F2K: Idolator Counts Down The 50 Worst Songs Of The ’00s, One By Ear-Splitting One
Contributions from several ilxors. I'm definitely looking forward to this. Actually, this'll be the first time I actually read Idolator in a while.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
It should always be read. But I would say this.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Anyway the revulsed reactions from various friends who had never encountered brokeNCYDE before ensured this started off with a bang.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think all songs on this list will be agreeably terrible
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's sad cuz whiney is banned
he will be happy that you started this though, kshighway
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
Whiney was banned? Wtf, we need him back immediately.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like Whiney fine, but he's been insufferably ornery lately. Some time away may do him good.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
wow "Control Myself" is a really thoughtful choice
― een, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
kshighway, give him one of your other user names ; )
― velko, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
:-)
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
i totally knew that was whiney about a sentence into that
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
[Special thanks to Jordan Sargent and [NAME REDACTED] from [LOL FAMOUS WEB SITE] for helping us put together this list
lol wat
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
where's dom passantino when you really need him?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
was thinking the exact same thing
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
"control myself"? this list is not off to a good start. :(
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
it was me & arianna huffington
― burrhurt (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
anyway, jeezus. i'd never actually heard brokencyde. now i know why i feel icky when i watch emotwink porn.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
Hope Whiney comes back soon, but in the meantime I'm sure we'll all be following this.
― RIP Whiney G. Weingarten has been banned permanently. 51 suggest ba (kshighway1), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
ahahahahaha wat
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
I said I hope Whiney comes back soon, but in the meantime many of us will be reading whatever he writes for this Idolator series.
― RIP Whiney G. Weingarten has been banned permanently. 51 suggest ba (kshighway1), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think your crush on Whiney is cute.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:13 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
^This... BrokeNCYDE OTM, though.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahaha i didn't know that whiney wrote for idolator
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
"control myself" is a great song, actually surprised it was deemed beyond the pale
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
any list that starts with brokenCYDE is gonna be a good one, for sure. A bold move immediately excluding 'My Humps', I'm pretty sure that we (okay, I) can only find it fun and funny now after years of being overexposed and acclimatised, forgetting how mindblowingly awful it first felt.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
how many songs do brokenCYDE have?
― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Out of curiosity, did anyone here who likes "Control Myself" actually read the reasons *why* Maura didn't like the song?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I just did -- her criticism might hold more water if the production was as boilerplate as the lyrics.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
she lickedoffher lipgloss
Okay I'm not gonna lie, I love this song but I do see why someone would not like it, given it's an oddly-muted club banger that is completely anonymous and personality-free coming from a couple of the biggest personalities in the music industry.
All I can really say is zuh-zuh-zuh-zuh-zuh
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's an 8.0. It could never be a 9.0 or a 9.5 or a 10.0. Though it could be a 6.5 or a 7.5. But it's better than a 6.0, definitely.
― sw00ds, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
I will admit that I was shocked to discover a few months ago that I had put it on my (108-track) Best of 2006 mix, but that's just because I'd completely forgotten about it.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm glad Jordan helped w/ this, Whiney kept asking me for suggestions but i was like, sitting at home with a newborn baby, and did not have enough hate to spare
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
the "Control Myself" blurb forgot to mention the 3 most pathetic things about the song:
1) that Fergie was their first choice for the hook and they got J.Lo after she said no2) that LL was purposely recycling his "Going Back To Cali" flow for old school points3) that the Clipse actually got all butthurt and accused LL of biting because they had their own song with the whole ancient "zuh-zuh-zuh" thing on it around the same time
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
god i wish i could still comment on Idolator, some stupid error message keeps coming up no matter what browser i'm on for the past 6 months anytime i try to comment
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:45 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
Why you hate the babby? :(
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
haha
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
48 is up
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
We loved the Iraq war? Or The Moldy Peaches?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
#48 just made me a Whiney FAN 4 LYFE
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
the Moldy Peaches were the equivalent of a seventh-grader from gifted class screeching “Cheese monkey!” at bullies until they were too sad and confused to give him the beating he so clearly deserved.
clearly this is whiny speaking from experience right?
― brrrmuda triangle (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
what the fuck is that song
also lol at the ad hominem attack
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
I am going to be so entertained at Dan's reactions to all these horrible songs yet to be unearthed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's kind of nice to know that my wholly unfair prejudgment of The Moldy Peaches was absolutely 100% accurate
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
by pdfreeman at 2:22 pm
@Christopher R. Weingarten: Millionaires are the new Runaways, grandpa.
^Phil OTM
― Turbohongro (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
as tom ewing said on twitter, "who's got the crack?" is 47 places too low on this list. what a vile song.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm hoping that Ashlee Simpson, The Goo Goo Dolls, and Smashmouth didn't make the Worst of the 00's list, since they're all listed on the barfing iPod.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
(Ashlee for not having any songs that are anywhere in the vicinity of the 50 worst of the decade, other two because any badness worth anything happened before the decade started.)
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
*~~ashlee's wondrous~~*
― access flap (omar little), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
also cuz "all star" is a dope song
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
and who cares about any other SM songs
Ey, all I'm saying is that there have been some REALLY awful songs this decade.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
I know no SM song exists that's worse than Bree Bree.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
In fact, I bet there have been 50 worst-of-decade-worthy songs released this YEAR, according to this thread.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
i hope jordan has done that thread proud in his selections!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
There's gotta be some weighting for general importance, though -- something off of Brokencyde's new album should be worth more than something off of one that they self-released, in the same way that trolling MySpace or CDBaby for awful songs would seem to be a waste of time.
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'd like to suggest that those who can also comment directly on Idolator; Whiney (and Maura!) can respond directly to commentary there.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
47!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
holy lolz I never read the lyrics to that
"it's that clubs fault that I humped a 14-year-old girl on stage (let's pretend I never threw that male fan into the crowd)"
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
I had never heard "Control Myself" prior to Maura's post and I was somewhat floored by the production. Yes, all other elements of the song are concentrated dumb evil, but man, that beat.
― BradNelson, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
you do know it is just this right?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
My superficial knowledge of Afrika Bambaataa: revealed!
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
Well that is a shame and something you should rectify asap.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh shit, we could see Jewel's "Intuition" on here
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
^Spoken by someone who learned love from Charlie Sheen. (In a postmodern world, the good is bad. Weird, I just listened to this song today for the first time in like two years.)
― dabug, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
Is "Intuition" the one that goes, "I see a burning bush to my left / I see something something to my right / You're not in sight. / You're not in sight?"
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
That's "Standing Still," the awfulness of which I had long forgotten until this new regrettable moment.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
I hope "Standing Still" appears on this list.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh I had also forgotten about that song and yes, WAY worse than "Intuition"
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Dear God that "Bree Bree" song is the worst fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's something about songs being presented as "LOL THE WORST" that makes me end up liking them in a weird way. as if preexisting knowledge that something will be bad just sets you up for backward-dissapointment, "oh c'mon this isn't so bad." as stupid as the lyrics are the akon song is not even one of the songs akon released this decade. but yeah "why doesn't anyone wanna take blame? -> i'll take on all the blame -> even though it's on you" is hilarious.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
as stupid as the lyrics are the akon song is not even one of the songs akon released this decade
The missing word here makes this assertion wonderfully mystic.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm not sure if whiney's timely expulsion will bode well for this thread. i'm with kshighway; dude can be a bit of a caricature of himself, but i think the laffs outweigh any annoyance or resentment engendered. huge lols on the article, though, like especially the decade breakdown.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
haha oops
"worst"
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
moldy peaches at 48 is some gauntlet-tossing critical audacity - how the fuck do you lower the bar 47 more notches?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 06:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
this will make a dandy playlist, i'm sure. thanks, y'all! Moldy Peaches rule, btw!
― wot?? (Ioannis), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 07:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
xp following TMP with akon is a step in the right direction.
― m the g, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 07:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
I am assuming "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" and "Stars Are Blind" are going to pop up on here eventually (low 40s for Das Racist, high 20s for Paris).
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
I thought Whiney really genuinely liked the Das Racist song
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
Maura is doing this, too!
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm sorry that it took so long to see . . . But I was on tour with Gwen Stefani
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
I really genuinely like "Stars Are Blind".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
A bunch of people do! A bunch of people also genuinely like brokeNCYDE (of course those people are "the dudes in "brokeNCYDE")
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
2) that LL was purposely recycling his "Going Back To Cali" flow for old school points
actually the flow seems straight jacked from "Funky Cold Medina"...I'm always tempted to insert "like Mick Jagger said I can't get no satisfaction" in the verses.
that said, I love Control Myself and will rep the hell out of it.
― musically, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
well LL did "Cali" but not "Funky Cold Medina" and he did a bunch of interviews namechecking "Cali" when "Control Myself" came out so
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh look at that whiny is blogging
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
i know LL didn't do Funky Cold Medina, i'm saying the flow is identical.
― musically, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
blogs very much in character
― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah...but if I'm talking about what LL was "purposefully" going for and referencing his own words, while you're saying "actually" like you're dropping a truth bomb or contradicting what i was saying at all
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
also the meter is way closer to "Cali" than "Medina," you're still wrong
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
46!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh this fucking thing
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
woah i totally thought dynamite hack was the 90s....next you'll tell me wheatus teenage dirtbag was the 00s too
― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Teenage Dirtbag" is a single by Wheatus, released in 2000.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
aiyeeeeeeeeeeeee1111111!!!!
okay harvey danger was the 90s still right?
― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, that was '98.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
good lord.
I was hoping to see that song by that asshole about banging your piano all night long until you like express something maaaaan here, but I'm not sure it lives up to these standards.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
OH SNAP HE TOTALLY TOOK DOWN DYNAMITE HACK
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
So much for the billions and billions of dollars Dynamite Hack is pulling in these days, career = OVER.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
This one more than most does kind of seem like shooting fish in the barrel.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
But the Dane Cook/Richard Pryor thing at the end is spot on.
Yeah but sometimes those fish are evil and need shooting.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
Quite honestly, if a list of the worst songs from a decade wasn't largely comprised of obvious shooting-fish-in-a-barrel choices (and I think at least 3 of the 5 presented so far are in that category), it wouldn't come across to me as "worst songs" as much as "songs we have INTERESTING OPINIONS about".
Having said that, I'd kind of love to participate in an ongoing rundown of, say, Pitchfork's or Rolling Stones' top of the decade list and explain why every choice is terrible.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
If it were a note, it would be the final note in the Price Is Right “sad trombone” tune. Also it would not be played by a trombonist, but literally farted out of the sphincter of a just-hanged Saddam Hussein, the morose poot representing his twitching body’s last involuntary movement.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
A bunch of people also genuinely like brokeNCYDE (of course those people are "the dudes in "brokeNCYDE")
I like brokencyde! stone me with stones!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
I guess you're right. A "worst songs" list really should be objective and not subjective. xxxxp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:36 PM
Sorry, I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
or hey you could just not have a list of the worst songs from a decade
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
time and energy wasted on bad music is time and energy you're not spending on discovering dope new music imo, though i suppose lists like these have their appeal too.
― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
You could also not have a list of the best songs from a decade; in fact, no one really needs to write anything about music.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
otm
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
discovering dope new music is overrated anyways
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
this is dope new music for me
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's true! I can't watch their videos but the album is funny + absurd + well produced.
xp to johnny fever
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
post music
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
or pictures of it
okay, i guess? xxxxpost ¯\(°_o)/¯
― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's something about songs being presented as "LOL THE WORST" that makes me end up liking them in a weird way. as if preexisting knowledge that something will be bad just sets you up for backward-dissapointment, "oh c'mon this isn't so bad."
^ I don't know how much of this thought process played into me liking brokencyde, but I'm like, really? you're getting apoplectic over this?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
I get being contrary but come on now.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm the contrariest
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
I did a lot of heartfelt soulsearching trying to figure out if my enjoyment of brokencyde was bound up in lol irony, but in the end I concluded that I really truly enjoy listening to that album
if your emotional maturity is > 16 YMMV tho
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
this thread is helpful though, I feel like I'm working through my issues of guilt and shame
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
in re: brokencyde
wow, it's like this thread is defenseless without whiney around
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
post whatever you want guys, black is white, freedom is slavery, brokencyde are great
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
looooooool
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
i hear that fucking Dynamite Hack song on the radio at least once a week but wow never saw the video. didn't realize they beat Vampire Weekend to the exact same "lol check out how we look and then listen to the lyrics" punch almost a decade earlier.
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Vampire Weekend at least seem reverent toward the cultural musics from which they borrow, though. Dynamite Hack comes across as "Hey d00ds, wouldn't be totes hilarious if we covered Eazy-E with acoustic guitars? LOL we've never even seen crack cocaine except on Dateline, so the levels of irony will be off the chain!"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
awful song, wtf @ ppl defending it in the comments.
― i got nothin (deej), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
I have been driven to distraction lately because the local pop station plays "Party In The USA" and "Battlefield" incessantly but I don't think I could deal with Dynamite Hack exposure once a week.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
Important question: how did you feel when Travis Morrison of beloved indie rockers The Dismemberment Plan covered a Ludacris song with an acoustic guitar?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
never heard it!
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
45!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
I have, and it's just as bad if not even worse. Travis should know better.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahaha that writeup is awesome
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
(02:29:34 AM) Whiney: can you post in the F2K thread for me(02:29:39 AM) HOOS: yep(02:33:18 AM) Whiney: to Johnny F and n/a: We tried to make it a fair balance of barrel-fish, challops and personal grudges. Anything that leans too far to classic targets is just Digg-style "Fergie is terrible LOL isn't Insane Clown PUSSIES for idiotz ROFL?" Anything that leans to far to challops is "Look at my CAHRAZAY opinions! Here's my book on why the Beatles are the worst band ever!" Striking a good balance fulfills your role as both reporter AND a critic with a unique voice. That being said, I don't remember Dynamite Hack being some incredibly hated on group, just some sad novelty blip that came and went.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Travis Morrison cover was awful, but mostly because it was just plain bad. I was more interested in knowing if the same "rules" as to irony and slumming apply to him as they do for Dynamite Hack.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
Ned seems to be enjoying all this a bit too much, methinks.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
Are there any acoustic covers of rap records that aren't awful?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Sesame Street appearance is rofflesome.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
forget brokencyde
fight the real enemy ie james blunt imo
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.hearya.com/2007/05/25/top-10-indie-covers-of-rap-songs/
ummm, signs are pointing to "no"
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
okay except the "Baby Got Back" cover is hysterical
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think whiney was making an under-considered criticism in the dynamite hack post & i think lists of bad songs are funny.
― i got nothin (deej), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
whiney's cynicism & self-loathing makes him a tedious message boarder at times but it makes him a hilarious writer when he's trying to eviscerate something which is why this list has been really awesome so far imo
― brrrmuda triangle (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
that's ridiculous, his poor fashion sense and goblin-like features are the source of his hilarity
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 20:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like cheese.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Thursday, 22 October 2009 07:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
44!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
OTT:
not all acoustic or covers, obviously, but the above question reminded me that i need to watch that mtv thing with 2pac backed by members of Groove Colelctive. its actually pretty good...
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
I really hope the blackout crew are in this.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
"This last part isn’t Aaron (or America’s) fault, but cracked me up anyway. Four different lyric Web sites (incorrectly) list the second verse as: “Everybody come together, make it half-black, white, Spanish, Chinese…” I’m pretty sure that means that Carter’s idea for world harmony would be to have everyone ejaculate in a big bucket and make a new race of awesome hybrid people."
If I ever meet Whiney, I will high five him for this.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
Never heard of Aaron Carter, I guess he one of those US-only stars?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
"he was"
haha "one of those"
he was a "star" to 12 year old girls for a few years - not really notable aside from being the brother of a backstreet boy
― u madoff (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh the lolz in that entry, my God
Hate pieces are almost always more fun to read than love pieces IMO.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
god, whiney's write ups have been so good & funny
― u madoff (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
btw that aaron carter album got a classic 4-star review at AMG by steven thomas erlewine
― u madoff (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
man if there are 43 songs WORSE than this aaron carter thing, it's gonna be a crazy ride
― hotel coral essex (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
I dunno, I'm more offended by "Oh Aaron" than this one (which is pretty bad, sure, but I think the Beastie Boys' "An Open Letter to NYC" is way worse on this theme -- lacks the WTF that makes "America AO" if nothing else completely insane).
― dabug, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
LOL wrong Aaron Carter! That was the one I linked over at Idolator, subgenre of videos if not songs exactly.
This NEEDS to be on the list:
― dabug, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
43!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
i really like the beat to open letter to nyc y'all crazy.
― hotel coral essex (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
omg that aaron carter writeup
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 October 2009 20:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
I hadn't heard that Basshunter tune before, quite funny! Though Double You already did a much better Eurodance version of "Please Don't Go" back in 1992:
― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 October 2009 20:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like that beastie boys song altho the rub n tug remix is way better
― i got nothin (deej), Thursday, 22 October 2009 21:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
tuomas, i will see your double you and raise you a kws (who also released a version in 1992 because of some distribution-related snafu):
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3w1TzLR2tYc&hl=en&fs=1&";></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3w1TzLR2tYc&hl=en&fs=1&"; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
― maura, Friday, 23 October 2009 01:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh no :(
let's try that again:
― maura, Friday, 23 October 2009 01:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
42!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 October 2009 17:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol I am psychic
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Friday, 23 October 2009 17:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
I had actually forgotten how terrible this song is, for some reason I thought I thought it was okay and forgettable but no, it is actually fucking terrible.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Friday, 23 October 2009 17:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
41!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 October 2009 20:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
ill cop to pretty much loving "kryptonite" but i can understand why it's on this list
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 October 2009 20:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
j.r. rotem really is the worst human being on the planet but "better in time" & "becky" are waaaayyy better than "whatcha say" which imo could've made this list!
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 October 2009 20:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
I really, really, really appreciate Idolator for doing this difficult work. Thank You.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 23 October 2009 20:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
that song makes me feel queasy it is so bad although thanks idolator for making me remember like a feather.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 23 October 2009 20:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
haha that KWS video was filmed in the local nightclub "Gloss"(now Hamilton Palace) in Hamilton (my town)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 October 2009 20:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aw, the V-Hudge song isn't THAT bad, though it is probably her worst song. Best song was a bonus track on her first album, "Don't Talk":
― dabug, Friday, 23 October 2009 21:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
ditto, i suppose. although I'm not sure if it's really one of the 50 worst song of the decade. it's an inoffensively bland modern rock track. surely even 3 doors down have done worse. that awfully maudlin song from American Pie 2, for example?
― 7borad dudes get sb'd, frequently. (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 24 October 2009 17:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
3 doors down have def done worse. what about that song that was playing in movie theaters for months trying to get you to join the army? at least 'kryptonite,' shitty as it is, kinda earned its spot on the charts
― i got nothin (deej), Saturday, 24 October 2009 20:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
Beyond the boundaries of your city's lights,Stand the heroes waiting for your cries.So many times you did not bring this on yourself,When that moment finally comes,I'll be there to help.
On that day when you need your brothers and sisters to care,I'll be right here.Citizen soldiers holding the light for the ones that we guide from the dark of despair.Standing on guard for the ones that we sheltered,We'll always be ready because we will always be there.
When there are people crying in the streets,When they're starving for a meal to eat,When they simply need a place to make their beds,Right here underneath my wing,You can rest your head.
On that day when you need your brothers and sisters to care,I'll be right here!Citizen soldiers holding the light for the ones that we guide from the dark of despair.Standing on guard for the ones that we sheltered,We'll always be ready because we will always be there...
There... there... there...
Hope and pray that you'll never need me,But rest assured I will not let you down.I'll walk beside you but you may not see me,The strongest among you may not wear a crown.
On that day when you need your brothers and sisters to care,I'll be right here!On that day when you don't have the strength for the burden you bear,I'll be right here!Citizen soldiers holding the light for the ones that we guide from the dark of despair.(Citizen soldiers)Standing on guard for the ones that we sheltered,We'll always be ready because we will always be there.
― Hoot Smalley, Saturday, 24 October 2009 20:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
the whole thing reeks of challoping for ilx's (one's peers: i.e., pretentious 20-some-year-olds reparazent!) favor. big fucking surprise. still, if it wasn't all so consistently obvious it may have been somewhat funnier (tho i sincerely doubt it).
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Sunday, 25 October 2009 10:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
3 doors down have def done worse.
Perhaps, but if you were subjected to rock radio for upwards of 8 hours a day any time between 2000 and 2003, you heard this song enough times to make you wish for deafness. Its ubiquity alone qualifies it for the list over any other 3DD song.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 October 2009 11:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
if you want to claim a song's ubiquity is exceptional, don't use the set up "if you were subjected to rock radio for upwards of 8 hours a day anytime between 2000 and 2003." Because, in that context, later years offer similarly ubiquitous - and worse - gold & platinum singles by three doors down.
― da croupier, Sunday, 25 October 2009 13:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol wikipedia says "citizen soldier" went to #1 in australia, waht
― da croupier, Sunday, 25 October 2009 13:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
what about that song that was playing in movie theaters for months trying to get you to join the army?
I'm here without you babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Without_You
I think.
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 17:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
and yeah, I think I heard "Kryptonite" about eight thousand fucking times when I was in, oh, seventh grade. whoever said that the band has worst songs though is completely correct. see above post.
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 17:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
* worse
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 17:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Don't know where else to post this, but . . . Whiney was interviewed by the AV Club y'all:
http://www.avclub.com/newyork/articles/christopher-r-weingarten-talks-about-twitter-and-t,34154/
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 18:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
Sample:
AVC: What is your response to the internet commenters who didn’t like your speech at the 140 Characters Conference? Some of them thought you should “just get with the times.”CW: This goes well beyond the music-criticism industry. This is every industry right now. Where there was once jobs for 100 people in the old way of doing things, now there’s a new way of doing things where only 10 people can do it. You’re either one of those 10 people or you get fucked. I’m worried that maybe one day we’re not going to be paying for musicians. Maybe one day we’re only going to have bedroom crybaby bullshit like Wavves. I’m terrified to think the future is just going to be Pitchfork reviewing MySpace pages, because there’s not going to be anyone left to put out records or review records. It’s just going to be a series of links and an advertisement.
CW: This goes well beyond the music-criticism industry. This is every industry right now. Where there was once jobs for 100 people in the old way of doing things, now there’s a new way of doing things where only 10 people can do it. You’re either one of those 10 people or you get fucked. I’m worried that maybe one day we’re not going to be paying for musicians. Maybe one day we’re only going to have bedroom crybaby bullshit like Wavves. I’m terrified to think the future is just going to be Pitchfork reviewing MySpace pages, because there’s not going to be anyone left to put out records or review records. It’s just going to be a series of links and an advertisement.
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha i feel bad for that wavves dude
― i got nothin (deej), Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
Like, I think Asher Roth should get punched in the balls, but [his album's] first track’s got kind of a hot beat. He got like a 1.5.
― kshighway1, Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
zach hill is the drummer in wavves now
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
hey you're not kidding, what the hell.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
yah i'm not sure how to feel about that
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 25 October 2009 19:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
Perhaps, but if you were subjected to rock radio for upwards of 8 hours a day any time between 2000 and 2003, you heard this song enough times to make you wish for deafness.
Or if you were ever in a band that did covers and had to play the fucking thing.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 25 October 2009 22:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
Or if you went to a bar that had a band that played covers and had to listen to them play the fucking thing.
― ...And You Will Know Us by the BLAZE of YA DEAD HOMIE (los blue jeans), Sunday, 25 October 2009 23:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:17 PM (5 hours ago)
wow
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 October 2009 00:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
bad drummer teams with bad bedroom guitarist, news at 11
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 October 2009 00:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
uh, can't speak for everyone but zach hill's really good imo
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 October 2009 00:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
wavves suck obv
i'm pretty sure zach hill is making more money touring w wavves than he ever has w hella or marnie stern - pretty sure dude is just trying to stave off getting that job at the corner burrito joint
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
aka don't hate the player, hate the game
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
i documented my complaints elsewhere but dude's drumming is as annoying as fuck
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 October 2009 01:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
dnr there was so much money in throwing tantrums for spanish ppl
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
sarahel posted a really nice little thing about his drumming style somewhere, like a little breakdown. Astrological straights is a first class alb
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
he can probably lay down a solid beat and pour beer over the other guys head at the same time though
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 26 October 2009 01:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
I wish I were in Wavves.
― kshighway1, Monday, 26 October 2009 01:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
3 doors down have def done worse.Perhaps, but if you were subjected to rock radio for upwards of 8 hours a day any time between 2000 and 2003, you heard this song enough times to make you wish for deafness.Or if you were ever in a band that did covers and had to play the fucking thing.― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, October 26, 2009 12:30 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkOr if you went to a bar that had a band that played covers and had to listen to them play the fucking thing.― ...And You Will Know Us by the BLAZE of YA DEAD HOMIE (los blue jeans), Monday, October 26, 2009 1:41 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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life is hard.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 11:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
Is 3 Doors Down your mom or something?
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
Ioannis fyi tbh whiney says stfu
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
"also tell him that if he thinks taking down Basshunter and 3rd-tier Aaron Carter singles is "obvious" then I don't know what amazing musical world he's wrapped himself in"
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
tell him the feeling's mutual, Hoos.
can't wait for the "Hey Ya" and "Crazy" write-ups, btw.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
i can't stand 3DD, Dan.
xps
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
Okay, really? You think making fun of James Blunt and brokeNCYDE is on par with making fun of Outkast and Gnarls Barkley?
