let's say you've been assigned to write a piece about blog rock. ok, not the best assignment, but you could make the most of it. would you let this be your actual critical take on voxtrot?
Now that I have heard several Voxtrot songs, I can confirm that this band is pretty OK and very blog-rocky. Imagine if the Smiths sounded exactly like a Smiths-like band from 20 years earlier, but never made a record as great as The Queen Is Dead that would influence Smiths-like bands 20 years in the future, and you have Voxtrot.
would you find it hilarious/clever to admit that you have only heard one song from the tapes 'n tapes album?
I remember quite liking The Loon’s opening track, “Just Drums.”2 The rhythm guitar part was excellent, the bass was rubbery, and the drum solo in the middle was triumphantly competent. I liked “Just Drums” so much that I don’t think I ever played the rest of the record. No, sir, I was fine with just “Just Drums,” thanks.
would you bore ppl by writing things like this?
For instance, I remember being really excited when I came across the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album while perusing a CD jukebox at a bar in Madison, Wisconsin. And if you can come up with a blog-rockier sentence than that, I will send you the entire Annuals discography.
it's this voice he uses, sort of a lazy/detached internet commentator type of writing combined with endless amounts of first-person that make me wonder if he even likes writing music criticism.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
The rhythm guitar part was excellent, the bass was rubbery
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
the turkey was chewy
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
listening tapes 'n tapes song is hilarious, not very clever tho
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/05/5_reasons_we_love_to_hate_dave_matthews_band.html#incart_m-rpt-2
comment section is unbelievable
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
too much time on ilx
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
imo we should all just read books and never the internet again
― ian, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
^^truth bomb
― Pentatonic's Rendezvous Band (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i'm reading this right now. dude is opinionated as fuck! fuck you, bitch, jackie and roy rule!!
http://www.amazon.com/Biographical-Guide-Great-Jazz-Singers/dp/0375421491
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
tapes 'n tapes
they are a real band? I thought markers made them up
― ۩, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
A Guide To Great Jazz Singers should be one of those joke books where all the pages are blank.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
great record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-nEdceows
― saer, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
I know that Ziggy Stardust was like one of David Bowie’s personas, right? I’m digging the cover of this album, he’s standing next to a bunch of garbage with his guitar and wearing an amazing jumpsuit (which kind of gives him a FUPA on the back cover.) The lighting is dim, it looks like it just rained. I think this record is trying to tell me a story. I’m finding the second half of the name of the album a little cumbersome. “And the spiders from Mars.” Wouldn’t it be better just to call it “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust?” Doesn’t everyone always just refer to this album as Ziggy Stardust? No one ever mentions the spiders from Mars, but maybe I’ll feel differently after hearing this album, as I’ve never listened to it! The bottom right hand corner of the back cover says “To be played at maximum volume,” which I appreciate. I like little details like that that make you feel like the artist or the band are talking directly to you, the fan. I don’t know if he thought about it with that much detail, but I’d like to picture David Bowie thinking about some kid sitting in their bedroom in 1972, staring at the picture of him kind of looking androgynous and daring, and calling himself Ziggy Stardust and deciding, “I better tell them to play this at maximum volume, because they need that advice.
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
did Lex write that
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
ha I thought that was a parody, but no, she's still at it
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
this person called up a professor at Cornell University and interviewed them at length for a 2,400 article that is entirely about Iggy Azalea not 'shouting out' Charli XCX on the verses of "Fancy"
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/05/29/3443070/why-doesnt-iggy-azalea-give-charli-xcx-a-shout-out-in-fancy/
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Halfway through the piece, literally every question is, "Yes, but why didn't she shout out Charlie XCX?"
― intheblanks, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
"if Charli XCX had been in charge of Cornell University and had given you your job, wouldn't you want to tell people that?"
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 30 May 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
lol
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Feel bad for that Cornell prof, like someone with real questions about race, authenticity, and hip-hop could have done at least an interesting interview with him around Iggy Azalea. Instead he got this weird Charlie XCX stan demanding justice.
