@thedeadcellist But I must disagree completely. Isn't the point of music to make you feel something in the most intense way possible? So why should someone be concerned with only using the vernacular? John Maus is an absolute genius, but I'd like more than almost anything to see him have a conversation about that subject with one of the experimental musicians he doesn't understand like Aaron Dilloway or Daniel Lopatin.
No, John's still in graduate school. This strikes me as the unique combination of 50-75 hours without sleep, several quarts of gin, a few MDMA, some Red Bull, and 7 cups of coffee.
At first, I was tempted to view this as 'silly', as a joke on Maus's seeming incoherence in this interview. The top comment, "Easy on the coke there John", etc. But the things he has to say are actually not ridiculous, and his music really DOES reflect a lot of what he has to say, and I think I like him more after having seen this.
Though if I were to make one joke, it would be that, having seen his live "performance", I do think that he does believe in "playing tapes for each other." ; )
in what way does this guy think his music is radical or unique? i guess some of the things he says make some sense, but they never match up with the art he makes. i also just cant stand it when anyone would say that an entire decade didnt have any good music to offer. i honestly believe that he uses this type of thing as a "persona" so that people will think his music has something unique to offer, but the actually tunes are pretty unexcited and half-hearted to me.
@jedf666 i agree man, i really like his music, and i can appreciate that he's pretty deep into philosophy, but the stuff he spouts seems to have nothing to do with it in practice.
@jedf666 i understand what you're saying, but I think it's unfair to say that anything about John Maus is half-hearted. if you saw him perform live in person i think you'd know what i'm talking about.
I like John Maus and enjoyed this interview but there was a lot of good music in the 90s including in the grunge movement. Do we always have to arbitrarily put down some decade of music?
I agree with his points about how lame the 90's actually were. But I must say many great recordings and bands existed through that decae, they were just mostly obscured, sadly in fact.
@calumjlindsay The commercial industry became far more narrow in the 90's and also the 00's, in comparison the 80's seems like a decade of underground turned into comercial success, then for some reason being successful became something to avoid and most great music gets made in obscurity today, and bad music gets made in public.
Wow I see myself in him. Me with a ton of acid and coc and probably a couple of days on meth along with zzz's to allow me to speak normal. yep. Good luck to our future generation is this is who they look up to.
@CityOfDaughters really? it's not hard to be alienated by john maus. i love his music but he seems to massively over-intellectualise it. all the philosophy's all very well, but i doubt anyone can tell me what kind of 'new language' he's actually creating with his music or what he's communicating with it.
@calumjlindsay Unfortunately, I posted that comment in the midst of a serious obsession with his latest album and, as result, it's a little blind. I agree with you wholeheartedly. It didn't take long before his comparisons to Bach/excessive name-dropping really got on my nerves. I hope the guy's just kidding around.
he just has a lot on his mind and has been studying continental philosophy, it does this to you I promise! its nice ambiguious this is the NEW SINCERITY!! :)
This guy is doing a bad job of trying to come across the "frenzied, scrambled, autistic GENIUS." ("The thoughts are coming out too mad and quick, man!!!" ) He has an embarrassing stage act. I don't "buy it" 100 %. If it IS authentic, how the fuck did he get a job teaching at a University????
i think "indie pop" musicians think they are a little too radical when all they are doing is retrokitching old sideline maintream phenomena. i read adorno, and would personally like to see a full reintegration of classical notation which leads to sophisticated cultural motif within pop music because it is all minimally simple garbage whether you use suspended chords in a progression or not.
@gen6k I disagree, look at Bjork for an example of intelligent pop music who disagreed with her "classical" teachings. I grew up learning how to read music playing classical guitar similar to Sergovia and wasn't free until i discovered tapes loops and using feelings and emotion to write songs. Simple music does not mean it's isn't sophisticated either.
