that's the kind of thing that makes me want to stop talking about music in any medium in case there's even a sliver of a chance I come off like that
from what I understand of this dude though that isn't the kind of emotion he wrestles with right
― there was a lot of beer and people doing sit ups, (laughs) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 June 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
I thought that piece was overall quite good. Are you saying that one part ruined the whole thing for you?
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 26 June 2015 10:24 (eight years ago) link
are any of those bands particularly arty? they're all pretty accessible through the medium of weed.
deboer way too self-impressed shocker
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
Think about the audience, though. This piece is on Vox - therefore it's aimed at, and being read by, half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore, even though they spend all day fellating members of Congress in print. Introducing those people to metal is tough work, and even though to the half-aspie music nerds of ILM all these bands are gonna be the usual suspects and last decade's news, there are still plenty of people who've never heard them. Also, I like this part; it's a sentiment that needs emphasizing more often:
"If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. This is music, not church. 'It’s not for me' is one of the most freeing, most useful statements you can make."
Honestly, it's not perfect or anything, the High On Fire blurb in particular is kinda lazy (though I like the fact that he rides for Snakes for the Divine, 'cause I like that album a lot too - a clean production job really benefited them). But overall, the writing is much better - in terms of quality of prose, clarity of thinking, and absence of glaring spelling errors and grammatical fuck-ups - than 90 percent of Pitchfork, never mind the shit that usually lands in this thread. And frankly, that Tom Watson guy has set way too fucking high a bar for someone who can come up with something as funny as "The last time I tried to play a Sunn 0))) album I caught my dog writing a suicide note" to clear.
Based on this evidence, I would much rather read DeBoer on music than on politics.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 26 June 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
the thought is sophomoric
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore
yawn at ever thinking of an audience in this way
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah I mean doing a piece like this with a plan to appeal to your hypothetical audience's worst hypothetical nature just seems sad and self-defeating
― there was a lot of beer and people doing sit ups, (laughs) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
point ...................................................... you
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
^ permeating slow-broiling illegitimacy imo
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
If Tom Watson never makes it here I could try to post more like him, if you like
― rahrah avis (imago), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
should I have any idea what that means
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS
i can't type lololololololol enough
― goole, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
Man "half-aspie" is gross & mean
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
are you surprised
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
a 9/10 review of a deserving album but horrifying on pretty much every other level:http://www.spin.com/2015/06/review-vince-staples-summertime-06/
― some dude, Monday, 6 July 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
writer seems like a real charmer toohttp://defamer.gawker.com/read-the-insanely-weird-emails-this-music-journalist-se-1413243759
that kind of nonsense is what ILX sometimes sounds like at its worst
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2015 00:19 (eight years ago) link
i agree, he does kind of write like ljagger
― some dude, Monday, 6 July 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
to borrow a phrase of WC’s
― j., Monday, 6 July 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
that writing is so early 2000s, it's kind of adorable in its just-outta-undergrad righteousness.
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Monday, 6 July 2015 06:56 (eight years ago) link
that whole "i just blew your mind, can you even stand it???1!!!" tone.
i mean i think people do still write "i'm blowing your mind" pieces (hot takes ahoy), but now they're couched in concern-troll language instead of openly oozing spite.
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Monday, 6 July 2015 07:09 (eight years ago) link
So ILM is still doing "aspie" in 2015, huh? Maybe we can bring back "cripple" and "spastic" if we work real hard.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 6 July 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Is there, like, a non-ableist word we can use for "aspie"/"autist" that describes when someone attention to detail and weird obsessions move from being cute/passionate to being a little... unhealthy?
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Because I would don't want to surrender my right to make fun of posts like this
lol they put pierce after poehler alphabetically― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:32 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki was kinda hoping P-Z would be totally out of order after that, which would be a wainish bit of random humor, but no― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:32 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was kinda hoping P-Z would be totally out of order after that, which would be a wainish bit of random humor, but no
― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Editor’s note: It has been brought to SPIN’s attention that this review, published last week, includes factual inaccuracies about Staples (such as an implication about drug use) and language that has been interpreted as stereotypical or racially insensitive. We regret these oversights during the editing process, take full responsibility for the error in judgment, and apologize to anyone who was offended.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
^ forgot to also apologise for the burdensome writing, protracted metaphors and doleful point-making, but at least it's a start eh?
― cod latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
"It has been brought to SPIN’s attention" jfc
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
given that the issue likely had much to do with it being rushed into publication without an editor or subeditor looking it at properly, that seems like a fair and candid choice of words
― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/kissoutthejams/status/606094147448143872
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
so the editorial oversight is no one on earth looked at it before hitting publish
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
editorial is "over" putting their "sight" on what they publish
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
as sympathetic as I am to editors/copy editors not getting work, I think the more likely scenario is that an editor looked at it and didn't see a thing wrong
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 6 July 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
oh definitely
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 6 July 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
(for the record, when I wrote for spin the line edits I got back were quite good; different editor though)
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 6 July 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
― goole, Friday, June 26, 2015 1:53 PM (1 week ago
rly starting to hate this dude
― j., Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link
are you on twitter j? his last honest working class metalhead scold act was in fine form today
― goole, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
yes that is why the hate can't be left in peace to die naturally
― j., Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
This is a breakup record on a number of levels—the most obvious one being the dissolution of a romantic relationship, but also a split with the guitar as a primary instrument of expression and even the end of the notion that Tame Impala is anything besides Kevin Parker and a touring band of hired guns.
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
But he’s also somehow the best and most underrated rock bassist of the 21st century, and it’s not even close on either front.
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
has Ian Cohen always been this fucking idiot? come on ilx and defend yourself, man
The chorus ("I'm a man, woman/ Don't always think before I do") finds him in league with Father John Misty's I Love You, Honeybear and My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall, taking an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance, examining what qualifies as biological instinct and what qualifies as mere rationalization for wanting to fuck around and/or be left alone.
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
pitchfork will always ride for abysmal sensitive-man-holding-dick privileged nonsense fucking indulgent shit smeared all over our willing faces like this & latterday sun kil moon, they will never change, it's final, let's stop paying them or their idiot music any attention
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romancean unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romancean unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romancean unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romancean unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:50 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You know, the hot opinion on /mu/ right now (though I don't know how sincere it is) is that p4k only covers and supports black artists anymore
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:47 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
basically yes
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
A New Music and a New Criticism: Dissent in the Age of the Internet
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Scientists say that punk was not ‘a revolution’ in music, and much as I admire science for its ceaseless exploration of the boundaries of understanding, in this case scientists have got it wrong
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
finally a thinkpiece about punk
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
with all due respect, science
― j., Friday, 17 July 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link