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
I love how bad that is, my only complaint is that it isn't long enough. I want to see ivy league professors pushed to breaking point
― ogmor, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
stay tuned next week, when they sit down and watch every Icona Pop interview on YouTube and count how many times they mention Charli XCX
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 30 May 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
I want to see more journalists using their powers to troll profs into bringing their exorbitantly-valued expertise to bear on one inane & misconstrued situation over & over again
― ogmor, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Haha
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Can you imagine how many times that writer's coworkers and friends have heard a rant about this?
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
"It seems especially weird to me that Charli doesn’t get a shout-out in this song, given that Iggy is a rapper paying homage to all this classic rap."
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 30 May 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
lmaoooo amazing interview
― dyl, Friday, 30 May 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
fp Travis Gosa for not repping "Superlove"
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Friday, 30 May 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
i just keep thinking, if i were charli
― j., Friday, 30 May 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
why doesn't Iggy Azalea say "we want hen fap" on 'Fancy'?
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 May 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
What's with all those songs Lennon and McCartney wrote for other people where they don't spell out 'B.E.A.T.L.E.S.' in the bridge?
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Friday, 30 May 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
This piece is blowing my mind.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 30 May 2014 08:44 (nine years ago) link
she says "called up" but the really long responses and tone deaf questions and the fact that it doesn't sound like a conversation kind of points to email interview
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
What is thinkprogress anyway
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
It's a lefty news site
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
it's the journalism section of the Center for American Progress, a prominent liberal think bank.
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
think tank, I mean.
wow, that's fun
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 May 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
So am I fired up over nothing? I just think if I were Charli I’d be so annoyed that this song is huge and her name isn’t huge, too.I think we’re both dating ourselves here.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 May 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
prof must be thinking "well i guess if you want to be a public intellectual, you gotta start somewhere" poor guy
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 30 May 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
i still don't understand why a white woman jacking an African-American artform should be obligated to shout out another white woman
― Another great spree fucking. Shoot. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Totally the most puzzling part of the piece, most hilariously captured in this statement by the interviewer:
Well, Charli is Tai. I think Iggy is savvy enough to know, what with all the appropriation controversy she’s already stirred, that it would be a very bad idea to cast Charli as Dionne.
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Headline writers at ThinkProgress, realizing comic inanity of article, give it the headline "‘I’m The Realest’: The Authenticity Of Rap’s Newest Superstar, Iggy Azalea" to reflect the article they were hoping would get written.
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
I still don't understand why Iggy shouting Charli out is going to help her get famous more than a "Featuring Charli XCX" credit is
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 30 May 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, it's probably somehow related to the imagined rules of shout-out etiquette that this writer believes have been universally applied throughout the world of hip-hop for the last 35 years.
― intheblanks, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I want to give a shoutout to FunkMaster Flex and all the DJs across the worldI want to give a shoutout to my nigga Lupe, I want to give a shoutout to my nigga Suge Knight, to my nigga Dr. Dre, Snoop DoggI want to give a shoutout to um,um, what's them niggas, OutkastI want to give a shoutout to them crazy niggas in parts of the world that I never been tooI want to give a shoutout to the Eskimos, I want to give a shoutout to the submarinesI want to give a shoutout to the Army, Air Force, Navy, MarinesKnow what I'm saying? Y'all playing my music in the submarines and the boats; play that shit know what I'm saying?It's called travelling music, bustin' ya ass style. Yo Big Baby Jesus; It's One Love.I give a shout out to all the women, I give a shout out to all the babies, all the munchkins, all across the world playa. I want to give a shoutout to all the school teachers. I give a shout out to um,um, Charli XCX
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 May 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
wait until she finds out big sean is uncredited on "problem"
― katherine, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
This thing is incredible.
― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Friday, 30 May 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
i want lots of articles like this. would read them all day.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 30 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Why doesn't Geddy Lee shout out Aimee Man on "Time Stand Still"?
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link