Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best Comments

Guero is a great picnic/bbq album.I mean that as a compliment.

Poison Season/Your Blues mashup 😫 hell yeah

I imagine it must be fun as hell to interview this man.

It must have been kinda fun for him to go back to making a very destroyer-y destroyer record, especially after that has come to mean so many things

It's absolutely mad that Vedder's introduction to the world, and the first time he heard himself on a record(!!!), was "Hunger Strike" a perfect song with two of the most confidant and sweeping vocal performances ever.

NELSON

My hot takes on the states, those days are over. I don’t understand it. Even though I was born and live 10 miles from the American border, one thing I’ve discovered in the last 10 years is that this place is more wild and confusing than I thought it was when I was growing up. It’s also more banal. I’m not qualified to really make statements about it.

it ain't any easier if you were born here and have spent your whole life in it, believe me

I could read Dan interviews all day, he's got such a fun way of talking. Great interview, Arielle! Larry Fitzmaurice also has one on his newsletter today for anyone needing all the Dan content they can take.

And Flying Up The Modern Rock Charts On Its Way To Peaking at No.5… it’s “Big Time Sensuality” by Bjork aka Björk Guðmundsdóttir aka Bjork Gudmunds-daughter.

As I may have mentioned before I spent much of the 90s having a crush on Björk. 

There are many, many good reasons why one might have a crush on Björk, and sure, yes, the accent was a large part of it. But mostly it was because of Björk constantly being excited about everything! Such positivity was distinctly lacking in the grunge-drenched mid-90s, 

This wasn’t just apparent in her songs, but also, in her interviews.

Here she is being interviewed by “Rolling Stone” in 1993: 

“I’ve got just one life, and that’s sad because there are too many brilliant things out there. I’d love to be a nurse in Africa and a ballet dancer in New York and run a children’s music school in China and a cafe in Peru. There’s so much that I want to do that I haven’t got time for.”

To my knowledge Björk still hasn’t gotten around to opening a café in Peru.

And here she is again, the next year:

“To me the future will be about being able to do all things at once, You can be, like, a really good businessman and also be a mother and also be really into health food, and you can do basketball —just pick up the best things.”

Björk needs to release a quote-of-the-day calendar.

So when a Björk sings a sex song, then obviously this is going to be an overexcited sex song. I mean, I know Björk says it’s not a sex song… but who is she kidding? As if “something HUUUGE is coming up” is not about an erection… I mean, C’MON! 

Whatever the reason is, Björk gets so excited that she starts singing in her own made-up language. As she so often does.

Some sounds of course don’t need translation. “YEE-HOW!” means “YEE-HOW!” in any language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYmq2Vz5yM

There are two “Big Time Sensuality”s*, the album version which is all playful organ stabs and ticklish basslines, and there’s the shimmering Fluke Minimix from the riding-through-New-York-on-the-back-of-a-truck video, Björk so filled with joyness that she flutters her eyelashes, giggles like a school girl, makes faces and wiggles her finger at the camera, then gets up real close to tell us all a secret. That “it takes cour-age… to enjoy it… the hardcore… and the gentle… big… time… sensuality.”

Björker words have never been spoken.

“Big Time Sensuality” is a 10!

I love it when Deafheaven makes music for Michael Nelson prose.

If it’s “oo” it’s noodley-doo, if it’s “ee” it’s indie sleaze.