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

Great on American music, clueless about European music is how I approach Bangs.

I read this book over the weekend and I see how good a job Greil Marcus did of getting LB’s genuinely great writing into the first anthology. “Great on American music”? Have a look at his article about Wet Willie.

Greil "when I said 'what is this shit' I actually meant..." Marcus.

lol @ their argument against my weeknd review. SORRY YOUR CRYBABY DRUGGO SEXIST MAKES AWFUL MUSIC THAT CAN BE DEMOLISHED SUCCINCTLY. editing: maybe abel should try it sometime

Yeah, well no one is forcing you to listen to this thing in one sitting.

Hardly think that makes a difference. A lot of his songs don't justify their length.

This guy really hates xhuxk

This guy hates everybody. You have to worry about anyone who can write 500+ angry entries without any jokes.

The writing about "the 500 worst pieces of music writing ever" is one of the worst pieces of music writing ever. Another lazy, entitled parasite who only wants writing that agrees with them.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 20 February 2014 09:18 (9 hours ago) Permalink

OTM. I actually kind of enjoy what another poster upthread called "clueless" reviews of "future classics. It's refreshing to see that someone listening to a "classic" record with fresh ears, at the time, might have come to a different conclusion about it, even if I don't agree with that conclusion. And sometimes there are nuggets of honest truth in them that get kind of buried in all the worshipfulness that comes later, e.g. the bit about Hendrix's lyrics being pretty banal. That's often true.

It IS fun to have an archive of notable initial reactions from RS to scroll back through.

Yeah, well no one is forcing you to listen to this thing in one sitting.

― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hardly think that makes a difference. A lot of his songs don't justify their length.

― tsrobodo, Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, was just quoting the writer's witty retort to Maura's review.

― tsrobodo, Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, was just quoting the writer's witty retort to Maura's review.

Aah I see, my bad. Didn't actually read past the first 3 or 4. The idea of 500 petty and vindictive reviews of other people's reviews depresses me in ways that I don't understand.

there's the new board description

The idea of 500 petty and vindictive reviews of other people's reviews depresses me in ways that I don't understand

depresses me in ways i understand completely. it's fucking depressing, for one thing. might be worth a glance if the takedowns were funny, but they're not - just reams of whiney bullshit about nothing.

i don't know why you gotta drag whiney into this.

contenderizer otm

Speaking of Rolling Stone, this seemed to get a lot of people into a tizzy: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/berghain-the-secretive-sex-fueled-world-of-technos-coolest-club-20140206

using the descriptor "emo" as a test case I think we still have at least five years before the kind of ppl who comment just to go DON'T CALL IT EDM accept that they're fighting a losing battle

I think that RS article is great, taught me a lot about Berlin I didn't know.

HERE'S a new candidate. And it's from the editor, even.

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/alex-turners-brits-speech-was-everything-rocknroll-is-meant-to-be

lock thread

As I said on the Brits thread, it's a bit inelegantly put, but I do think the writer has a point.

best thing is that it never explains who the hell Alex Turner is

that is good because 99.9% of people reading would know

best thing is that it never explains who the hell Alex Turner is

except... it does?

(or were you looking for more than "front man of Arctic Monkeys who won the biggest music award given out by Great Britain"?)

I don't see that sentence in the piece.

I see this: "For the frontman of the UK's biggest band"

I got that from the title of the Youtube embed.

I mean, I'm not arguing that this is an amazing piece of writing or anything, just that that particular criticism seems off when the entire thesis of the piece seems to be "this dude who won an award gave a speech"

whowhatwhenwherewhyhow

Which is not what any of the thesis of the piece is (xp).

New Yorker style required: "Recently, Alex Turner, the frontman of Arctic Monkeys, an alternative rock band from Sheffield, England, accepted an award at a ceremony held annually by the British Phonographic Industry, colloquially known as the Brits."

Turner hereafter referred to as Mr Turner.

just the words "Arctic" and "Monkeys" appearing somewhere in the piece would have been just fine.

Last year he spoke a lot about the writing style of John Lennon of The Beatles

ha ha Alex Turner is as famous as John Lennon I get it

i just love that the famous rock star industry is in such dire straits that the fucking arctic monkeys are the best torchbearers anyone could scrounge up

kinda like ten years ago when the white stripes were the only modern band big american mags felt comfortable putting on the cover

Jack's a pretty great "rock star" though - eccentric, idiosyncratic style, good interviewee, intriguing "concept". Arctic Monkeys dude is just A N Other indie bloke, albeit one who somehow got Josh Homme's cellphone number.

thank you, i thought i was going mad for a while there

where can I purchase this speech

could do with having my faith in "rocknroll" restored

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-most-sampled-song-change-beat-fab-5-freddy-180949863/
http://bit.ly/1c4OvAW

forks, just because someone read something out loud on youtube you saw doesn't make it true

http://www.whosampled.com/The-Winstons/Amen,-Brother/

vs

http://www.whosampled.com/Beside/Change-the-Beat-(Female-Version)/

What's with the arctic monkey's Fonzie hair? Is he a "ted"?

I remember when they first came out they looked like kids who would go to a midnight opening to buy a ps3

Whiney, did u really try to call me out as being a dillettante with a whosampled.com link?

submitted for your approval:

http://www.rockfreaks.net/albums/6720

reads like it has been Google-translated from another language

even parke puterbaugh nods

So you might ask: what is our focus? The majority of magazines cater to only one kind of audience. Rockfreaks.net caters to those who have long ago realized that good great music exists in each and every genre. Whether it's grindcore, indie rock, tough guy hardcore, gothic metal, pop punk, post-rock, emo, death metal or mainstream rock, each genre has it's own pile of crap, but if you dare to scratch enough underneath the surface, and you'll find gems. Guaranteed.

NOTE: We DO NOT cover pop, hip-hop, dance music, etc. We won't review it.