hey here's Kate Moss reviewing George Michael's new album
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/03/17/kate-moss-george-michael-album-review-symphonica
don't worry, she asks her husband's opinion too
― Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 17 March 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
everything this story touches becomes noxious
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 17 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
George turns up to her house to give her the album.
Does she like it?
What you reckon?
― Mark G, Monday, 17 March 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
who the hell only checks out AC/DC because Will Oldham covered them? I mean
http://whatshouldbetchescallme.tumblr.com/post/40501338427/when-a-girl-wont-stop-talking-about-herself
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/the-31-most-iconic-eye-rolls-of-all-time?sub=2060494_1099613
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I mean... the "oh they lead such a boring precious life" stuff is the least offensive part of this, what sort of life should they instead be leaving ("the sort of life where they don't write a blog" is acceptable but kinda misses the point)
― katherine, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
(wow, unfortunate typo there)
― katherine, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
I would probably say "it's an open-y" irl
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
*opens thread*
"oooh it's a close-y."
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
Haha I saw that blog a couple days ago & thought ah that's p funny ilx will have a shit fit about this
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link
everything is just a game to you, isn't it upper mississippi sh@kedown?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
Treeship, what do you think james franco would say about this situation?
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
TS: "isn't my ignorance ADORABLE" vs. "isn't my disinterest in sacred cows EDGY"
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
in the age of google (cf whiney) ignorance in the only rebellion left
― Treeship, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
I am trying to figure out exactly why I want to tie this blog to the Upworthy-fication of Internet discourse and am drawing a blank
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
white ppl
― no war but glass war (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
have you no shame at all
― no war but glass war (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
Shame is a pigment we only experience it temporarily thats why we go from red back to wite again after
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
I like the concept of that blog but the writing is so gluey. It's really, really gross. Compare with Anna Minard's "Never Heard of Em" entries linked way upthread, which are similar in many ways but, you know, actually readable and pretty entertaining. I'm not clever enough to analyze why that is, but I'm kinda sure Branwell knows, and she'll probably find a way to beat me up about it. Am I rewarding Ms Minard for performing gender in some record-nerd-approved way and punishing whatserface for doing it in a non-nerd-approved one? I dunno. I don't think so. Although some of the grossness derives from gender stereotypes or can be read that way, it's the cotton-candy disingenuousness that's the real problem for me. I'd hate pomplamoose (Mr Seward OTM about the similarities in tone and spirit between ILM's most-hated band and its most-hated blog IMO) just as much if they were a couple of dudes, or if the chick was the musician and the guy was the singer. And I hated what I read of that blog and am done thinking about it hopefully forever now, but I'll probably check in with Anna Minard once in a while for fun.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
― katherine, Monday, March 17, 2014 5:15 PM (3 hours ago)
they should have a life that conforms to those of me and my friends where everyone is fairly knowledgeable about semi-obscure music
― sarahell, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:55 (ten years ago) link
Indeed. One must fully be familiar with at least five sun ra recordings to live an exciting and fulfilling life.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
wildly off-topic and i know you meant it glibly but which 5? i've been trying to get into sun ra for a while and his disco is so overwhelming
― Mordy , Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
oh wait sorry, I read the chart wrong, that data is inversely correlated
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Thanks to this thread I just wasted a half hour reading my husband's stupid record collection.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
I've never taken this thread title literally or seriously so I find it a bit bemusing how pretty much everything that gets posted here will get at least one "why are you guys so OUTRAGED by this for chrissakes its just a ___ why aren't you fighting the real enemy which is ___"
idk maybe some people are sitting there all hypertensive going THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE EXECUTED but for me this is just another lol @ dumb shit on the internet thread. This blog is clearly really annoyingly written but I'm not annoyed cause I haven't read it. I don't think anyone has a duty to know more about music or be less boring or delete their shit blog.
― post-nodern music player (wins), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
But they can go on about Imagine Dragons and the thrilling fact that they haven't heard them, and that would be fine
― Iain Mew (if), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:21 (ten years ago) link
this thread board has no desire for a voice of reason
― pings can only get wetter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:24 (ten years ago) link
xpost
― pings can only get wetter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:26 (ten years ago) link
fuck Imogen Dragoons
xXp That post was not made in earnest, dunno about that thread I haven't read it thrillingly enough
― post-nodern music player (wins), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:26 (ten years ago) link
I got that, it wasn't directed at you
― Iain Mew (if), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:28 (ten years ago) link
fuck "obscurity" fuck "nerdiness" fuck "difficultness" fuck "i don't get it" fuck expressing yr opinions fuck rating music fuck the plain listener fuck the girl/boy divide fuck "owning your ignorance"
― pings can only get wetter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:29 (ten years ago) link
(not directed at any one body)
this thread has become the dry rot in the ilxor party wall for some reason
― pings can only get wetter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
wins thoroughly otm if i'm not being lucid enough
― pings can only get wetter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:31 (ten years ago) link
the thing that bugs me most about the blog is that in some of the photos she is imitating the album cover image and in some of the photos she isn't, but there are a few where it's ambiguous and I can't tell if she is imitating the cover or not (I'm not outraged by this, though, just to be clear).
― The Cool Guy Files (soref), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link
On that AC/DC thing, I have a bunch of records that people have given me because they've been getting rid of old vinyl. Which is why I have the entire Guadalcanal Diary catalog that I've never listened to. I guess I'm asking, should I listen to it? Is it good? Do I need to have a quip for a future girlfriend?
― DonkeyTeeth, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:07 (ten years ago) link
Not being intentionally faux-naif bt on this at least it'd be nice if ppl didn't assume we all already know you write abt music, cos we don't
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:10 (ten years ago) link
Unless yr Ned
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:11 (ten years ago) link
this thread overnight has been even worse than the annoying and completely ignorable blog
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:25 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, or Lex
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link
What rankles me slightly wrt that blog is that usually writers do that with kids, maybe the blog is satire?
― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 08:30 (ten years ago) link
Threads are ignorable too iirc!
― post-nodern music player (wins), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 10:57 (ten years ago) link
Hot new contender. Toxic levels of rockism and rongness.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/Julian_Casablancas_Is_Riding_Forth_To_Rescue_Rock_Again?click=feed
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
But was it good? That’s hard to say.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Wait. Julian Casablancas' new band is called The Voidz? For real? Um.
― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/18/music-criticism-has-degenerated-into-lifestyle-reporting.html
― maura, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
No real mentions in that article of specifics to support his point.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
lol under daily beast headings
POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT WORLD NEWS TECH+HEALTH FASHION GREAT ESCAPES WOMEN BOOKS
― j., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
lol, i was just coming by to roll that url into the room, shut the door and run
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link