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
I mean, really?
no. just mean to point out that it's mostly been a bit too obvious thus far. hopefully that will change as the countdown continues. cripes, man, let me deal with my feelings of disappointment in my own way, will ya?
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 13:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
uhhh really confused as to what you expected
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
So horrible, terrible, awful songs shouldn't be obvious?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
challops are a couple threads over
― bnw, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
something funny maybe?
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm certainly laughing
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
Actually appearing at an event like that - being aware of it, standing in a room with those people - makes it difficult to view Whiney sympathetically, as a possible sky-is-falling peer. If you look at the history of music criticism, there is a reason it's so dramatically demarcated by generation, by eras of writers: it never paid a living wage. Shit or get off the pot.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
whoa.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
if it was like a list of 10 songs i could see being disappointed by an obvious entry here or there, but with 50 it'd be crazy to not have anything that's at least a little easy or on the nose
― President Deez (some dude), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
i agree, actually. i'm just being a grumpy old man. (and the Moldy Peaches rule!)
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
...dammit!
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
so much resentment on this thread
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 26 October 2009 15:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
I never in a million years would have guessed that The Moldy Peaches was an inclusion that would make someone mad! lol
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 15:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
stranger things have happened imo. but yeah that is pretty lol-worthy, i agree.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 15:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
40!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 October 2009 17:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
So X, it makes X sound like X.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
master baiter, this guy
― da croupier, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is a “collaboration” like leprosy is a collaboration with your skin,
― kshighway1, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
So good.
you know, it's odd -- i stopped working in office supplies almost a decade ago, yet i don't feel the need to trawl office supply related message boards wiping my ass on indifferent office supply aficionados.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm weird, though.
that three hole punch sucks ass
― bnw, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
these people claiming gel pens have the same relevance as the ballpoint revolution are talking out of the wrong hole.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
you're just pissed chris crossed you off the "potential peer" list ages ago.
― da croupier, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
:'-(
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
now i just want to know which offends him more, the existence of Idolator's obnoxious parlor game, or that whiney is there, fiddling like nero as rockcrit burns
― da croupier, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
Holy shit, that is crappy! You'd think Loud could've hired someone to actually remix those two songs together instead of just cutting and pasting Wu verse, Ozzy chorus, Wu verse, etc.
It seems being non-American saves you from some crappy music. I haven't even heard about half of this artists, let alone heard their songs. I think "Control Myself" and "You're Beautiful" are the only ones I'd heard before... And with the latter tune I didn't know before who performs it, as I'd only heard it on radio.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
It seems being non-American saves you from some crappy music.
Is that how it is.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
I am just mad that they are not number one.
― Otter madness (Nicole), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
now i just want to know which offends him more, the existence of Idolator
I'd prefer if everyone just waybacked back to maura.com and forgot the entire lamentable episode, yes.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
hey, i was actually spared that aural travesty (re: #40). phew. where's Bill, btw?
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
strongo, define "working" in this context.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
no.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
fyi i have the biggest musical-critical dick, so maybe we can cut this whole conversation off right now
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
why doesn't your dick like musicals?
― da croupier, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
his last girlfriend's vagina sang "hello dolly" every time they tried coitus
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 26 October 2009 19:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
It seems being non-American saves you from some crappy music. -- posted 10 min. ago from the audience at the Eurovision Song Contest
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
(btw that vagina will be #5 on this list)
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
btw that vagina will be #5 on this list
Why don't they try being a little more obvious.
― dabug, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
max's gfriend's vagina is soooo overrated
― Mr. Que, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
;(i);
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
wow u guys
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
Louis Armstrong was not a pussy dammit!
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
sigh
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
god bless us
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 00:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
39!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
what the hell
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
About right.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
ghastly!
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
that heidi montag song better place
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha was just thinking the same thing
― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Tuomas, lunes 26 de octubre de 2009 19:19
Pretty sure the hatred for the songs will be more universal as the list reaches climax, tho. Only two songs I've ever heard from the list so far are Kryptonite and Beautiful. If this is really a demographic thing my ears are extremely grateful for not living in the states. Then again, a great deal of music which did ended up being a hit in my country makes this set of songs sound like immense works of art in comparison.
― Moka, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
Just so you feel deeply sorry for me. This was a massive hit two summers ago.
― Moka, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahaha I remember this song
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
i love this song, as a matter of fact, i love my dog to this song. aka my girl because females are not humans they are robots created by the lord jesus christ to give us blow jobs and anal pleasures. they do not have feelings nor rights but this song rules and you can all smoke my big fat cock. CHACCARON!!!!!― mike bready jr, Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:32 AM
― mike bready jr, Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:32 AM
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Pretty sure the hatred for the songs will be more universal as the list reaches climax, tho.
Maybe so, but number 39 is yet another artist and song I'd never heard about before.
Btw, Chacarron is awesome both as a parody and as an actual song! If it will be on the list, I'll be disappointed.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
Things you've never heard about before? I am shocked.
― Otter madness (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
Tuomas, have you heard of Danity Kane, the group she came from? It's the most recent girl group put together by Diddy, specifically the song "Damaged" (which is about a bazillion times better than Aubrey's solo nonsense):
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
No, never heard of them. But I haven't owned a radio nor a TV for most of this decade, so clubbing and ILX and friends have been pretty much the only sources for learning about new pop music.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
Want prosperity? Index ranks Finland as place to be
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
Though I'm sure Finnish radio would never play stuff like that Kryptonite song, it sounds like the sort of stuff that's popular in America only.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 20:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
waiting for Flobots
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Beckett's worst play
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Well, shall we flow?""Yes, let's flow."They do not flow.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
38!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
that totally hilars brohammer from your freshman dorm who borrowed your laundry basket all the time and then freestyled that funny rap about laundry baskets, remember that?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Okay, I don't usually advocate murder, but Say Anything has gone too far.
Alex in NYC, if you're listening, pls send me some cool crazy ass phrase to sum up my feelings about this.
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm convinced Dan has just listened to this and gone catatonic.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
holy fucking shit this is horrible
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
BTW since I know you all really wanted a YouTube playlist for everything so far (and everything to come):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EA5E8AC76BD79FFD
Perfect for clearing the room after your parties have gone on too long.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahaha
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
I could seriously have lived without ever having to have seen Cisco Adler's cock come up in a GIS, thanks.
― The Paisley (shop) Window Pane (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
even though I enjoy most of the tracks on the list I know already, I'm not going anywhere near that playlist.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Started to put together a Spotify playlist, but missing too many to justify it at the moment. Perhaps as the list progresses more will be available. A lot of Aaron Carter but no America AO. Basshunter also shamefully absent.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
okay wtf I finally broke down and played the Aaron Carter song
I mean, WHY
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
I actually really like Say Anything, but I've managed to avoid that particular cover. Going to try and keep it that way too, thanks.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Say Anything are amazing, but that cover is downright awful. Which, it was made for a one-off punk-crunk compilation. Were you expecting it to be any good?
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 19:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm sure that compilation is a treasure-trove of horrific songs. I can't imagine the New Found Glory cover is better than the Say Anything cover.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 19:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
got that right. woof.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
okay, AMAZING? Say Anything are AMAZING?????????
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
based on that i am now listening to say anything songs on their website, and cursing the day that god invented ears, music, recording, rock bands, the internet, and streaming audio
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
honestly i love my rock music and all...but at this point let's just shut it down. the operation has been compromised.
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
I mean, it's kind of like how can you possibly be a normal, functioning human being who is well-adjusted and normalized into modern society, then turn around and say something like "Say Anything is amazing"? Aren't you basically half a step away from throwing co-eds into Jigsaw traps at that point?
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
people overuse 'amazing' and 'awesome' all the time... in the 21st-century lexicon they often mean little more than 'mildly pleasing'.
― m the g, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
yr missing the point
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
I think the Say Anything song "Alive With the Glory with Love" is amazing (not using the word hyperbolically). None of their other songs have made quite the impact. I like the band, tho. I enjoyed Two Tongues, and I'm looking forward to the new album.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
xp
not really. one person likes 'em, another doesn't. the usual.
― m the g, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
okay seriously, listening to "Alive With The Glory With Love" now and am expecting Ashton Kutcher to pop his head around my cubicle wall any second
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
honestly. you guys all koganed your brains out or something.
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
like i'm all for pop emphera, like music that sounds like how 7-up looks, but this is just all the whiney horrid vocalisms that have ruined indie rock filter through wack third wave 90s pop punk ska bands and then run through bad modern rock studio sounds
it doesn't work as rock or as catchy pop music.
it's like a popcicle made of mcnuggets
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
but it's nice to pinpoint where exactly popism became stockholm syndrome
― i feel like i'm an antenna and i want to be that antenna (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
popholm syndrome
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
not to be confused with pophole syndrome
music that sounds like how 7-up looks
hah, i haven't actually listened to ~any of the songs on this thread yet, but this is perfect
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
Say Anything are a very good band and their first album is one of the best of the decade imo. don't see anything popist or koganed out about holding that opinion, since they're pretty middle tier as far as major label emo bands go.
― crazypoxyfule (some dude), Thursday, 29 October 2009 02:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
lmao
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 October 2009 02:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
37!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 October 2009 17:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha this thing, what the hell
This is what The Farm sounds like to everyone but me, isn't it?
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 17:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
only one i've heard but that sounded alright to me(?)
― plax (I know, right?), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
36!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
holy lolz, so glad I chose to skip this album even though I liked the first one
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
She apologized for all the bratty behavior that made her interesting, and replaced all her rapping with what my brain tells me is singing but my ears tell me is screeching tires.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
fucking hell. i apologise world. we may have given the world many a great thing but i am genuinely embarrassed be on the same land mass at the person who made this.
"you don't need to eat that burger sauce just rub it all on your lips"
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
(xpost) That line is great but is completely undercut by the laconic rap she does on the track he's making fun of.
The vocal filter on the chorus is fucking creepy and not at all sexy.
holy lol "(oh, porridge)"
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
The background voice saying in his smooooooooooooothest voice "food blenders". omg, there are not 35 worse songs surely.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
omg lolololol.
I am massively enjoying this because it is hilarious, not because it's any good.
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
i now feel like i might give anorexia a try.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
the electro Ebola that’s killing hip-hop
Isn't this the same idea everybody jumped over SFJ for?
Sov album is good btw (though that song's just silly.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
I had no idea this record existed. Blimey.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm just expressing myself as ONE HUNGRY MIDGET
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
"the way you chew that CHEESE... you SLEAZE!"
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
okay I actually just caught the bit that the tire screech ref alludes to and holy fucking lolz
Weird Al is so mad at this girl right now
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
Cheesecake Drake
^^this is such a good burn
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
I think this is pretty funny and doesn't sound bad. It's quite obviously a parody of sex raps, I can't believe the writer even has to ask whether or not she's joking.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's like asking whether or not "Chocolate Salty Balls" should be taken seriously... Sometimes joke songs can be good too.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah the thing is this is clearly a joke song and it's also clearly awful
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
I think even the people who hated her first album would agree this is many many many many many times worse than ANYTHING on it.
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
Well, compared to the horrible song that began this countdown, or the Ozzy/Wu tune, this is way more listenable.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
i for one am glad we have someone like tuomas to let us know when someone is being facetious or sarcastic
― k3vin k., Friday, 30 October 2009 19:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
tbh I'm not sure that I've recovered from brokeNCYDE yet but come on, this is not a particularly good effort from Lady Sovereign
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is the first thing I've ever heard of her, I guess I might be more disappointed if I was a fan or something.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is pretty bad but it was worth sitting through three minutes 30 for the fella going "spoons... ice cream... crisps"
― War On The Terrances (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
35!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha, the first one where i know someone who owns a copy of the single.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
just ftr, that song was based entirely off of a sample stolen from (I believe...?) track 4 off of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Techno-Vol-2/dp/B000000CGX
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
Isn't this just a remix of Cuban Boys' "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia"...?
...which came out in 1999. Of course the sample they both use came from some cartoon, but I don't hear too much difference between this and the "Hampsterdance Song". Both simply loop that sample and but a happy hardcore/handbag beat behind it, with some instructional male vocals.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
If it isn't a remix, then the Cuban Boys should sue Hampton the Hamster for stealing their idea.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
And if they indeed sue him, Hampton should be represented by this guy:
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
34!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
That was a slow burn.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
more like a slow beating-my-computer-into-good-enough-shape-for-me-to-be-able-to-look-at-web-pages
and of course one of the first things I look at... is that
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
33!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 18:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
33 and a turd.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
that song should have been "higher" on this list, haha
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
sure, go ahead, be cruel and hurtful toward a 21 year old from a small town in colorado trying to follow her dreams
you don't even know her!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha this is an autotune bonanza
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
like there isn't a single actual note on here that is produced by her
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
in character
Rolling country 2007 thread
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Ah, and now I'm listening to Heidi Montag's blank so-what pasted-on voice singing the silly electro discopop "Body Language" and the vocals have more presence and less distance (is that the word?) than those of anyone I've mentioned in this paragraph except Kelly C.
Wow, autotune.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm really starting to understand My Humps not making it.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
wtf?? had to pause to make sure all those sounds came from the same place, what a mess
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
singing the silly electro discopop "Body Language"
That was more of a dis of the other people in that paragraph than it was a ringing endorsement of Heidi Montag's personality, unless you consider "blank so-what pasted-on singing" to be complimentary. Also,"Body Language" sounds nothing at all like "Higher."
― dabug, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
...Which is terrible.
― dabug, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 20:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
except the hills is maybe the best thing on telly
― plaks (I know, right?), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 20:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
Anyway, this > Chris's relatively mild (for such an obvious target) putdown:
"Fill in the blank:
1) If Heidi Montag's singing didn't sound like she was forcing salt water out through her nose, "No More" would be one of the best singles of the year.
2) Despite her sounding like she's forcing salt water out through her nose, Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year.
3) Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year, and one of the reasons for this is that she sounds like she's forcing salt water out through her nose.
(I am wavering between choices 1 and 2. If I were ever to shift to choice 3, this would probably mean that I have entered a new psychosocial life stage, such as _______.)"
― dabug, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 20:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
32!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
sometimes i feel bad for not saying something smart like the rest of you guys about music. this, however, is not one of those times:
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololetc
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
this makes me regret ever saying anything positive about Smashmouth, ever
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
"The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s That No One Would Ever Have Heard If We Hadn't Linked To Them"
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
huge lol at the last line
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am coming by to say thank you again. So awesome this list.
Though I did lose a friend to BrokeNCYDE. He listened to "Bree Bree" about fifty times trying to figure out why it exists and now likes it.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^a real warning^^^
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
^ jon lovitz harmonica solo around 1:30
from whiney:
can you tell dan and ned and kshighway thanks for the supportand also,I'm proud that, thanks to hoot smalley, the same ilx thread has accused the list of being too obvious and too obscure
― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
Good work to Whiney finding pretty much the worst of the Disneymania tracks after all -- having a hard time topping. (Most of them are at least nearly competent.) Also not fair to fault songs that I hate that aren't done quite as ear-bleedingly badly.
Some other contenders, though:
Hilary Duff - The Tiki Tiki Room
Plain White T's - When I See an Elephant Fly
Fan_3 = It's a Small World After All <--winner for my money
Disney Channel Stars - Circle of Life
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 18:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Woops, forgot Jonas Bros.'s version of "Yo Ho (Pirates Life for Me)."
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 18:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
my one big gripe about this list so far is that about half the of it is actual bad songs written in the '00s, and the rest is just distasteful covers/samples/appropriations of stuff from the 20th century that was actually good once upon a time
― lindsay goham (some dude), Friday, 6 November 2009 18:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Jonas Bros.'s version of "Yo Ho (Pirates Life for Me)."
^^^ why do we live in a world where such things exist
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 18:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm really wishing more of them went out on limbs, instead of just pointing fingers at crap that 99 percent of the audience is obviously already going to have no use for, thus confirming their superiority over all the theoretical morons out there who don't (and probably forgot about these songs years ago anyway). (Haven't been following the comments at all, but have any of the choices provoked much argument? Moldy Peaches, maybe?) But maybe all the TV On The Radio and Radiohead and Bob Dylan songs finish higher on the list; we'll see.
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Definitely could use some counter-challops to the F2K choices so far, but I think the list is a good starting point. (I have a feeling there will be some representative controversial indie or crossover pop track or whatever else higher in the list -- top half for the obvious choices, bottom half for more controversial but more important/interesting ones? TIME WILL TELL.)
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
Worst Songs list is going to involve shooting fish in a barrel. Radiohead and TV on the Radio didn't make anything TOTALLY FUCKING AWFUL and it would just smell of mouldy challops imo.
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wrong. They both made plenty of songs worse than, say, "Kryptonite."
I meant: "...all the theoretical morons who do (have a use for etc.)..."
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Like, when is that awful John Wayne Gacy song by Soofjam going to show up? PASTE'S #1 HAS OUR FIFTH WORST SONG ON IT.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahaha no they didn't, come on
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think any Worst Of... list has to be a good amount of challops by default, anyway. If you're not going to say anything interesting about something be the worst of something, what's the point?
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
(Anyway, if not those artists I named specifically, then artists "like" them. My point is that not all of a decade's worst music is made by bands and singers that people "in the know" already hate. Though, like dabug said, maybe the more interesting picks are coming up later.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
That sentence almost makes sense. Oh well. Anyway, I think it's a lot harder to dislike stuff than to like or ignore it (we tend to ignore stuff we don't generally like), so to truly be the worst, it has to be kind of special and, by definition, a bit more idiosyncratic than "bests" tend to be.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
(Well, I tend to ignore stuff I don't generally like, but I don't spend a ton of time consciously hating on music; not worth my time for the most part.)
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
xhuxk otm. And let's retire "challops" already, unless you really believe that any opinion that deviates from bs consensus is bad faith contrarianism.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well, lots of times the stuff we hate most is stuff that other people stupidly think is great. (And if that necessitates "challops", so what?
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
bad faith contrarianism
Does challops really suggest "bad faith"? I know it can, but I always just saw it as just-plain-contrarianism, if obvious.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
i thought this was supposed to be a fun thing where we all lol'd @ retarded youtubes for a couple weeks
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
I was almost this guy, but caught myself at the point of "hey this actually kinda neWOAH."
I think the Heidi Montag one is alright! Shit! Smash Mouth one is pretty evil, though.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Naw, too many words of analysis for that.
xpost
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't think you can actually argue that everyone "in the know" hates all of the songs they've listed so far (the biggest exception being the James Blunt song, actually).
I assume more high-profile songs are coming up but I am mostly enjoying this list as a "what exactly were these people thinking" exercise; even if it continues trawling through a whole bunch of easy targets, the writing is making me laugh, so as far as I'm concerned it's successful.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
think you can actually argue that everyone "in the know" hates all of the songs they've listed so far
Yeah, that's probably true -- They don't know most of these specific songs, so how can they hate them? What I meant is that I think Idolator's audience is predisposed to hate most of these sorts of songs, when I wish there were more choices that would actively make that audience question what they already like.
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Which is what, though?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Sufjan Stevens John Wayne Gacy Song!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
I mean, just BLEAH.
If anyone accused me of liking that piece of crap I would sue for defamation.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
Gee, shucks, guys, have you ever really tried to understand the serial killer? It takes you to dark places, as can be evidenced by the little defeated sigh I give out at the end of the song. It's really difficult for me to sing for people, I'm so happy to be able to share it with such a special audience.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
I would sort of assume by default that the target Idolator audience has been actively avoiding Sufjan Stevens for years.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
God, every one of you is just...so...special. Poor John Wayne Gacy, he didn't have the specialness that we have. (Ew, never even realized how he overpronounces "behavior," like he wants to hear it as "behaviour.")
xpost, nah, that's where Sufjan Stevens fans go to feel "broad."
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
really i'm in this more for the potential lol write-ups than a definitive & rightfully ordered list of the worst songs of the 00s. whiney's picks have brought out a lot of good & funny writing from him & i'd imagine that that would be a lot harder if he was taking on a bob dylan album track.
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
what Jordan said, really. Also is John Wayne Gacy Jr. the one where he cries in the van? that is so twee and pathetic that just thinking about it makes me want to throw up. how i still like that album when everything i ever think about it makes me want to hate it, i'll never know.
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh wait, that is 'Chicago'. JWG Jr. sucks though and most probably should make the list.
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol ppl are now hating on indie rock itt chuck's goal is achieved
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 November 2009 20:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
the problem w/ tv on the radio, from my perspective, & same with radiohead, is that they are boring. this list is far more interesting when the songs are provocatively bad, where they actually evince a strong reaction. kneejerk indie hating would be really fucking boring
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
boring song = boring discussion. why even throw MORE attention to those bands, anyway>
i for one am hoping for a dylan list-topper and TROTR runner-up just so they can reuse this image
― lindsay goham (some dude), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
lolz.
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
problem w/ tv on the radio, from my perspective, & same with radiohead, is that they are boring. this list is far more interesting when the songs are provocatively bad, where they actually evince a strong reaction.
Well, "provocatively bad" can make for more entertaining music than boring, which was part of my point. I don't trust the list for that reason. But yeah, I can see how, this late in the game, it might be difficult to write anything remotely interesting about those ancient indie heroes. (The XX, on the other hand, I still hope finish top ten. And I don't get how hating say Grizzly Bear on whoever is by definition anymore "kneejerk" than hating Heidi Montag or Smash Mouth.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well, "provocatively bad" can make for more entertaining music than boring, which was part of my point.
right which is why this list is more interesting than if it covered boring music. i think theres an element of truth in advertising here -- you go in expecting entertainingly-bad songs -- that is way better than going in & being "surprised" by a bunch of challenging opinions about critically acclaimed boring music
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
OMG that dylan picture
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
xhuxk you could just say you wish the list was tailored to you and get it over with.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
do y'all who are calling radiohead boring typically enjoy "slow" music, be it modern classical, ambient soundscapes type shit, super esoteric minimal stuff that's not "fast"? out of sheer curiosity.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
you could just say you wish the list was tailored to you
Nah, I don't. And I wouldn't want it to be all indie, either -- that'd be stupid. I just wish it had more range. Which maybe it still will.
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
How are you defining "range"? Because it doesn't appear to be any definition I'm familiar with considering these are the songs on the list so far:
50. brokeNCYDE, “Bree Bree”49. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, “Control Myself”48. The Moldy Peaches, “Who’s Got The Crack”47. Akon, “Sorry, Blame It On Me”46. Dynamite Hack, “Boyz-N-The-Hood”45. James Blunt, “You’re Beautiful”44. Aaron Carter, “America A O”43. Basshunter, “Please Don’t Go”42. 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”41. Vanessa Hudgens, “Sneakernight”40. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and the Wu-Tang Clan, “For Heaven’s Sake 2000”39. Aubrey O’Day feat. Roscoe Umali, “Never Fallin’”38. Say Anything, “Got Your Money”37. Satellite Party feat. Jim Morrison, “Woman In The Window”36. Lady Sovereign, “Food Play”35. Hampton The Hamster, “The Hampsterdance Song”34. Happy Mondays, “Jelly Bean”33. Heidi Montag, “Higher”
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
Needs more critically acclaimed boring music.
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
but doesn't critically acclaimed music usually get acclaim because it isn't horrible?
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
That's kind of where the request falls down.
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
I mean, a lot of those songs are just goofy. Goofy is not the same as bad. I honestly feel sorry for anybody who hates electro-hamsters that much!
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am of the opinion that most of these songs are significantly worse than just "goofy" and people who put extraneous letters in the word "hamster" should die.
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well, critically acclaimed music is theoretically at least somehow distinctive. And distinctions, by definition, would seem to provoke strong reactions -- good and bad. So it seems curious to me that they haven't flipped the tables on some distinctions that aren't as good (or distinctive) as they're cracked up to be, that's all.
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
i still can't believe anyone would give the time of day to that heidi montag track
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
the most offensive kind of music is indistinctive shit that just sounds like everything else which unfortunately is a lot of popular music these days and i kinda love sometimes how people run around in circles trying to prove how interesting and distinctive some of it is.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ people still trotting out the tedious "offensively bad music is actually better than boring music because of the strong reactions it elicits!" trope which is basically a rationalized "so bad it's good". 1) it's not true and 2) it's much more interesting to write about "goofy" or awesomely bad songs anyway
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 November 2009 21:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
i mean is anyone really looking at idolator.com's list of the top 50 worst songs of the decade and complaining about the choices? what the hell do you expect, it's just a bit of fun
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 November 2009 21:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, November 6, 2009 3:15 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dont find radiohead boring bcuz of its pacing, if thats what you're asking
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney asked me to post this for him:
xhuxk, we purposely avoided making challopsy takedowns because it would just make us look spiteful and silly. Like on the Blender lists when they're saying "We Didn't Start The Fire" is one of the worst songs ever or Primus is one of the worst bands ever. It doesn't read as "insight" it reads as "intentionally riling people up."
