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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

(thats the problem with real time. someone thinks yer done talking and butts in.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"Dropped" as a synonym for "released". Maybe it's more of a music business term, but Pitchfork uses it a lot. AND I HATE IT.

― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Regarding the use of "drops" as a synonym for "will be released", my instinct is to hate the term, but instead am merely ambivalent. After all, there's a distinct need for an ACTIVE verb to replace the passive "be released" or "was released" etc., and "drop" is the best we have at present, though it certainly is kinda dumb. It'll take a coupla years to know whether regular folks (non-bizzers) will take to the term, the way regular folks eventually started using the word "dis".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I like "drop" because it likens albums to babies, turds and balls.

― Huck, Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and obviously it's primarily associated with hip-hop, maybe Pfork coopted it for indie-rock, but you're still much more likely to hear that the new Young Buck dropped than the new Yo La Tengo dropped.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

[Incidentally, frankE, I started composing my post before reading yours, so the timing is kinda coincidental, that's all. Essentially, I agree with you.]

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

"Her new album is about to drop on...."

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The story of "new album will drop" is homologous to why slang is needed in the first place.

― Huck, Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"sun drenched"

... as in the sun-drenched harmonies of.......
thppppt

― Angus Von Santana, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"drums like Animal from the Muppets" (guilty as charged)

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha guys "dropped" is definitely in the mainstream if nerdy rock crit on Pfork is using it. It didn't originate in music journalism folks.

Old school: "the album drops on ..."
New School: "His album was pushed up cuz the streets couldn't wait!"

I like the new school version.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Using "cuz the streets couldn't wait!" in new contexts is fun too, i.e. your reasoning for why you deserve a raise, your excuse for being caught shoplifting, etc.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

IDM

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

'electronica'

― djdee2005, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

organic

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Monday, 30 August 2004 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard IDM used a couple of times round here. What does it mean?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 30 August 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Incomprehensible Danish Muck

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

What, like a Lars Ulrich interview?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 30 August 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

IDM

― PETER $., Monday, 30 August 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

anything that "tells it like it is"

felching is where one drives a hollow cylinder up one's anus and allows (forces?) a small creature (usually a hamster or such) to crawl up said cylinder.

or so i gather.

according to the 'lemmywinks' episode of south park anyway.

― Daz, Monday, 30 August 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"sophmore"
"brian wilson"

― reo, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link

ack "sophomore"

― reo, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

"Sophomoric", however, is sorely underused.

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"dance music"

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 30 August 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link

anything that refers disparagingly to "bling bling" rap.

― djdee2005, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link

reading them is so 2002 but i needed some material to work with: pitchfork calling "get on dis motorcycle" a "dirty-ass Southern bounce track"

felching is connected to the following things
felching is connected to because
felching is to ingest your semen from the ass you just deposited it into
felching is brought up
felching is?" "felching
felching is unhealthy no

― [eter $$, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

[...] if he sounded any grimier he'd be asking you for change. [...] Swoosh! [Tom Breihan; August 27th, 2004] (in ref to p. pablo)

― asfd@adf.oxom, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link

A reviewer of a Half Man Half Biscuit gig I organised 2 weeks ago commented that the band had been around since the early eighties. He then went on to review the support band, all 18 year olds. Finally, commenting on Half Man Half Biscuit, he expressed his surprise that the band were considerably older than the support act.

Tosser!

― chris trew, Monday, 30 August 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"country-ass" bubba sparxx

lol

I guess we can safely put "-ass" on this thread, then

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"funky vibe"
"up-and-coming"
"undeservedly overlooked"

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Monday, 30 August 2004 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

My two favorite editors would periodically ban the use of certain dumbass descriptive terms in reviews. Two "classics" haven't been mentioned yet: "affair" for album and the infamous "eponymous" for self-titled. Of course I'm guilty too, but at least I never called a guitar solo "muscular."
When I was (briefly) a reviews editor I tried to ban mentions of competing reviews: "Everybody else says Smashing Pumpkins are X, but I say Y..." Don't know if this self-serving idiocy still appears as often as it did in the mid-90s.
"Trout-sniffingly bad" is horrible writing, but it made me laugh.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 30 August 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

An editor of mine recently banned quoting lyrics from reviews.

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

When I was (briefly) a reviews editor I tried to ban mentions of competing reviews: "Everybody else says Smashing Pumpkins are X, but I say Y..." Don't know if this self-serving idiocy still appears as often as it did in the mid-90s

that rule would put the NY Press out of business. not only would it kill whatever semblance of a music section it still has, it would also kill its movies section, its politics section, and possibly even its letters-to-the-editor section.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Gumbo!

Socially conscious!

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"like being ass-raped by X" appears quite often in metal reviews, and usually it carries a positive connotation. Head bangers like it up the butt, I guess.

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

"An editor of mine recently banned quoting lyrics from reviews."
A man (woman) after my own heart (sigh). I wanted to do this too but couldn't get away w/it.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 30 August 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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