@Craig - Actually, they were even more harsh than I remember: Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More. I loved one track, but the rest of it sounded so muddled and yet, formulaic at the same time. I figured it would be the type of album that a week later I'd be wondering why I bought it. Their review convinced me.
Sometimes reviews like that are really good for making you realize what bugs you about music.
Yeah, I saw that review. I usually ignore any reviews of theirs that are alt-country/folk/bluegrass though. That's one of their bigger blind spots in my mind.
For reasons too complicated and boring to explain, an email I sent out today contained a question about "Six Sick Spots", and I'm torn between what makes a better band name; that or "Six Sick Sticks".
Problem with that as a band name is half the people who hear it on the radio will go searching for 'Six Six Pots" or "Six Six Ticks" or "Sick Sick Spots" or...well, you get it. The Sick Sick Sicks might be a good gore metal band name. OK, I see it exists already.
Has anybody coined a word or phrase to describe the modern inclination to just spend the money to (re)download something rather than have to find it on your computer or transfer it from another device?
I feel like there was a theory by Nietze or someone having to do with a measurement of whether someone would pick a penny up off the ground or not. This might be an extension of it.
Opportunity cost. The time to hunt down that elusive file (or your sanity) isn't worth the cost of the download. Tending bar vs. going to Pitchfork - same thing.
The problem with perceiving reality only presents itself if one believes that reality lies somewhere outside one's self.
I like Dr M's Opportunity Cost. I've never done it with music, or anything I've paid for, but I have with, eg, pdfs of articles that I know I have on my external hard drive, but it is easier to redownload than search for it.
Something more along the lines of ennui - maybe existential angst? The dilemma you are facing arises because you have the freedom to choose. Kierkegaard uses the example of standing on a cliff, being afraid of falling, and yet at the same time feeling a bit of a compulsion to jump. (and yes, yes I did get that from Wikipedia, because I tend to be a bit dense about philosophy.) but anyway Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are both considered connected to existentialism, so that might be a direction to search.
Yeah, I was looking over Heideger (sp), but I don't think it was him. I'll find it. The problem I may be facing is that the section I am thinking about wasn't really postulated as a philosophical theory, more just an observation in a book of observations.
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Sometimes reviews like that are really good for making you realize what bugs you about music.
Craig
Office Farty
Site Inattentiveness Tendency/Evasion Syndrome
Coined by Germanprof & Dr. Mutex.
To describe the internet-age name for the malaise one gets when confronted with the obligation to visit certain sites.
Lazy Pervert
His new Alasko-Industrial band-
Throbbing Grizzly
I feel like there was a theory by Nietze or someone having to do with a measurement of whether someone would pick a penny up off the ground or not. This might be an extension of it.
The problem with perceiving reality only presents itself if one believes that reality lies somewhere outside one's self.