If Trump wants to impose tariffs, he will impose tariffs.
Don’t mistake a casus belli for coherent reasoning.

Actually, the split between what was then called “race records” and Country was a marketing idea devised by record companies.
It makes sense musically only up to a point.
You know, rich people splitting poor people in two, watch them fight and making tons of money out of it…

Nonsense!
And in a world ruled by fairness, equity and moral righteousness, Fugazi would have been twice as big as them.

In the beginning there was just music: you couldn’t tell where blues finished and country started, and viceversa.
Then the record execs said there was a music for the white and one for the black folks.
They divided people in order to make money.
Does that remind you of something, ahem, more recent?

I always thought that “pretentious” was the extrovert brother of “I don’t understand it”.

“Capisce?!”
“I understood everything, apart from “capisce”.”

À la guerre comme à la guerre? 🤔

Not my cup of tea, but no one can reasonably say that they were a bad band, or even a mediocre one.
There’s just that thing about them - ahem - “borrowing” other people’s work without giving proper credit.
Also, they’re a perfect case for the whole “great art made by horrible people” conversation.

Popol Würstel.

Einstürzende Neubratwurst.

Splitter!

I know. It’s just that lots of people do, and it sort of frightens me.

I totally agree: Gaiman needs to get into the sea.
I don’t think his work needs to get into the bin as a consequence, though.

I’d go as far as saying that you need to read the bad books in order to understand why the good ones are good.

Those are exactly the same words that my dad uttered when he caught me listening to Sonic Youth back in 1988. 😉