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― 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
the dry rot in the ilxor party wall
this is a beautiful bit of work noodle vague
― (or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
'The Strokes saved rock'n'roll' is my least favourite common misconception in music revisionism. Is this an American thing? I guess I've heard the same case made for the Libertines, but it never felt that way to me.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
it's a fucking british thing
― waterbabies (waterface), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
"Technical knowledge of the art form has disappeared from its discourse."
"I’ve just spent a very depressing afternoon looking through the leading music periodicals."
"And I read some reviews of albums, and got told by “‘critics” (I use that term loosely) that they were “badass,” “hot,” “sexy,” “tripped-out,” and “freaky.”"
Kind of reads like an editorial from the Onion.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
'The Strokes saved rock'n'roll' is my least favourite common misconception in music revisionism. Is this an American thing
lol iirc this was almost 100% a british music press thing, it reeks of it
― marcos, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
xp waterface yes
hi 5 marcos
pretty sure british publications have a cover template that has an empty photo slot and insert-band-name spot that reads "____ Are Here to Save Rock n' Roll!!!"
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
disappointed that ted gioia doesn't know that totally shredding is a v. precise term of praise, though he was supposed to be a discerning critic
― j., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
He IS a discerning critic: he read several music publications lying on his coffee table
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Serious question: Have you guys heard of Ted Gioia before today?
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
"the leading music periodicals"
http://www.neh.gov/files/imagecache/neh_large/divisions/preservation/images/papersbg.jpg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
I follow him on Twitter. He's fairly well-known.
― maura, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
I know him because of jazz stuff
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
know of him, I mean
x-posts but only if you really believe that "The NME" and "the British Music Press" are synonymous.
― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
i have his history of jazz sitting on the shelf next to me
― j., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
This really stuck out at me:
The pentatonic scale is a simple concept—just five notes (do, re, mi, so, la) we all learned as children.
"we all". Because yes, I learned what a pentatonic scale was, as a child, but only because my parents were wealthy enough to afford private music lessons. He's blaming the music press when he seems to omit how much musical education has been slashed from the majority of schools. (I have no idea what any of his "football" terminology means either, but hey.)
― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
cmon public schools have pianos with black keys too
― j., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
People have technical conversations about music all the time, they just use different vocabularies, values, terms, etc. Or tools for that matter. There's so much wrong about piece - but it mostly seems to stem from its belief in a singular public, a set of norms to assess best practice, a single sonic language. I mean, that article can't be serious. It's too crazy.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
My public school taught us basic musical concepts, but I do have a feeling that fewer public schools do it now, and that really does pain me, a lot. But I don't think that's the or a primary reason why a review of Justin Bieber doesn't read like NYTimes Classical Music criticism.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:26 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Right, e.g. I just randomly opened a pitchfork review just now and the term "motorik" appeared in the first paragraph -- that, in a way, is a technical musical term.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
yeah to me the things gioia says about technical knowledge betray kind of a questionable assumption that it's only jazz and classical criticism that call for 'specialized' knowledge (thus dedicated musically-focused criticism). shit, what kind of music doesn't?? and the pressures from there being eight million different musics competing for attention probably have a lot more to do with the choices critical venues ended up making than straight up venality and vapidity.
― j., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Although it's never a good idea to discount the power of venality and vapidity in any avenue of human endeavor.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
But I was told music is a universal language!
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
it's kind of funny bc pentatonic scale is abt as close to a universal musical language as we havebut it's arrant madness to think "we all" were taught wtf a pentatonic scale is in school. I was in fucking BAND (alto sax) for most of grade school and high school and no one ever told us that, prob because there are no pianos in band.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
he didn't say we were all taught what a pentatonic scale was, he said we all learned those notes
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link