That's how I felt after going to Christgau's website (1996 graphics and all) and checking his Sabbath reviews on the archive. This guy gets paid for this shit?
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.blingee.com/images15/content/output/000/000/000/2a0/33828693_860182.gif
― omar little, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
2006? am i missing something?
― pshrbrn, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Lil Wayne: The Carter 3 (Purloined Datadisc)
lol + o_O
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, a typo
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^sfj's #1 of the year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean he didn't even bother saying like "bootleg" or something
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
weird that neither of those dudes bother to totally differentiate between Carter 3 the as-yet unreleased 2008 album and the various 2007 mixtapes of leaked material that probably won't be on the album but get called Carter 3 anyway. it'll be pretty confusing if the album actually comes out this year and they put that title on their lists for the second year in a row.
(xpost yeah, what jordan said. i mean he said "purloined datadisc," which is the part where I'm laughing with him, but still....dude's top 3 rap albums are the year are Soulja Boy and two Weezy mixtapes).
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm slightly astonished that we shared a taste in Singles.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Did Ya Rollin' Doo Doo make the 1991 Dean's List?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Bill Magill--I get the impression that your definition of a lame list is one that is not oh, 60% metal (with 'A' reviews)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I do not have the most rounded tastes, which is not good.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Bill Stanton
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lol on Lucinda Williams, a permanent member of his Unimpeachable Canon.
Fer chrissakes, he even gave Essence, her only obvious clunker, a freakin' A-minus.
― Sara Sara Sara, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
New CG up.
It's untrue that 15 years ago we would've called Untrue trip-hop. M. Burial speeds up and spaces out too much for true trip.
I never knew illbient well enough to attach to anyone. DJ Spooky? Mutamassik? The Wordsound label?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 1 February 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
KJBozo u are rong
― deej, Friday, 1 February 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"It's untrue that 15 years ago we would've called Untrue trip-hop. M. Burial's music would have been called dubstep."
― deej, Friday, 1 February 2008 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
MORE DUDS
Various Artists "After Dark" (Italians Do It Better)
― deej, Friday, 1 February 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
This guy's popularity mystifies me.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 1 February 2008 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I never liked trip-hop or illbient much (and I don't like Burial much), so I'm not the one to ask.
Strangely, though, I am a little more interested in hearing those Go! Team, No Age, and Manu Chao albums now. But who knows if I'll ever get around to it.
― xhuxk, Friday, 1 February 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Untrue is totally dubstep gone trip-hop. I thought that was obvious. And I love the album for it.
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
(Actually, I've otherwise had pretty much no use for dubstep, but tip-hop is a-ok by me.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
*trip-hop, although Q-Tip and T.I.P. are good by me, too
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
So, I should probably ask Bob this myself, but does anybody understand why he would think "Feminists don't have a sense of humor" is such a hilarious line? (Is it just that, like, Nellie McKay is a feminist, and she clearly has a sense of humor, so it's ironic? Cute, I guess, but it's hard to see why it would leave anybody rolling on the floor. Though no doubt it's funnier in the context of the song, at least for people who like Nellie.) (I don't hate her, though I also haven't paid that much attention.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Keyshia Cole "Just Like You" (Geffen) Well, maybe not exactly like you ("Let It Go," "Just Like You").
The hell is this supposed to mean?
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Amerie "Work That" ("Because I Love It" [Sony/BMG])
The choice cut on the Amerie album is from the MJB album?
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/dudofthemonth Have to say, I kind of agree with him regarding Stars of the Lid.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, don't know the record but I liked that opening line: One of those records -- they abound in "post-rock" -- that get nothing but raves because only believers bother to listen.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The-Dream haters? Go suck an egg!
Love, Matlock
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I am going to be soooo bummed when the CG eventually ends.
Chuck, he's just saying that (allegedly) some netcrits didn't even get it was a joke while the friends he plays it for "giggle." Giggle is not rolling on the floor.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
This is gonna make me revisit No Age (whose lyrical and emotional content really passed me by) and Burial (though "not quite Maxinquaye" equals "not quite I barely care when my co-workers throw this on every few months").
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I love how the CG comes out on the first of the month even if the first is a sunday.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe he's just lazy -- it's not like he's a work ethic guy.
haha
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
He's got his little traps and his foibles and his insular references (most good guitar rock bands wanna be the Voidoids you know) and any artist that has ever personally criticized him is honored with As to A-s for life, but he's a sixtysomething who says sharp, insightful, atypical stuff about music by twentysomethings. That's outstanding.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate how the CG comes out on the first of the month, rather than the 31st or the 30th or the 29th or...
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
are you busy depositing checks or something?
― da croupier, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
You know something, anthony is right. (xpost)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Cute, I guess, but it's hard to see why it would leave anybody rolling on the floor.
True, but Xgau never said it would leave anybody rolling on the floor - he said it made the people he played it for giggle - which sounds about right to me.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
And it is funnier with the music.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Nellie McKay is funny!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
She is - though her sense of humor is pretty far down the list of things I would cite as her best qualities though - somewhere below her sense of melody, knack for an unsual arrangement, wide-open ears, formal playfulness, lovely voice, etc.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xgau is obviously less of a woman-hater than i am, but i think he's missing that those netcrits look at her funny because the line signifies as 'nellie mckay don't have no sense of humor'. she's the girl who thinks she's put upon because she's a girl, not because she's a nerd. randy newman had less self-regard and a smaller stuffed-animal collection.
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i missed this part
I agree -- she's scattered, unfinished, self-indulgent. But she's also ebullient, funny and political.
maybe I should seek out more of the latter, but the former put me off doing so
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I have nothing against her or her stuffed animals, and Anthony and O. Nate are right -- xgau said giggle, not rofl. I guess the line doesn't even make me giggle, at least not on paper. Though right: with music attached, it well might. (On the other hand, maybe the netcrits -- who I haven't read -- just didn't think the joke was even worth giggling about.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
[One of those records -- they abound in "post-rock" -- that get nothing but raves because only believers bother to listen.
And yeah, this is great -- The metacritic fallacy in a nutshell. (Assuming Stars on the Lid scored high there.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
randy newman had less self-regard and a smaller stuffed-animal collection
And a much squeakier voice.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
yup, haha -- 88% "universal acclaim" (xpost)
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Assuming Stars on the Lid scored high there. They did — #4 in 2007, behind Burial, The Field and Radiohead.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
And a much squeakier voice
kinda like the yelp of fellow jew ezra koenig. i haven't studied carefully the loveliness of her voice, but someone who's really looking for that sort of quality might prefer, say, kelli o'hara, at least in her more tasteful operatic mode. i realize that xgau's writing in the contexts of a) rock and b) subbacultcha, but i'm not gonna give him too much ground there if he's puzzled at why a generation of kids for whom 1985 rather than 1955 is retro haven't rushed to crown her their queen.
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
she's likely smarter and more interesting and probably more tuneful than fiona apple, but the latter simply deploys her talent rather than saying 'look at me, i'm so talented' at every turn.
― gabbneb, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link