@solarwinter86 haha, you can find 6 notes a chopin piano song, and its almost a whole pop song. john maus admits himself that adding voice to music was a mistake, and that its not poetry in interviews. but the mistake was the degradation, not the voice itself, if one can hover over a "structure" that isnt classical or pop but both then its a new paradigm, im not taking about straight classical because that is saturated by the time of shoenberg and sorabji, its something that still up for grabs.
@gen6k I agree, but what you had written first made it seem that a "new paradigm" leads to sophistication and minimally simple music is garbage. Im trying to picture the mix of genre's together if that's what you propose? I think most things have been now achieved in blending genre's and im finding it hard to see where it could go. Will technology be the lead? We could go all the way back and try and create music with no history or blend a lot of aspects. It's a big thing to think about.
@MagicalAnimal9000 Ariel Pinks Haunted Grafiti < Check them out, they are from LA and been around since early 2000, Faust and Amon Duul are a German band from the 70s. Also check out Can, Harmonia, Gila, Tangerine Dream, You, Cluster, NEU!, Dieter Moebius. Yours eyes and ears will be opened to some excellent music.
i got to hang out with john maus for a whole night in glasgow last month - this guy is one of the few real motherfuckers around - john maus .. i'd follow this fucker anywhere
this is some great stuff
olidurant 2 weeks ago
this isa sexie-interview.
antiirony 4 weeks ago
this guy knows where it's at
i'm inspired
whoisit01 4 weeks ago
nice jeff goldblum impression here
Itasattc 1 month ago 3
john i don't know what you mean!!!!
darktowersl 1 month ago
This guy is the real deal. He ain't no pretender.
madamewoselle 2 months ago
Gilles Deleuze
naturphilosophie1 2 months ago
But 1:10-1:57 is about the best defense of taking pop seriously I've heard. In under a minute. Amazing.
thedeadcellist 2 months ago
@thedeadcellist But I must disagree completely. Isn't the point of music to make you feel something in the most intense way possible? So why should someone be concerned with only using the vernacular? John Maus is an absolute genius, but I'd like more than almost anything to see him have a conversation about that subject with one of the experimental musicians he doesn't understand like Aaron Dilloway or Daniel Lopatin.
BulbaBryan 3 weeks ago
No, John's still in graduate school. This strikes me as the unique combination of 50-75 hours without sleep, several quarts of gin, a few MDMA, some Red Bull, and 7 cups of coffee.
thedeadcellist 2 months ago 2
''lets make a missile just to shoot it at that wall''
Interbeatmusic 2 months ago
He looks like he came right off stage, he's probably still got adrenalin rush.
carbine125 2 months ago 2
Genius
acadusle 2 months ago
you know.
megaSALEMGUYify 2 months ago
At first, I was tempted to view this as 'silly', as a joke on Maus's seeming incoherence in this interview. The top comment, "Easy on the coke there John", etc. But the things he has to say are actually not ridiculous, and his music really DOES reflect a lot of what he has to say, and I think I like him more after having seen this.
Though if I were to make one joke, it would be that, having seen his live "performance", I do think that he does believe in "playing tapes for each other." ; )
Oggranak 3 months ago 4
@Oggranak Fanaticism doesn't invalidate position, and like you said, his is remarkably rational.
daftrhetoric 3 months ago
does anyone know what the first song is you hear in this clip? the one where you see him on stage?
pebellepebelle 3 months ago
hot
almanngibbons 3 months ago
I love this guy.
daftrhetoric 3 months ago
he's a gas man! class act
lorrainehadnett 3 months ago
He's the John the Baptist of synthpop.
countingmx 4 months ago 2
He is The Truth
Caligula138 4 months ago
in what way does this guy think his music is radical or unique? i guess some of the things he says make some sense, but they never match up with the art he makes. i also just cant stand it when anyone would say that an entire decade didnt have any good music to offer. i honestly believe that he uses this type of thing as a "persona" so that people will think his music has something unique to offer, but the actually tunes are pretty unexcited and half-hearted to me.
jedf666 4 months ago 3
@jedf666 i agree man, i really like his music, and i can appreciate that he's pretty deep into philosophy, but the stuff he spouts seems to have nothing to do with it in practice.
calumjlindsay 3 months ago
@jedf666 i understand what you're saying, but I think it's unfair to say that anything about John Maus is half-hearted. if you saw him perform live in person i think you'd know what i'm talking about.
