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

oh i was gonna write the whole thing myself, but in my mom's voice -- take a dozen or so pics of mom doing various mom things and photoshop the records into them -- maybe incorporate some of mom's recipes and pictures of food, because people like food more than music anyway

*logs on to twitter*

*retweets sarah hell's tweet*

i did this with a group of children at a school with a sympathetic teacher back when i was doing the tofu hut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Il84l6zg5o

The title of this song sounds like a song used in a video game. Once I heard the song, I loved it. I like rock and heavy metal, usually. I like this, because it's really energetic and beyond upbeat. I like some morbid things, mostly books. Very good. I also like the name of the band: Three Inches of Blood. I like most morbid things. Some morbid things are somewhat intriguing, because sometimes I find it easy to relate to. Like if you or a friend have experienced something morbid, like death or a terrible disease, you can understand what it feels like. I don't know if that was at least an okay explanation. I really enjoy this song. I would definitely put this on my iPod.

ZZZZZZZZZZZ. This is so so so BORING it makes me want to fall to sleep on a pillow or take a nap and I hate taking naps so that's how boring it is. There are some things I like about it but its kind of weird. I like the screaming part and stuff like the "wwhhoooooaaaaa". Umm yeah, it sounds like a song some punk or rocker type chick/dude would listen too. Just not ME.

THE ORCS ARE AFTER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! They are destroying their instruments. Get them a dictionary and teach them proper etiquette. I still dont know what they are saying.

YAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROCK OUT MAN!!!!!!!!!! YA!!!!!!! I wouldn't put this on my i-pods, but it's a cool power metal song. It has an awesome beat and I find the screaming quite amusing. I hear the band's name is "Three Inches of Blood". SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! hee hee...

Student 5: Once our teacher read the lyrics to the group, I really liked them! That was so cool... Blood....

The title sounds interesting, like a title from a movie or video game. I like this. It's heavy metal kind of cool, very energetic. The voice sounds like a cartoon character singing/yelling into the microphone. This is a cool band! I can't really understand the lyrics, but I don't mind.

It is crazy. They have a name that could get them gunned down. They sound Asian. What are they saying?

I'm not a really big rock fan, but I recommend this song to rockers. I think it will make you wanna scream and if you have a lot of hair you can shake it really hard and smash your things on the floor. It's a song to let out anger or a song to go kill someone.

Starts out with the usual screaming dark guy. Of course, I can hear the constant pounding of the drums and loud melody of the guitar. The guy is trying to scare me but unfortunately all attempts fail. When I listen to the lyrics (which I can barely hear) "slay the whatever", the band reminds me of some depressed Lord of the Rings fans.

it was 2007. i shoulda stuck with it and i would be a rich youtube bastard.

they were seventh graders btw. Probably did about twenty of those.

at the very least you'd get a mention itt ;)

don't pick on those seventh graders, they meant well

they're adults now

fucking hell, you're right
i am old

but seriously, wouldn't millions of people rather read what my 68 year old mom thinks of Orthrelm than some neckbeardy professional music writer?

they're jaded hipsters now.

probably normcore tbh

Alright, found it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5MZV29xotU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5MZV29xotU

is "normcore" a thing outside of nyc?

oh yeah. i'm in a suburban starbucks right now and nearly everyone here is totally normcore.

whiney, you really need to caption a pic of Treeship's dog.

treeship does your dog sometimrs forget the second half of your name and pee on you by accident

#pioneer

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/01/rufus-and-scott-review-90s-indie-rock.html

Is that the website in which Maria asks skot about his record and paperback collections?

scott's writing is the best because he's heard all kinds of wild shit and writes impressions off the cuff

I most appreciate when he makes a comparison to something I'd never think was related but it totally makes sense

scott's writing is like faux-naive-cubed, or it's not really faux-naive at all, it's just super loosened up, almost unhinged

yeah, I don't think it's naive at all, just loose

its fuckin sweet is what it is

yeah it has an "i've listened to too much music and gone a bit mad" quality that makes it charming, although I'm gonna stop now bc I feel weird about talking in the third person about you scott as you are in this thread

sup scott

Hey Maura, it's Rob K, yr former co-worker.

What is the result that you want out of this? Should the woman apologize for doing a project that caught more eyeballs than likely she and annoying "OOH look at my All in the Family record, that will impress the WFMU dealers" husband did. Was she supposed to know that doing this project was going to play into an admittedly fraught context that makes making a living for you me and a lot of people reading this even more difficult? Should she have been stopped from doing the project? the internet, mass culture and the interstice of both frequently result in stupid shit: being defensive about a project this admittedly unlettered and hapless woman enacted with no malice that I can discern seems counter-productive.

well this didn't just get totally uncomfortable and weird

Wasn't under the impression that she was unlettered? 400 books, etc.

What is the result that you want out of this?

this like one step above accusing someone of being pro-censorship because they object to some discriminatory or prejudicial aspect of a song or film or etc

really glad a man stepped in to speak truth to power

this admittedly unlettered and hapless woman

...um, did I just read this?

http://eyesareout.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/meh-ro7354.gif

unlettered and hapless!

90% of music reviewers are male writers of all kinds
10% are twee women

the problem isn't the twee woman

delete yourself

sorry, that should read "music reviewers that are widely shared this week"

there are women who are excellent music reviewers who do it for a living but they're getting a lot less attention than this one

This was a fun thread once

look I'm not going to play the zing game with you guys: sneering is the default setting for Mr W, and I do not wish to develop skills as such.

I was asking this of ME, as I used to work with her, and I tried to phrase it respectfully and not mansplainy. As for the question re: the result, I'm curious and I fail to see how the above phrasing is at all accusatory. 72 hours into this and there seems to be unwarranted defensiveness; it's chum for a nest of disaffected rock critics feeding off one another, struggling to accept that that writing about music for $$$ is more difficult than it used to be.

If ME feels like me addressing her as a former colleague is uncool, then my bad. Here and on my FB feed there are debates that are raging re; this, and I wanted for her to see my question without wading through tons of comments, and this seemed to be the easiest way to achieve that.

Mr raggett and Mr Sotosyn : "hapless" and "unlettered" refers to the woman's observations on music. She said stuff that was dumb, which I thought is the reason that everyone is annoyed with the project? I forgot momentarily that she is a librarian.

debates are raging/dudes are mansplaning

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I like how the initials make it read like cookie monster

see I don't know about her intentions but her reviews read to me like she was playing a part, and I didn't see the point in her doing so.

writing about music for $$$ is more difficult than it used to be.

you don't say!

ook I'm not going to play the zing game with you guys: sneering is the default setting for Mr W, and I do not wish to develop skills as such.

go hard or go home

its 2014 ffs have we not gotten over mansplain

No, because it is something that actually exists, contrary to what you and I have experienced as men.

hi rob! i think i've said like 10x that i just wish women who weren't writing with a ladyblog-ready gimmick would get even half as much shine as this site has. i really do think viral culture has made the marketplace for reading a lot more stereotype-cleaving, and the reaction to this site only makes my theory more plain.

(and her defensiveness about nobody talking to her seems misplaced, since her husband was more than ready to leap to her defense on twitter and metafilter and other places too.)

look I'm not going to play the zing game with you guys: sneering is the default setting for Mr W, and I do not wish to develop skills as such.

go hard or go home

― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly you don't step in the arena and then say I'm not here to gladiate

(to wit: https://twitter.com/maura/status/445769042633445376)