The Church Of What’s Happening Now: #609 – Jim Florentine

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Jim Florentine, comedian, host of the “Comedy Metal Midgets” podcast and the author of “Everybody is Awful (Except You!),” joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio.


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  3. Music used to be 85% songs had an actual melody and we're at least quasi danceable. The lyrics were positive and usually about boy meets girl, or girl meets boy, they fall in love, they're happy forevermore, end of tune. Today, music is "I'm hot and I'm worth it.", or "F*¢k you and f*¢k her too". The technology of the Autotuner has been an albatross. The Autotuner meant the record companies could sign singers who can't stay on key which imparts an ever increasing level of mediocrity, essentially maintaining the level of industry output by pissing the "talent pool", diluting music overall. Musicians back in the day came from people who were the superlative songwriters AND multitalented players of instruments of every description and sang with voices that made the angels weep with joy. Today, we get a near talentless, needy, infantile, ungrateful and greedy personalities who frankly, have no personality. The internet is a new music environment that to me is like having a truckload of turds, knowing that in there somewhere are a few tunes worth adding to the playlist. The catch is that you have to try to shine every single turd to find the very few that have a little lustre. I have a life in need of it's soundtrack. Spending that life looking for the traveling music instead of doing the traveling is for the same kind of people who not coincidentally comprise the piss polluted "talent pool".

    Explain how Metallica in the very beginning, had a hardcore fanbase that were 90% safety pin in the cheek, dressed up like tropical fish PUNK ROCKERS. Hmmmm….yep.

  5. Speak the fuck up Joey! I tried watching live and had to bail when you started whispering.

  6. Springsteen was unacceptable but White Snake and Twisted Sister was the shit lol. You'd think they'd acknowledge how narrow minded they were, but it looks like they still feel the same.

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