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I've just re-read this thread and come to the sad conclusion that, were ILM to have its way, nothing would ever be written about music, ever, except perhaps in wingdings. Which kinda makes sense in a way.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

"derivative" and "innovation"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

"trope"

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Best (song,album,band) of all time"

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

All words. Also punctuation.

― wl (wl), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Things are better for me now, cause I found that I love music.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

good to hear.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

jim can apparently read that. This was not my intention, as the font specifies webdings.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

no i c&p'd it into word & changed the font

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

you people have too much time on your hands (mr pot, kettle on line two etc)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Now, I'm as _____ as the next guy..."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

(or ANY folksy, conversational tone)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Opening a review with "Have you ever..."

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is there anything we're actually allowed to say?!!! I've used tons on these and a lot of them a perfectly good words/terms! I now aspire to use felching, dirty sanchez and lucky pierre all in one review, though...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

someone i know often refers to Peter Margasak as "Peter Poopypants," although i forget why. shall have to ask. XD

as for me, many of my least favourites have already been covered. however, i'll add:

proto-
powerhouse
-laden

― janni (janni), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Plangent."

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just don't mention Eminem ever and I'm good to go.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

god, I saw the best wrong use of Proto the other by a guy who just walked behind me.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Beatlesesque,' 'Beatlesque,' 'Beatles-esque'

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

he called the new Jayhawks album "proto-acoustic"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Classic" for something that is obviously not classic in any way
[name]-[describer] used as in-joke stereotype referencer: "blah blah may seem at first glance to be music for basement-dwelling Billy-No-Mates types, but..."
references to living in basements/tenements/council estates as though this constitutes a sub-genre

― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 4 May 2003 02:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Fractal".

"Classic" - that would be every dance track to have come out of Detroit, Chicago, Berlin or Sheffield before 1991.

Hey, are there any words left? Or have we covered the whole dictionary?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 4 May 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Beatlesesque,' 'Beatlesque,' 'Beatles-esque'

I like that terms. Although, of course, it might as well have been replaced with the word "good" or "pisses on all other music because it is so much better than anything else".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh my God. Ken Taylor, get out of my head. I thought the exact same thing. Holy crap.

― David Allen, Monday, 5 May 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't believe nobody said "sophomore."

― Ben Williams, Monday, 5 May 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dave (Stelfox), this is a better take on this idea, replete with mark s imploding outwards as he encounters, one after the other, untapped anxiety locked within the form of misplaced words.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

"relevant"

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

[X*] is the band that will save rock!

[Anything written on Pitchfork]

*: Esp. in reference to any "The [noun/verb/etc.]" band.

― Stiv (Stiv), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also I find that anything Greil Marcus writes annoys the living fuck out of me. How exactly did that guy become an important rock critic?

― Stiv (Stiv), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

By writing well and insightfully?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, he's a very poor writer on formal grounds alone, let alone his poor style and general poor taste, as is Christgau. I put it down to the wide-open employment opportunities available to the mediocre during the period 1960-1975. Hey, at least all they became were music critics. How do you explain the likes of Billy Joel?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

(ducks for cover)

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

"face it," "'fess up," "hands down," "'nuff said"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

"it goes without saying"
"well, I don't have to tell you..."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"we" (when the author assumes the readership agrees with him or is unilaterally guilty of doing/thinking something the author has done -- don't implicate me in this, asshole.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 07:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

uber
any fule know
pastoral
proto
rockist
baroque
psych
notwithstanding
caveat

― greg, Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

what's wrong with psych? it's shorthand for a genre of music. unless you mean: "I was really PSYCHED to hear the new wilco album".

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Any fule knows that Wilco's recent uber-baroque art-pop songs lean heavily toward the sound of the Byrds' post-66 proto-pastoral psych throwaways, and that they are, notwithstanding a tasty guitar lick or two, just as boring. Caveat emptor: Wilco suck even harder than the Byrds. And that's saying something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe he means psych as in, "Man, this new Wilco record is incredible! ..PSYCH!!"

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

don't hate on the byrds!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Scott is weird that way.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Scott, do you like "Why" on Younger than Yesterday?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that referring to something "dated" as being "...ooooh soooo last week." is, quite frankly, ooooh soooo last tuesday.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

also using "quite frankly" (like I just did) to fake being diplomatic about something you don't like.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't remember. Maybe. You know, I'm not a Byrds fan, and yet, I listen to the Byrds. So, I can't hate them that much. I like some of those early b-sides.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I still want to know who invented the, um, "um" thing in rockcrit. I have done it as a homage to rockcrits past. and i do it on ilx too cuz, um, it seems like the thing to do sometimes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

um, why?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

It gives the illusion of real time and real time gives the illusion of honesty.

― Huck, Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Soundscape.

Extra points if proceeded by an arsey word such as 'etherial'.

Also, when they (whisper it) write 'whisper it' in brackets. I fuckin hate that.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

oh. [incredibly long, pregnant pause] okay.
(xpost)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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