MrFibertiger 1 month ago
cracks a helluva drug
Chaqella 4 months ago
he sounds like brundlefly.
axis462 4 months ago 2
COCAINE NIGGA
axis462 4 months ago 3
Hail the nutters
ALPQZM654 4 months ago
this music is way too precious
mistax2k 5 months ago
I like John Maus and enjoyed this interview but there was a lot of good music in the 90s including in the grunge movement. Do we always have to arbitrarily put down some decade of music?
powerfulSubtlety 5 months ago 2
I agree with his points about how lame the 90's actually were. But I must say many great recordings and bands existed through that decae, they were just mostly obscured, sadly in fact.
econogate 6 months ago 2
@econogate what exactly about the 90s? what was lame about the 90s that differed from the 80s or 00s?
calumjlindsay 3 months ago
@calumjlindsay The commercial industry became far more narrow in the 90's and also the 00's, in comparison the 80's seems like a decade of underground turned into comercial success, then for some reason being successful became something to avoid and most great music gets made in obscurity today, and bad music gets made in public.
econogate 2 months ago
you know what I mean?
ghostonvacation 6 months ago
Wow I see myself in him. Me with a ton of acid and coc and probably a couple of days on meth along with zzz's to allow me to speak normal. yep. Good luck to our future generation is this is who they look up to.
dandenno 6 months ago
@dandenno blind assumptions
Decades81 6 months ago
He's my tribe......
Rhysspiecesify 6 months ago
He's quite lost his mind a bit...I like him..We are on the same page..
Rhysspiecesify 6 months ago 6
nearly 10.000 views incredible
claus4 6 months ago 2
hyperactive
claus4 6 months ago
Dr. Ian Malcolm. Uh uuh uh... nature finds a way
gospeldjsuk 6 months ago
"Cocaine's a helluva' drug!"
noisybrad 7 months ago 2
@noisybrad LOVE
oneminutetomidknight 6 months ago
See, yeah some of that 90's shit was a joke. I agree. But I still find that joke really funny!!!
Colunga210 7 months ago
2:24 young jim morrison?
AJODCS 7 months ago
@AJODCS was he doin some coke?
thekook33 4 months ago
@thekook33 I think so. o: Wow, out of all the people that they could've shot in the crowd, they chose him. 'O'
AJODCS 4 months ago
@AJODCS thanks// yeah i guess cuz it goes well with thew vibe of the music
thekook33 4 months ago
@thekook33 Well, it does somewhat. Regardless of the vibes, I really enjoy his music. :)
AJODCS 4 months ago
This interview was too snort! It should have been longer!
Colunga210 7 months ago
The guy who disliked this video has to be the biggest dick of all time.
CityOfDaughters 7 months ago
@CityOfDaughters really? it's not hard to be alienated by john maus. i love his music but he seems to massively over-intellectualise it. all the philosophy's all very well, but i doubt anyone can tell me what kind of 'new language' he's actually creating with his music or what he's communicating with it.
calumjlindsay 3 months ago
@calumjlindsay Unfortunately, I posted that comment in the midst of a serious obsession with his latest album and, as result, it's a little blind. I agree with you wholeheartedly. It didn't take long before his comparisons to Bach/excessive name-dropping really got on my nerves. I hope the guy's just kidding around.
CityOfDaughters 1 month ago
Easy on the coke there John
Ginlah 7 months ago 126
@Ginlah ur comment made this video 100XXXX more better man hahaha forreal tho that boy OOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
josephblake69 6 months ago
@Ginlah it is really funny to imagine that, during this whole interview, he's just leaning over a massive pile of cocaine on a coffee table.
MrFibertiger 5 months ago 6
@Ginlah He does it?