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, November 6, 2009 3:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dude do u really think thats more true now than ever ... ppl have been on some "all popular music sounds the same" shit for ages .... not to sound like john d. here but were getting old, thats about it
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
if this list causes this thread to turn into a p4k style clusterfuck, it's time to reassess and then shut down the internet.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
30 is the new 20
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
p4k style clusterfuck
Don't worry, at some point Ned will be back w/ a new link to remind us that yes, most of these tracks have been totally horrible.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
the Blender lists when they're saying "We Didn't Start The Fire" is one of the worst songs ever or Primus is one of the worst bands ever.
I've never seen this, fwiw. (And "We Didn't" and Primus are hardly the canon, by any stretch of the imagination, and, either way, I don't see why you couldn't be insightful chopping them -- or the Hold Steady or M.I.A. [both of whom I like btw], or Animal Collective, or whoever -- down. Doesn't depend on who you pick; it depends on what you say. If you make a smart case against a record you think is shitty, why worry about idiots who might accuse you of just being "challopsy"?)
― xhuxk, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Will still rep for "Food Play," tho. SO HILARIOUSLY GROSS.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
honestly xhuxk i think its way more interesting to cover songs other ppl arent going to be talking about
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Just chilling here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
to be fair the list has already included the moldy peaches
I doubt they're gonna be throwing in tv on the radiohead or the fleet furnaces tho
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Best disses tend to be the most difficult ones, though as far as cheap laughs go that Smash Mouth one is pretty great. That's in part because I don't give a shit about Smash Mouth, though. I tend to respond better to takedowns from people who might conceivably be fans of the music -- or, maybe a better way of putting it, someone who might actually give the track the benefit of the doubt. So I don't think I'd want to read someone who doesn't know indie rock write a "TVOTR is boring" blurb any more than I want to read someone bashing a decent-ish novelty track for being stupid or annoying. (Not that they aren't, but that pointing this out isn't usually very interesting.)
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
fwiw I support "Bingo" or "Jimmy" showing up on this list and M.I.A. is one of my favorite discoveries of the decade
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
I would love to read Rich Juzwiak pick some latter-day Mariah Carey track for a 50 Worst feature, e.g.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Good exercise -- get people to write a blurb destroying a terrible track from a band they usually love.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
Give ya an essay on Radiohead's "Pop is Dead" easy.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2009 22:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, November 6, 2009 3:58 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i kind of wouldnt, though -- or i enjoy it only in the context of him sharing shit that is actually good, i.e. "compare this great track im putting you on to to this less mariah track"
there is really no point in expending tons of time talking about shit that isnt good! its a waste of my time! unless its done in an entertaining way, w/ entertainingly shitty music.
like, i think a song can be simultaneously 'entertainingly bad' & still not be something i'll actually want to hear again ... sorry guys \Oo/
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maybe. Though line between entertainingly-bad and bad-bad is a tough one. Where does Blue October's "Hate Me" fall?
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
(Surefire for the top twenty, I'd hope...)
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
LOL, listening to "Hate Me" for the first time in years and the first thing it's reminding me of is the Interpol song about the subway she is a porno.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maybe. Though line between entertainingly-bad and bad-bad is a tough one.
this is exactly why there shouldnt be a distinction! bad is bad
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 November 2009 22:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
OK, now I'm having a Bad Song flood in my brain. "Screaming Infidelities" was this decade!
xpost -- but it's really not true! There are a thousand different bads, as many bads as there are goods!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
Mediocre-bad and spectacular-bad seems to be the key distinction here, tho -- point being that it can be difficult to say interesting things about stuff that's just mediocre.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
right i just don't agree with the idea that "specacular bad" = "kinda good in a way!!"
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 November 2009 22:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
I dunno, I have a soft spot for spectacular failures. And not just "failures that are also spectacles" (a la a bunch of Metallica from this decade, though at least something featured in Some Kind of Monster should make it, with full-on description of the writing process documented in the film, shudder) but a special kind of jaw-dropping badness. Not good as a song, but good as an experience!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^^^ I think this is how I feel about that Lady Sovereign song...? I spend way too much time laughing at it to actively hate it.
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh man, I hope "Do You Realize???!?!??!??!??!!!!?" makes it, though I think that falls into the "failure that is also a spectacle" category rather than spectacular failure.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Lessee, Miley's spectacular failure's gotta be "Wake Up America":
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Aly and AJ's Amber Alert Anthem "I Am One of Them" terrifies the crap out of me:
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Lindsay song + video for "Confessions of a Broken Heart" (dir. Lindsay Lohan):
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
omg that Lindsey Lohan song, I'd forgotten about it
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
Ooh, spectacular failure, K-Fed's "Lose Control" as performed at the Teen Choice Awards!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
(although really the wtf thing about the LL song is the video; the song itself isn't as horrible as the other things on the list)
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well, if there must be some Lohan representation, several things off of Ali's holiday album should do. I vote "Christmas Magic," despite my semi-affection for its total AM cheeze:
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
(OK, I'll stop spamming with Rolling Teenpop holdover Youtubes now.)
"I mean, a lot of those songs are just goofy."
Exactly. I'm not having any fun w/the Idolator list cause it comes off too much like the Joke Police. I'd rather see more ridicule for stuff that's been critically or commercially acclaimed--someone articulating why, say, Grizzly Bear sucks than a blurb putting Smash Mouth in their place. The idea that you can't do this without seeming "spiteful and silly" is just dumb. Just, like, don't be spiteful and silly about how you do it.
And "challops" is an even dumber term than "hater" and serves the same irritating purpose of shifting the focus away from the actual argument being made and to the motives of the person arguing.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
you would seriously rather read MORE coverage of grizzly bear
― heart goin ham (deej), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
smh
you would seriously rather read MORE coverage of Heidi Montag
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
[retarded internet abbreviation]
Have you been on any gamer forums and discovered the magic of "QQ"?
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
(because that's kind of what you're doing here)
i like it when ppl act like finding dismissive coverage of indie rock is difficult
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
thats the only coverage of heidi montag ive ever read tbh
― heart goin ham (deej), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
tbh = to be heidi
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
you are heidi montag and I claim my five dollars
i am iirc
― heart goin ham (deej), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh hey
you suck at everything, Heidi (sorry ;_;)
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
i cannot keep up w/this thread but:
even if it continues trawling through a whole bunch of easy targets, the writing is making me laugh, so as far as I'm concerned it's successful.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, November 6, 2009 1:23 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is otm. whiney is writing funny stuff, so fuck it if the list is correct, like there's some cosmic list of ACTUAL WORST SONGS you fucking aspie rubes, what in the hell
― how rad bandit (gbx), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
That's a good (i.e., really really bad) one, but I'm crossing my fingers for "Popozao" in the top ten. High expectations!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
Here, they can post this as an addendum to the as-scheduled F2K:
Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks": This song is really boring!Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal": This song is really boring!TVOTR - "Wolf Like Me": This song is really boring!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
deej otm
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
And yet I could imagine Pitbull doing this song, just about verbatim, and no one caring that much.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh oh, somebody threw down the aspie gauntlet (on ILM!?) = shit is getting serious
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
My personal nominations would include The Hold Steady's "Chillout Tent", which I know has some following on ILM, but which contains some of the most jarringly interpolated vocals I've ever heard from Dave Pirner and Elizabeth Elmore. It also sounds like The Hold Steady's most out-of-touch song, which is weird, since they are usually quite well-attuned to the the lives of druggy teenagers for a bunch of thirtysomethings.
But whatever, I'm enjoying F2K for what it is. Keep up the good work, Whiney.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 7 November 2009 11:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
I for one couldn't care less about the stupid mildly funny blurbs. I just want the list. The songs have all been INCREDIBLY bad so far. I am so making a "torture" mix CD of these when it's all said and done.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can this song please be on the list??
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
like there's some cosmic list of ACTUAL WORST SONGS you fucking aspie rubes, what in the hell
^^^
― ô_o (Nicole), Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh good, someone else who didn't bother to read the thread and just call everyone aspies instead.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
You must not have attended the same concert I attended, because your criticism is way off!
― ô_o (Nicole), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
from whiney:can you tell dan and ned and kshighway thanks for the supportand also,I'm proud that, thanks to hoot smalley, the same ilx thread has accused the list of being too obvious and too obscure― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:54 PM (3 days ago)
― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:54 PM (3 days ago)
Hope all is well, Whiney. Really enjoying your F2K posts!
Wow it's almost Monday already here in Boston. Yikes.
― kshighway1, Monday, 9 November 2009 02:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
31!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 November 2009 18:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
that one's especially amusing to me because of the old thread where Whiney was all "I can't believe this song is going to be a single" and we had to inform him that it already had been one: 50 Cent - Curtis
― lindsay goham (some dude), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is like everything I hate about 50 condensed into one song with an extra helping of Snoop-biting
(also ppl do realize that Maura is doing half of these, right)
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maura's leaving: http://idolator.com/5290342/its-time-for-me-to-say-goodbye
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Nooooooooooo.
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
so whos taking over
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wonder what will happen to the site now . . .
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
I guess we'll find out tomorrow . . . maybe?
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
Totally gross. I hope some enterprising soul brings the sight down one way or another.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
:(
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
the sight = the site, GAH. I guess I am just too appalled at the Perez-isation of idolator.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
the...what?
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
The layout, I'm guessing.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or the zinging?
I did lol at "Maura leaving Idolator < My Humps" even though this still sucks
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
the layout has barely changed in the history of the site, though
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, you're right. I have no idea then.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
gossip
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Eh, I just figure they're going to do something cheesy and hacky, that's the way all of these sites seem to be going.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, it's probably best to preemptively accuse them of going in a direction they haven't made a single step towards, just to be safe
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
Better safe than sleazy.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
did we kill idolator?
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://idolator.com/5290702/lady-gaga-fans-air-their-grievances
I don't think my guess was all that wrong. "Frown-y face", jesus christ.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Although if "Robbie" turns out to be Robbie Neville fallen down on hard times, c'est la vie.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Even though I like Lady Gaga, it's weird to see a Gaga-related post on Idolator w/o Maura slagging her off in some not-so-subtle way. This Robbie clown is just all business, the facts are the facts.
But yeah, frown-y face. ugh.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm wondering, based on this blog post, if this person actually understands what "curiosity killed the cat" actually means...?
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think curiosity is too big a word for him.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
i can really only assume that maura quit for a better opportunity elsewhere, b/c i cannot imagine how that could be seen as a good new direction from any angle
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Idolator commenter brasstax OTM: "Robbie, you do realize you’re going to be terribly tortured and ridiculed from now until the point many of us just get bored coming back here, right?"
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
RIP Idolator
"At any rate, they say curiosity killed the cat. Or, in this case, the cat-suited pop star."
RIP F2K?
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
If you are a Lady GaGa fan who sat around yesterday waiting for her “Bad Romance” video to make its way online, then you’re a Lady GaGa fan who ended their day with sad frown-y face.
― lou, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys, I think Robbie is just Whiney fucking with us. the site will probably disappear into oblivion tomorrow.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am sad that I am never going to see the "You, Me and Dupri" picture again.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
brasstax = me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
You, Me and Dupri pic RIP
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
Johnny Fever aka brasstax OTM
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Haha I haven't been very in the loop w/ Idolator since they lost the budget for my column but I was at least hoping that someone who was already part of the fold was taking over and didn't want to rush to judgement but...yeah, that's not terribly encouraging
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
NEVER FORGET xp
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
really, I have far less beef with "frown-y face" (which is at least an attempt at personality) than I am at an apparent fundamental misunderstanding of one of the most-quoted proverbs in the English language
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
I remember the NME writing something about Robbie Williams where they rhymed Robbie with blowjobbie.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
wait what is going on?
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
Also lol @ my username apparently being invalid for about a week now...? My nerd rage must go unsatisfied!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
Make a up a new username and unleash hell.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
f2k is still happening, right?
― autogooner (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
Someone should ask Whiney. It's probably not going to happen on Idolator, at least.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or if it does, it will be something like "OMG wtf you guys, that Radiohead song gave me a frown-y face".
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
:-(
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha too bad we banned the guy who might be able to clear things up right now!
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
whiney wants to know if he can come back now
― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney, just give us the lowdown on Friday; you'll be unbanned then.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh, it just continues to be bad...
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
surprised a top ten debut after your last album wasn't even released counts as a trouncing but hey frown-y face
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
The sales figures quoted there are absolutely riveting.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
I mean, I can't tell you how fascinated I am by whether a record label is "pushing" someone or not.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
But how many more posts with poorly-used common expressions and comments tossed out w/o context from fan boards will we have to suffer through before then? Love the "no accounting for taste" calls of apocalypse for a Top Ten debut from someone whose last album wasn't even released!
Er, expost
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
Er, xpost.
Can we talk about how these post titles just aren't up to par? That was one of my favorite things about Brian/Maura Idolator... they were always either funny, or eye-rollingly bad. Now they're just titles. Nothing to see here. Go on to the business of reading the article, please. Thank you.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Jojo to Sudanese Government: Leave (Get Out)"
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
the pressing question there is "why is the Sudanese gov't in Jojo's house"
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Man Decapitated in Strip Club"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Super Caley Trounce Celtic"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
i was always sadly proud of that one.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
though i feel like if any headline sums up my tenure at idolator, it's still:
"Yes, It’s Come To This: A Video Of Miley Cyrus Drinking Ketchup"
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Okay, so apparently Robbie is this guy: http://chartrigger.blogspot.com/
Yes, I may as well just go ahead and remove Idolator from my bookmarks right now.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
god...
it's like they really wanted to take out any bit of a critical voice that the site had left
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
a quick look suggests he likes snow patrol and calvin harris. rip idolator. ;_;
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
apparently according to whom?
why would anyone give that guy an actual writing/editorial role? I DON'T GET IT
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
but w/o a critical voice it's just, like, a bad news aggregator. i don't get why this is desirable from any standpoint.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Calvin Harris??!?!?!?!? O_o
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Daily Swarm identified him as that guy. They may be wrong, but based on what's been posted on Idolator today, it fits.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
neither do i lex
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
while this obv sucks on multiple levels, i must admit I find the idea of a blog whose ideal reader wishes Perez Hilton ONLY talked music kind of fascinating.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
It really doesn't take much to be considered a "noted blogger" these days does it? I mean, ffs, the guy just relates chart rundowns and press releases.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
not to be contrarian because this is totally depressing, but at least they got someone interested in popular music instead of just going indie and becoming Stereogum 2 right away
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's like they're aiming for...a kind of US digital spy? yeesh.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, but what's the point in reading Idolator now when Popjustice exists to cover the same material in a much better fashion?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe but i think the likelihood of this dude coming to appreciate good indie is less likely than an indie stan coming to appreciate good pop. *maybe*
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
i don't know how that pertains to what i said
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol I accidentally clicked on the Idolator link on The Daily Swarm because I thought it was a blog tag and LOLOLOLOLOLOL at the Britney "piece"
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
so is this guy just going to be publishing whiney & maura's f2k blurbs or...
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
idolator's remit was always much wider than popjustice's - it was about popular music (not nec pop music) with a side order of maura's own taste. it worked really well. can't imagine popjustice ever acknowledging eg hip-hop.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
It doesn't really matter, the Idolator commenters are going to destroy this guy anyway.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
doesnt the same company own both stereogum and idolator?
― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yes.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah that was why i said that
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh well no need to get snippy
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
i don't know how this all "works" behind the "scenes"
sorry i just thought that was implied (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/idolators-new-editor-illiterate/
Seriously, whoever wrote this is awesome. Love the picture too.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
ftr the Britney blurb was written by "Becky"
Well done, Becky! You can write press releases!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
the "indie stan" post didn't make sense to me in the context of the conversation, though (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Becky Luc@$? xp
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
nevermind
dogtits
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
i have to say i kind of like how both this thread and the idolator comments today are just kind of liveblogging the collective discontent about all this and slowly intensifying
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Becky Lucas": C or D?
She would be a perfect writing companion for Robbie.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
so have they replaced everyone over there or what
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
I love Maura. I'm sad she's gone. But I feel like the Idolator brand has been betrayed by bringing in these hack writers with no discernible personality or voice to essentially report chart figures and regurgitate press releases (and badly, at that).
There are countless writers out there who, as lex stated, who can write about popular music without focusing solely on "pop music." Robbie and Becky aren't those people.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe it's that thing where buzznet are phasing out something they can't afford to run by making it as shit as possible so no one misses it when it eventually does go
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
how appropriate are the names "becky" and "robbie" though. it's like they really wanted to hire 13 year olds to run the site but couldn't legally pay them.
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah honestly there are at least half a dozen past Idolator contributors who would've been able to carry on the site pretty well imo, i'm guessing the reason none of them are on there today is that the owners wanted to clean house and start fresh and/or pay new people at a much lower rate than the old people were used to getting
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'd rather it just have died last night.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
how much do music writers get paid to music write
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's the Mickey Mouse Club (Becky! Robbie!).
― fucking in the streets, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
I was a guest editor for a day back when it was a Gawker property and I got a check for $80 (which was probably about $10-per-post).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
wait Johnny Fever what is your name or the name you posted on Idolator under?
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
At least they removed Maura's name from the left rail.
― lou, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am commenter "brasstax" and my guest editor day was July 10, 2007.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
The "fuck you" in all caps made me laugh.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
thx johnny
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
theory:
this site links to idolator
http://www.thefablife.com/author/howardb/
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
though she might be too "sharp" to be "becky"
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Seriously though, these dudes are going to get a handful of days of shit from the old crowd in the comments, then they're going to abandon the site and who else will come in to read this shit? As people've said upthread, many sites do what these two are doing way better. Google News is 100% more useful than this now.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
they're = old crowd in the comments
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
The comments on these posts are great though.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
I will say that what Maura and Jess and Brian and whoever else had to do on a daily basis was HARD. Maura kept assuring me all day long that I was doing a good job, but I felt like I'd been beaten by 5pm.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah...I did 2 days of guest blogging and really staggered through the 2nd one, although it was mainly my fault for thinking I could juggle it w/ my desk job instead of just doing it from home.
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Even when I didn't agree with what Maura had to say, which was often, I still thought the writing on the site was mostly clear, incisive, and worthwhile. Which, as you're saying, is very hard to do consistently multiple times every day of the work week.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Idolator was one of the few music blogs I still read.
whiney: can you tell them to take the (RIP) out of the headline
― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
hey whiney if this is dead you should continue it here starting friday.
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Y'all are forgetting the part where they open comments back up after no one comments from the Olden Days and the posts and comments become an indistinguishable mush.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
first paperthinwalls, now this...
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
After a [...]
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe it's Robbie Robertson
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
Alright, he fixed it, but his new post self-links to his previous Lady Gaga post from earlier in the day.
Choice quote: "Initial thoughts: Fashion = pain. Lots and lots of weird, strange pain."
Fuck this shit.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
your theory is incorrect, omar
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
i need to remove this from my blog roll right now
not that anybody pays attention to it, but still, you know?
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
my new theory is that becky is still robbie
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
If you run out of good stuff to read on nu-Idolator there's always the venerable Stereogum holding it down:
DEATH CAB ROCK HOT TOPIC!!!11!
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Stereogum has been Buzznet's flagship for a while, but I'm very sad that its status is now justified.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
(although, in the beginning when Stereogum was just Scott Lapatine posting whatever he wanted to, it was a great blog.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
This seems very sudden; Maura was even on NPR on Sunday talking about American Idol and was introduced as the editor of Idolator.com.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
I guess now guys can stop complaining when their girlfriends get bitchy once a month in the hopes that they turn into Rihanna.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, nothing warms my heart like a good PMS joke.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Especially if it brings in boyfriends' reactions to PMS, amirite?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Categories:Breaking
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Too true.
At least they had the decency to remove Maura's name from the site.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
(From the sidebar on the left, I mean.)
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maura, if you're reading, can you post something here about what happened?
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm kind of hoping that what's happening here is a real-life recreation of the Mad Men finale. I find some comfort in believing that Maura and Whiney and a couple others are holed up in a hotel room somewhere plotting something big while Becky and Robbie were scraped from the bottom of the McCann barrel to keep Idolator functioning simply because Buzznet has the rights to the name.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
That would be amazing.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Happy 40th B-Day, Sesame Street!"http://idolator.com/5290432/happy-40th-b-day-sesame-street
In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary today, here’s the smooth-jazziest rendition of the Sesame Street theme, as sung by Joshua Radin. Can’t you just imagine Oscar the Grouch wearing a beret sipping an espresso while listening to this play in a piano bar in the West Village?
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
Robbie = Ken Cosgrove
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
How much money would we pay to hear John sing “Your Body is a Wonderland” to Elmo? Infinity dollars. That’s how much.
This can't be real.
Becky = Lois the foot chopping secretary
infinity dollars!!!
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
late to the party here but w.t.f.
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Idolator now:
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,[shouting]Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Thierry pointed out something that smacks of truth. It seems like Robbie and Becky never even read Idolator to begin with, and now they're writing for it.
I checked the blog links in the Chart Rigger sidebar and, nope, there's no link to Idolator at all.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
so where did they find these people?
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
The sewers, I'm guessing.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
Liveblog!!
http://idolator.com/5291482/livebloggin%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98kris-allen%E2%80%99
<h1>Piano = sad.</h1>
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ HTML
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
“This is really boring.” – Robbie.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sadly, this is the most I've commented on Idolator during a single day in well over a year.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
it should be pretty sobering for these two that they are getting appropriately sonned by kshighway
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
Make sure you unfollow idolator if you were following them on twitter -- they've just started spamming with links to their lame new posts.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
at this point I think everyone just needs to avert their eyes
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Alright With MeOoh, folky! Am I clapping hands and singing around a campfire? I just might be! I think I’m liking this one best because it just sounds different. It’s got its own personality, whereas almost every other song on this album sounds like another version of itself. But this song is, wait for it, alright with meeee!!! Wooo high five for awesome puns!!
hang on was this SERIOUSLY JUST POSTED
it's like the dregs of first-year student journalism
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
no, it's worse!! it's way worse!
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
i really want these people to stand up and explain themselves! i wonder what they think their selling point is.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Buzznet is clearly just shifting their target to tweens and/or people who self-loathe.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^insulting tweens and people who self-loathe
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hahaha. Thanks Jordan.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think I’m liking this one best because it just sounds different. It’s got its own personality, whereas almost every other song on this album sounds like another version of itself.
btw thank you for this illuminating portrait of what this song sounds like, I can clearly imagine it in my mind based off of these two simple sentences
oh wait, no I can't because YOU HAVEN'T SAID A FUCKING THING ABOUT THE SONG
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
look what he's saying is every other song sounds like itself, and this song doesn't sound like itself. it sounds like a different song.
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, what don't you get Dan?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
So what you're saying, Omar, is that there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
~precisely~
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
I kinda like their bold anti-piano platform?
It's like Denby's bold stance against film. Only, y'know, against music?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
i really want these people to stand up and explain themselves!
Yeah, I think I would loathe these people a little bit less if they had at least explained a little bit about themselves and where there were coming from. But to just start posting these inane blurbs about Gaga and Rihanna is like a drunk crashing a child's birthday party and then barfing on the cake.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
a drunk crashing a child's birthday party and then barfing on the cake
Simile of the year!
ftr this shit is EXACTLY what I am talking about whenever I go on a "modern music writing is a gigantic bag of shit that never actually talks about the music" tear; I'm not looking for analysis of chord progressions as much as I'm asking for the writer to tell me about, oh I don't know, what instruments were used and what they sound like, and whether those sounds go together or not
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is the second time I've glanced at my wall calendar to make sure it is indeed the 10th of November and not the 1st of April.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh hey, an explanation.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
walkietalkies on Twitter: "I like going to the @idolator site because I can read the comments alongside the articles that they're slamming. #backlash"
^^
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
"He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles. "He sounds -- well -- he sounds like a guy I would flirt with at a bar," she giggles.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahaha YESSSSSSS
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
That post is genius, I was kidding earlier. My actual favorite line is "If there's one thing that PR workers love about the pop culture industry, it's process and integrity."
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://mackro.blogspot.com/2009/11/idolator-moves-forward-with-xml-driven.html
Is this article satire or what?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
yes
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
no no, that's exactly what they did
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
Nu-Idolator is so bad that we must all ask ourselves that question.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
it was effectively couched in technobabble that i don't understand to the point where i thought it might be real
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
by NunyaB at 3:48 pmThis has to be some kind of super-next-level performance art, and “Becky” and “Robbie” are secretly Maura and the triumphantly returned Jess, right?RIGHT?…Oh God.
This has to be some kind of super-next-level performance art, and “Becky” and “Robbie” are secretly Maura and the triumphantly returned Jess, right?
RIGHT?
…Oh God.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
BREAKING NEWS FROM RICK SANCHEZ ON THE TWITTER:
let me say again, i look at writing like fine wines, i'm fascinated w how they are grown. that's all. im serious.
^^ CNN anchor, folks. Possible new hire for Idolator. Just throwing that out there, Buzznet. Don't leave money on the table.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
brb, gonna grow some wines
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
i don't blame you, man. too cold out here in Boston or I'd be doing the same.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol I am also in Boston, cold is merely a state of mind
(besides, if ppl can grow wine in MN, they can grow it anywhere)
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#search?q=idolator
Just for easy reference.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://idolator.com/5291742/adam-lambert-allison-iraheta-and-kris-allen-just-might-rock-your-town
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
The dreaded "c" word is apparently comporomise.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahaha
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Any word over three characters is probably dreaded by these two jokers.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
ok this has disturbed me a bit, a few entries ago from robbie's other awful blog:
The first time I ever climbed down the dark stairwell to the underground (literally!) club was in December 1994—nearly 15 years ago—when I was home on Christmas Break during my first year away at university.
