haha that thing is hilarious
― some dude, Friday, 9 May 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/15274-coldplay-ghost-stories-review
Dunno if the Mr. Agreeable character was ever actually funny (not since I've been aware of it) but this is tiresome and unpleasant in ways quite far from the kind of deflation of celebrity I suppose it's trying to be. "Gwyneth Paltrow, that ghastly, gulping, giraffe-necked, sick-making long drink of carb-averse goop"?
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Lefsetz loves it
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
I finally read that NYT Mag piece by Austerwhatzis from April -- so THAT's what poptimism is! like lool at living in a pitchfork dominated era and thinking 'poptimism' (however defined) somehow won
No one I know outside of the hardcore music fans are acquainted with Pitchfork, everyone knows that Justin Timberlake is "a great artist." Pee-mism has won.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
stop
― grindie cindy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
done.
(this is just like one of those internecine firefights btwn film critics that none of you know about)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
That review of Ghost Stories made me chuckle.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
So is Ghost Stories somehow related to the new Call of Duty game?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Enjoy...http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2014/05/21/10-reasons-why-1994-was-the-best-year-for-music?showFullText=true
― Rocky (ku4u1u), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
they save the best for last too @ #1
― ۩, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
it's a compelling argument tbh
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
no mention of Bee Thousand in the indie section
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
suzy is mr agreeable?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
guys don't click come on you're just encouraging them
― maura, Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
aaaand from my hometown "alt" weekly:
Miley Cyrus and Morrissey are basically the same person. One is a lyrical genius shrouded in sexual mystery who speaks on behalf of intellectualism, animal rights, and sordid youths, defying borders and generations. The other is famous for a butt that resembles uncooked turkeys, being naked, and sticking her tongue out.
When Morrissey was 23, he was "celibate." When Miley puts on a Michael Jordan jersey, she's rumored to have sex with Mike Will Made It. They both have signature hair styles. They both have rabid fan bases. They both love to annoy the opposition.
The likeness is striking. And now they both given it their all on stage, singing "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Was certain the first graf was gonna pull the "and the other is Morrissey" switcheroo.
― Devilock, Thursday, 22 May 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
what is this magical rumor-granting jersey (and does it work in reverse?)
― katherine, Thursday, 22 May 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
― Devilock, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes, the old unswitched-switcheroo switcheroo.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Thursday, 22 May 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
not sure what's supposed to be egregiously bad about that 1994 listicle thing. there's no good reason for it to exist but on that basis about 95% of contemporary music writing should be pasted here
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 May 2014 07:52 (ten years ago) link
agree. compared to that telegraph britpop thing it's a shining voice of reason. also have to give props for juxtaposing darkthrone with ace of base in 10 and 9.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Thursday, 22 May 2014 08:15 (ten years ago) link
i think AG is like a vietnam vet he has flashbacks and freaks out at any mention of britpop
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
1994 was pretty sweet and there's plenty of good music mentioned but citing Counting Crows and Cranberries as evidence in your favor is odd.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
I dont like posting negative things, but i cant not post this - this is just jaw droppingly wrong and stupid, delivered with the authority of the expert who really has not the first clue. Each wrong headed assumption resting on another, this is easily the worst review ive ever read.
http://thequietus.com/articles/14332-various-hardcore-traxx-dance-mania-records-1986-1997-review
― anvil, Sunday, 25 May 2014 06:19 (ten years ago) link
http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr277/kadield/KickDog.gif
― Groovy Wordbender (soref), Sunday, 25 May 2014 09:12 (ten years ago) link
An inherent problem with dance retrospectives is that unless you already happen to have a vested nostalgic or archival interest in the era, it can be hard to find reasons to dip in. While it's not unusual for new ears to get turned on to latter-day rock and pop via oldies radio, compilations and the like, the forward thrust of electronic music leaves a scorched trail that proves tricky to travel back down. Dance fans are not expected to know their history.
lmao what
― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Sunday, 25 May 2014 09:26 (ten years ago) link
its every line as well of it, you cant even isolate just one line. So authoritatively and definitely delivered! To be so sure, when you have so little clue
― anvil, Sunday, 25 May 2014 09:34 (ten years ago) link
But did you like my other reviews, anvil?
