OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

lol, LA Weekly updated that Sebadoh blurb

Thank you to award-winning East Coast journalist Daniel Ralston for bringing the problems with this blurb to my attention. It was not, in fact, satire, but had a number of mistakes. Dinosaur Jr., as we all knew, were huge in the late '80s, and "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites and not in an official bassist capacity. L.A. Weekly regrets the errors.

"Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites and not in an official bassist capacity

Wait did I miss something.

"And contending in the World Series of Poker, Fred Albini."

see the original blurb above

new display name

I've never heard of him before but he comes across as a total dick in that piece. I like the idea that Savages were poised for massive success until Scott Creney bravely spoke the truth on Collapseboard and it all came crashing down.

― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:29 PM (3 hours ago)

I don't read the point of that piece as being that. Seems to me to be more a satirisation of the lack of importance of the individual music writer, and a frustrated yelp at the power and money thrown behind the chosen bands to make sure they break.

Generally I don't dig most of the negative Collapseboard stuff but I kinda enjoyed this one.

oh its irony i see

Satirony

I don't think you can namecheck "A Modest Proposal" with anything meant to be taken at face-value and still claim to understand English but that doesn't really make this piece well-constructed or particularly clear about the point it's trying to make.

xp yeah I mean I get that he wasn't being entirely serious this time out but the level of narcissism in basically everything he writes is off the scale

its a waste of time and kinda dumb but that's what this thread is for! so, appropriate. nice of him to give a shout-out to my pals in blanche blanche blanche though. they are funny.

Pretty much every piece I've ever read on Collapse Board has been suffused with a massively overblown belief in their own importance. And if anything they've ever done has been intended to be funny, it's blown right past me.

Couldn't we just post this link here and close this thread?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/music

I don't really understand that Collapse Board post. It can't be sincere right? It has to be some deadpan big indie rock business parody or something, right? RIGHT?

like the nirvana press release one last week?

loool matthew perpetua is a buzzfeed editor??

xp OK, busted. Skimread it, knowing nothing about the writer, missed the irony. Now don't see the point the irony is trying to make.

So it fails as a serious piece, and as an ironic / satirical piece. So it's doubleshit.

Not writing, but music journalism of a sort. I went looking for podcasts of Duff McKagan interviews and found a recent one by a guy named Jay Mohr. I'd never heard of him, but about 10 minutes into the podcast I did a search on him and I guess his name has a little bit of currency around here. Anyway, the interview was like the sound of a bird flying into a window and then getting back up and doing it again and again and again for about an hour and a half. McKagan handled the situation really well, but it was super-awkward. One of the worst interviewers I've ever heard.

Pretty much every piece I've ever read on Collapse Board has been suffused with a massively overblown belief in their own importance. And if anything they've ever done has been intended to be funny, it's blown right past me.
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This is all p funny considering 2004 ILX's inflated sense of self worth

well let me fire up my time machine and send that zing back to 2004 ilx where i'm sure it will elicit a sharp response

wait, what happened in 2004?

when whiney showed up here in mid-2005, he was so disgusted by the old posts he saw in the archives that he decided to stay for EIGHT YEARS and do something to make this a better place

is that the year that ilm singlehandedly made Xiu Xiu a household name?

it was the year that Annie came from Norway with a suitcase in her hand

CREEM magazine circa fall 1973 and summer 1974 but not winter '73 and maybe a bit of spring '74 (but definitely winter '75), I'M CALLING YOU OUT

odd numbered pages only tho

found a recent one by a guy named Jay Mohr. I'd never heard of him, but about 10 minutes into the podcast I did a search on him and I guess his name has a little bit of currency around here.

a very little currensy:

gear (gear) wrote this on thread NOT FUNNY. on board I Love Everything on Sep 27, 2006

JAY MOHR

gabbneb (gabbneb) wrote this on thread if _______ stars in your movie, i will probably hate it on board I Love Everything on Dec 6, 2005

Jay Mohr

Picard Maneuver (Leee) wrote this on thread Last Comic Standing 2 on board I Love Everything on Jul 1, 2004

Is Jay Mohr a comedian?

Lolpez wrote this on thread If you had to kill one comedian, who would it be? on board I Love Everything on Jan 9, 2008

Jay Mohr

city of gyros (chaki) wrote this on thread "Hey, you guys like comedy?" on board All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar on May 12, 2006

JAY mohr is a huge asshole

☂ (max) wrote this on thread tracy morgan - classic or dud? on board I Love Everything on Jun 10, 2011

i saw him and jay mohr together, and jay mohr was funnier than him. JAY MOHR

gabbneb (gabbneb) wrote this on thread Andrew McCarthy S & D on board I Love Everything on Apr 26, 2004
search: Matthew Perry
destroy: Jay Mohr

Yeah, I meant that he was familiar to ilxors, but not to me (although I guess I saw a couple of Last Comic Standings and Go, which I don't remember him from).

He was on SNL and played an asshole in a bunch of stuff
Other comics seem to hate him

wait, what happened in 2004?

― scott seward, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:48 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's ILM: The Book!

clicked on link, looked at date, lolled heartily

great book

its ilm: the magazine http://www.spin.com/about/

two whole people, great post

hahaha

doubleshit

that book is awesome. i'm in it. oh wait, conflated sense of self worth...eh, i'll take it. i kinda rule.

it's ilm: the galactic supercluster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster

http://www.culturecritic.co.uk/blog/33-five-careers-that-were-shaped-by-liz-phairs-exile-in-guyville/

uh

comedic

that article has to be trollgaze, right?

Thicke's blasé, same as it ever was assertion that "I know you want it" and "we're gonna get nasty" is a reminder that the same words are a hell of a lot more compelling when they're coming from a girl's mouth.

Wait I thought this was about Liz Phair, not Britney

6. Daft Punk
7. Barack Obama
8. North West

we are all liz phair now

Released in 1993, Exile in Guyville is one of the best alt-rock records of the nineties (in our opinion), with a musical and, maybe more importantly, attitudinal influence apparent across lots of contemporary artists who’ve arguably eclipsed Phair in terms of popularity (Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, for example).

waht

i can't turn on my t.v. without seeing friggin' best coast's bethany cosentino.

you can tell this article is a troll because it doesn't mention avril

"attitudinal influence apparent across lots of contemporary artists"

r.i.p. riting...

she spends time in the Amanda Palmer blurb talking about how Steve Albini attacked Liz Phair for being a chore to listen to, using it as an example of the male hegemony closing its borders to a female voice, then turns around in the M.I.A. blurb and says that Liz Phair's music career was an afterthought, much like that of the one person of color on her list

also let's talk about Lana Del Rey's smash hit "Summertime Sadness" that I've never heard once in my life

the "why this album is better than Exile On Main St." would have been so much better