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

Can we all just take a minute to salute those writers who strike the old "disarming honesty" pose have the courage to stand up and say "know what? I don't know everything." Sure, they risk the ridicule of snarky internet bullies, but in admitting their shortcomings aren't these authors more human, more humble, more - goshdarn it, I'll say it - more noble?

are you being serious?

everything

in the era of Google, anyone writing for a paycheck — no matter how small — that plays what Maura calls "unfrozen caveman rock critic" deserves the ridicule they get

ILX, where "admitting your blind spots" is a controversial stance.

now i may just be a simple country hyper chicken but

the courage to take the time to learn things before you write them

also idk this is almost too immaterial to really say but the popularity of this tumblr is going to determine the tone and quality of writing elsewhere

My Husband's Stupid Record Collection Happened To Me

Lol whiney what the hell level are you even on

since time immemorial whiney has been on that other level

It's not like I was being subtle about it

Jeez guys the term is "falsely naive"

― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, March 17, 2014 12:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't we just keep pretending it means "honestly naive" or whatever the hell Treeship is thinking it does

tbrr tho she's not being "falsely naive"/faux-naif but "deliberately ignorant", the tone of the piece is written about 'look how ignorant I am about this music'; a writer being proud of one's ignorance is not something that even WGW is above

If you pretend you have no knowledge or context, you can't be held to account when you screw up though, right? (Yes, you can.) It's one of the worst aspects of that style.

Could we admit that there's a difference between "admitting one's blind spots" and "deliberate ignorance"?

I don't think anyone is denying that

I feel where Maura is coming from on this, but at the same time, having a big dumb record collection is a thing that skews so heavily male and is treated by record-collecting men as some kind of mysterious male talisman, and I feel like there's an aspect of this of demystification that I like. The sort of stereotypical "female" perspective whether you want to call it naive or faux-naive seems like a good tool for that job. I get that any amateur could just review records in an uninformed and amateurish way, but the fact that she is tackling "The Collection" seems like part of the point.

I don't think it's a great look but I think it emerged as a reaction to the much more prevalent tendency to act like everything can be reduced to its context. That's the context for the faux naif bloggy voice imo. It's about wanting to step outside the critical noise machine and make empirical observations as if for the first time.

Think it's more about feeling like there's something intellectually dishonest about pretending to have a depth of knowledge about things you googled for half an hour.

xpost

http://www.cultbritannia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2001-Baby-Earth.jpg

that too

Sorry my last post was xp to tsrobodo.

Can we all agree that the most insufferable comment came from the husband

Alex Says: Even though I have 2 AC/DC records, I don’t really know their music all that well. I just collect records. It’s what I do. So I have two AC/DC records. Deal with it.
I’m pretty sure I bought this album off my old pal Michael Troutman, mostly because I was very familiar with Will Oldham’s weird cover of Big Balls, and I was like “ok, I’ll check it out.”

100% yes

uggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

be cool, fuckface

lol words.

It's what I do...Deal with it...Big Balls

My first impulse about this was that it was fake, because the "wife" seemed so ignorant in that stereotypical "clueless girl" way. I had only read the Arab on Radar one at that point.

she's going to get a book deal, isn't she

the world survived book deals for Stuff White People Like and Hipster Puppies, I don't see anything apocalyptically awful about it

i didn't say it was awful

other people upthread seemed to be framing it as such, sorry waterbro

So I have two AC/DC records. Deal with it.

i've decided i don't have an opinion on this tumblr ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, someone said "Book Deal"...

That's the new "Big payout from the press" innit?

wtf is this innit shit

i have like eight ac/dc records i think

ok you win. (xpost)

I had one, but I sold it last week.

I like the way he says "I just collect records" as though it were like "collecting" dust -- just kind of happens to him, he can't necessarily be held accountable for their contents, etc.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/imager/the-lipstick-killers-message/b/original/1227467/ae37/LipstickMessageMagnum.jpg

"Why do you have ten copies of Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' single next to an assortment of Boyd Rice albums?"

"I COLLECT RECORDS, OK?"

Remember that dude's art project from the last couple years where he was trying to collect as many copies of The Beatles' White Album as possible? This blog would be kind of funny if she inspected his record collection only to find it was like 1500 copies of one album

ten copies of barbie girl is not enough

http://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/20i1nt/lady_goes_through_her_husbands_records_reviews/

[–]wacka4macca 18 points 1 day ago
Some friends and I saw this tumblr and honestly, while it's great she's discovering new music, we don't like that she's perpetuating the stereotype that "women know nothing about music or records". My husband and I share a vinyl addiction but in record stores, I'm the one who gets asked dumb questions about my music knowledge or have people trying to "educate" me about really basic things. I know it's a guy dominated hobby, but there are women out there who are just as into it. Plus, she calls his record collection "stupid". :/

I just think it's weird that she supposedly has had no exposure to "her husband's records" until now, or like, she never accompanied him to a show by any of the artists or similar sounding bands? Is this common in relationships, because it was never the case with mine?

If I had to hazard a guess I'd say that they probably have attended shows together but the majority of records covered so far are by non-touring acts or bands that predate their shared cultural experiences

re the white album guy, i fuckin' loved this
https://soundcloud.com/dustandgrooves/white-album-side-1-x-100
worth listening through to at least glass onion where the deviances start to stack and break down to pure noise

listening to the Beatles was so 4 yrs ago, forks

Even he doesn't even seem to know why he owns AC/DC records for instance, it was merely his duty to acquire them.

xxp