REEEE-WIND. first year of university. nearly 15 years ago. THIS MAN IS IN HIS THIRTIES
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
O_O @ lex
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
someone who is that old & does not have any critical distance is sufficiently creepy
o_O
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
i for one welcome our new SEO-optimized overlords
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
and by "not having any critical distance" i mean "writes like a 15-year-old"
music bloggers in churning out useless shit shocker
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
15-year-olds across the country are offended by that comparison, J
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
That is even more appalling. I could see some lowly young buzznet intern who didn't know any better because all they'd been trained to do is give blowjobs, but a GROWN MAN writing like this? For shame.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
we're all just spoiled because ILM always has been and still is populated by some of the best music critics working today. outside of our citadel, the situation is dire!
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol kiss ass
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
^ game looks awesome btw
fuck it: Robbie is better than any of the fools posting here, but don't tell anyone outside of this thread I said so.
maybe rock criticism is dead now, dead via the boiling oil of the internet
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Via Twitter:
katesilver"Livebloggin': 'Kris Allen' " is a thing of beauty. I removed the bookmark but I can't look away. "Robbie" was the drummer for Gay Dad.
"Livebloggin': 'Kris Allen' " is a thing of beauty. I removed the bookmark but I can't look away. "Robbie" was the drummer for Gay Dad.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
so much morbid can't-look-away offended fascination right now.
ok, so, going by the blog roll on "chart rigger", there seems to be...a whole community of bloggers that this robbie is part of? so i guess there's a ready-made audience for...whatever this is? this disturbs me. there are people out there who think there's a point to his inane witterings?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
and a great deal of curiosity too, i want to know how it's possible that he's thrived doing what he does!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
i can't remember the last time so many current idolator posts garnered SO many posts. which says...something.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
people be rubberneckin.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
So wait, you're NOT going to explain this?: THIS MAN IS IN HIS THIRTIES
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ this interview - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/11/maura_johnston.php
H: In short, as we say in this business, "sad frown-y face."
― just sayin, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, totally.
i can't bring myself to pile on. i'm just hoping maura has something lined up.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:46 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:25 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:25 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
man, this economy.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha i don't think they're letting my comments go through.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
time to create a new account, non?
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
post them here?
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
the sick thing is that they're guaranteed crazy traffic for at least a week because of how batshit this all is
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I have tried to stop posting there.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
But the urge to insult is hard to fight.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
i actually do feel becky and robbie's pain. the gig really is an incredible brain-drain, so i can understand why they've decided they've taken the rain man approach to blogging out of the gate.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:42 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
Read that R as an N as was about to come and be like OH HELL NO before I re-read it.
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
What the FUCK
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
chant rigger?
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
google tells me:
Robbie Daw dishes out pop music sass daily on his site Chart Rigger.
standards for "pop music sass" apparently at a hitherto unknown low, then. i could literally walk into the street right now and grab a random teenager who would give me better "pop music sass" than that. and they would probably not use the phrase "pop music sass" as a bonus.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thewatercooler/mwood/me_johnny__robbie2.jpg
Robbie is at right.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
Blerg.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh he's British? that explains everything
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, cos who the fuck wants a blog of rigging chants
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
f that dude, we have some great writers. this dude just aint one of them. (neither am i :) )
i can't believe he calls himself a journalist ;_;
xp he's from LA
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
he does seem oddly into really bad british pop, but we're not taking the blame for this one
love that shit tbh
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain; For we've received orders for to sail for old England, But we hope in a short time to see you again.
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
If memory serves, Buzznet has been steadily letting people go here in LA so I wonder if this was some sort of throwaway. My dead pool prediction is that nu-Idolator won't last until Spring.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
He seems like a total Perez wannabe, I was just speculating/guessing upthread that Buzznet was going to scrape the barrel that way but it turns out they really are going for the lowest common denominator.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
hey, c'mon y'all, mocking people for their personal appearance when the work itself is fuel enough is bad zing sportsmanship.
signed,homely guy who can string a sentence together
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sasha Frere-Jones:Unfollow of the year: @idolator. I had no idea it could go so badly.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:04 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i think buzznet is kind of sinking--i imagine these two are super-cheap, last-ditch hires in a kind of what-the-hell approach to seeing if they can keep the site viable
― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
let me blog
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys zines are the new blogs
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
I got a book on seo no one's gonna stop me
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am thinking about starting a blogazine. It'll be a jpeg you have to print out to read.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
Appropriate.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies,Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain;For we've received orders for to sail for old England,But we hope in a short time to see you again.
fucking a, I lost a solo in this in college to a dude who couldn't sing in tune because he was louder than me; thanks for the painful memories *frown-y face*
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
xpost wait waht
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tom's just doing some market research!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.last.fm/user/JasonDLuv
(no zings here)
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
57 David Bowie 13057 Owl City 130
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
Your musical compatibility with JasonDLuv is High
;_;
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
he listens to the fast food rockers :o
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol dan
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
HE'S THIRTY-FIVE
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
Your musical compatibility with JasonDLuv is Low
Music you have in common includes The Smiths, Hole, Mariah Carey, Annie and The Beatles.
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
LET'S NOT TURN THIS INTO THE LAST.FM THREAD okay?
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Your brain compatibility with JasonDLuv is Low
Cognitive abilities you have in common include being able to recite the alphabet, count to ten
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's Chart Rigger's Top 40 Pop Singles Of The '00s!
punchline- texas AND the feeling make the top 10.
― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
20. Keane - "Everybody's Changing" (2004)
D'LUV Says: "For me, 2003 and 2004 held so many great 'indie-pop' discoveries—The Killers, Snow Patrol, Interpol and Keane. 'Everybody's Changing' was a standout heartbreaker from the first listen."
this man is now being paid to write about music
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
Music you have in common includes Cut Copy, Hall & Oates, Mariah Carey, Dusty Springfield and Madonna.
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^good overlap imo
the Killers are my favorite indie pop act, tbh.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
Interpol too.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:38 PM
To be fair, he's probably heard of the talking heads.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Guys can be please dredge up more on 'Becky' now?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
"can WE"
you may find yourself ruining one of the best music blogs with sad frown-y face
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
couldn't believe that fuckin I'd give a thousand hugs to ten thousand lightning bugs song was not a new death cab track
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
when I heard that on the radio I thought, "Wait, I thought Postal Service wasn't putting out a new record anytime soon. And why is this shit on Kiss 108?"
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
fyi an undercover operative hit me up with this:
http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/performers/7647
― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
...uh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
If correct, I can't believe this woman is a working comedian!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/bexmachine
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
ws, basically. missing u early 2000s bangs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
She looks like the daughter of Martha Quinn.
(I'm kind of hoping this actually isn't Idolator "Becky," because I want to like her.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
lady gaga's new video gives me: a) nightmares b) a lady erection c) dance fever d) all of the aboveabout 3 hours ago from web
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
That's possible -- Robbie is Facebook friends with her.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh privacy
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is old school ilx
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
looking people up on the internet?
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://idolator.com/5291982/alicia-keys-element-of-freedom-cover-seems-a-tad-queen-of-the-night
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
And while the whole freedom angle with the cover art is pretty evident—Doves in flight! The sky’s the limit!—
Guys, I wrote some bad sentences and papers in college, but that shit is unforgivable.
― kshighway1, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
An old Idolator cover art feature would comment on the poor font choices and excessive image retouching and the complete WTF concepts. Nu-Idolator just points out that Alicia Keys is a Whitney Houston stan. NEWS FLASH
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
Okay, the Becky Bain thing is pretty much confirmed now since she's posting about the Green Day musical on Idolator after doing the same on twitter.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Idolaroux!
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
suggest bain
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
nothing to add here really except to add to the chorus. to be real, idolator was on the decline (and why wouldnt it be? they had some great writers they had to let go) and i pretty much expected major changes within the next few months, but the gap b/w even the site's more recent less-than-compelling stuff and this middle school my-first-article dreck is sudden and disheartening
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
if anything, you can go back and see all the really cool stuff the site's put up over the last few years. it was a really cool niche while it lasted
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:49 PM (20 minutes ago)
QFT
it's not like the writing wasn't on the wall. or that maura's farewell came as a surprise. but the drastic change in... um... tenor feels like a real insult to anyone who ever bookmarked the URL.
like, just close the fucker down and be done with it because unless you're paying robbie and becky actual peanuts you could finish out your impression obligations to Pronto Style with an RSSbot and more dignity.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
I just get the impression that Maura wasn't afforded the luxury of winding things down on her own terms. More like it was a quick and dirty firing and she was allowed to make a goodbye post.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
tbh it pisses me off a little when people say things like it had been on the decline, considering that there was no change in the quality of maura's posts and she was probably madder than anyone about the loss of freelancer contributions.
as much as it sucks to watch something i cared about and was proud to be a small part of get totally fucked up, it's at least nice to see a lot of other people from outside it up in arms about this.
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maura's posts were still spot-on to the very end, loved 'em. But without a carousel of writers that once populated the site, you could tell she chose to phone it in some days. That's Buzznet's fault, not hers. I hope the next time we see her, she'll be the head of a crew similar to (or even the same as) the one that dominated Idolator from late 2007 up until late 2008/early 2009.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Countdown until there's a "Hitler finds out about Idolator change" video in 5... 4... 3...
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
ha!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Plies is better than this dreck. Far better.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
al that's why i said it wasn't her fault - maura was still good at what she did but it did hurt the site to lose those contributors (like uh, you) and on top of that, the page views and comments were slowly decreasing. all i meant was that the end was near, and it's sad to see it happen like this, which i'm sure no one wanted
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
i stopped reading it regularly when all the contributors left.
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
i wish i had kept doing my column for free for a few extra months like Molanphy did, but a lot of shit was going on, and when my commenting account was screwed up for so long i was like i don't wanna post something and then not be able to respond to feedback and have a conversation about it
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
My commenting account was screwed up for a long time as well, Buzznet doesn't seem to be competent on any level.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:47 PM (7 minutes ago)
yeah and another good thing about the site was this atmosphere of like, "hey guys, i had this great idea, here's a piece i made about it, whaddya think?" - regular readers could comment on or criticize intelligently and the writer would usually engage in the discussion too. kind of funny to see the difference in today's posts...there's really no use in having a comments section IMO if the writers aren't gonna try to engage w/ the feedback. (altho tbf there hasn't been much real contsructive feedback, mostly because of the dearth of actual CONTENT.)
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
and another good thing about the site was this atmosphere of like, "hey guys, i had this great idea, here's a piece i made about it, whaddya think?" - regular readers could comment on or criticize intelligently and the writer would usually engage in the discussion too.
it's so difficult to get that sort of dynamic going anywhere, so this is definitely something that Maura's Idolator should be commended for.
Stylus down, PTW down, now Idolator down. :-(
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
AT LEAST WE HAVE COKEMACHINEGLOW
CMG is still going? Who knew.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
AT LEAST WE HAVE TINYMIXTAPES
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
the thing is pretty much all the writers involved in all those outfits are still writing, just maybe less organized under a banner and/or getting paid like at those places...someone good at selling adspace and enough people willing to advertise on music sites are really the only the two ingredients that make it easier said than done to get a site like one of those going for a sustained amount of time.
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
definitely! the only thing imo is that a "big" site like a Stylus or Idolator, with a stable of excellent writers and a community of engaged readers, is a much more interesting and powerful thing than a diffuse network comprised of the same people writing for varied blogs, alt-weeklies, Twitter feeds, forums, etc.
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
kshighway1 OTM. There's a certain critical mass (Robbie: Wooo high five for awesome puns!!) necessary to jump start a flow of conversation and a sizeable audience.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Johnny Fever bringing the lols:
So now that Idolator is headquartered in Los Angeles, does that mean we’re going to have to wait until midday for the first posts to appear? If so, lame. Wise editors who understand readership would start waking up at 4 am PST to get the ball rolling every day. This means you, Robbie.
(From: http://idolator.com/5292082/its-westlifes-icy-rendition-of-daughtrys-what-about-now)
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
My feelings about these new writers/corporate shills can be summed up in one picture:
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 04:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
That gif is amazing.
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 04:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
wtf @ all of this injustice fuck the world
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
HOOS what is your opinion of nu-Idolator?
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
its like gawker but more shallow
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 06:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:58 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
basically
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 06:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahaahahah
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 06:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, October 26, 2009 2:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread got kinda confusing... I thought it was merely about a list of crappy 00s songs reviewed in Maura's/Whiney's blog, but apparently there's a whole lot of behind-the-scenes politics going on I know nothing about.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
So, apparently the list will not be completed now? I guess I should unbookmark this thread then.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maura left/was possibly sacked from Idolator halfway through the list. No-one knows really knows if the list will continue or what Maura is doing next and we are hoping that when Whiney's ban is over he might be able to clear it up. Lastly, the people who took over Idolator halfway through the fun bad song list suck and are ruining a once great website. This was the thread about Idolator being regularly bumped and ironically it is about stuff being crap, so it seems appropriate to discuss it here.
Does that clear it up?
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
I guess so. I just thought this "Idolator" was merely a Maura's or Whiney's blog, I didn't know it was a professional site and that people got paid for writing this stuff. I guess you wouldn't want to complete the list for free if you got paid for it previously.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
you thought maura was posting that volume of content on a daily basis for free?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah people never waste loads of time on the internet.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't know what else Maura posted. All I saw was a list, updated once a a day, and written by two people. Doesn't seem like an awful amount of owrk.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
work
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
by allyzay at 1:52 pm
I always wondered what would happen if Perez Hilton and a lolcat had a baby! Now I know! I will treasure this day for a while.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
the alicia keys album artwork they "cover" isn't even real - did they just take internet rumours at face value there? oh dear.
@aliciakeys Heads up, the album cover that is going around is not my real album cover. Official Album cover is coming soon.....;-) RTabout 13 hours ago from web
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#search?q=idolatorJust for easy reference.
so I looked at this again today and it's turned into a bunch of bisexual foot-fetish bots retweeting inane Idolator headlines
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
buzznet will be happy, ~more traffic~
i'm still inordinately pissed off by robbie and becky - the idea that they've parlayed their awful-in-every-way writing into something resembling a journalistic career. what on earth is their point/appeal? it's gossipy without any actual gossip, the idea that camply going "ooh" every so often is the same thing as being funny or having a personality
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
still have that Plies song stuck in my head guys
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Of all the things wrong with this, I think the worst is that she calls Kanye "Kan."
I don't mind helping bump up their initial traffic as long as we keep getting some good zings in before the inevitable comments exodus.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
No, wait, calling Shakira "Shaks" is worse.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
ok this is intolerable but seriously WHAT IS THE APPEAL, TO ANYONE, OF WRITING LIKE THIS????? i don't get it.
Girl does speak the truth, last time I went to a Kanye West concert, I saw every type of person under the sun there - black, white, gay, straight, old, young, and everything in between. Total Benneton ad.
- is this the inverse of "i don't care if you're black, white, purple..."?- FFS SPELL BENETTON RIGHT, JESUS CHRIST
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
"What was the crowd like at the Kanye concert?"
"Total Benetton ad."
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
How would that be the inverse? Isn't it the same?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
"oh it was a benetton ad. lots of old *and* young people."
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
remember that benetton ad with the old chaps and the babies?
For some reason my comment about not understand what is creepy about dreadlocks is still "awaiting moderation".
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yep. That was the exact moment that I decided its not even worth admiring the trainwreck anymore. Idoltar bookmark gone.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
If they were just dumb and oblivious, making fun of them in the comments would be amusing. But now that the creepy racism and misogyny is coming out, I don't want to give their work any traffic.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
― some dude, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:04 AM Bookmark
ha, I was going to post it here, but you beat me to the punch
― cash rules ? me (The Reverend), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Idolator shift is analogous to Dane Cook renaming himself "George Carlin" after George Carlin died.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
reel it in a bit
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
looool
But I wonder if even that would have some defenders, "come on guys it's only been a week since Dane renamed himself 'George Carlin', let's give him some time to settle in before we expect quality humor".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah I had a Sarah Palin comparison running through my head yesterday about how these 2 seem to have no idea what they signed up for but a little voice told me "reel it in a bit"
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
Still laughing at all of Johnny/brasstax's comments.
I think I'm done checking the site though. They're just going to continue churning out this shit until everyone who's still there leaves.
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
I still laugh every time I think of that launch "manifesto." Idolator: totally repped it.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh, the laughters out loud
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
i wonder what he thinks of Pitchfork. O_O
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
I bet he's got some interesting stories, this one, if we ask him really nicely to share
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
omg a parody of Precious is the role I was born to play
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
please tell me that's a tweet and not an excerpt from something on Idolator
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's a tweet
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Which maybe she assumes is private, but...
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
No, it's from Becky's twitter.
Pretty much 100% confirmed it's her now, because one of her friends tweeted "Joshsod @bexmachine these people really miss maura....whoever the heck that is. lots of jerks!"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
OMG, what is wrong with this woman? Her tweets read like an American who once read Bridget Jones and didn't realise it was a parody, not a style guide.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
btw the biggest impact this is all having on me is reminding me why I never wanted to be on Twitter in the first place, yikes
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
Old Becky Bain blog here: http://poshnbex.blogspot.com/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
these people really miss maura....whoever the heck that is
That's about as close to a nutshell as we're gonna get on this one, I guess. I'd be surprised if Robbie and Becky aren't essentially saying the same thing privately.
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
More of My Virtual WitINsite Boston (Click Movies Tab) Broadcaster News Rhyme Schemes (Songs by Yours Truly)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is this love?I have to ask itAs I put you next to all the rest of my fragile eggsIn a terribly good-looking basket
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm guessing they won't be talking about the new magnetic fields album
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
what a disaster for Whitesnake
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
She's an endless source of amusement (at her own expense).
(tbf, though... her American Idol blogging isn't so bad.)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
robbie <<<<<<< becky ( <<<<<<<<<<<<< literate humans)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
she is trying very hard to be Rich FourFour and it is just not happening
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
All I saw was a list, updated once a a day, and written by two people. Doesn't seem like an awful amount of owrk.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:04 AM
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol, we're the source! http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/idolator-2no-where-did-buzznet-find-these-morons/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahaha that is great
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
kind of wish Robbie had been raked harder over the coals, tho
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
to be fair, aren't these two just "following orders"? i assume buzznet knew their tastes and told them to just do what they do best...
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
zinging their tastes is a red herring (though god knows it's easy enough in robbie's case...makes me want to apologise on behalf of gays everywhere) - it all comes down to their terrible writing and failed attempts at humour which seem indicative of a really awful mindset w/r/t what cultural commentary should be. there's just no engagement with the product at all. they describe something, and then instead of analysing it or making some sort of insight or probing at it in any way they just go "yay!" or "ooh!". why would you do that? why would you want to read that? why have their previous enterprises actually gained them an audience? i don't get it and it really bothers me a bit too much now.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
and then there's the really basic stuff which you'd expect even a drone to get right - the spelling, formatting, fact checking...
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh wow
― IRL moderator (The Reverend), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://tattle2.me/21642/awful-exit-buh-bye-becky.php
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
that explains why she keeps putting names in bold all the time, then
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'll be writing for a pop music blog
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
"I'll be writing for a pop music blog, which means Brit-Brit and Lady Gaga and (God help our collective eardrums) Paris Hilton will still be very much a part of my life. However, unless Jon and Kate and the Plus 8 release a Christmas album, I won't have to ever type their names ever again."
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
I hate hating on people who I don't know.
That being said, I miss Internet 0.4. People like this were making fun of Internet users instead of using it themselves.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Jon and Kate and the Plus 8
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
well, this is too bad.
― Thanks to ILX for the research and links. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's their own fault we don't know them. They never even bothered to say hello.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
chris Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 11:53 PMhonestly? BFD. i only come here for ted, and all the robsten/pattinson stories have mostly driven me away anyway. i mean, who the heck are you, becky bain, and what gives you the right to call ted YOUR crew? a bit egocentric, isn't that?
― lou, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
D'LUV Says: "For me, 2003 and 2004 held so many great 'indie-pop' discoveries—The Killers, Snow Patrol, Interpol and Keane
^poll potential IMO
― Thanks to ILX for the research and links. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
btw, they just introduced themselves.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
and don’t get me started on my addiction to American Idol
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://idolator.com/5292942/a-note-to-our-readers
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ their introductions being the best-written things they've put on the site so far
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
i hope it was rapped to the tune of jay-z's "public service announcement"
― Thanks to ILX for the research and links. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
@jennifergodwin my former roommate wrote the mad men finale. how amaaazing was it? (answer: very)
The inspiration for Peggy's airhead roommate?
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
(BTW, she and Chris Weingarten will be resuming the F2K list – they’re looking for a home for it
yay
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
As for me, I assure you, I’m not the Anti-Christ. Nor has it ever been verified that I am, indeed, of mechanical, robotic origin!
This is good to read in Neil Hamburger's voice FYI
― The Execution Of Garu G (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
loving the broken image titled 'robot' at the top of the post. a real robot would've done the html right!
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
F2k should clearly run on ILX.
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Are you paying?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
It will, immediately after it's posted somewhere else.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh man, I love how the second people start saying "welcome!" to the new writers, Johnny keeps ripping right into them. A+
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wish I had the money, Ned!
I'm letting up, or rather shifting my focus. I want to challenge them to deliver better content instead of just picking at them (though Becky's inclination to drop the "g" from "ing" words is driving me nutso).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:20 PM (2 hours ago)
tbf only a true old would draw this parallel
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol keep trying dude, one day you'll zing me and become a man
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's the circle of life.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
How much will it cost to host F2K on ILX? I have very deep pockets.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
What I am is a massive music fan and professional writer who’s really looking forward to being a part of Idolator as it moves forward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
― Cunga, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
Maybe we can get Dom to host it on Ich Luge Bullets?
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^^sock
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
holler
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:05 PM (1 minute ago)
king sock highway
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
What I am is a massive music fan and professional writer
hm the way he separates the two really says it all, doesn't it. meaninglessness of 'professional' notwithstanding
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney dropped his list voluntarily, right?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:05 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― kshighway1, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
ok i lol'd so hard at this kudos kshighway1
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Johnny hatin' on Becky for her writin' styling is givin' me the lols.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
See what I did there? I could write for Idolator too!
Ha!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
I know this is off-topic and late in the game and probably a retarded question and all, but what does the "F" stand for in F2K?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Fuck or Fucked I had assumed, but never to be said aloud. It's just a riff on Y2K.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Thata's what I assumed too, but I was had this nagging hope that there was something more jokey about it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or maybe it's FAIL2K
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
I was thinking either "fuck" or, cynically, "fete".
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
It stands for Fun, like the list itself.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
"F2K" means "Fun 2 Kiss". It's pro-cooties propaganda.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
How about "forget"? Someday I hope I can.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
You should never forget 2 kiss!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
awww
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
Figured it was also a riff on the P4k lists too, no?
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Pray 4 Kiss"?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
I guess that was already pretty clear though duh. I shouldn't post from my fone dammit
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
Actually, I didn't even think about that angle, but it makes total sense.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Palaver 4 Kooks"
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah i thought the whole p4k thing was well established
― lots of jerks (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
idolator should be renamed "idolator" like sugababes should be renamed "sugababes"
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
*_*
― lots of jerks (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^ best username on ilx xp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahaha I was going to post something similar
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
i never though i'd see the day when i was agreeing with lex AND the daily swarm. unfortunately it took one of my best friends losing her job to two typing tree stumps. it's a wacky world.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
I’d like to give major props to Maura Johnston, who I’ve never met but have much respect for.
i think these two are like robin williams in BIG. robbie may look 35, but he's actually 12 *hijinks enuse* *on a music blog*
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
friend i believe you have confused your films
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
He's thinking of Jack. Or Tom Hanks. It could go either way.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Robin Williams in Tom Hanks?
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah sorry i meant JACK
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
why would you do that to me dan xp
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
what I do ain't pretty
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Saving Ryan's Privates?
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Frown-y2K
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
LOL
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
You know you're tired if you start confusing the 1990s "kids switching bodies with grown-ups" movies.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
didn't coppala direct jack???
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
The body-switch movies were all late '80s: Big, Vice Versa, 18 Again, and Like Father, Like Son.
But there is a small class of '90s movies about kids who look creepily like adults, even though no body-switching has occurred, and within that you've got Jack and Clifford.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
You're actually OTM about that, I was a little off
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
my comments on the shakira post never got moderated in ;_;
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
back to school solved the problem by replacing all the creepy-adult-looking-kids and kids-in-adult-bodies and adults-in-kids-bodies with rodney dangerfield.
