Jokermen

Really enjoyed the insights on creating for yourself first versus creating to please an audience

I started listening because I like hearing about all things Brian Wilson. At first I thought this show was a worthy source-they do have some good guests and that does bring some of their broadcasts a serving of gravitas. However, these two gentleman know little about music itself. While all opinions are subjective, and I chose to listen to theirs, they regularly misrepresent basic musical tenants and speak so authoritatively that one might actually believe that they know of what they speak. I understand that any broadcaster needs to have an opinion, they base theirs based on conjecture. There’s plenty of Beach Boy rumors and tales, but when one speaks on certain subjects it would be best to rely on facts rather than apocryphal rhetoric. I personally get upset when they judge people they don’t know, based off of stories they’ve heard, without having any reliable, factual, material on which they can report. I’m glad Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys are getting a thorough examination, but I’m increasingly convinced that these two are not the best adjudicators of this body of work.

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Wherein two dolts confuse loudmouthed narcissism with critical discourse. Not particularly skilled orators, these hosts take vaguely contrarian opinions and hold them with tremendous sanctimony; they seem to believe that there’s only one correct way to experience art. It’s amusing for self-styled freethinkers to brand their views as a “mindset,” a mob mentality - the lack of self awareness is painful. The Jokermen exemplify the late capitalism yuppie hipsterdom with their nasty, cynical gatekeeping and snobbery. You know the kind: where they choose to ridicule the enthusiasm of somebody else because what that person likes doesn’t fit their own perception of what is cool. A dangerous mindset which rules many roosts of white middle class boys, an often applied survival kit for the person who was bullied in school, themselves becoming taste-bullies. You won’t learn anything new or hear anything insightful here. The Jokermen are retchingly typical of that part of the world where being a parasite goes for legitimacy, the predators and carrion feeders of journalism who Dylan & Reed satirised, despised and loathed without mercy. 🙏🏽