Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
There's an Instagram account called sexchange.tbt that posts trans ephemera from the past ~40 years - website screenshots, articles, old zines. Anyway, they posted the music video for "Young James Dean" by Girlyman.
Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that I've been enjoying.
Lots of things by монеточка, such as Русский ковчег, for pure outright fun jams.
I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.
I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.
It’s a problem I want to solve.
oh absolutely same, it’s fucking ridiculous how hard it is to share music in any way that doesn’t immediately tie you to a streaming service your friends might not have. I’d really like a web service that’d take a Spotify/Apple Music/whatever share link or a song or album title and output a link to a page that’d just link that song’s data on MusicBrainz and have a bunch of buttons to listen to it on whatever service or the best match on YouTube. I’ve been tempted so many times to create this
Songwhip kinda does that, but you need to start with a song or artist or album name, it can’t convert specific Spotify URLs. And it doesn’t link MusicBrainz for some reason.
Also it’s closed-source so I have no real idea what happens behind the scenes.
oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.
then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. "Apple Music" side? nope.
you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a "free service" which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)
exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why I’m seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friend’s account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine
of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and there’s some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)
Alternative rock band from California, but one of the main people behind the project is the creator or a super obscure but really cool and well-made ARG called House of Aberdeen from a few years back that has since been deleted. I don’t like most ARGs but I really enjoyed that one and was sad when it was all deleted, and then I found out she’s making music now.
Completely different, but the album Haunted by Poe, sister of author Mark Danielewski, is cool. It’s meant as an accompanying piece to his novel House of Leaves, which I recently read again.
Ricardo Autobahn of Spray will soon be releasing his own album of sample-based bops. Here's "The Hands Of Porsche" and "The Frequency Range" (which came out yesterday, and I bought it immediately). The front covers of these are particularly good. I also recommend Spray's "The Big Idea", which is ideal when you need an '80s-style pop song that goes for an hour as working music.