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, sorry, have just been dumbing down a bit. Trying to get a freelance writing gig with the new regime.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
not that i am ever good at keeping threads on topic but please more bad music please
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
50. brokeNCYDE, “Bree Bree”49. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, “Control Myself”48. The Moldy Peaches, “Who’s Got The Crack”47. Akon, “Sorry, Blame It On Me”46. Dynamite Hack, “Boyz-N-The-Hood”45. James Blunt, “You’re Beautiful”44. Aaron Carter, “America A O”43. Basshunter, “Please Don’t Go”42. 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”41. Vanessa Hudgens, “Sneakernight”40. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and the Wu-Tang Clan, “For Heaven’s Sake 2000”39. Aubrey O’Day feat. Roscoe Umali, “Never Fallin’”38. Say Anything, “Got Your Money”37. Satellite Party feat. Jim Morrison, “Woman In The Window”36. Lady Sovereign, “Food Play”35. Hampton The Hamster, “The Hampsterdance Song”34. Happy Mondays, “Jelly Bean”33. Heidi Montag, “Higher”32. Smash Mouth, “I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)”31. 50 Cent, “Amusement Park”
Really now, is this all we're going to get? I feel shortchanged.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
it will continue... i am just feeling damn impatient right now...
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
I can only imagine the huge advance they'll split based on traffic figures for the Top 31. Maura will be at Pitchfork by 2010.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
dude you are just kind of a huge jerk, every time you post, and i cant tell if you think it makes people think youre funny, or cool, or what, but mostly it just makes you seem sad, and maybe a little lonely
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or postal.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is it really Chris Ott, or just a chump pretending to be Chris Ott? Hard to differentiate, rly.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
Someone with a pulse, please.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
I didn't know you were into that.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
heh I didn't read his post as sarcastic. so naive sometimes i guess.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Carles has done more to enliven pop music criticism in three months than Idolator did in three years.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
you genuinely contribute less to this board than geir
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can we all SB this idiot now?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
I predate geir, child.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
"cool"?
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am honestly curious about this (I don't read that many blogs). can you explain? xpost
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's their admission, not mine. http://idolator.com/5131031
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
let go.
― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
What? That post is about 86% directly quoted from Hipster Runoff. How does that explain anything?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
time to read the comments. thanks.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
O I C Carles is Hipster Runoff.
Whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tao Lin is a better writer than Dostoevsky.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys i don't know why you're even wasting your time arguing with someone who makes more than twice your annual income, and is far and away held in higher regard as a writer/author.
― a true old (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
lollllllllll
cee oh tee tee is marcello???
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
some dude win
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Pazz n Jop vs. Jackin Pop
Still possible in the absolute sense, but for all intents and purposes, I was correct, as always.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
Dude, step away from the internet. You'll be healthier for it.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
let go...
― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Book it."! Dude, you've gotta have such a rocking party in your head it puts the audience in Soto's to shame.
― chris-over-the-top (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
I mean does he picture himself wearing a pinstripe suit and nonchalantly knocking back a shot of whiskey as he says these things?
― chris-over-the-top (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
". . . I'm never wrong. Idolator will not exist in 2009."
NEVER WRONG.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sorry, forget the rest of the quote: "Idolator will not exist in 2009. Frown-y face."
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Rob, I make more than twice your annual income, and am far and away held in higher regard as a writer/author.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Because context is key for the nu-ILMers.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
looool what is this ancient beef being exhumed here? who the hell is cee oh tee tee?! "i was correct, as always" - this is a joke of some sort right?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
b/c no one actually says shit like "i was correct, as always"
cee oh tee tee = Chris Ott = Totally
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
b/c no one actually says shit like "Rob, I make more than twice your annual income, and am far and away held in higher regard as a writer/author."
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
people actually say shit like that if they have the Brandoesque swagger and six figure paychecks to pull it off
― chris-over-the-top (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
idk who chris ott is. googled, either someone who is at pfork or who has a beef with pfork. would ask what the hell that has to do w/idolator but, boring :(
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://shallowrewards.blogspot.com/2006/09/being-braffed.html
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
"held in higher regard as a writer/author" is the lamest brag ever
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
but dude we're talking about the guy who dissed colin meloy's girlfriend in the comments of the VV. this is SERIOUS SHIT
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
and let's be honest, no one is held in higher regard as a human being than i am. ok?
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
just to get that out of the way
doesn't seem to be any high regard for him going spare here
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
my latest blog post has 21 comments
i see & raise chris ott~
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
held in higher regard as blogger/vlogger
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
higher regard as a pettifogger amirite
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
2. to carry on a petty, shifty, or unethical law business.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
kshighway is held in higher regard as a googler
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
^ TB
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
held in higher regard as poster/banner
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Who knew the many twists and turns this thread would take? Thread of the year, imho.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whenever i read arguments on the internet i always get "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder stuck in my head.
I miss greenspun.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tbh this hardly qualifies as an "argument".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
RT @jon/via/chi2.0 Tbh this hardly qualifies as an "argument".
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
eh ok my word choice is imprecisestill got that song in my head though
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
still think kshighway is a sock
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Mr. Que holler!
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys i don't know why you're even wasting your time arguing with someone who makes more than twice your annual income, and is far and away held in higher regard as a writer/author
yeah gonna just flat-out say that I am 100% certain that Ott doesn't make twice MY income
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
I randomly read this and thought you said "Bandwagonesque swagger" and I wondered if this thread took another kickass derailing.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Dan, do you drive a solid gold submarine? Do you? Because if you don't, you might wanna think twice about that statement.
― chris-over-the-top (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well of course Dan doesn't drive it, he hires someone to do that.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids.
― bnw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
whoa baller
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Man this thread got AWESOME.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
what a lunatic stalker.
― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney leaving Idolator mid-way through his list>Steven Tyler leaving Aerosmith for a weekend.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, he "left". Hahahaha.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is some man in the moon wrestling heel shit right here.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
For a few of you, maybe. For me, it's "I told you so" to peer(s) I warned off this path the day they started down it.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is some serious
shit going on here right now.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
"i told you so" - always the classy, dignified route to take!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
"WAH, you should pay me for my opinions about pop music, especially now that it doesn't generate any capital! It's my right to expect this!" is much classier and more dignified. I mean, sui generis, Chris.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
Pipecee-oh-cee-kay
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread got pretty stupid, I have no idea what's going on any more, definitely unbookmarking it now. Please start a new thread when you return to talking about crappy songs of the 00s.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
i love when ott shows up and takes everything all seriously
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
as if the most important statement one can make is a statement about music blogging on the internet
dude you really are a complete dick, you know that?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
Woops, that was a photo of Bubba Ray Dudley.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
He must be really really bitter for him to take such pleasure in the failure of others.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or he's just so successful and well paid and highly regarded that he feels the need to remind those below him of their station in life.
― chris-over-the-top (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Or that.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 13:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
in other news, apparently Idolator is now making dummy comment accounts to keep up appearances...
by dsven at 6:45 am Who are these “new” commenters? Half of them say “User Not Exist” when you click on their names…”Janet” and “Amanda” link to articles on Janet Jackson and Amanda Overmeyer from AI.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
― the passion of the chris(ot)t (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys he needs this
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wonder if he has his manservant print out Idolator posts for him to line his gold-plated litter box.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
you only wish you owned a jeep
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
you realize that talking about him and addressing him is only making him happy, right
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
"WAH, you should pay me for my opinions about pop music, especially now that it doesn't generate any capital! It's my right to expect this!" is much classier and more dignified.
^ I'm totally with you. all of those posts where Maura and her writers complained about not getting paid were just awful. I mean, did you fucking READ her last post? completely undignified. I'm so with you here.
you know, people should be paid for their opinions about music, especially when those opinions are as worthwhile as those of the people who ran and wrote for Idolator. i want to read intelligent writing on pop music, as do many others, and we're lucky that smart people who know a lot about the subject want to produce it.
it's super funny that you think Idolator "failed" in some way. they had an amazing three year run, which is more than anyone can say about most blogs—most things—in life. Maura and all of the other writers did more to make the discourse about music on the internet far more intelligent, wide-ranging, and worthwhile than the majority of other music sites out there. it's hilarious that you're making fun of people who actually put the effort into raising the bar instead of just bitching on a message board about how bad music sites are.
alright, that's about it. done giving time to this bullshit.
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
everything's so blurry
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
dude he's going to be happy either way, his old friend got laid off
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
TS: ignoring him in the hopes he goes away vs. calling him out as the bitter asshole he is
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
can we just agree to do the former now that we've done the latter?
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
the point being, the more you call him out the more likely he is to stay
oh wait, I can ban him ^_^ want me to?
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
nah i feel like just straight up banning him for making a few dickish posts is too far
― the passion of the chris(ot)t (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
too late dogtits
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
plus i'm hoping he'll spill more "Pitchfork Babylon" anecdotes
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
I was just about to say, apparently someone else had the same realization!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
RIP
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
heaven needed the lester bangs of IT
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's a little sad because i don't think anyone else could so effectively unite ilm
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is when I feel like we need a wiki of ILM Historical beef.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
the bright side is now there'll be a 2,000 word post on 'shallow rewards' in which we'll all now be in the infamous media assassin's crosshairs right alongside maura and whiney
― the passion of the chris(ot)t (some dude), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
shallow rewards
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
good name for a blog.
with a picture of his pool at the top
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
whiney g weingarten says:
Can y'all do me a solid and not drive Chris to a hipinion-style flame-out before my ban is up? Would love to get in a real conversation about "dignified" with the guy.
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
he did not say that, liar
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
he did say it and i have the chat logs to prove it
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
:O
― just sayin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
he's tempbanned for 6 days, though
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
Probably for the best, as this will give Whiney a chance to talk at Ott without being rudely interrupted.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
how do you interrupt on web
― da croupier, Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
take it to the spider man impersonator
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Isn't Whiney's ban over today?
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
tomorrow
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh shit I thought today was Friday. lolll
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh my god i wish i still had regular net access
wait no
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
i think i'm due for a year-long break from the internet.
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
wait until your eight years deep in this shit
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
tthis shit" being message board bs? if that's what you mean, there's no way i'll still be posting here a couple months from now. the thread that had people comparing five-digit post counts convinced me I need to leave sooner than later. that shit's insane.
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
haven't you been here since 2007 though
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
three handclaps
</jaymc>
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^^ btw this is exactly how you get into the 5-digit post count
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
;___;
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
you mean
like
this
five-digit post counts
hey i resemble that remark
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
Que
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
is
O
T
M
^
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
_
^ .
yeah, I posted briefly in fall 2007. and then stopped until earlier this year. it's already been two years for me if you count lurking. oh god.
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
there's no way i'll still be posting here a couple months from now
lolllll you are moving through the avid message board poster cycle faster than like anyone ever
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
ksighway
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
i need a year w/o the internet
― still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
WHEN COME BACK, BRING PIE!
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
kspieway
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
is that pronounced "kaspie-way"
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
y
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
why are you suggesting I'm an aspie?
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
"aspie" is the way they pronounce "pie" in Boston
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
not so much
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh wow, i forgot we were talking about pie.
jesus christ i need to get more sleep.
i was seriously on the Wikipedia entry for Asberger's going, wait, this doesn't really describe me what the fuck is Que on about.
then you reminded me we were talking about pie.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
i was seriously on the Wikipedia entry for Asberger's
For a second I thought you meant you were the illustrative example on that page and I'm all "That might be a sign."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
HI DERE's the one who called you aspie
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
HI DERE, what am I doing to suggest that to you?
lol @ Ned
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
no I didn't! I asked a pronunciation clarification question
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
if I'm acting radically differently from other ILM posters, I would love to know what i'm doing.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
just gonna throw out there that obsessively worrying that someone is jokingly referring to you as "aspie" when someone else has posted something containing a play on your name that happens to resemble the word on a thread where other people earlier threw the term around rather than taking it as someone back-referencing an upthread spat might not be aspie but is certainly paranoid
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
Please stop it, all of you. You're messing with my head. I don't have enough vitamin C for this.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
was really enjoying ott's commentsshame
― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm telling Jeff Tweedy.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
of course I'm paranoid, i'm always being attacked.
alright guys, i'm going to go for a walk. carry on.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm telling Jeff Tweedy
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
you should listen to the song "Walken" by Wilco while you walk
HI DERE I'm sorry I called you Jeff Tweedy
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
apology accepted
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
now let's stop before we turn into sarahel/bamcquern
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
You guys are so hard on kshighway1, he just tries too hard, which is more forgivable than other posters on here.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys he's telling tweedy
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
to be honest running to look up aspergers on wikipedia to check if you fit the symptoms is probably a symptom of aspergers
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm telling Tweedy, who will twitter this
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
he's goin wheeeeeeeere there's no depressionto a better land that's free from hi dere
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
he'll leave this world of lame idolatorhis home's in aspie heavenhe's goin dere
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
protip for kshighway1 since apparently we're from the same town (imma still need proof of this btw)--when u first encounter a new group of any type there probably needs to be a period we'll call "establishing credibility." yr first act here was "hyper-earnest indie rock poster" and then like a month later you came back for "jaded and experienced music blog reader and zinger" and now you're all like i'm gonna quit the internet and get butthurt all the time--not once have you presented yourself as an actual multidimensional human being.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
crawlin back to ILX nowsold my blog to the girl next doorshe asked me if i knew howi don't heri don't think soanymore
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
also wtf is going on?????
don't tell me which way i oughta post
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys I think posting advice that goes beyond "dude, relax and don't assume everyone is constantly attacking you" is possibly rude and overbearing...?
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:26 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark
kudos
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
ILX is where I've beenSolitude is where I'm boundI don't ever wanna taste these tears againI don't ever wanna taste these tears again
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
also to M@tt, basically what is happening is bullshitty self-amusement until the F2K list starts back up, at least that's what I'm doing
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
so business as usual essentially?
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
yup!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Idolator over JesusNot forever just for lolz
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Short on long term goalsThere's a blog post we ought to go toDo you still love rock and roll?Do you still love rock and roll?
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Looks like it's time to lay this blogging downStop messing aroundDon't want to go to the grave without a sound
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Something in my veinsBloggier than blogsSomething in my veinsBloggier than blogs
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
basically what we're gonna do is dance
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
If blogging right is easy, what goes wrong?
You're causing it to drown
(for whiney, RIP)
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
turn to face the blogsmay never get outforever caught in the snark
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
man that first son volt record is pretty good
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah it's dope, but farrar lost the plot pretty bad over the years, he was such a great songwriter and guitarist back then
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
anyone heard the Farrar/Gibbard/Kerouac collab? They dug up Kerouac's body and made him make an alt-country record.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah it's dope, but farrar lost the plot pretty bad over the years, he was such a great songwriter and guitarist back then --On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n)
yeah that first record is top ten for me
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
waht?? no what is that? link?
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/news/35960-ben-gibbard-and-jay-farrar-team-up-to-record-jack-kerouac-album/
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah those are def some dudes that need to look elsewhere at this point for ambling and vague lyrics
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
actual alt-country lol
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
guys was it ever cool to like alt country on ILM?
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
And here I thought you were joking.
::vomits::
I think we've got our next entry for F2K if this comes out in the next 6 weeks.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahahaa
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
(to whiney)
ha ha, x-post with Whiney's reappearance.
oh shiiiiiiiit
Whiney sure knows how to enter a room!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
to gbx
(kinda doubt it, but i can't lie, tupelo is still one of my most cherished bands ever)
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
I seem to remember certain people really enjoying Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator)
That and Andonye are all that I make a habit of listening to from the genre.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
fuck it, i kinda like that one golden smog record and the EP too
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
i like tupelo a lot
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
down w/tupelo, also that jayhawks record with "blue" on it.
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah I am an unabashed tupelo fan
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
down w/tupelo, also that jayhawks record with "blue" on it. --GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten)
high school!!!!
Yeah, would say that Tupelo, 1st Son Volt, Time the Revelator, ummm maybe some other stuff is essential, even if it's "alt-country".
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
anyway, what's going on in this thread. holla bloggaz
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
― kshighway1, Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:07 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'm not sure he is...? I think the conversation ran roughly like this:
1. You mention you're leaving.2. Kate references the ancient ILX meme "when come back, bring pie."3. Mr. Que notes that "pie" rhymes with "high" and posts "kspieway" as a play on your display name.4. Dan notes that "kspie" looks like "aspie" (which, apart from being slang for the social disorder known as Asperger's Syndrome, is another ILX meme) and asks if "kspieway" is pronounced "kaspie-way."
That's pretty much it. It's just bored people making jokes. Given that ILXors have given you a hard time in the past, I can understand why you might be on guard more than usual when it comes to personal attacks, but this really isn't one.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
also that jayhawks record with "blue" on it.
OMG yes, I love this record.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
Clarification: "When come back, bring pie" is a Rathergood/general Internet meme, not an ILX meme
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe my fave 'local' record, if only because of when it first came out
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
album title is "Tomorrow the Green Grass", just had to get that out of my head because it was bugging me. and it is awesome.
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
ive used "Blue" over the years to make people grudgingly admit that alt-country can be good.
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
I especially love "I'd Run Away" on the Jayhawks record. Can't believe I forgot to mention that one.
I went through a fairly messy week last year when I was listening to that record a lot while drinking copious amounts of bourbon on the rocks from a styrofoam cup. aah memories.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
AYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO its that whine
― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
it is a drankin album, it's true
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
ILM went through an alt-country "we all love Grandaddy" phase back in 2001, I think.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
<3 this thread
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol, is Grandaddy considered alt-country? also worth saving from the alt-country ghetto: Richard Buckner
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
IMO, Hollywood Town Hall and the earlier album Blue Earth by Jayhawks are as good if not better than Tomorrow the Green Grass.
they were a pretty awesome band
I actually have a CD-R of their original, vinyl small print debut album, it's pretty good, way more "country" than later stuff, but still awesome harmonies, etc...
I'll try to upload it for y'all.
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
grandaddy maybe went for a "sound of expansive western states" thing but they sound nothin like heehaw tupelo
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
would like to hear that jayhawks thing.also, truth-bomb: No Depression was kind of a good mag when I read it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
IMO, Hollywood Town Hall and the earlier album Blue Earth by Jayhawks are as good if not better than Tomorrow the Green Grass.they were a pretty awesome bandI actually have a CD-R of their original, vinyl small print debut album, it's pretty good, way more "country" than later stuff, but still awesome harmonies, etc...I'll try to upload it for y'all. --On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n)
I'll try to upload it for y'all. --On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n)
yes!
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
I vaguely remember grandaddy being more tepid and california-inspired, even with some synthy flourishes?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahaha "heehaw tupelo"
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
although, this may be a real life test to the question: how long do CD-Rs last?
i don't see grandaddy as alt country at all
truth attack: "faithless street" by whiskeytown is pretty good
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
the example band I used should probably be factored into the stance ILM had on alt-country at the time, guys
I mean, I'm just saying
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe some britishers would be like "they are the true sound of americana" or what not. But you know how that is.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tomorrow the Green Grass is pretty anomalous in my record collection, I'll admit. I bought it because Chicago radio station WXRT used to play "Blue" and "Real Light" a lot.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Grandaddy dude used to get compared to Neil Young vocally, maybe that was it.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
I will rep for some whiskytown too, totally, but not without a little shame
but you know it sort of the same shame you feel for being maudlin, so it's cool
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
xpost again
lol Dan
ie grandaddy did not work with Timbaland or release on Kompakt or sound too much like Television/Elastica/Nuggets so they are altcountry in 2001 ilm. just like puddle of mudd and nelly furtado.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
imo farrar has had a moment or two since the first record. if you put all of them together you'd have a really, really good EP. like, I dunno, "barstow" and "strands" and "methamphetamine" and "circadian rhythm" and maybe one or two others. haven't listened to the new(er) one so maybe that's a dramatic return to form?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, there are moments on the Farrar records of the past 10 years, though a lot of it is just dull. it took me a while to admit this. I haven't heard ... maybe the last two Son Volt records? Lost track.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
he has a great voice though
― bnw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
If you had told me "What will happen upon Whiney's return to this thread" that the answer would be "An endless discussion about Jay Farrar" then I would not have believed you.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
it just feels right, you know?
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
i was expecting the thread to go back to either 1) bitching about nuidlator or 2) a link to #30
anyways i should drag out Wilco's AM and see if I can enjoy it after all that has happened subsequent...
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Box Full of Letters" -- which I heard on the same radio station around the same time (1995) -- is pretty good.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
xpostanyone have a cassette player I can borrow?
I remember liking that one a lot - sort of tupelor ish but cleaned up a bit
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
this thread has been
sidetracked down the middlenever saw it coming, what a surpriseit's been a wonder
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
AM is an awesome album, "casino queen" is great fake stones..."passenger side" that whole record is great IMO
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
15 threads but where do they go?
been there no luck at all nothing left to looose
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
Name me a blog that everybody knowsAnd I'll bet you it belongs to Buzznet
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
give back the keys to my blog
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Down here, where we're atAll we do is post on our blogAnd get our lols, and nothing's wrongSometime friends come around, they all lol along
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha welcome back whiney what is your favorite uncle tupelo song
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/idolator-2no-blind-item-what-british-bandmember-banged-bartenderblogger-beck-bain/
O_o
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm just glad the daily swarm never got a hold of any of my ilx-related tmi's
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
"jess harvell schtupped the drummer from gay dad."
Let's not forget the watersports with Lord Custos.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay that is just vile
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
dan you never tell me anything anymore xxpost
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am very happy for both of you however
a man does regrettable things on orally-ingested opioid analgesics
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
the way she sleeps around (or claims to) - she is either more of a man than me or severely dissociative
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
two days in and everyone's a blogger pathologist
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
That kind of writing is just Scary Sadshaw, but if they are going to be picking on Becky's foibles they should probably post something about Robbie as well. Or creepy Jeff Leeds.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
so I've basically been watching via a Twitter search to see what they're writing about since I refuse to keep giving them pageviews and I think something like 60% of the posts made since they've taken over have been about Lady Gaga...?
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
there is almost no kind of person i am less interested in spending time with than anyone involved in the los angeles improv community
― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
nazis-in-hiding?
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
i supposed they'd at least have some good stories.
I refuse to keep giving them pageviews and I think something like 60% of the posts made since they've taken over have been about Lady Gaga...?
They're biding their time until Jon or Kate makes an album.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
work is sloooow maaaan
i want to get into opioid analgesics which do you recommend?
lady gaga is 60% of record sales at this point, isn't she?
also she is avantgarde like john cage or tickle me elmo because of new ideas in lipstick application
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
dilaudid
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
not that i'm advocating anything that leads to lord custos and watersports.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
how does it interact with alcohol?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
chemically
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
disappointed that john mclaughlin isn't that good in the sack, my goal's beyond my ass
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahaaaaa
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
help me waste one more hour at work
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, there's something really quite distasteful and creepy the way they keep piling the abuse on Becky - it's just smacks of the old "let's use a woman's sexuality against her..." trick. While Robbie gets a free pass for being a functional idiot.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^^^ yes
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Although I think the only thing saving Robbie is that he was smart enough to not write several blog posts about how easy it is to have sex with him.
maybe he's a virgin
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
Also, I thought Whiney was gonna come in here and bust out some serious gossip about what went down, but after making such an excellent entrance, he disappeared. Did you guys sign some kind of nondisclosure agreement or what?
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
they = us or bloggers blogging about idolator blogger?
yeah Dan that is difference
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
they = mostly those swarm posts TBH but it's getting a bit uncomfortable in here
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Those Daily Swarm posts were kind of the epitome of "please stop helping".
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Also, I thought Whiney was gonna come in here and bust out some serious gossip about what went down, but after making such an excellent entrance, he disappeared. Did you guys sign some kind of nondisclosure agreement or what?― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Eh, I don't know if there's much to tell. Actually I don't know much at all.
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
eh i think i was really more reacting to the way she writes about her sexual exploits than anything else. she is her own person and she should do what she wants without trying to appease the double standard. i guess i just dont live in a world where all sexual contact is effortless and consequence-less and can be written about withe the same insouciance as, say, getting a cup of coffee.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney return v v v v anticlimactic.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
i dunno what juicy gossip you guys expect, other than like "the whole buzznet thing was kinda doomed from the start and it was just a matter of time before the other shoe dropped"
― some dude, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
My take is that this thread/idolator comments/daily swarm is kind of acting like it's this insidious thing when it's probably just BUSINESS. I'm sadder than anyone about it, but you can't really blame anyone. It's not rocket science that
a) It's cheaper to pay two struggling L.A. improv comics/bloggers than one experienced New York editor/media type who was probably holding on to a Gawker-circa-2006 salary.
b) Intellegent, well-reasoned criticism on things like Alphabeat isn't gonna get the same Google traffic as a constant stream of Britney Gaga Penis Lambert Cyrus Nude Winehouse Nipslip keywords
yes, they've lost the important urbane ILXor demographic, but as someone who was top brass at Paper Thin Walls, I can tell you that's not really enough to keep the lights for anybody anywhere. We're but a drop in the bucket, y'all.
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
I can post more koolaid.jpegs if it will make you guys feel better.
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
all true.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't think her sex had anything to do with why Becky was getting ridiculed, though I don't like it when someone's past idiocy is unearthed by too much internet detective work. Everyone who runs a blog or posts on boards says stupid or embarrassing shit occasionally.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
I mean "look, here she was talking about her sex life once on a thread" just makes me cringe. Here recent work on Idolator is fairer game.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
In a post-Candace Bushnell - heck - post-Lisa Suckdog/Carver world I'd really kinda hope that a woman writing about her sex life/drugs habits would not provoke that kind of Victorian aunt "oh my!" and hankies reaction. She's a bad writer BECAUSE SHE CANNOT WRITE, not because of her subject material.
I'd hope, if anything, that writers like Miss AMP et al could prove that women can bring their sex lives/drug experiences/musician digging lifestyles as background material into their prose *and* provide engaging and meaningful discourse about music.
