by now v.tired) conventions.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that this all might be related to my occasional fits of anti-conventional-narrative zealotry.