By Larry Ryan
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/02/forget-kanye-heres-musics-best-new-twitter-feed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
I had been planning to write a brief blog in praise of Kanye West’s arrival on Twitter but everyone else beat me to the punch, so I’ll piggyback on top of another music based Twitter account, as recommended by the AV Club (“Great Job, Internet!”)
Discographies is a fairly recent addition to Twitter with the admirable intention of offering “a definitive guide to an artist’s body of work (studio albums only) in 140 characters” (it’s not clear who’s behind the effort). That is pretty much what they do: succinct, humourous and impressively accurate rundowns of music careers all in the space of a single Twitter dispatch.
Pointless? yes. But also weirdly addictive.
For any music obsessive/nerd with a penchant for lists and spending too much time thinking about the vast sweep of various musicians’ output, it’s a must.
Here are a few of my favourites so far:
- The Doors: 1st, 2nd) mostly tolerable; 3rd) adequate, poppy; 4th) appalling; 5th) unmemorable; 6th) overpraised; 7th, 8th) unforced errors.
- Bob Dylan: 1 Woody; 2, 3 ambition; 4 pot; 5-7 speed; 8-9 pot; 10-11 AJ Weberman; 12-16 booze; 17-19 Jesus; 20-27 pot; 28 death; 29-32 pot.
- Prince: 1-3 foreplay; 4-5 penetration; 6-9 ecstasy; 10-13 afterglow; 14-18 walk of shame; 19-35 occasional late-night booty calls.
- The Rolling Stones: 1-4 arousal; 4-6 tumescence ; 7-10 full engorgement; 11-14 satyriasis; 15-19 midlife crisis; 20-22 erectile dysfunction.
- The Arcade Fire: 1-2 At last, the indie-rock “Riverdance”!; 3 has eight different covers–one for each person who still buys physical music.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: 1-4 Seinfeld theme prototypes; 5 why somebody had to invent AutoTune; 6 “sorry, Dave”; 7-9 somebody invented AutoTune.
- LCD Soundsystem: 1 “Music about other music…”; 2 “…acquires unexpected resonance…”; 3 “…if you explain the trick and then vanish.”
Follow them @Discographies
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