Becky sucks because she's a shit writer. Not because she writes about sex.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
i think there's only one post on this thread remarking about her article though, besides the original link to the article
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
i agree though that she should be judged on the awfulness of her prose
kool aid man sure couldn't hurt
― On this date in 2008, Soulja Boy said something (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Some people offered to host F2K today and I was all
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
would not provoke that kind of Victorian aunt "oh my!" and hankies reaction.
I don't think that's the reaction it provokes. I read it and thought, "wow, she desperately wants to be cool."
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
and then jaymc read her credit report and birth certificate and was like "Wow, ok, cooly mcool."
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
holy lol
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah tbh my reaction to it (particularly the notching her bedpost for completing conquests from various countries) was really lol bragging - u lame, and it would have been the same way for a dude.
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah jmc otm
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
My reaction was a feeling of having my sophomore year in high school finally proven correct, mainly that any guy with a guitar will get a female all excited.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
is the shit she's churning out not enough to mock her with? the sex bragging is like the least offensive thing i know about her, way to miss a massive target. and yeah please more robbie hate too.
apparently they think "depress-o-rama indie flick" is the best way to sum up precious today, and barely get any further than "depressing" when describing rihanna's new material. GOD I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
Music that, like, makes you think? Is totally, like, depressing? LOL
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sometimes anything more sophisticated than Andrew WK makes my brain cry.
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
I can't get too worked up over the Becky-bashing, considering how her writing has that kind of dumb Perez-style misogyny that I find repulsive.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
BECKY ATTEMPTS TO OPINE; FAILS
http://idolator.com/5292062/eat-it-les-miz-pop-music-takes-over-broadway
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is heading to New York to star in Chicago as Roxie Hart, a role she already played back in 2006 in London’s West End. (If you know anything about musical theatre, you know Roxie Hart is the perfect role for alleged who can’t really sing. Just sayin’.) At least Ash is keeping busy after being fired from Melrose Place, and since her last album didn’t do too well on the charts or with fans, it’s probably best to go back to the one thing she mostly received great reviews from.
http://idolator.com/5292152/top-5-pop-stars-who-should-never-act-again
People love to rag on the younger Simpson lass for all sorts of things (her infamous SNL jig dance, marrying King of the Emos Pete Wentz, getting the most obvious plastic surgery of all time, etc.), when really they should be focusing all their anger on Ashlee’s acting ability.
Ash’s atrocious thesp skills didn’t really stand out while she was on 7th Heaven (good acting would actually have been more noticeable on that show) or on Broadway, since 75% of her time onstage was talk-singing good material. But after a horrible CSI:NY episode (where she played some sort of Bonnie-ish criminal alongside hubby Pete’s Clyde) and her short lived stint on Melrose Place as nutso Violet, Ash should consider getting fired from the CW show a blessing in disguise to get back to what she does best: having cute babies, rocking awesome hair and releasing fun pop songs.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's karma.
I should write something about Becky getting back to serving drinks and sleeping with foreigners.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
nice imaginary abbreviation for thespian in that one
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
love ya, babe
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
@bexmachine i'm fucking in love with mash-ups. this one in particular. you can mashup Jay Z with anything and it comes out brill http://jaydiohead.com/
I find it absolutely ridiculous and almost offensive that a person being PAID to blog about music, even the most inane pop music available, only stumbled recently across mash-ups (maybe even just today). I realize she's been busy working on stand-up and boning English rockers, but maybe she should've made the time to hear "Ray of Gob" of few years ago.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
man this shit is pretty bad, damn
― trampa vuelve jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
that last thing lex posted is just a relentless slagging and then somehow ends up with three vacuous compliments, leaving a kind of mental indigestion
it's as if becky was talking to you at a party and ashlee herself showed up right before the last sentence so she had to shift gears really fast
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
lolololol, so glad that idolator writers be telling the world about jay z acapellas! in 2009! they are so advanced! i should mash them up with the beatles.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
that would be brill
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
(NB no britishers actually say brill)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
So am I to take it that Robbie doesn't write? Or writes reasonably well, or something?
This hatred seems really kinda one sided.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake.""Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
i can't wait for their article on the strokes
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
compare & contrast the two posts though - posted by the same author, two days apart.
post 1: ashlee simpson is going back to acting - just as well, it's all she's good at and she can't singpost 2: OMG ashlee simpson's acting sucks LOL, she should stick to singing (and being barefoot & pregnant etc)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:48 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark
ohhhh boy
robbie popped up before becky & so all robbie researching & clowning happened already
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
i can't wait for their article on the strokes --trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n)
who???
― lots of jerks (gbx), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
Robbie seems to be taking notes, even if he's not acknowledging it. He's bad, but seems to be fighting his inclination to be worse now.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
i don't want to ruin it for you, but dude...rock is BACK in a big way
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
girls love guys w/ guitars iirc
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
i was actually hating on robbie much more until yesterday - becky's offences are way more egregious today
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
lex yes that is some pretty classic glenda slagg style shit
(you won't get that reference i fear - here is a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda_Slagg )
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
masonic boom that's true but t.b.f. robbie's more recent posts have been a lot less glaringly egregious by my lights (not that they are actually interesting)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
the fact that robbie's old blog apparently gained a huge audience and enough traction for him to interview several big name pop stars and parlay a "career" out of horrifies me so very deeply
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
Robbie just seems like a news/pr funnel with no defined opinions of his own, even on his own blog. Since he's starting from a pretty neutral place, it's possible he could improve. Becky's hill to climb is much steeper, coming from a gossip blogging background. And actually, she's shown ZERO inclination that she's ever going to change.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tracer: what is that GIF from?
― Cunga, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ "Ray of Gob" shoutout - "Shannon Stone" rulez hardest
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 13 November 2009 00:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
"The Strokes, a band that initially rose to fame in the New York independent music scene in 2001, are all set to release the first album of their career after lead singer Julius Casablanca's ill-fitting solo career -- which included an oft-discussed appearance on the popular late night show hosted by Conan O'Brian that the befreckled redhead took over from enduring late-night presence Jay Leno -- started to chafe the New Yorker's grungy (but kinda hott!) style."
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
"The record is said to return to the bands roots -- and speaking of roots, any chance we'll see more of those highlights even after Julius's turn in the spotlight has faded? ;)"
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
U r good at this
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
You should've gone after the job, dabug... and then trojan horsed that shit!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
hey can someone point me to the becky brags abt her sex life thing so i don't have to actually read this blog?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
the lamest part of this all is that they're not even going to host the rest of F2K. it rubs me as dismissive and mean-spirited, like children not wanting to play with some dorky clumsy kid just cause he spilled some milk on his shirt. just a weirdly hard-assed way of getting the WE DON'T DO THIS TYPE OF SHIT ANYMORE OK point across.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
i thought there was a considerableish market for smart music talk on the internet, i thought sites like this could surivive on atleast pitchfork fallout.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm willing to bet that not hosting the rest of F2K was maura/whiney's choice
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 03:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/honest-to-blog-i-still-like-juno-dammit
Juno and Ugg boots are awesome!
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 13 November 2009 03:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah samosa that is what has been bugging me too but I haven't been able to articulate it. i guess its just the recession hitting the 'net. the pie is much smaller now so catering to a niche cannot be as lucrative. it is a short term strategy, though, that usually fails in the long term because the niche is usually much more loyal. never mind the quality of the writing on idolator now - I doubt the people whom that writing appeals to are going to have the same relationship to the blog now that those of us who read idolator before had with it then.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
there was this ska band i loved as a youngster who desperately overhauled their style to the then-megapopular emo pop thing as a last-chance grab for fame. they got their album produced by some bigshot and were picked up by some label, and then when the album dropped nobody noticed them and they broke up like a few months later. i predict a similar future for nu-idolator; i doubt anyone will even notice it in an already endless sea of perez hiltons, and it'll disappear forever.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
that ska band...
was me.
― CharlieS, Friday, 13 November 2009 09:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
i dont know what that means
― CharlieS, Friday, 13 November 2009 09:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Nicole I really, really didn't need to read that link.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 November 2009 10:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:23 PM (Yesterday)
And a very good choice indeed.
― kshighway1, Friday, 13 November 2009 13:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
(Thanks to the people who said helpful things way back upthread.)
― kshighway1, Friday, 13 November 2009 13:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
No, I've seen "thesp" before. But mostly in Variety and Page Six and the like. Remember, this is a woman who used to blog for E!
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is it because she's a thespian?
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
apparently you don't have to register to comment on Idolator anymore.
― kshighway1, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think the whole becky thing is probably news because they've finally unearthed a music blogger that's had sex before.
― wacka flocka seagulls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2009 15:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 15:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh whiny no you di'int
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
twitterers get crazy laid, though
― windows XD (some dude), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
I just became the mayor of vagina on @foursquare
― gshumway1 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
realizing that a vacuous douchebag can do relatively well in the world of pop music infotainment hit me like a slap in the face too
― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Friday, 13 November 2009 18:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hey y'all. I've decided to quit ILX to spend time on other things. I'm really glad I got to talk to a lot of you here, and I wish you all the best. Rock out. :-)
― kshighway1, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
See you in a week, homie.
― gshumway1 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
dying over here
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
kshighway = the susan boyle of ilx
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
another sock bites the dust
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
The ILXor circle of life:
1. Earnest poster ("Hey guyz, so what you all want to talk about on this fine day?")
2. Quitter ("I'm leaving never to return. No offense, assholes")
3. The poster's return as a cynic who speaks mostly in memes, jpegs and sentence fragments.
ksighway1, you can't escape destiny, brah.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've been here since 2002 and I'm yet to enter this phase.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
You're stronger than most.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
rip kshighway1
― tylerw, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
My first post was july 12th 2002 and my last post was sometime in january 2007
i have come back as more of a troll-y sort of ghost than "a cynic who speaks mostly in memes, jpegs and sentence fragments".
its been confusing - comapared to 2002 nobody likes techno or is british
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 20:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
comapared to 2002 nobody likes techno or is british
Hey now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah ned's british!
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
Found out.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
A few refugees from the comments have started a new group blog for Idolator-friendly news/thoughts:
http://chainofknives.tumblr.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://i33.tinypic.com/1zm105y.jpg
very very awesome
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
exciting! the ned raggett gossip column!
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
ITEM!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah i am generalizing
part of it is just the times too
microhouse was much more galvanizing than the deep house revival is now
most "cool" american indie bands have american influences now compared to the previous era of Go4/britpostpunk veneration
otoh this aint freakytrigger's comment box anymore
still love it here
Ned I have worn out all my Associates records what band is next?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
suggestion box: draw a cartoon penises in on pictures of kevin shields like perez hilton
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
also: out Robert Smith once and for all. DUDE WEARS MAKE-UP
― tylerw, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Good question. A lot of Associates freaks really like the Wild Beasts and I can see why but in terms of a broader palette I'd want something more.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
they need to pick a totally nice, talented singer and have an absolutely bizzare and nonsensical vendetta against them.
xpost Ned yr leaving my hanging there! Does this something more have a name?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
(of course I can't think of a really nice, talented, humble popular artist that would be so undeserving of negative commentary that as to make the vendetta as hilariously ludicrous as it should be)
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hahaha no it's just that I can't think of anyone offhand who HAS that something more. I mean, a band like them does come close, but Billy Mackenzie's gift lay in trying all sorts of things to see what works, not just being a rock band frontman. Marc Almond's done similar but he's a contemporary rather than somebody new -- if I could stay Antony more maybe him but he's only good when he's singing with Hercules and Love Affair, frankly. (Yes I am biased.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
I see what you mean. Associates are one of those sort of dead ends of pop music in that nobody beat them at their own game (and actually its probably good that nobody tried and failed). I do like Soft Cell too. I need more of it. I only have "nonstop" and the "bedsitter" 12". I really like how "frustration" and "bedsitter" attack the same theme from different angles. smart lyrics that are just as worthwhile now as they were then.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
shh! it's not me, would it be tacky for me to ask who you are/old login name? : )
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 November 2009 22:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
it wouldn't be tack to ask but I prefer if you wouldn't as i am much happier this way. sorry. thanks.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
no promblema, just nosy i guess.
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 November 2009 22:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
nah.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ myself - "promblema"
― trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 November 2009 22:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
its not even that i am shy or a famousperson/archcriminal/futurepresident or anything.
its more that i used to post under my name and i wasn't thinking back then about how all the smart/stupid/whatever stuff i have typed on the internet will never vanish. and of course what i say here is a cheap substitute for who i really am and as online personae are starting to take over real ones i have just wanted to back off from it all and enjoy a bit of privacy. i will probably be deleting all my social networking accounts soon too. not becuase of that whole "facebook is really the cia, man and you are all victims of corporate/governmental opression man" but more because i have been at this on/off for 10 years and its all just a headache now.
this just applies to me - not passing judgement on others. also Ned has never said anything stupid here so he has nothing to gain from following my lead ;-)
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
Ha! If only, really.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
was about to guess that was Ned
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Friday, 13 November 2009 22:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
momus
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
i dont want to turn things into a guessing game...that being said, i dont think momus uses emoticons
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Saturday, 14 November 2009 01:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread got too big in two days. Anyone care to give me a brief? Maura left Idolator. Robbie and Becky were hired. Someone over here got banned from ILX? Whiney came back? The F2K page is down no idea where it will be hosted now. Where is Maura?
― Moka, Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wait. I already took a quick glance. Only question I wish to know is if anybody knows already where will Maura be posting?
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
I can't really remember if kshighway1 is one of those people in my mental list of 'ILXers who think I'm challops so I also think they're challops'. Was he being called a sock for suggesting that the article be moved to Passantino's blog?
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 03:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
kshighway1 gets called a sock all the time, mostly because he's really earnest about his musical tastes and doesn't take well to ribbing and that amuses people. Basically people clown on him for no particular reason. ILXors occasionally assholes shocka!
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 14 November 2009 04:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
fyi these are the 3 links maura left in her last post on idolator:
http://maura.com/http://maura.tumblr.com/http://twitter.com/maura
afaik where F2K is ending up is still tbd or at least tba
― Kenny G. Saxgarden (some dude), Saturday, 14 November 2009 04:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
so Whiney is back, kshighway quit, Chris Ott gets hammered (again) and Geir Hongro is currently banned. what a strange place this ILX is.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 14 November 2009 06:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Lord giveth back ILXors, and the Lord taketh away ILXors
― Cunga, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
WTF??? Geir is banned???????
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 14 November 2009 17:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
supposedly in trying to explain his strong preference for the european music tradition he made some pretty ill-advised remarks about africans.
i don't know where the comments are myself so i don't know if they were outright racist or just close enough to piss people off.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
73, 192 Suggest Bans later Geir got banned!? Gee... for how long? Would love to see that particular thread where the last drop finally made the cup run over.
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
FREE MELODY!
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
Seems like ILX moderators are getting pretty loose with the banning. Didn't it used to be rare?
― Mark, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's only temporary and he did get 51 sb's. glad he's not permanently banned but imo it's been pretty nice the past few weeks.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Well I didn't really meant the amount of suggest bans for that particular thread but over the course of time. In any case I was joking.
I remember I used to suggest ban him quite often when I first arrived because he would write the most outrageous statements about... well, everything and I thought he was some sort of troll, or 'sock' or whatever you call them just trying to provoke me. Then I learnt that he's been around for years and he's just born wrong that way so I carried along.
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is there a way to see how many suggest bans I have? Just curious.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
FreeSuggestBanReport.com
― President Keyes, Saturday, 14 November 2009 19:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Snrub, I've sent you your SB number
― WmC, Saturday, 14 November 2009 20:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
moka, you can't SB someone more than once, you know
― k3vin k., Saturday, 14 November 2009 20:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh I didn't know that :P then I should rejoice and laugh at Jordan's face everytime he suggests he's SB me.
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh I didn't know that :P then I should shall rejoice and laugh at Jordan's face everytime he suggests he's SB me.
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Saturday, 14 November 2009 21:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Mark, Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:18 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
technically mods haven't chosen to ban many people lately, they just implemented a system that allowed people to vote for others to be banned, and that option has become pretty widely used
― Kenny G. Saxgarden (some dude), Sunday, 15 November 2009 01:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am really feeling this loss. where can i go for intelligent pop music writing daily?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
don't worry, geir will be back soon.
― Cleveland Spider Cupid Childs (los blue jeans), Friday, 20 November 2009 02:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
The comments section has devolved at an even more alarming rate than I thought it might:
"Morals over Music, Why do you keep saying Michael Jackson was a p3dophile? Like you KNOW this for a FACT, which you Don't. Just that you are among the brainwashed sheep that jump on the media bandwagon train. Why then, did the 1993 accusers father just commit suicide??? Maybe he couldn't live with all the LIES he told for greed and money and fame. Anything for a Buck. Michael is, was and will always be one of the Greatest Entertainers who ever Lived. He will always be the King of Pop no matter how many of you try to take him down. Michael was NOT a child abuser. Michael Jackson was the one who was abused by people with the greed for money. His money that he worked hard for."
"How nice of you to condescend and take time out of your busy life to interview Kris Allen. Adam may be the poster boy for Bedazzler and a media darling, but there are legions of fans of the more organic music and pure talent of Kris Allen. They are both talented and I feel will both do well in their own genres. I knew Adam Lambert before he became a TV star. I like him. I don't like the majority of his music. It's just not my thing. I didn't know Kris Allen. I like him. His music is what I like and bought. I look forward to the day when it gets back to being all about the music and not some bizarre pissing contest with media types who lost a bet. For the record, I'm very 'blue state' and Kris Allen gets my $$$ vote"
"HA! Love it -- "Lady Gaga might want to leave the disco stick at home for this one." I don't know though. Everyone can use a good disco stick. Even the queen."
(Slight google-proofing there...and I'm not clicking through any of these, this is just what's displayed on the front page.)
Am I wrong in remembering that comments had long been locked to people who already had comment accounts? Did this change before the switch over or could these new commenters have gotten anonoaccounts before the 2.0 switch?
― The Cure for Mugabe's Concubine (dabug), Saturday, 21 November 2009 17:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
It is, however, a nice place to find new display names.
― Anything for Uncle Buck. (dabug), Saturday, 21 November 2009 17:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
F2K will be back on Monday, November 30.
― empire records state of mind (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
where?!
― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Seconding that!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 November 2009 21:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
Y'all don't know how the internet works if you think I'm spilling that info so soon. But it definitely LIIIIVESSSSS
― empire records state of mind (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 23 November 2009 21:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
cool, so pitchfork on Monday.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Monday, 23 November 2009 21:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
whiney's twitter, they spent the intervening weeks sanding every piece down to fit into 140 characters including the artist, title of song, year and youtube title
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 21:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
if this doesn't make it then this list is a fucking sham.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is great news! Is it going to be the same format as before (like, one entry every 2-3 days wth youtube links)?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
It'll be upped to 1-2 posts a day so it'll be done by xmas, but yeah basically
― MainoWriMo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
And we're back on the air...
― airin' brrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can't wait. Glad you guys were able to make it work.
― wanko ergo surm (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
― bnw, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
village voice, good going. suck it, buzznet!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
And with the title now updated (who did that, anyway?), onward:
30!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
the outtake of that being recorded on the Some Kind Of Monster DVD is horrifyingly revelatory
― da croupier, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Poor old Ja Rule. Has anyone truly eclipsed his reign as the King of All Sensitive Thugs?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Drake!
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 15:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Man, croup, I wish I remembered that scene when I wrote the blurb. I haven't seen Monster since it came out.
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 15:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
Are you guys back on a one-a-day schedule with these?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 15:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
I actually bought that Swizz Beatz album, and thought the whole "feat. Metallica" thing was some kind of a joke, since you couldn't really imagine any sort of common ground between Swizz and Metallica. I think "We Did Again" proves there wasn't: I can't hear any Swizz Beatz on it at all. Otherwise it's a pretty nice album (at least when Swizz doesn't rap, which he thankfully doesn't do too much), definitely overlooked.
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
i think swizz and metallica could have probably done something nice if it wasn't such a rush hack-job. pretty much 100% of Metallica's non metal collabos have been shit
I mean:
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 15:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Haha, I was just about to say that compared to that, the DJ Spooky/Metallica collaboration on the Spawn soundtrack was a piece of art.
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2009 15:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh, swizz
― da croupier, Monday, 30 November 2009 16:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol at 4:20
― da croupier, Monday, 30 November 2009 16:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't want to get involved with the whole Maura vs. nu-Idolator shit talking, but I just want to say that this is killing me
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/11/new-blogger-in-action-for-hipsterrunoff-rob-is-my-name-and-here-is-my-top-10-albums-of-the-decade.html
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 17:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
....
holy shit at this fucking horrifying thing (YEAH!)
someone should take a staple gun to the taints of everyone involved in this (LOUDER!)
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 30 November 2009 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is he yelling "STRENGTH" or "STRINGS"?
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 30 November 2009 18:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
29!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is one of those "ok i can actually defend this song but at the same time I realize why a rational adult would consider it a heaving bag of suck" entries. my mayer pick would be the political inaction anthem "waiting for the world to change," though. or maybe the ballad that climaxes with "oooh and you can tell the difference between miles and coltrane!" or something.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
not the first time i've said on this thread, not the last time either, i'm sure-
ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew
at first i thought "well this is just kind of dull" but after sitting through the whole thing, i feel kind of queasy. maura's best blurb so far as well.
― mascara and pies (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
"oooh and you can tell the difference between miles and coltrane!"
hahaha what. "i am so turned on by this person who can tell the difference between instruments!"
― mascara and pies (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
the song's called "comfortable"
she says the Bible is all that she readsand prefers that I not use profanityyour mouth was so dirtylife of the party and she swears that she's artsybut you could distinguish Miles from Coltrane
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
I like "Waiting For The World To Change" because I always hear it as an indictment of the complacent. I am not sure it's INTENDED to be an indictment of the complacent but that's neither here nor there.
The "I'll use my hands" part of "Your Body Is A Wonderland" never ceases to be incredibly fucking creepy.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah if randy newman was singing "waiting" i'd definitely hear it that way (and probably consider it his best song this decade), but mayer's quotes about the songs suggest a lack of irony
mayer should have sang "i'll squeeze your glands"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
croupier to thread, really should have been a Defend The Indefensible: Have we discussed John Mayer's new Trustafarian anthem?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
hahaha reading the WFTWTC Wikipedia entry is a good way to generate "FUCK YOU, JOHN MAYER" sentiment
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
croupier is all over that thread, with an earlier screen name
― da croupier, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
LOL yes - I am slow this morning.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/12/meet-becca-a-new-hro-blogger-with-a-female-perspective-for-female-readers.html
The most amazing thing about HRO is that he's built up an empire and brand and--by giving the comments a read--I don't know if half his fans fully understand the jokes and references he's making.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
holy shit, lol
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney, let's go.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
listen: there's a hell of a good metaverse next door; let's go
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
man those outtakes from some kind of monster are epic.
― Mountain Dewm (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney, let's go.― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:14 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:14 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I have some real work to do today, can it wait?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol @ the hipster runoff thing
The Shins – Chutes Too NarrowThis was some really chill acoustic shit, mixed with rock noises. It was back when indie music could be funky and fun. Now every one is being all serious. Cmon guys! lighten up! let’s have fun and dance again… It’d be cool to have a Woodstock of Indie music just to see how it would change the scene. I’ll bet a lot of bands would get back to basics to say the least… food for thought.
― ankles (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Carles' "bro" piece does offer a nice swipe at both the interminable recitation of the 00s' self-fulfilling Significant Releases (which [everyone involved] spent the entire decade reassuring themselves were significant), and the delusional notion that effort and knowledge have anything to do with being in or out of touch with pop music anymore.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
pee-oh-oh-pee
― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
let's do this
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whiney, let's go eat ice cream and play video games while your robot surrogate argues with ol' cee-oh.
― Young (or Old); Attractive (or not); Receptionist (some dude), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Mike" on HRO re Outkast: "A lot of people say that black rappers and singers just sing about hood stuff, but these guys came hard to deliver some artsy stuff." Heh heh.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
Those two HRO links are pretty fucking classic.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
28!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
loool Oberst would never be an R, dude will be a burnt out hippie fer sure. Also nobody in WOW calls them 'avatars' >_>
― bnw, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
HELLS OF SLANG so you know it is off the cuff and that means it is authentic. FYI David Cross is the asshole version of David Cross, bro.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
Holy crap those lyrics. I need to hear this, it sounds beyond awful.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Also nobody in WOW calls them 'avatars'
What are they called?
― HELLZ WIND STAFF OF SLANG (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
They're called "toons".
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
and this is going to generate the lolsiest comments ever
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
]NIGHTGOAT says:So, I'm sure troops in the SS didn't have much choice either. It was hard being in Nazi Germany, ya know, with all those great uniformed SS and NOT join them. Shucks.
