Sophie has apparently died in an sudden accident in Athens?

[Misspent Boners]

I detest twitter, the main reason being because of all the reactionary hysteria that goes on there...but I don't blame people for calling him out on a totally puerile joke when fundamentally someone has just died. His replies to everyone "unfollow then!" Just makes him seem like even more of a sad little man.

What a fucking month. I find it hard to narrow down my favourite artists or albums but if someone was to ask me for the sake of an easy life I think Ariel Pink and MF DOOM would be the first names out of my mouth.

And now one of my other favourite musicians does something massively insensitive and wankerish in regards to another of my favourites falling off a roof. I'm going to bed

[offwhiteblack]

I detest twitter, the main reason being because the all the reactionary hysteria that goes on there...but I don't blame people for calling him out on a totally puerile joke when fundamentally someone has just died. His replies to everyone "unfollow then!" Just makes him seem like even more of a sad little man.

What a fucking month. I find it hard to narrow down my favourite artists or albums but if someone was to ask me for the sake of an easy life I think Ariel Pink and MF DOOM would be the first names out of my mouth.

And now one of my other favourite musicians does something massively insensitive and wankerish in regards to another of my favourites falling off a roof. I'm going to bed

Completely agree with everything you've said.  The main point I'm trying to make is that Twitter is a fucking cesspool.  At best it irreparably narrows your focus, at worst it turns you into a Linehan-like ghoul.  RIP Sophie, RIP DOOM.  It's been a fucking horrible year for music so far.

[BlodwynPig]

Very sad. Not a fan of the music, but it did sound 'fresh' compared to a lot of stuff that has be lauded in the electronic scene(s) in recent years.

[Cuellar]

Yeah this is sad - I'd never made a concerted effort to listen to her stuff but whenever I heard it I was a fan.

[Egyptian Feast]

I hadn't encountered her music before but I'm listening to the album now and it's fantastic. Hugely inspiring too for an amateur producer, it's set my imagination off like nothing I've heard in a while. Shame it took something as awful as this happening to get my attention.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly sad, an artistic career cut short like that.  All the same, though, the little pigeons on Twitter getting all flabby and outraged is hilariously funny, whatever the circumstances.

Yea being a dick about someone who's just died is really sticking it to those cunts on twitter eh

[The Mollusk]

The little pigeons eh. You sound like a bit of a little pigeon yourself. Coo fucking coo bitch.

[peanutbutter]

R Stevie Moore is a weirdo outsider who probably has some pretty atrocious opinions and I've found attempts to paint the likes of him and Daniel Johnston as kinda cutesy oddballs quite inappropriate. His tweet up there is absolutely tone deaf and his response to it is pretty lame, but I don't see anything about it suggesting he's any more or less of a cunt than anyone had any right to ever expect.

What's the "R-TN" in his name about?

[McChesney Duntz]

"Republican - Tennessee", presumably. (Thus completing the "joke" of him being "Senator.") I dunno - I have a lot of time for RSM as a recording artist, but have inured myself to the strong possibility that he's a noxious reactionary in real life. Oh well...

[offwhiteblack]

The little pigeons eh. You sound like a bit of a little pigeon yourself. Coo fucking coo bitch.

No, quite right - too much vodka and not having the instinct to stay the hell away from my computer led to my dumb posts with their bizarre word choices. Apologies.  I will take my leave.

[The Mollusk]

To be honest I was in a shitty place yesterday as well, I should have left it alone.

[buttgammon]

Honestly think Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides is one of my top forty or so albums of all time. It's something I've played incessantly since it came out, but listening to it in the light of her death is somehow magnifying things, to the extent that it's almost like hearing it for the first time again and getting that mind-blowing sense of newness.

[jobotic]

Never heard of her because I'm old and out of touch.

Had a listen to few songs last night, not all my bag but Is It Cold in the Water? and Just Like We Never Said Goodbye are fantastic.

Tried with PC Music (I know it's something else), really like a couple of Hannah Diamond songs but I don't know, makes me feel a bit...icky.

[Cuellar]

R Stevie Moore is a weirdo outsider who probably has some pretty atrocious opinions and I've found attempts to paint the likes of him and Daniel Johnston as kinda cutesy oddballs quite inappropriate.

Don't want to derail, but hold fire, what's wrong with Daniel Johnston?

[Bronzy]

Don't want to derail, but hold fire, what's wrong with Daniel Johnston?

he died

[buttgammon]

Never heard of her because I'm old and out of touch.

Had a listen to few songs last night, not all my bag but Is It Cold in the Water? and Just Like We Never Said Goodbye are fantastic.

Tried with PC Music (I know it's something else), really like a couple of Hannah Diamond songs but I don't know, makes me feel a bit...icky.

I quite like PC Music in small doses but I'm not massive on it, and I think that's partly because she did similar things to the rest of that crowd, but did them much better.

[George White]

Carrot Top, American comedian who was last relevant around 1998

https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Celery_Head

[peanutbutter]

Don't want to derail, but hold fire, what's wrong with Daniel Johnston?

Nothing, he died 2 years ago.

But when alone there was definitely a lot of people who viewed him as some kind of harmless childlike quirky dude but that really ignores the complexity of his situation.

[jobotic]

Cor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKUsFsXk8U

[Cuellar]

Nothing, he died 2 years ago.

But when alone there was definitely a lot of people who viewed him as some kind of harmless childlike quirky dude but that really ignores the complexity of his situation.

Right fair enough, I don't know many people who really knew about Daniel Johnston to be fair, but the ones that do are keenly aware of his troubles. It was just the linking of Johnston with the cuntish tweet from R. Stevie Moore that made me think maybe Johnston was a massive cunt and there was something I didn't know about.

Anyway, been listening to Oil of Every Pearl's... today and it's very good isn't it. Love the angularity of it and its lyricism.

[buttgammon]

Cor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrKUsFsXk8U

Ahh fuck, and in one of the best venues I've ever been to as well.

[danwho9]

Honestly when it comes to Ariel Pink I never had any time for him as a person (as much as I love his music) but RSM I genuinely expected better from frankly. Disappointing.