BlackStarKeepShining 3 months ago
Slow down buddy!
Cassbread 7 months ago
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN??
erule92 7 months ago 12
which song is that at 2:02?
XAntiViolenttX 7 months ago
@XAntiViolenttX Do Your Best
andywarthol 7 months ago
cocaine
ngink 7 months ago
he just has a lot on his mind and has been studying continental philosophy, it does this to you I promise! its nice ambiguious this is the NEW SINCERITY!! :)
switch607 8 months ago 2
Cool dude!
A music made of ambiguities.
Nice musical path.
Keep it poppy :)
psbzu 8 months ago
i'm sure coldplay is thinking of all the shit he's talking about when they write music. not.
fheisk 8 months ago 2
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This guy is doing a bad job of trying to come across the "frenzied, scrambled, autistic GENIUS." ("The thoughts are coming out too mad and quick, man!!!" ) He has an embarrassing stage act. I don't "buy it" 100 %. If it IS authentic, how the fuck did he get a job teaching at a University????
flowerdoodle 8 months ago
i think "indie pop" musicians think they are a little too radical when all they are doing is retrokitching old sideline maintream phenomena. i read adorno, and would personally like to see a full reintegration of classical notation which leads to sophisticated cultural motif within pop music because it is all minimally simple garbage whether you use suspended chords in a progression or not.
gen6k 8 months ago 4
@gen6k I disagree, look at Bjork for an example of intelligent pop music who disagreed with her "classical" teachings. I grew up learning how to read music playing classical guitar similar to Sergovia and wasn't free until i discovered tapes loops and using feelings and emotion to write songs. Simple music does not mean it's isn't sophisticated either.
solarwinter86 8 months ago
@solarwinter86 haha, you can find 6 notes a chopin piano song, and its almost a whole pop song. john maus admits himself that adding voice to music was a mistake, and that its not poetry in interviews. but the mistake was the degradation, not the voice itself, if one can hover over a "structure" that isnt classical or pop but both then its a new paradigm, im not taking about straight classical because that is saturated by the time of shoenberg and sorabji, its something that still up for grabs.
gen6k 8 months ago
@gen6k I agree, but what you had written first made it seem that a "new paradigm" leads to sophistication and minimally simple music is garbage. Im trying to picture the mix of genre's together if that's what you propose? I think most things have been now achieved in blending genre's and im finding it hard to see where it could go. Will technology be the lead? We could go all the way back and try and create music with no history or blend a lot of aspects. It's a big thing to think about.
solarwinter86 8 months ago
i think i would understand the secrets of the universe if only i could understand what the hell this guy is talking about
airbeaver 8 months ago
what are those names he's dropping re: Ariel Pink? Faustu? Emondul?
MagicalAnimal9000 8 months ago
@MagicalAnimal9000 Ariel Pinks Haunted Grafiti < Check them out, they are from LA and been around since early 2000, Faust and Amon Duul are a German band from the 70s. Also check out Can, Harmonia, Gila, Tangerine Dream, You, Cluster, NEU!, Dieter Moebius. Yours eyes and ears will be opened to some excellent music.
solarwinter86 8 months ago 3
@solarwinter86 thanks dogg!
MagicalAnimal9000 7 months ago
i think his drug of choice is intentional sleep deprivation
ozafter1 8 months ago 2
he's a witty, intelligent, remarkable man,
and i adore him.
Odin13 9 months ago 4
i know for a fact that i love this man.. yes john
fazeunclegersh 9 months ago
I love him...again...
SugarSigur 10 months ago
HUNKS... think they know everything.
erule92 10 months ago 50
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i got to hang out with john maus for a whole night in glasgow last month - this guy is one of the few real motherfuckers around - john maus .. i'd follow this fucker anywhere
alostlove 10 months ago 4
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alostlove 10 months ago
You don't have to destroy the 90's just the parts that were sold to us...
buckleysit 10 months ago 5
"uhhh"
Outerspacehaze 10 months ago
Drugs?
RaynMan718 11 months ago 3