The All-New STYLUS.

It'll be up for a long while, which saved me gi-normous printing expenses.

I just checked the site and saw something about Ned Raggett and a Xanadu piece.

Uh?
Someone said something about it being a joke and I thought about the time Freaky Trigger went down.

It'll be up for a long while, which saved me gi-normous printing expenses.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

does that mean that there are intentions to keep the domain and server up for the foreseeable future and preserve the archive? or is there a good chance that the archive will up and disappear a year or two down the line?

Burns said it'll be up for at least a year.

I just read again the piece on Steely Dan's 'Gaucho'. Amazing stuff. My work week is about to get a little more boring.

I re-read that, too, and yeah, it's good, but with one strange thing: what makes him think that "Babylon Sisters" has anything to do with an interracial relationship? He just took the lyric about "jungle music" and took it to mean that the appreciator of said music had to be black? There's nothing in the song to suggest that. And the gaucho of the title track is not automatically of any specific ethnicity just because gaucho is a Spanish word. Weird assumptions, those.

But assumptions make rockcrit fun.

Burns said it'll be up for at least a year.

Needs a backup after that. someplace!

Hopefully some ILX obsessive has it all stored next to his lunaci picture collection.

we got rid of that harvell guy, so it should be fine now. ;)
-- todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:08 (4 years ago) Link

^^^the real reason we went under

It was actually because people into finding out about music got sick of Dom's sub-student (and I mean even below the scarf wearing ponces who mistook sacrasm and watery venom) button pushing waffle.

^^real talk

You were the one who hired me to write at the Guardian, man.
xp

I remember Dom was a normal guy who posted here and then suddenly everyone started ripping on him one day?

Dom was never a normal guy. He was a little needler from day one. The guy reeks of attention seeking like a tramp's un-febreezed mac.

wow, writer in 'attention-seeker' claim. shit is getting deep.

"Dom was never a normal guy. He was a little needler from day one. The guy reeks of attention seeking like a tramp's un-febreezed mac."

http://rayliotta.net/screencapimages/goodfellas.jpg

One day you'll unfabreezed to your own fucking funeral

Some guys seek attention by crafting a great review, some don't.

I'm tempted to email Drownedinsound and ask them why they've picked up music reviewing's version of crabs.

:-O

http://goodfellas.martin-scorsese.net/images/goodfellas_painting.jpg

I 'hired' Dom for Stylus insomuch as it was me who approached him and got him to write for us years ago, and if I was starting a new music site or magazine tomorrow with a proper budget and backing I'd hire him again. You know why? Cos he's a fucking good, funny, insightful, impassioned writer. And because he knows my address and threatened my kitten if I said otherwise.

Thinking about it, it was also me who emailed Swygart one day and said "do you fancy coming and doing your Top 40 rundown at Stylus instead of just posting it on ILM?". Strike that, poptimists.

never looked at this site. wonder what was on it.

It's still there.

and if I was starting a new music site or magazine tomorrow with a proper budget and backing I'd hire him again

Thank the lord for small mercies.

<i>I'm tempted to email Drownedinsound and ask them why they've picked up music reviewing's version of crabs.</i>

Do it! We must know what they say!

Fucking bbcode bollocks.

rip, stylus. stereogum's run a feature about the 007 50. here it is
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/stylus-says-goodbye-but-not-before-giving-us-the-f.html#more
in case anyone cares who hasn't seen it yet

guess i'll never know what was on stylus website

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom but all those posts just remind me of camronumad.gif

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom

-- deej, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:44 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sod off Passatino, I've been so poor that I haven't been able to afford stamps and bread, and this was after university;when growing up there were times when my parents couldn't afford to buy me new shoes when my old ones were outgrown. I'm not getting drawn into some poverty dick-waving contest here. It doesn't really mean a great deal - it;s about attitudes not class or poverty. Most 'chavs' are better off than I am - no designer clothing in my house or Max Power endorsed transport.

-- Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:53 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

jokes

boring class warfare posts count as jokes in the uk?

jokes

boring class warfare posts count as jokes in the uk?

-- deej, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ROBIN CARMODY was born in South London before Starbucks came, and when McDonald's hadn't long arrived. Arthur Daley still ruled the back streets, and most of So Solid Crew hadn't been born yet. He lived his formative years in Kent, where he read well and socialised badly. He then moved to South Dorset where, as one of his creative mentors had done somewhere else in England in the 1960s, he built up his frustration as a radical-leftie teenager living in what was then the most marginal Tory seat in the country, even as the Labour landslide swept through the land.

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom but all those posts just remind me of camronumad.gif

haw

I hate him cos he's a idiot. I'm not the only one.

http://nevsedoma.com.ua/uploads/posts/1156664005_number.jpg

I don't believe you, etc

whatyouthink13 = tori amos

RIP Stylus. I have been reading probably since the day it started. I think Todd may have e-mailed me about it, asking me to check it out when it launched. Also, didn't it have another name for like a month? Something like O.H.J., "O____ Home Journal"? Did I hallucinate that? In any event, I will miss it.

I R sad, I was gettin all set to send in a copy of our new LP for review :(

I will miss it.

Ditto. It was particularly sad to see the final page this morning. Something about the finality of it, I think.

Oligarchist Home Journal was the name waaaaay back in the day before Stylus. I don't think that stuff is even in the archives, it was basically just fucking around.

Stylus is such a great fucking name for a music publication.

I R sad, I was gettin all set to send in a copy of our new LP for review :(

WHO IS UR BAND

Society of Rockets (most of us were in the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association)

We're sorry, access to http://www.o-h-j.com has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.

That Stereogum comments section is saddening as fuck: a bunch of idiots grousing about how there isn't enough indie in the Stylus albums of the year list.

Finally, some sanity:

doesn't it bum any of you guys out to realize that you and every other commenter have the exact same taste in music?? "indie" obviously is not short for "individual" or "independent"

this comment thread depresses me to no end.

And the punchline at the end:

justice is the wrapping around the real gift in dance music this year - - SMD

What bothers me more than people complaining about the lack of indie is people expecting it to be there and claiming that Stylus dropped the ball or whatever. I mean, it's one thing to wish that the list was more in tune with your own tastes and another to act as if Stylus hasn't always been a site that looked beyond the usual indie parameters. Whenever contemporary country shows up on a Stylus list, blog commenters are all, "WTF, they're obviously pretending to like that shit" instead of realizing that the site's year-end lists are merely a reflection of their writing staff, two of whom happen to be Josh Love and Thomas Inskeep (not to mention I know that Alfred loves the Miranda Lambert record, and Todd Burns had a Julie Roberts song in his top five a couple years ago).