So, I'm sure troops in the SS didn't have much choice either. It was hard being in Nazi Germany, ya know, with all those great uniformed SS and NOT join them. Shucks.
yes because you see American minorities are a direct parallel to the SS and Nazis
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Now I've got Duran Duran in my head. "Waiting...for the nightgoat!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
NIGHTGOAT is missing the big point of my piece that I didn't exactly spell out. I can't exactly judge someone for joining the army because I've been fortunate enough in my life to never have that even be an option. I don't know what upbringing Stewart has, but I can tell you that a HUGE HUGE SUFFOCATINGLY HUGE portion of the audience for indie-noise pitchfork bands is in the same boat as me.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't know, I thought you pretty explicitly spelled that out
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
Like, to the point where the only way I can see NIGHTGOAT making that post is if he either saw the song listed and just commented without reading the piece or he is just functionally illiterate.
dude is def on my team with that screen name tho
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
I remember when the army recruiters came to my school with the mandatory tests to see what you'd be good at in the army and I was just uh "I'm pretty sure my fat ass is going to college, can I just save you a step?"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
ploppy says:pffft. way to prop up hetereonormative views and belief systems
pffft. way to prop up hetereonormative views and belief systems
yeah, good job on backing up our oppressive cookie overlords
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
i see why this song is hated on but still, the Harry Partch noise and various squealing doodads are pretty cool
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
27!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am perturbed by how the frame that you see before playing that Youtube clip shows Kelly looking down the front of her trousers. Still not going to watch it tbh
― I AGREE WITH THE COSMETIC SURGERY (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
i still own both kelly osbourne albums and i have never successfully listened to this track all the way through
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
there are two?????
― mascara and pies (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
I am spontaneously generating incredibly creepy cavities as I listen to this
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay why is there a gospel choir in this
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Shut Up (glossy, obnoxious garage rock from a celine dion producer) and Sleeping In The Nothing (campy '80s homages from Linda Perry)
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
Kelly has had the weirdest career:
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
gotta love how she's a consistent quarter-step flat for the entire song
Of all the things to complain about, Dan...
― Meatcat (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
I like (and own) both Kelly Osbourne albums, actually -- and I'm pretty sure this song is not on either album I have (Maura says it was on the re-release of Shut Up, but I have the original one). This one is perfect for F2K tho.
― Is it reality or Simon Reynolds? (dabug), Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah shut up was re-released as Changes by her second label Sanctuary with the aforementioned title cover (which was a #1 in the uk, i think!) and some ghastly live tracks.
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
Still love "One Word" though.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Surprise! Two in one day!
26!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
And yes, we've officially released the halfway point.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's gonna be two a day from now on iirc
― balut kweli (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was thinking "Okay, who would be waiting on the F2K entry due on Xmas day?" I mean, besides me.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
holy fucking lolz, esp. at the last part
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
ok yeah that is terrible and i feel really bad because its the first act i really expected better from
― mascara and pies (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh hey Dan, you were right about yesterday's entry generating lolsy comments:
The fact is that, as a music writer, you are paid to write about music, and that instead of doing your job you chose to vilify a piece of music because the lyrics do not agree with your own politics. This puts you in the same camp as Rush Limbaugh, Goebbels, and Stalin.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay listening to this Beastie Boys song feels like watching your formerly-hip uncle attempt to do a headspin at age 75
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay I clicked back to the video near the end of this and WTF at the whole thing
okay now I've restarted it looking at the video and SRSLY, WTF
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hey Whiney, what's Stalin like to hang out with? Bet he makes a mean vodka tonic.
― mascara and pies (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
xxxpost it's like a birdfeeder for butthurt xiu xiu fans
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
wow i had never heard changes before. horrific, and i, like others upthread, think both her albums are great, and not just because of the pix in the booklets
― an error has occurred (electricsound), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
I apologize for suggesting earlier in the thread that "Open Letter to NYC" is anywhere close to this, btw.
― Is it reality or Simon Reynolds? (dabug), Friday, 4 December 2009 03:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wow. I expected this to place at least top ten. EVERYBODY hated this song.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 4 December 2009 04:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
25!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Listening to this song is like being smothered by a sad kitten.
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Friday, 4 December 2009 15:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
24!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
weezer always sucked; gummy bear is... just a bit lame
― Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 December 2009 20:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, this is more like watching a sad kitten being smothered on YouTube.
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
23!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
i have honestly never even heard OF half this list - enjoying the writing obv, enjoying not hearing the songs, hope some songs i've enjoyed hating this decade crop up at some point
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
it's mostly been a bit too obvious thus far.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Monday, October 26, 2009 9:53 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― manuel EGOT-sching (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 7 December 2009 15:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
22!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
great list needs more hoobastank
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
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― bnw, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
Both links working fine for me.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
it's back. ned fixed it.
― bnw, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
didnt work for me either
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
The requested URL /music/archives/2009/12/the_50_worst_so_5.php was not found on this server.
21!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
boo, i love this song. crazy frog has done far worse.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is the new hub, guys
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/11/f2kindex.php
― justin timberlane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
i just stopped listening to it and i've already forgotten it. how you ever could remember it existed to make the list is astonishing. fuck the idea this is too obvious, too obvious would have been axel f.
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
I suppose this means the Kidz Bop version of Crazy Frog's "Axel F" didn't make the list (ignore the video, or don't since it's a pretty accurate representation of the level of crazypants behind this cover).
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
20!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's just like GZA did with the names of record labels on Liquid Swords, except some of the record labels that GZA mentions actually put out good music once in a while.
Haha I am now trying to remember if I made this link at the time under my own steam or just stole it from someone else
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
This list needs more country music. Like this:
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 23:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
Last Christmas is "recently minted" but U Can't Touch This is an old classic?
― an terror has occurred (sic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
More country? Don't forget this one:
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
btw the way most average country singers manipulate their voices for maximum emotional affect... most pop/r&b singers sound like The Edge singing "Numb" in comparison. Check the word "are" in the phrase "tall as you are" in the chorus.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
Holy fuck that song is HILARIOUS!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
If there's any country it had better be this:
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
x post - thanks long story but i heard it hundreds of times over a short span of time involuntarily and it will never leave my memory
watching that video of "have you forgotten" has made me feel really, really bad. this is the first time i have ever been consumed with laughter while watching people die. i couldn't help it. popular country... man... NOT cool.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
Recently minted as a radio staple, thanks to the Christmas format taking over the last two months of the year in much of the country because radio execs are completely uncreative / desperate / etc.
― maura, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 12:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
19!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 15:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
Meh. Slamming Nickelback is old hat.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 17:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
Who are you again?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 17:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Just another no-name ilxor. I expect better from my professional rock critics.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 17:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
sounds like the song of a sex offender
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 17:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
When does the Top 50 Shittiest TV Jingles run? "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" is ripe for just this kind of ship-righting beat-down.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Chris really hit the nail on the head in that we're definitely trying to do hard-hitting rock crit here.
― radric the entertainbrrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't know what you're trying to do, or what audience you think you're satisfying.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah maybe he should get a blog?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh shit is he gonna rep for wu-tang again
― bnw, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
someone has to
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
don't want to answer this for Whiney, just want to say i really love these reviews and think they are hilarious, Whiney. Keep up the good work.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
18!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
"I don't know what you're trying to do, or what audience you think you're satisfying."
oh-bee-en-oh-ex-i-oh-you-ess
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
i look forward to these fwiw.
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Go, parrots, go.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
eff-you-see-kay
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
the fuck dude whaddya want? i'm in front of a computer all day and jeez it's like some funny shit to listen to and hear whiney rip on....not saying it's fuckin rockist science or anything but why get yr panties in a bunch about it? are you that humorless?
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
come on sheeple
― sharty is a shit (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
"I write under the assumption that my peers in the music world are smart enough to know that what they do is at best a good time shared by all, one that should be enjoyed while it lasts and taken as seriously as a pie-eating contest on a cloudy day. I don't care if you're Slowdive or Sigue Sigue Sputnik: you will regret every minute you didn't spend laughing. Lighten up."
― grandavis, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
I love when these threads rope in the OTT, pure entertainment each and every time.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yes grandavis, the laughter goes both ways. F2K seems to rep for people who think "Dick in a Box" was the song of the decade.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
your mom is a dick in a box
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
"When does the Top 50 Shittiest TV Jingles run? 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' is ripe for just this kind of ship-righting beat-down."
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
My takedowns of Xiu Xiu and Gummibar are actually aimed right for the melty center of Digg Nation
― welcome back c.ott or (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
shit just got real
― 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOKE (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think you meant this thread: marketing of masculinity
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
ott is completely capable of making a salient argument, and i've just been patiently refreshing this thread hoping one would emerge.
― welcome back c.ott or (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is what i assume all country music sounds like when it isnt as hot as ol rat face taylor swift.
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
To be fair to Tobes, for a while he only played this song during his shows, putting it safely in a zone where only Toby Keith fans could hear it--an audience whose opinions were used mainly for trivial matters like deciding which band of spray cheese to keep on the market, how many episodes of Blue Collar TV the WB should pick up, and who should be president of the United States.
i lolled
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
And yet somehow the Toby Keith song ended up being better than every single anti-war song released this decade.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
not a very high bar to set
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
Finally some country music!
And yet somehow the Toby Keith song ended up being better than every single anti-war song released this decade.― President Keyes, Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― President Keyes, Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OTM!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
Where will Passion Pit show up.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
"America, Fuck Yeah" > LCD Soundstem>>> MIA >>>>> "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)" >>> that Rilo Kiley song about Bush
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
"And yet somehow the Toby Keith song ended up being better than every single anti-war song released this decade."
Utter bullshit.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, The Coup's "Head (of State)" and "Babyletshaveababybeforebushdosomethincrazy" are definitely better than that one.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 December 2009 11:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
17!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
the thing about 'courtesy of the red, white and blue' is it's just nowhere near as good as 'the taliban song':
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
Pretty sure I'd take "Beware Of The Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke)" over that Toby Keith song, if that counts. Toby would still make my top 100 singles of the decade, though (albeit not at #18, and probably not as high as most of the other four Toby singles that would make my top 100.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
And oh yeah, "Bombs Below" by Living Things -- that's an anti-war song that's probably as good or better than "Courtesy Of The Red White and Blue." (Still, great song, either way -- Glad Whiney remembered it!)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
16!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
15!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
The UK never 'got' Hinder for more than a minute but I largely associate them with their first Kerrang feature, the photoshoot for which had them posing next to a bed on which was a passed-out girl in her underwear - the willingness with which they seemed keen to look like gang rapists was pretty unprecedented in my experience
― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 December 2009 15:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
one (nsfw) precedent, courtesy of Eric Burdon & War.
― da croupier, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
wow this song is a dick
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
william hung album on lala fwiw http://lala.com/zziM
― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
14!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 20:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
you know Sagat is pissed
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 20:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
if he were here i bet he'd say "funk dat"
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 11 December 2009 20:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
Or maybe not!
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 20:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
funk dat!
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
haha i started a thread about that song when it was new: Korn - "Y'All Want A Single"
― some dude, Friday, 11 December 2009 23:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
still really hopin' for some blue october up in here.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 12 December 2009 00:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
what's that 9/11 tribute song that hat guy made that has the lyrics, "yes i liiiiiiive i did not dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." that one is #1, right?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 12 December 2009 01:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
13!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2009 15:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
holy wow
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 16:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
how can so much pretty result in so much awful
great post/display name combo
― yahoo terius (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 December 2009 16:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
12!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
hahaha I am gonna get ridiculed but I kind of love this cover
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
Of ALL the songs for you to love on here.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
sorry, too busy headbinging to respond
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 19:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
(kind of like headbanging only more misogynist)
hahahaha I forgot he actually sang the "SHAW-shaw" bits in the verse
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 19:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
When I saw him do "Land Of Confusion" live he changed the lyrics to "There's too many men, and not enough pussy." I can't make this stuff up.
One thing I really don't need to do spend time looking for live versions of Disturbed's cover of "Land of Confusion" so please stop giving me incentives to do so!
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 19:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.strimoo.com/video/12799396/Disturbed-Inside-The-Fire-MySpaceVideos.html
a bit worse, imo
― da croupier, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
though i still appreciate the Three Times One Minus One homage at the beginning of the video
― da croupier, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
whiney and maura deserve real kudos. when i think "ok, they genuinely cannot find anything worse than that last one" they pull a walk this way or whatever this shite is out of the bag. On the basis of how its going I think the top 10 may be the first time music has ever made me vomit.
also "Balki Bartokomous"? do i care enough to wiki it?
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Monday, 14 December 2009 20:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
I assume that's Bronson Pichot's character from Perfect Strangers, a semi-popular sitcom in the early 90's.
― moron oil (Gukbe), Monday, 14 December 2009 21:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
holy lolz I finally got around to that William Hung entry
holy lolz
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 21:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
OTM
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Monday, 14 December 2009 21:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
aw, thanks guys. We worked hard on this and I can guarantee that the top 10 is very, very ugly
― the unbearable lightness of sbing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 December 2009 21:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
jesus fucking christ, what the hell is this gummy bear bullshit
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
i love "Land of Confusion" and the cover, croup's right that they have originals that are much much worse
― some dude, Monday, 14 December 2009 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
I like "Stupify", too
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Monday, 14 December 2009 21:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
11!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh god this fucking piece of shit
― I am a big question mark (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
Top 10 coming up!
― the unbearable lightness of sbing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
guys, i'm a little burned out on this, can you write my last couple entries
― the unbearable lightness of sbing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
c'mon man you can do it
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 15:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
content not available abroad :(
also :) british postcode for saving me
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
wow this worley song...what a piece of shit
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
listened to it on youtube and... its country music. i thought they all had to have a mention of lynching other folks but i guess that has been updated to bumming osama.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
no "beer for my horses" yet
― abanana, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Darryl Worley played at least a couple of shows on September 11th at the county fairgrounds in the tiny middle-of-nowhere town in where I grew up. This place is also like 1,000 miles from any actual 9/11 locations. I'm guessing they were the only ones who'd have him.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
nashville studios are so nice. is that a Neve?
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
And here we go...
10!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
One more thing ;]
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Okay wait
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Shit in a bag, set it on fire/Open your door, there's a bag on fire"
lololololololololol, everyone on Psychopathic Records is shaking their heads at that line
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jesus I just noticed that was from the YouTube clip. I thought you were about to say you liked THIS too.
Baby Hugh Hef, that's my nameKorn brings the porn and a little of the fameBaby Hugh Hef, that's my nameFieldy's got game so you better be warned
nonstop lolz
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
OH HELL NO
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
But now that you have heard it, you will never forget it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
the thing about "Fieldy's got game so you better be warned" that cracks me up is that it doesn't rhyme with ANYTHING before it or after it.
― wonky funky flame (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
I like how Fieldy has no apparent concept of rhythm or rhyming and no one really tried to instruct him on either of these concepts before recording this song.
xp: hahahahaha YES EXACTLY
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
guys it's obviously this rhyme scheme: a, a, a, b
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
explain the second half, then:
Baby Hugh Hef, will mack in the sackDr. Dreams got game, that's my repBaby Hugh Hef, that's my nameFieldy's Dreams... that's part of my game
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
uh c, d, a, a ???
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is hurting my brain
This is a list of bands or artists who would do a good job of singing the Fieldy's Dreams lyric "Shit in a bag / Light it on fire / Open the door, there's a bag on fire"
^heroic failure of a thread, imo
― an hesher (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
Also "Korn brings the porn" makes me think less of the orgiastic pussymagnet lifestyle that he's presumably trying to convey, and more of Lil Jonathan Davis et al sneaking dogeared jazzmags past Fieldy's parents so they can all go and knock one out in the treehouse
― an hesher (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
there seriously can't be worse songs than that ever recorded let alone this decade, right? please?
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think "warned" is supposed to rhyme with "Korn brings the porn". It's a pretty odd rhyme scheme, still.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 21:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
Also, is there something wrong with the Yotube clip, or is that song supposed to sound like that? Because the volume level goes up-and-down, up-and-down all through the song.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 21:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think "warned" is supposed to rhyme with "Korn brings the porn".
irl lols
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 21:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
i remember something about korn throwing lunch meat at porn actresses in some movie....i think that was real.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah not googling "korn porn lunch meat movie" no matter what
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
you're thinking about it though
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
i love that whiney just descends into apoplexy by the end
"Argh! Fuck you!"
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
guys, i'm a little burned out on this
― the unbearable lightness of sbing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― wonky funky flame (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
that is all real, hoos
didn't Fieldy quit Korn because he became a born-again Christian? I'm not sure the Lord wants this to be taken as His work
― an terror has occurred (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
no doubt about it man xp
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
didn't Fieldy quit Korn because he became a born-again Christian?
Nope, that was one of the guitarists.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
did he have just as stupid a name?
― an terror has occurred (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Head"
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol, right
― an terror has occurred (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Well, Brian "Head" Welch, to be more precise.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
i'm writing tomorrow's post and i want to die
― don't be radriculous (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
i bet miccio's gonna be defending this one
― don't be radriculous (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
nah, I meant "lol that's right, no wonder I confused the two of these hilarious chumps"
― an terror has occurred (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 05:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Simple Plan?? Good Charlotte?? (xpost)
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 05:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Baby Hugh Hef, that's my nameKorn brings the porn and a little of the fameBaby Hugh Hef, that's my nameFieldy's got game so you better be warnedBaby Hugh Hef, will mack in the sackDr. Dreams got game, that's my repBaby Hugh Hef, that's my nameFieldy's Dreams... that's part of my game
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 07:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Argh! Fuck you! Fucking rapping Hamburglar in the McDonald's commercial stopped rhyming "name" with "game" somewhere in 1987."
Love this. Reads like someone screaming in impotent rage at MTV.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 10:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Somehow I find myself completely uninterested in what the other parts of his game are. The parts other than "Fieldy's Dreams", I mean.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 11:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
Simple Plan??
simple plan only exists to bolster my defense of good charlotte.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 12:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was so enraged when Clem compared AYWKUBTTOD to Simple Plan on Dancing. So. Enraged.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 12:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
9!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
There is so much worse shit on the list than this song, shouldn't be top 10 imho.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
ok i don't hate that song. i understand how it is 'bad' but i wouldn't turn the radio off if it came on.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Except...It's not bad.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
that song is awful but i know for certain there is at least one worse ashlee simpson song out there
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
even maura's article doesn't seem to have similar bile aimed at it compared to the 10s.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
OK I'm officially lodging a protest.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
i love "la la" and have actually been inspired to rediscover it b/c of that post, but i'm not going to put too much energy into defending it b/c there are at least 20 way superior ashlee songs - i'll definitely be down w/defending her as one of this decade's best artists though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
Why did I know this would provoke a reflexive reaction on here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
I do not like "La La" but the opening sounds like Ministry or something so I'll take it over "L-O-V-E" or whatever
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
Best song on this tally so far is a contest between Ashlee and the Toby Keith (from two of the better albums of the decade, both from artists who made a couple of great ones, fwiw). But yeah, not worth expending more energy defending either here.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
LLCoolJ ftw when we poll these
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
Quite honestly, after hearing Cosmo Jarvis for the first time I don't know if there's anything that will be revealed in the top 10 that can compete with him in terms of irredeemable awfulness, so even though I don't like this song I can't muster up a reaction stronger than "not as bad as Cosmo".
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 15:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
xhuxk, unless this is some sustained gag I'm not getting, can you explain why the Toby Keith song isn't ignorant, badly written, breathtakingly offensive dogshit?
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
There was one Ashlee Simpson song I liked a lot. This isn't it, but this isn't a bad song either. I don't get why it's on the list.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
some sustained gag I'm not getting
There are some who believe this phrase could describe Chuck's entire writing career.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
fyi i <3 all these ashlee songs a lot more than "la la", and her first two albums are SO classic
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
can you explain why the Toby Keith song isn't ignorant, badly written, breathtakingly offensive dogshit?
Nah, not here I won't. (And I've never said it wasn't ignorant or offensive, anyway; just that it's a great song.) But I've written about the guy plenty; take yr pick:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-05-13/music/please-stop-belittling-toby-keith/
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1196
There's a short Voice review of Shock 'N Y'all somewhere on the web too, but I can't find it right now.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
The Toby Keith song is a totally valid artistic expression even if I find it repulsive; it is a lot easier to defend "mess with us and we'll fuck you up" sentiment than something like that godawful Darrel Worley "I am humping the dead bodies of 9/11 victims for $$$$$$" piece of trash.
There is a certain level where I will give Toby Keith a pass in that he is a guy who holds somewhat conflicting opinions; it's pretty rare to see someone stand up and self-identify as a "rah-rah-USA-number-one-love-it-or-leave-it" type who swings left on most cultural issues. It doesn't make his song any better but it does put it in a more interesting context.
It still deserves to be on this list, though, because jingoism is never a good look no matter how fascinating the person promoting it is.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
xp Left out this one:
http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/12/trace-adkins-peaks-while-toby-keith-phones-it-in.html
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
i've never been in the Ashlee fanclub cru but "La La" is the one song of hers I really like. it came out around the same time "Since U Been Gone" and for a while I kind of mentally grouped those songs together and considered them more or less equal.
― defend the indefensible: JUSTIN BIEBER, MAN (some dude), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
I am in the Ashlee fanclub cru (Lex, your dues have been outstanding for about three months now and we do revoke T-shirt privileges) and will obviously defend this song, though what I think is unfortunate about it is that it makes a lot more sense on an album in which it's followed by the non-single material, starting with "Love Makes the World Go Round" -- the album is quite mundane (in subject matter; it's about the mundane) and "La La" isn't exactly representative of Ashlee's persona as a stand-alone piece. It's a single and many of the best tracks on that album ("Love Me for Me," "Better Off," "Undiscovered") aren't, for one thing. But the ridiculousness of "La La" makes more sense to me in the context of her being a fairly ordinary person -- the "I'm singing a sexy song" conceit is (intentionally) an awkward fit, but I think the song is SUPPOSED to be pretty awkward (read: funny) -- has any other female singer ever offered to dress up like a football player to get a guy off?
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
has any other female singer ever offered to dress up like a football player to get a guy off
How does everyone keep misinterpreting this lyric? The line is "you can throw me like a lineman", implying that the guy is the football player in the equation and she is the person being thrown around. It's about rough sex, not costumery.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
can't it be both
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wow, can't believe I have now conflated those two lines TWICE today. Since I thought I'd memorized this song! Anyway, I think the humor is in the juxtaposition -- dirt & diamonds, lineman and French maid, mile high club & back of the bus...
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
that's not why it makes me laugh
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
I wanna get you in the Georgia Dome on the 50-yard-line where the Dirty Birds kick for three
― ATLlien intruder (ludacris), September 9, 2000 4:18 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― combination tofu hut and taco bell (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Also downplaying the amount of pleasure Ashlee gets out of this, since the key line in the bridge is "I can be myself tonight." I think there's a point when the tacked-on bridge is more formulaic than honestly revealing something about the rest of the song (Britney's "3" comes to mind, though she kind of undercuts her "oh hey just kidding it can just be the two of us" at the end there) but here I do think it's important.
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Better articulated by another member of the fan club:
The point of “La La” is that Ashlee does feel comfortable in all of these different personas and places — the diamonds, the dirt, the tough athlete he can throw around, the French maid, the stray cat, the airplane, the bus, the boomerang that comes back to throw him as hard as he threw her, they are all Ashlee. The song isn’t about how she’ll pretend to be a bunch of things she’s not for him, it’s how she can be all the things she is with him. I mean, the bridge, for God’s sake.
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
does she often have sexy roleplay as a bus?
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
got no beef with ashlee but if that's the best defense...
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
― defend the indefensible: JUSTIN BIEBER, MAN (some dude), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:00 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah this is true for me too -- i think its a pretty good song tbh
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
really weird choice for this honestly -- im in no way an ashlee fanclub dude but this track is a pretty banging pop song
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
& ok this is lol but it sounds like "bohemian like you"
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
thats neither here nor there wrt quality by the way
I mean, the bridge, for God’s sake.
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ashlee's pointing to the power give-and-take in these costumes in a way that Berlin isn't (Berlin is just kind of stating them, and most of them are merely labels and not specific characters) -- I'd compare her more to Electrik Red, who also have an interesting way of dealing with submissive/dominant roles in a fairly empowering way. Cue Tim Finney who, shock, said it much better than I could:
"Electrik Red see no contradiction between slave-driving dominance ("W.F.Y.") and slavish submission ("Bed Rest"), modern female independence ("Friend Lover") and its easy loss ("So Good"), mercantile sexual consumerism ("P Is for Power") and incommensurate sexual generosity ("Devotion").
If that sounds like a criticism, it's not meant to be: Electrik Red understand that we don't know what we want even when we sound like we do; if they seem to conflate love and sex a little too freely, well, life's like that when the going's good."
That passage immediately made me think of this song.
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
(x-post)
I bought a Toby Keith album based on xhuxk's recommendation, back before I knew better. Then I used search on all the albums I had bought from ILM recommendations in the previous year that I felt duped about. It was like 80% xhuxk.
(many xposts)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
i dont really get whats objectionable about it -- & whiney's piece isnt clearing it up for me? its objectionable bcuz wanting to do it in the back of a bus is tmi?? so why dont u feel that way about the luda song? otherwise your only criticism is that someone told her to sound like melissa etheridge which, ok, ive never listened to her so whatever
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
it seems like theres a lot of baggage being brought into discussions abt this based on a woman acting sexxxy that seems way over-thought both pro & con -- i dont really think ashlee is on some spinal tap style 'whats wrong wit bein sexy' type ish here. its a chick who knows what she wants & is singing about it which is a pretty standard line for a pop song to take
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
Maybe you'd like to ask Maura instead of Whiney, since she wrote the blurb.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh well apologies to whiney then
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
doesnt really change my stance on the song, tho
i assumed it was whiney since he was just talking about writing his next entry in this thread
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
With a backing track of compressed-to-next-week "rock" and a chorus consisting of a lot of rasp-filled "la"-ing, Simpson ticks off the ways she'll dress up in her lover's love, from diamonds to dirt. It's the sort of rock song that would have been as unlistenable had it been sung by Buckcherry's Josh Todd (whose "Crazy Bitch" it sorta anticipates, in a PG-13 way) or Nickelback's Chad Kroeger or even Luciano Pavarotti.
