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
lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS
i can't type lololololololol enough
― 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
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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
a sentence worthy of David Brooks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
i beg to differ, science
― j., Friday, 17 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Guys. Remember the legendary 'was the drummer for Gay Dad' essay?
Per Mike Daddino on Twitter, turns out the author of this piece was the bassist for Bloc Party.
NOT KIDDING.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
if there's a rock'n'roll thinkpiece heaven, they must have an ok band
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 17 July 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
LOL i want to see that lab w scientists in lab coats handling The Ramones first album.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
https://hollywoodrevue.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/rock-and-roll-mouse.png
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 17 July 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
What is that from? It looks familiar.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
rock n roll high school
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Freshman profundity. Something tells me we're going to see a lot more Cuepoint in this thread from now on.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
http://whyideletedyourpromoemail.tumblr.com/
pretty lolzy
― davey, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
^not as good as ned's fbook feed
― D-30 (gr8080), Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
i thought ned was just moonlighting
― j., Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
After we broke up, I started record- ing new songs on my own. Filtering them through Crass, the Oblivians, and classic guitar riff-rock like Ted Nugent’s ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and Foreigner’s ‘Juke Box Hero,’ they took on a similar feel to what I was after.
based on that description I'd prolly give this a shot
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
It's the one coherent bit in the whole feed. (And no, not my tumblr -- but it IS a friend of an ILXor.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/all-74-led-zeppelin-songs-ranked.html
i no doubt committed some of the same sins as a callow young rockwriter but holy shit, this just may be the worst piece of music writing ever. led zep song by song with more ad hominem attacks, sneering self-righteous moral judgements, cloth-eared musical analysis, wooden prose, unsupported assertions and just plain rong opinions. sure "counterintuitive" arguments are a big part of the clickbait strategy these days but a lot of this just feels contrary and calculated. written like a stunted clone of christgau & derogatis. ugh.
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Looks like the Stones get off tour and dude has too much time on his hands
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Off topic slightly, but "Hots On For Nowhere" (#72 out of 74) is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs I actively like. Meanwhile, "Hot Dog" is #28. Was this randomly generated?
― mike a, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link