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Does the World Really Need a Black Keys Documentary Yet (or Ever)?
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Not that there was a word about on Lineout, but they did play an incredible show in Seattle last week.
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Their newer stuff kind of reinvents the wheel a bit (which is to be expected when you're playing electric blues-rock), but they seem like good dudes who just kept doing their thing and somehow woke up as arena-filling rock stars. It may lack a compelling narrative arc, but it sounds like a watchable documentary. The only thing that separates a band like this from the sea of other blues-rock duos in this town (Hobosexual, Grizzled Mighty, My Goodness) is a couple good hooks, but they shouldn't really be knocked for having written them.
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Shouldn't music documentaries seek to kind of encapsulate a seemingly mythical aspect of a band? Not just "oh these guys are fun, maaaaaaaan...". Thank reality TV for this new cultural exaltation of sheer mediocrity.
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Have you guys ever heard a Canadian band called "Black Mountain" ?
https://www.facebook.com/BlackMountainOf…
I heard a tune of theirs on the Lysergic Listening channel on Rhapsody last night.
It sounded exactly like a Black Keys riff!!
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Actually, I think the "buddy comedy" comment kind of saves this project for me. I was not into the idea of a dramatic, epic, "documentary" about the "legend" of the Black Keys. Looking at the Black Keys aesthetic, their videos, etc. I feel like this could just be a dumb, fun, lo-fi movie; like a long form music video. What's wrong with that?
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What's wrong with it is that you shouldn't go around calling a long-form music video a documentary.
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How many show reviews has this blog about music and Seattle nightlife had in the last year, four or five?
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I like music, which should be conducive with reading this blog but instead seems entirely at odds with it. fyi, Gawker did 'who would you eat first' a couple weeks before last Friday. geez louise, h/t
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@5
Help! wasn't a documentary, it was just four guys fucking around in a movie and no one ever made it be anything more...people just should call things what they really are occasionally. if they did that, I doubt people would accuse them of being pretentious overreachers. well, I mean, some would, but no one tight at least.
Help! wasn't a documentary, it was just four guys fucking around in a movie and no one ever made it be anything more...people just should call things what they really are occasionally. if they did that, I doubt people would accuse them of being pretentious overreachers. well, I mean, some would, but no one tight at least.
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Dear biffp,
I'm sorry no one wrote about Black Keys. I'm guessing it's because no one wanted to.
Sincerely,
Me
I'm sorry no one wrote about Black Keys. I'm guessing it's because no one wanted to.
Sincerely,
Me
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Dear Grant,
If you're going to call this a blog about music, then you really have no standing to tell someone that a long-form music is not a documentary. Similarly, a guy who posts pictures of shopping carts in Ravenna can only make hipster jokes in an ironic way.
Paul
If you're going to call this a blog about music, then you really have no standing to tell someone that a long-form music is not a documentary. Similarly, a guy who posts pictures of shopping carts in Ravenna can only make hipster jokes in an ironic way.
Paul
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Oh, well that's not very nice. I don't know what "a long-form music" is, but I'm pretty sure it's not a documentary. Can't we just be friends?
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It was a comment about labels, and only if you keep your sense of humor. I secretly love Green Lake Watch.
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