Here Maura seems to be saying "I cannot stand the backing music or the chorus, which I think is lazy and purile".
"It's very tongue in cheek; it can be interpreted in all different ways. It's about sexual fantasies. There's a lot of sarcasm in that song," Simpson said of "La La" shortly after Autobiography came out. (One shudders to think what sort of "sarcasm" Simpson was employing when she thought up the line about being taken in the back of a bus.)
Here Maura implies that Ashlee recorded the song without really thinking about what it was saying.
But when it comes to songs, shouldn't at least half the fun of getting to the real message be derived from the process of getting there? While I'm all for true female sexual empowerment in song, particularly during this ever-worse-for-women decade, "La La" lands in the category of sexy moments that should be saved for what I like to call "private time." (You want empowerment? It would have been kind of awesome to see her rush-cover "Suck My Left One" in the wake of the SNL incident and her less-than-charitable reception at the Orange Bowl.)
Here Maura criticizes the song's "empowerment" stance for being about the only allowable venue of female empowerment in modern pop music, namely being really slutty.
I get disagreeing with the conclusion but I don't think it's at all ambiguous as to why Maura picked the song.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
8!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
wait a minute
what the hell is this
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
wtf why did it briefly start over
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
i agree about the over-compressed guitars, thats super annoying & has always bothered me about the song. saying 'this song is unlistenable because its unlistenable' isnt really an insight to me.
neither is 'she didnt think about her lyrics when writing this' -- so? does that mean they're bad? theres nothing about the song that is particularly glaring imo
& her criticism of 'empowerment' requires someone to be making an 'empowerment' argument about it which im not doing -- in fact, if anything pro- 'female empowerment' arguments feel more like a pre-emptive defense of the song based on ppl's expectation that other folks are gonna give it shit since its by a woman.
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol ok kudos for picking a genuinely negligible, boring moment in durst's bizkography rather than some bugfuck highlight I can defend.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
not that i don't love that durst got away with this on EVERY TV NETWORK
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Zach says:
Pretty sure F2K officially hates AmericaPosted On: Wednesday, Dec. 16 2009 @ 2:14PM
f2k certainly starting to make me hate america.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
aaaaaahh the way fred looks at the camera at 2:29!!!!
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:39 PM (5 minutes ago)
haha i really wish i had the time to go through this thread and make into a spectrum all the variations of this post dan's made following the f2k postings
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
What the hell did he do to the melody? He managed to compress the whole thing into what, 4 notes?
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
we don't needneed anymore painwe just need to remainon the very same pageso much to gainno more losin' a friendor losin' ourselveswe just need your help..so glad you're here
^^food for thought...wait...what?
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
durst and the puddle of mudd dude do zep's "thank you" with jimmy page. not sure if this happened before or after (both were in 2001), but it feels like a sequel all the same.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't remember Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes" being notably bad, and this one seems even less notable. Odd pick for the top ten...
female empowerment' arguments feel more like a pre-emptive defense of the song based on ppl's expectation that other folks are gonna give it shit since its by a woman.
OTM. I usually only discuss this song in relation to someone else telling me it sucks and/or is actively disempowering (this includes Kara DioGuardi, who has basically disowned the song for being...I dunno, bad for women or something...which I believe was the last time I talked about it). Otherwise on its own it's not one that I have that much to say about, only in defending it when called out specifically.
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
fred durst / staind duet on 'i'm on the outside' is (challops alert) a classic
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
nothing fred durst ever did is a classic
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
Listen to the original "Wish You Were Here" and then listen to this cover again.
i agree about the over-compressed guitars, thats super annoying & has always bothered me about the song. saying 'this song is unlistenable because its unlistenable' isnt really an insight to me.neither is 'she didnt think about her lyrics when writing this' -- so? does that mean they're bad? theres nothing about the song that is particularly glaring imo
The first point really doesn't need clarification or justification if you agree with Maura saying that the song sounds bad; you're just disappointed that she wasn't more explicit in saying why.
your second point misses entirely what Maura explicitly says, which is that Ashlee didn't write the song and spent time defending/explaining the lyrics on grounds that don't make sense when you listen to them (unless you believe that Ashlee doesn't actually know what sarcasm is).
"That conclusion doesn't make any sense because I'm ignoring the paragraph immediately before it that lays out the argument it is refuting."
(also I do like that Staind/Durst song but "It's Been Awhile" is better)
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
wtf did Burger King do?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Destroy America, I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ashlee has a co-writing credit on "La La."
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
(And I find it more likely that she slightly misused the word "sarcasm" in one interview, since the song does make sense.)
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
just to make sure i'm getting it, that sense is "i like to get all freaky with it and I like that you keep it our little secret"
T/F?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
When you say "I like that I keep our little secret" you make it sound like this is part of the come-on to the audience. "I feel safe with you / I can be myself tonight / It's alright with you / 'Cuz you hold my secrets tight" is NOT the same thing as "tee-hee you can keep my secret can't you *wink*"
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's hard to write a good pop song about private desires without it sounding like you're sort of flaunting them instead of keeping them private, but I think that "La La" at least keeps the desires strange (and blunt) enough that there's no mistaking it for some kind of tease ("you'll keep my secret won't you" as "you'll be sure to tell everyone, won't you").
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've never known where to put this video.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 17 December 2009 03:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
(well not really a video...)
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 17 December 2009 03:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
Belated xpost. Thanks for the links xhukx. I don't get Keith's appeal myself - I wonder how many non-Americans do - but I see where you're coming from.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 17 December 2009 09:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
Go-Go covers of popular songs are one of my favorite things ever.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 13:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
glad you like. this was all over DC radio in '05. a good year.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 17 December 2009 14:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
7!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
the dull rumbling you hear in the distance is me repeatedly smashing my head against my desk
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
haha oh phew i knew scherzinger was coming and am relieved it's one of her songs that i don't give a shit about - will defend "whatever u like" and "supervillain" to the hilt, as well as most PCDs singles
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
Like, this girl is talented out the wazoo, so exactly whose idea was it to give her the absolute worst possible material for her solo work? Also who told her that scooping vocal inflection was sexy? I would like to find that person and introduce their face to a slapping.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
she really really doesn't get enough credit for her vocal talent - like i get how the PCDs' cheerfully trashy image might be offputting, though i'm down with it, but it's annoying that people can't see past that.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've been on her bandwagon since Eden's Crush but this song isn't fit to lick a dog's ass.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
omg that "Rio" cover
Nicole from The Pussycat Dolls has released a new Brazilian inspired remake of Duran Duran's hit song, "Rio," to celebrate the launch of Caress® Brazilian Exotic Oil Infusions body wash. "Rio (Caress Brazilian Mix)" encourages women to unleash their sensuous sides, vivacious charm and Brazilian spirits.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
It is massively infuriating that PCD gets songs like "I Hate This Part" and "Buttons" and solo Nicole gets... "Puakenikeni"
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
did you ever hear "supervillain" and "whatever you like"? both much much better than "puakenikeni"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
I liked "Supervillain" a lot; "Whatever You Like"... not so much
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wow. I mean at first I was just at "ok bad song" but as it continued and I took my mind off it as I read the article, it took the song length to give me a massive fucking migraine. Even the worst of the worst on the list hasen't given me actual ill health until now. Gonna go dig up some aspirin.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 17 December 2009 16:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:34 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, bad material or no, she's definitely talented, which is why it always irritated me in the Idolator days when Maura made Scherzinger her favorite person to hate on, like jeez there are such better targets out there. can't complain w/ that song being on the list though.
― The Plieslight Saga: New Goon (some dude), Thursday, 17 December 2009 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
Squandering talent is my #1 most defensible reason to hate on someone, or at least shake them vigorously.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 16:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah but Maura never took the angle that that was her problem
― The Plieslight Saga: New Goon (some dude), Thursday, 17 December 2009 16:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Can we please see Kevin Federline's "Popozao" in the top five?
My life would be complete.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 17 December 2009 17:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm hoping Daniel Powter- Bad Day makes it.
― lou, Thursday, 17 December 2009 17:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
6!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
why why why why why god why
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jim says:
This song is holy shit bad, but why the random diss on OkGo? They spent their early years touring with They Might Be Giants and have been rocking choreographed dance numbers since way before YouTube. If that isn't a real "nerd type" I don't know what is.
I think your silly Twitter reviews are hurting your ability to write past a zingy one-liner (which in this case made no fucking sense).
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
Who sits down, writes the line "I get the fever for the flavor of a coochie" and says "YES THAT'S IT"?
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
the booger-wiping brat-punk attitude of Sum 41 + the lunkheaded posturing of rap-rock's dying Mark McGasps
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
i have no idea how i'm gonna get out these last 3
― LJ 1214b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Discography * Nutbag EP (2002) * Hot Action Cop (2003) * 2009 EP (2009)Singles * "Don't Want Her to Stay" * "Fever for the Flava" * "Goin Down On It" * "Samuel L. Jackson"
* Nutbag EP (2002) * Hot Action Cop (2003) * 2009 EP (2009)
Singles
* "Don't Want Her to Stay" * "Fever for the Flava" * "Goin Down On It" * "Samuel L. Jackson"
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
why did no one punch them in the face after naming their debut EP "Nutbag"
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
or in the nutbag
― LJ 1214b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Samuel L. Jackson"
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
there is literally NO REASON for any musically-inclined person on this board to not have a record deal if these guys can get one
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
There is no such thing as a record deal.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_contract
helping u
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
I mean, feel free to be dismissive all you want but it generally comes across better if you aren't also flat-out stupid
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
(I know that will be difficult for you but I know you can give it the old college try)
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
dunno, does that dude know how to click on links? we might wanna c&p that article
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was thinking today was missing some ottness, yay!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
u in homonym trubbz shokka?
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm sorry, is my use of Internet colloquialisms interfering with your campaign to hate women?
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
there is no such thing as a record. deal.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
Nicely done.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
cee-oh is on some gabbneb 2.0 level abstract plane trolling shit
― The Plieslight Saga: New Goon (some dude), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
"I'm goonna trooll you on the abstract plane"
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
"what do i have to say to get inside girl?"
not wanting this to turn into every other ilx thread but what is racist about "Here's the scenario/Gonna strip you down like a car in the barrio."? I guess i've just not been racist enough in my life to get the slang these kids use in their music videos about the vagina taste
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
That line is saying "I'm going to strip you like a car gets stripped in a Hispanic neighborhood".
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
It has nothing to do with vagina taste and everything to do with equating removing clothes to Hispanic kids looting cars.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was gonna say, that one was pretty easy to figure out.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
aha. didn't know what the barrio is i guess.
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's Spanish for "neighborhood".
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
which I suppose you could figure out from context, lol @ me
i can't believe 5 songs are worse than that, that's probably my least favorite so far
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
holy shit. This is actually making me nauseous. Looking forward the the next 5!
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
good god that hot action cop song
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
--the freshman-level WinAmp comedy rap of Bloodhound Gang
^^^^^^died a little bit from laughing too much.
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 18 December 2009 03:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
I just watched that Fred Durst clip. His monotone delivery and the reverb/chorus on the vocals brought back unpleasant memories of Robodosing.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 18 December 2009 11:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
5!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 15:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 15:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
srsly the first thing that popped into my head for this was Dujour
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 15:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
--the sad stink of being the answer to a spoiled record label exec who slams his fists on his desk and shouts "Our label needs a fucking Wheatus, dammit!"
deep lolz
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
jeez that chipmunk song is pretty creepy.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
jeez that chipmunk song is pretty.
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
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― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
4!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
haha i think whiney's going to have a travis bickle moment by time this is done....he's been too far into the heart of darkness:
It's like Forrest Gump meets the Hokey fucking Pokey. You are all awful people and should be ashamed.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
awesome
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Was dude gunning to be in a direct-to-video Shrek sequel?
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool this is exactly how it sounds; a failed cut from shrek 12: revenge of the talking donkey penis
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
I still can't believe this is a real song
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
the big elephant in the room here is that it isn't actually that hard to use a jumprope
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Someone whose diet is 55% Cinnabons and 45% tears"
:D
― bnw, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
so tempted to abuse my mod powers and embed the Youtube link with autoplay on
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
A friend on Facebook notes that apparently the Germans love this song based on YouTube comments, thus: "der song ist der hammmmmmer !!! ^^ "
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, December 11, 2009
day i got cookie! thanking u whiney <3 <3 <3
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
what genre is this atrocity?
― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
YEAAAAAAAAAAAH
I'd never heard of this band until a girl I knew in high school posted a some of their videos on facebook and a bunch of her friends got involved in a huge discussion about how awesome and underrated they were. It was amazing.
― joygoat, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
at what point did they start talking about Farmville
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think it ended with discussions of the antics of their rascally children.
― joygoat, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
i started laughing uncontrollably when the children came in and couldn't stop until well after the song was finished
― kaygee, Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ha a while back my cousin mentioned something on facebook about going to a Blue October concert and I was like who the fuck is Blue October. Now I know.
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
chipmunk song's not that bad tbh
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
Up downUp downUp downUp down yeahIt will get hardCause it will get hard
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 December 2009 08:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
Re: the Chipmunks, there's been an uncomfortable sexualization of them since at least the mid-80s, as in this clip from The Chipmunk Adventure:
Getting lucky is really what it's all about.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 19 December 2009 12:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
I really liked the intro of #4, I think the beat and the strings were very nice, but then the singing started... Someone should do a vocalless dub remix of the song, to salvage a good backing track from the horrible singing and lyrics.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 19 December 2009 13:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
you should
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 December 2009 17:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
Thrasher says:
You're a FUCKING MORON !!! The guy writes a song for his 3 year old daughter and has the balls to put it on his album to honor her. Do you have children? I'd punch you right in the face if I was in the same room with you right now. Hipster fucking people like you make me sick. You sound off as if you're fucking opinion carries any weight. Just another uninformed writer who doesn't do any research. FUCK YOUR LAZY ASS !!! Hundred's of thousands of people around the world LOVE this fucking band and the hater garbage you spew out of your disgusting fucking mouth won't change a thing. You talk about lyrics inspiring people. Go to one of their shows and you'll see everyone in the venue singing every word to every song. Oh but I guess all of these people around the world are wrong and you're right. Self righteous prick. This guy actually inspires hope in people thru his lyrics and champions mental health issues that affect thousands of people around the world. Hell you might be bi-polar yourself. You sound pretty fucked up to me. You don't have a clue about the quality of the people you're trashing. I hope you fucking choke on your bitter ass words and continue to lead a miserable fucking haters life. I bet you annoy the fuck out of your so called friends and family with your over valued opinion of yourself. Fucking die already.
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Monday, 21 December 2009 07:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
hope thats about get munk'd
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 December 2009 08:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
They should really stick to writing about skateboarding tbh
― flashback to 2007: with this guardian blog (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 December 2009 09:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Thrasher needs to go back on his meds, huh
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
3!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
wowowowowow
that is crazypants
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Per Tuomas, I isolated the intro of the Blue October song -- it's good (uh, the intro)! Could actually be useful for something.
Here's the mp3 of the loop: http://www.mediafire.com/?m52nz1zggoy
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
do you have children? I'd punch you right in the face if I was in the same room with you right now.
Setting a great example for the children there.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
full official video
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
"No talkin bad bout Blue October!!!!!"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh... My Humps isn't on this list yet, is it?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
The first post basically said that these are 50 songs worse than "My Humps"
― a coffee machine in an office (dabug), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
What I learnt from #3:
Tila Tequila version of fucking a man up = making his phone stop working.
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
fucking awful song obv.
2!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is my favourite tila tequila track:
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
holding out that Everclear's "A.M. Radio" pulls away with top honors
― Bastards of Young Dro, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
how do you even begin to choose just one
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 19:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
tila's choice
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 21 December 2009 19:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Okay, usually I'm just amused by crappy cover versions, but #2 is genuinely offensive! Who are the idiots behind this atrocity?
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 December 2009 19:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
loooooooooooooooooool. for all we had to put up with terrible indie bands and lolwhateveritiskerrangwriteabout, im so glad britisherland never really had anything like that whole staind puddle of mudd limp bizkit thing that went on in america.
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 December 2009 19:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
also love that the 'original' is labelled on youtube as 'Whats Going On (HIV/AIDS tribute)' like it is in honour of HIV/AIDS.
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 December 2009 19:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
ugh @ tila in general
― pantalols (omar little), Monday, 21 December 2009 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
i remember on the 'what genre...' thread i just couldn't stop roffling at the hilarious sexual innuendo of 'up! down! up! down! up! down! up! down! it will get hard!'
on the plus side, it makes me think of this amazing disco track:
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
(okay, now back to the crap)
that tila tequila song sounds like millionaires, only worse, which isn't something i ever anticipated writing
― kaygee, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol. the choice would have a poetic quality too, a song that makes nostalgia for the past sound worse than any of the musical horrors that came this decade.
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
i honestly was thinking about going challops route and making "Don't Stop Believing" #1
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
#1 - YOUR YOUNGER SIBLING'S COMPUTER
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
hahaha
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
i'm not gonna give it away, but i will say that #1 is an actual charting song
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
hheeeyy i just noticed we haven't seen eminem yet
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
putting my money on that (hard to believe LL would come up and not him)
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
Tila saying that Rihanna deserved to be beaten up was a classy classy move.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
other hated charters yet to be represented:
flo ridawill.i.am or fergie (it's not like "my humps" was the worst thing either appeared on)chris browncreed clay aiken (or any Idol vet)katy perry
shady seems easily the most deserving, though
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
whiney would never do his girl katy like that
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
don't drown me like that, don't drown me like that, u know i love u baby, don't drown me like that
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
TS: "Ass Like That" vs. "Just Lose It"
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
fergie
I think "Big Girls Don't Cry" would at least be in my top 5 worst singles of this decade.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
don't forget "labels or love."
but oh man, eminem. Mockingbird, When I'm Gone, 3am, Beautiful, Ass Like That...so many options. The only post "Lose Yourself" (which I don't even care for much) single I'll rep for is "Just Lose It" and I know I'm in the minority on that one.
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
was there one where a fart sound was part of the beat?
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
what about his single that was designed to SHIFT THE COURSE OF THE ELECTION
― deej, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
i liked bully but it wasn't a single.
(or how to really contribute to a thread.)
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
"mosh" apparently did not even chart, shockingly
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, December 21, 2009 7:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol "mosh" is eminem's only song to make pazz'n'jop since "lose yourself," coming it at no. 12 in 2004, tied with Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon" and just ahead of the killers and LCD Soundsystem.
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
how do you know that, half the pazz and jop results are lost in the sands of the internet
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
― da croupier, Monday, December 21, 2009 4:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
time it was what a time it was
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
fu voice/new times for taking down the 04 p'n'j section so i can't find out who voted for "mosh" and ponder whether or not they'd prefer to listen to that or LCD's "yeah" if asked today
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
all the top 40s are on xgau's website, it's only the ballots that are lost
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
this might help?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://villagevoice.com
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 21:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
easier:
http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres04.php
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
read more carefully, chuck
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, just noticed that, as soon as I posted; jumped ahead a few posts.
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'd be pretty surprised if any of those wayback machine searches (which seem to take forever to load) turn up lists of individual P&J voters' ballots, and associated lists of voters for each song/album. Those ballots never ran in an actual Voice "issue", on the net or in print (just a special link that was never conistently reliable even when live), but I guess that doesn't mean they might not still be out there, somewhere. (The New Times folks seem to have erased everything, but the links were always kinda shakey, even under the old regime.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
it turned it up and poring through them now
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
put my findings on the Mosh thread so any tangential nostalgia lols can continue there.
― da croupier, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
I hope it's not a has-been like eminem
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
eminem has been doing some good stuff the last few months, i'm actually very interested in hearing his next album after the disappointment(? can't say i was expecting a lot) of relapse
― kaygee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
maura and i just spent like four hours writing this thing
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 07:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
#1!
(fuck you, Ned!)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
(just kidding, but I had to take the opportunity)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
a little bummed that the top is an admittedly hellish cover rather while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely. i'm not sold that hellish covers are a notable aspect of the 00s so much as pop in general (though youtube does make it easier to poop one out without really promoting it), and I'd hate for negligible artists to think they should focus on their originals (which I really think tend to be worse - sure adam duritz ripped us a big one of his own this decade) instead of inane takes on old chestnuts. I mean better they reiterate the canon instead of attempting to add new entries.
That said, this list was lolgastic, and I'm obviously grateful for something to blather about.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
don't ask me what "lolgastic" means because i don't know
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah, the one gripe i keep making about this list is that there are too many sullied 20th century songs, not enough terrible songs actually written in the last 10 years represented
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
still, it's been a hell of a ride! especially this thread becoming ground zero to track the death of idolator.
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
I will say this: the Counting Crows cover is always playing in my doctor's waiting room, so there is a lot of fear and dread I associate w/this song.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
why did they let a hobo front their band? was it some sort of sponsership deal with shelter?
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely
"Ass Like That" was on the first draft of the list.
Da doing doing doyyyyyng
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
if, unlike Alien Ant Farm, Smashmouth and most of the acts in that last entry, I can't necessarily pull out a Counting Crows original that's worse, it's because "Big Yellow Taxi" was a humongous piece of shit before they even got their paws on it.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is the first version I ever heard
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
great final entry
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol wow i forgot the big skynyrd guitar solo in grant's version, wtf
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
whiney and maura (if she reads ilm), you are gods for this list and luckily you have 10 yrs to recover before the sequel.
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
The amount of writing we did total for this is the size of a 33 1/3 book
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
i dunno what the legals would be, but you guys should look to get it published! just tack on a new top 50-100 albums list or something.
some scary shit from the song's wikipedia page:
In 1996 a "Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.S. dance charts at #39 and was part of the Friends: Music from the TV Series soundtrack album (see Joni Mitchell#Singles and External links).
The song was also performed as part of the finale during the 1997 Lilith Fair tour with the Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and Meredith Brooks.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
or worst 50-100 albums list, i mean
call it 33 and a turd
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
whiney, i literally clapped my hands while giggling to that entry. i think 'board-shorted' might be my new favorite term.
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:52 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^____________^
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
A serious thank-you to Whiney and Maura for all the work they put into this. I loved reading/listening to it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, it was a lot of fun to read. Thank you both.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
Likewise!! It is great stuff.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
I mean you knew that already. What I meant was that I loved it.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
I will add my thanks. This was a fun read and a fun thread, too. I will miss this.
FWIW I never liked "Big Yellow Taxi" that much. Don't it always seem to go that most "political" pop music doesn't really ask the listener to take any responsibility for the situations they declaim?
(")They(") suck(s).
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
I will miss this.
esp since it signals the end of idolator as well.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
You mean you don't want to read vapid blurbs about Jessica Simpson's ear candling?
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
I already miss Idolator a lot. I asked upthread where I could get writing of this calibre on a daily basis and nobody answered with anything that met this requirement. Personal blogs are cool and all but there are some things that are truly improved with more than one person involved.
also I will miss this thread, one of the few I haven't killed with my "charming" personality.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
the new ID♥LATOR logo is hilarious in how it's like the polar opposite of nick denton's original gossip/snark/humiliation vision of 05
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ah ya punk. :-D Nah, I'm currently on vacation and also slightly under the weather so I'm glad someone else stepped up, I'm only just now reading all this.
Echoing everyone's thanks for this whole thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
aw, you guys are so sweet
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
whens the poll??? good job, whiney and maura dot com.
― bnw, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.
<3 <3 <3 x 1000
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
thx whiney and maura. i imagine this was like the musical version of sailing up the river in apocalypse now.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
thanks for following along all this time, everybody! i just reread this whole thread and it was like tripping back through the last eight weeks. which, whew.
― maura, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't know, the original vision was pretty hilarious too.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.<3 <3 <3 x 1000
agreed. and i love joni mitchell, but "big yellow taxi" was always a little too cutesy for me.
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
love it. thanks for everything you guys.
i think my personal favorite was blue october.
― kaygee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
can't find the Alan Partridge clip where he talks about 'Big Yellow Taxi' :(
― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
I never even noticed this thread!reiterating my plea for a 2cd set from whiney
― If COMETS had horoscope they would have the SUN conjunct URANUS (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
Seriously it was an awesome and well-researched list but the abject shittiness of each entry crowded out any room for zingers.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
I feel like there is no room for zingers right now, sure.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
The list doesn't really have that problem, though.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
A heh.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Ass Like That" was on the first draft of the list.Da doing doing doyyyyyng― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No "FACK"?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
still think that the chipmunk song is a little too good for this list
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
and for this world imo
― aun™ (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
so i have a question
did u guys actually actively research, finding bad songs that were new to you, or just organize the list from your collective traumatized memories?
― j/k and the fa™an (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 22:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
both!
― sunn o_O))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
ha jump rope sucks so bad
― forks©lovetofu (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 December 2009 20:49 (8 months ago) Permalink