Define skronk

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I've seen this word used in so many different ways. Anyone know where it comes from?

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Christgau coined it, right?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Arto Lindsay's guitar

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Polytonality, wilful noise, joyous accident...man, if you gotta ask...

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was coined by the other rock critic, Lester Bangs.

― rombald, Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

It's an old jazz thing daddio.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Polytonality, wilful noise, joyous accident...man, if you gotta ask...

Those are three completely different things. Can you just use it to mean whatever you want?

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Albert Ayler

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

You can use it to use a multitude of things within a certain spectrum. As is the case with lots of terms.

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

SCRRRRRR...EE>..WOOOOO...NNNNNXXXX....KKKKKK

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

You can use it to use a multitude of things within a certain spectrum. As is the case with lots of terms.

Well, willful and accidental are opposites. Surely skronk can't be defined as both "wilful noise" and "joyous accident."

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Willful doesn't only mean "done deliberately". So yeah, skronk could mean both those things.

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so now you're telling us what skronk is? Well, excuse us for trying to answer your question Nigel! ;)

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― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

skronk

― justsomegalwithhairsprayandall, Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Muse

― account settings (account), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Bleat

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Albert Ayler

Skronk isn't the first word I would use to describe Ayler. Maybe this sounds corny, but he seems a bit too spiritual for the skronk tag. To me skronk is more James Chance/White.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:11 (twenty years ago)

p.s. i don't really know what i'm talking about. all i know is i didn't listen to spiritual unity more than once 'cause i couldn't handle it at the time. however, i love ornette, so take that for what it is.

p.p.s. i guess this means i am not yet "officially" a jazz douchebag, only the scores of other kinds of douchebag i remain.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I hope I didn't sound like a douche bag! I often am a douche bag, but I wasn't trying to be.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

oh haha, no justin. i referring to a previous thread (in which it takes me a while to not look like an idiot/asshole) i started that gave everyone a chance to give me jazz advice.

Help, I Think I Like Jazz! or How To Avoid Being A Douchebag

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

It's "scream" (or possibly "screech") and "honk" pushed together, ain't it?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 November 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

it's onomatopoeia, innit?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

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