Everything is just so determinedly middle-of-the-road, one can only picture a dotted yellow line while listening to it.
^ this is great
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
inconceivable vocal cuts
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
a formula that’s showing no signs of going stale
It's easy to misjudge Rob Schneider.
― . (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Classic tyson wray
― you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, November 8, 2013 10:22 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this is actually good
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
god, i read my own reviews and cringe (horribly) at my use of adjectives and adverbs.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Lol really? The review isn't awful but "i'm gonna call something mor and then get this compare it to the literal middle of a road oh the wit" is some weak obvious zinging imo xp
― you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
I mean its not tyson wray public transport zing level
― you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
At least he is trying to describe what the music sounds like though, if ineptly. I'm more sympathetic to that passage than the ones in this thread that involve grand pronouncements about how the music fits into some meta-cultural narrative the writer has just invented, involving tropes about hipsters or the prog/punk divide or whatever.
― Treeship, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
It's not terrible, not brilliant. I was just taken aback that that line was being singled out when "clever" riffs on "middle of the road" are almost as cliched as the phrase itself
― you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
middle of the road is cliche but the imagery after is funny/clever
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/11/giorgio_moroder_dj_daft_punk.php
"Hailing from northern Italy, Moroder is basically a G."
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
http://flavorwire.com/424281/camp-is-for-everyone-r-kelly-and-the-evolution-of-trash/
― some dude, Saturday, 9 November 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
can i just http://observer.com/2011/03/tyler-coates-man-who-tweeted-about-being-trapped-in-an-elevator-speaks/
― . (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 November 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
tbh im worried i just wrote the worst review of 2013...can some objectively tell me if the review of 'it hurts' by creeper_ on here is awful:http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/features/tracks-broken-bells-bombay-bicycle-club-more/
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
in my defence, very difficult to write about music made by friends of yours.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
Camp, however, has found a much warmer home in pop music, a genre that seemingly appeals to women and homosexuals.
^^^amazing sentence
― my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link
It's from the Tyler Coates article some dude linked to to be clear, not Dwight Yorke's review.
― my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
'pop music, a genre that seemingly appeals to women and homosexuals' could be a good ilm board description.
― my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
well, y'know, not really.
― my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
it's good that women and homosexuals can put aside their differences to stand as one under the umbrella of pop music
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 November 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
Dwight, I don't get the first sentence - "contemporary lovelorn bedroom pop game Todd Rundgren." Is there a word missing there? Other than that it was ace.
― grease grease (stevie), Saturday, 9 November 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/031224/91435__liza_l.jpg
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 November 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
Cheers Stevie! Was riffing on the 'rap game + [something usually not related to rap]' construction which tends to drop the 'the' so I fully admit that it looks a little awkward on the page.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
my posts
― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Idiots, that song is about meth and the overman.
― Sheik Yitzhak Patrin (usic), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 23:24 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
overruled
― durianlychee (imago), Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/01/sonic_youth_are_boring.php
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
cant be as bad as the one johnny cigarettes did for the nme years ago. That really was the worst ever.
― ۩, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
such opinions
copy of the tape on SST that runs backward on one side and forward on another <<<what is this?
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
The next album, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is mostly noteworthy for igniting puberty in teenage alt rockers via a video featuring Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna bouncing around in an approximation of irreverence.
Ugh x 100
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Some articles make me think the writer's a decent person with no skill. This one just seems like the work of an appalling human being.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
I was about 13 and somehow acquired a copy of the tape on SST that runs backward on one side and forward on another. I know, right? How creative.
There's a Mudhoney album that does this IIRC.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
don't fall into their trap
― maura, Monday, 18 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Voice Media Group is just the WORST
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
i doubt they believe half the challops they put out in WCS, it's just for angry clickthroughs.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
I was about 13 and somehow acquired a copy of the tape on SST that runs backward on one side and forward on another. I know, right? How creative.There's a Mudhoney album that does this IIRC.
Sonic Youth's first s/t EP did this. I liked it equally well both directions.
― A sort of "Sister Ray" for the mentally handicapped (staggerlee), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Friday, November 8, 2013 11:46 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Me too. Sometimes I think that the phrase "good music writing" is a bit of an oxymoron tbh. I mean, you can't avoid adjectives and adverbs. Recently I read a little Flaubert before bed--a translation, mind you--and it paralyzed me for weeks.
Who am I kidding--Pauline Kael paralyzes me, too.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
I was asked to post this here
http://www.ritaora.com/uk/biography
― ۩, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
awesome"If there is a sense when Rita Ora walks into a room that a star has already been ordained from above then nobody appears to have told the young Londoner and future pop princess herself."
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
OMFG
My favourite bit so far:
She managed to keep one step ahead of the stop-starts and false alarms of anyone treading tentatively into the shark pond of the London creative elite
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that really is amazing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
it's like a single page choose your own adventure; in lieu of commas you have to bookmark what you hope are phrase breaks and keep going on
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
It's got the lot: mixed metaphors, endless sentences, gruesome sycophancy, ludicrous hyperbole. Bio gold.
I'm genuinely fascinated by the mind of a person who thinks this is an acceptable sentence.
The result is a monopoly stronghold on future pop supremacy.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
that is a proper 'ora indeed
― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
The bio seems to have been taken down now!
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:11 (ten years ago) link
Hope you downloaded it!
― ۩, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
Sadly no. Lost to me forever.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
a scandal as big as the Tories removing past speeches
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
Google cache does the business:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:th8IvcTdaIoJ:www.ritaora.com/uk/biography+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link