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Sunday, 25 May 2014 10:45 (ten years ago) link
Reminds me of this classic Momus review:
"... this capsule encyclopaedia entry for Charlie Parker at first seems a model of lucidity and concision. Its air of infallible authority, though, is only skin-deep. I just don't accept that Parker's main contribution is in having shifted jazz from 'arpeggionic flurries' to 'chromatisism', and it doesn't help that one of those terms is mis-spelled and the other made up. There's nothing worse than authority trying to blind the reader with science which turns out, on closer inspection, to be voodoo."
― Sausage Party (Bob Six), Sunday, 25 May 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
This thread isn't for posting every article that you disagree with.
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 May 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
It's not like the issue is the writer's Controversial Opinions, it's that...he appears to not know very much about what he is writing about.
I mean there are a bunch of downright factual inaccuracies all over it.
― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Sunday, 25 May 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
Well you can ask him, he's right here
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 May 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
I ain't getting into the mix of uk folx arguing dance stuff
I'd have thought that the thread where anvil and I were originally disagreeing about dance music two days ago would have been a better place to repost that. But I guess this thread has more prominence on ILM so I get why he put it here.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Sunday, 25 May 2014 11:45 (ten years ago) link
1,500 words on "blog rock"? Can do!http://grantland.com/features/blog-rock-clap-your-hands-say-yeah/
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 08:38 (ten years ago) link
1,500 good, thoughtful, interesting words imo. This thread needs to get back to baffling, barely literate garbage and clueless rockist trolling.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah fair enough, it's not so much the quality of the writing as the topic that made me raise my eyebrows. Carry on!
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
hyden is garbage but i admit i didn't get past the first paragraph on that one
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
he's a half-decent feature writer but he might be the worst critic out there
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
half of that piece was about him trying to remember where he was the first time he heard tapes n' tapes, it was painful
I don't understand the case against Hyden. Garbage how?
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:12 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's half of all his pieces. His excruciating R.E.M. series on the AV Club was 60% where he was when Michael Stipe first started enunciating.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
If critics were sportswriters, Hyden would be the Bill Simmons.Douglas Wolk=Matt Hinton etc.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
I've not read anything else by Hynden but his REM series was a good read I thought, mapping the ups and downs of being an REM fan in a way that chimed with my own experiences (and I'm sure many other readers'). I'm not always a fan of the anecdotal approach - that Colin Meloy Replacement books is a snooze and Nick Hornby's 31 Songs is the pits - but this worked well. And it's not like the piece lacked solid critical analysis either.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
reading other people opine/narrate/write long form articles about their own taste is unbelievably boring to meit seems like a poor replacement for conversation too. that's what it sounds like -- a one-sided conversation. would prefer not to read that tbh.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
i didn't mean that to sound so severe -- just that i would rather read music writing that is informative in a way that i can use. i'm sure the personal narrative serves a purpose for the people who read and write them.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
his "critical analysis" tends toward the obvious and unnecessary, and his voice is so dull, his sentences so whatever, and always on some straight white guy rock bullshit
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Fair enough, but the 60% 'where I was when x happened' thing is way off. Revisiting the pieces, they're not particularly excitingly written, but they're solid enough, and do a decent job of contextualising the albums. Not a patch of Matthew Perpetua's Pop Songs project, granted, but hardly a candidate for 'worst writing ever'.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
mapping the ups and downs of being an REM fan in a way that chimed with my own experiences (and I'm sure many other readers').
It did this for me too, and his experiences didn't strike me as particularly unique or noteworthy; but more to the point, he apparently made no attempt to relate or frame those experiences in a halfway interesting way.
Also, BradNelson OTM.
(and tbf, I wouldn't call his stuff the worst ever...maybe just profoundly unnecessary)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
lol you bringing up perp condemned him worse than i could
xpost
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
how are you defining "straight white guy rock bullshit" in this context, Brad?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link