Barry Geordie Gordy Obama
p sure that guy contributes to every DNC email with the subject line MAJOR DISASTER
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
suggest barry
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
dancing on the glass ceiling
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
and the Piece Of Music Criticism Most Easily Mistaken For An Onion Article Award goes to
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I guess it's the Ezra Klein way to accept received opinion and call it "controversy"
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
the phrase "even Pitchfork" appears in that twice
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
Indie-music blog Hipster Runoff labelled her the "most controversial broad in indie right now," saying that she carefully planned the hype around "Video Games" and was trying to trick the music world into believing that she was a self-made, American Dream Achieving, Indie-pop princess. Hipster Runoff split her coverage into two distinct camps (#teamlana and #efflana), with critics claiming that she was a poser and just a "failed mainstream artist."
― franklin, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
I can't even express how pathetic that Vox piece is. Is the humourless recounting of ultimately irrelevant, two-and-a-half-year-old online debates a thing now?
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 19 June 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
you're soaking in it
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
welcome to the world of "explainer journalism" by people who have read wikipedia
― maura, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
[ Interest over time ]
now awaiting FT article disputing kelsey mckinney's data
― j., Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
HOW SNOOP DOGGY DOGG BECAME SNOOP DOGG AND OTHER SHOWBIZ TRICKS TO FOOL U
― j., Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
GWAR - real or fake?
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Andrew W.K. - Steev Mike or Steve Harper?
― franklin, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Yo Vox Is it true Vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef?
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
"I do get that new releases on vinyl can get pricey – and therefore have the potential to create an elitist audience – but in a climate in which indie musicians can open for Radiohead and still not afford health insurance, anything that creates a way to bring real, live musicians closer to making monday off their work, so that that they can make more of it – hey, that's cool with me."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/21/vinyl-record-collector-sales-jack-white
― scott seward, Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
can someone break that sentence down for me?
"So, even as yet another person in another underpaid creative field who is busy collecting probably one too many records, I'm happy to spend whatever I can afford."
that "even as yet" has got to go. you could probably learn that in a class somewhere.
― scott seward, Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
"Rainy Day Records up the block, however, was the platonic ideal of a local record store: half dozen or so boxes of 45s (sorted by new, used and local bands)..."
i hate those used bands. they are the worst.
― scott seward, Sunday, 22 June 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
6 PEOPLE, 24 COMMENTS whood21 June 2014 12:56pm
I've just had a very nice avocado sandwich. Can I have a column, please?
― scott seward, Sunday, 22 June 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
a golden oldie. I am not British so I don't know how long John Harris has been giving the music coverage in the Guardian a bad name, but this has to be a low point for the publication:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jan/05/popandrock
― noir-ish need apply (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
(Although it does use the word 'acme' in a sentence, which I rarely come across, so that's kinda cool I guess)
― noir-ish need apply (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
John Harris continues to give music coverage in the Guardian a bad name to this day
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/20/warpaint-cate-le-bon-st-vincent-rocks-future-is-female
― soref, Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
That funk thing by JH makes a worse case than the student item in the first post. I got bored into giving up before even managing to get to the offensive part in that women in rock one, but then I don't think I got past the first paragraph either.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
factual errors and questionable theses you can drive a boom clap through:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/10905375/Is-Charli-XCX-the-new-Adele.html
― katherine, Monday, 23 June 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
Casey Kasem, Ronald Reagan and music’s 1 percent: Artificial “popularity” is not democracy
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/22/casey_kasem_ronald_reagan_and_musics_1_percent_artificial_popularity_is_not_democracy/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 June 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/blog/jacques-greene-brought-back-house-music-for-the-people
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Monday, 23 June 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
A WHIFF OF SANITY in that Salon piece.
