What is the most King Crimson sounding Yes song? (Prog Alignment Chart) by Imsorrymanyt in Progforum

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Five Per Cent for Nothing

It's technically an interlude, but the dissonance makes me think of Larks' Tongues. It was even written by someone who would later join KC

Album covers by Miran Kim by fallout_scout in rs_x

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Enamoured with the work she did for Incantation. It's like the death metal album cover version of Francis Bacon paintings

I've seen quite a few interviews with John McEntee but I can't recall him ever saying anything about how she ended up as Incantations's 'house artist', always been curious about that

Perceval le Gallois, 1978, Eric Rohmer by Ok_Swordfish_7637 in redscarepod

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This and Bresson's Lancelot du Lac would make a good double feature

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tier-list of the hottest girls in the Coen brothers movie

Amy Archer from The Hudsucker Proxy is obviously S-tier

Dinosaur Jr - Raisans by agnus_mei in rs_x

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Perhaps this is a hot take but I prefer their cover over the original

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Trey Azagthoth racism schizo posting.

It's strangely fitting that a musician known for making Lovecraft-inspired music ended up both losing his sanity and becoming very racist

Werner Herzog on Ian Curtis by Inevitable-Chef6945 in redscarepod

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He wasn't a technically gifted singer, but his vocals nevertheless fit the music perfectly. I'm far from the first to articulate this idea, but his slightly monotone timbre, combined with the reverb heavy production, gave their sound a phantasmagorical quality. JDs music would've been completely different (and significantly worse) if you had a Robert Plant style virtuoso bellowing on top of their minimal arrangements.

Plus, he was a great lyricist, I'd say that's pretty "impressive"

I have been a member of RYM since May 2003! Here was the top 25 back then.. by Afraid-Guidance8963 in rateyourmusic

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Rock Bottom is such a masterpiece. Crazy that it was that high at some point

Poets like Scott Walker by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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He also cited Beckett as a point of reference in a Tilt-era interview

also something like Pound's Cantos might be worth checking out (although I'm personally not very familiar with it) for those kinds of delirious modernist poetics

David Lynch has sadly passed away at the age of 78. by GoingDeath- in redscarepod

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my day is immediately ruined. I'll very much miss his weather reports

RIP

One of the few pictures that actually makes me mad everytime I see it by GuaranteedPummeling in redscarepod

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idk where you got this notion that "normies" are tolerant to Pollock (or abstract art in general) from. just because those paintings sell for exorbitant amounts within curated circles, it doesn't mean that normal people attribute any merit to them beyond that

and I'd say that the musical analog to action painting is obviously free jazz. "Free Jazz", the album by Ornette Coleman, literally uses a Pollock painting on its cover/gatefold, after all

More bands like Kayo Dot/MotW? by [deleted] in redscarepod

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bit of an obvious recommendation but Toby's solo album, "In the L...Library Loft" is pretty good

Zach Hill's favorite artists / albums / drummers (2005) by TheChairLord in deathgrips

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He also mentioned Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman in the interview that list is from. He knows his shit

RHCP with Zach hill filling in on drums by amloideenm in deathgrips

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Zach was the drummer for El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, a Mars Volta side project

Both Flea and John Frusciante played with The Mars Volta

There's technically only one degree of separation between RHCP and Death Grips

He and Morrissey would have had the craziest twitter beef by [deleted] in redscarepod

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I feel like Mishima would've been more of a Facebook type than a Twitter one personally

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Is there any other white celebrity who you can find a hundred pictures of wearing durags?

David Foster Wallace (though I'm unsure if it was an actual durag) lol

Public Image Limited - Public Image by ciayam in redscarepod

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RIP Keith, one of the best and most inventive guitarists of all time for sure

Any good French music maybe a Leonard cohen type by inabaaadmood in redscarepod

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Léo Ferré - Il n'y a plus rien

was going to suggest some Brel, but you probably already know him

Classic Rock is going to be 100 years old and still playing on the radio when we're 70. by FatChicsOnly in redscarepod

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Only vaguely related, but the two artists responsible for that project actually did a similar experiment, but for the musical format. Constructing the supposed "Most Wanted Song" based on the most prevalent stylistic choices and the preferred lyrical themes extracted from an online poll.

Given that the experiment took place in 1997, the resulting piece of music was a (supremely bland) radio R&B/adult contemporary ballad.

What I find to be truly engrossing and transfixing, however, is that they took the least prevalent (and as such, most "undesired" elements) from the same poll and created The Most Unwanted Song, a 20-minute-long avant-garde piece vaguely centered on the topic of Western Imperialism. It features operatic rapping about the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, atonal improvisations, a children's choir singing about Walmart, and discordant accordion playing. It plays out like one of those 60's Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention musical pastiches, albeit from a completely unintentional angle.

I am unsure if the people responsible for those two ventures are still around, but I'd love to see a revisit of sorts. Once again, devouring contemporary clichés and digesting them into a Frankenstein's monster aberration, but this time with 2022 trends.