Christ, Casey Kasem as a fucking icon, and anyone who uses "centrism" re music needs a thrashing.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 June 2014 10:35 (nine years ago) link
I gave up/fell asleep when I got to the "centrism" bit. No point my getting annoyed about this or any of the linked Grauniad/Torygraph pieces because they are clickbait rather than proper music writing.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 23 June 2014 11:12 (nine years ago) link
holy fucking fuck at that Noisey one - is Noisey one of the worst sites in history?
― online hardman, Monday, 23 June 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius),
The point about centrism is the pearl in the shit. The rest is drivel.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
I have always liked "Bette Davis Eyes" fwiw
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
post clip of karaoke performance plz
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
The kasem challops thinkpieces that spawned that salon article seem equally shit though. There's nothing "brave" about what Casey Kasem did, he was a pop DJ, not a music critic. He performed the exact function he was supposed to perform, for lots of money. It seems revisionist in a REALLY confused way to imagine that he was the underdog in a battle against...I don't even know what. It's like, you might credit someone like a George Plimpton for allowing value to sports within "intellectual" culture, but Marv Albert is a sports guy doing a sports guy's job for a sports-loving public.
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
The headline on the Salon thing -- "Artificial popularity is not 'democracy'" -- is the plaintive cry of losing student-government candidates everywhere.
I admit I didn't read many of the Kasem appreciations, but the ones I saw were less celebrations of him as a musical force than nostalgic childhood reveries. I never had any illusion that Casey himself was the one picking the winners, or that the show was somehow a manifestation of his taste. He was just the friendly guy who showed up with that week's news.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Hurting 2 otm, at least with regards to the Slate piece that originally used the word "centrist." I like Casey Kasem a lot; he seems like a good guy, and obviously had a great voice and a talent for using it. But that Slate piece envisioned him a poptimist warrior-analyst who fought the good fight against rockism for years.
― intheblanks, Monday, 23 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
He was just the friendly guy who showed up with that week's news.
This is sort of the same thing as lots of people thinking of TV news anchors as journalists. (Including some TV news anchors, I bet.) I much prefer the UK term "newsreader," because that's all they do - read the news that other people gathered, while making sincere/trustworthy/empathetic faces.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 23 June 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Kasem didn't even like music
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 June 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
these guys are from england and who gives a shit
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 23 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I like Casey Kasem a lot; he seems like a good guy, and obviously had a great voice and a talent for using it. But that Slate piece envisioned him a poptimist warrior-analyst who fought the good fight against rockism for years.
― intheblanks, Monday, June 23, 2014 12:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Meanwhile, the actual good fight he fought has gone largely unremarked-upon in his obits: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-17/entertainment/ca-36376_1_aladdin-lyrics-magic
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it was cool to learn about his activism for better Arab-American representation in the media, including quitting the Transformers cartoon.
― intheblanks, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.html
"What's the Right Way For a Woman To Listen To (Or Write About) Music?"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I haven't read her blog in any detail, but that seems like a fairly reasonable piece.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
presented here less as evidence of bad writing, more a continuation of earlier discussion itt. The contention that women music writers tried to "shout her down" seems over the top, treating a brief bout of criticism on Twitter like #cancelcolbert or something.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
a brief bout of criticism on Twitter
Don't forget 60-70* irate thinkpieces on all the expected sites.
*exaggeration for effect
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
I forget what position I took on the blog when it first emerged but that book review is anything but a bad or disingenuous piece of writing. It resonated with me. I wish more "average" listeners felt comfortable engaging with all kinds of music and talking about their experiences. Art is about staging encounters between audience and object; there shouldn't be any qualifications involved
― Treeship, Sunday, 13 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
are average listeners really given any insight by an average listener telling them about their average experience
― j., Sunday, 13 July 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Idk you'd have to ask them. Her blog has a lot of readers so there's clearly some appeal there
― Treeship, Sunday, 13 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
If there's one thing we need to fight for, it's not the right of average listeners to opine at length.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 13 July 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
uggh
― maura, Sunday, 13 July 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link