bring your kid to work day was my first guess
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
huh...
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
that was too harsh of me but just seems very off the house style
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
loool, i smell jolly japes here tbh
― imago, Monday, 16 July 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
Terrible review. Sounds like the writer is describing a can of Pepsi they’re drinking. Absolutely tells you nothing about how it sounds or content etc
― Ross, Monday, 16 July 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
Finally, early Pitchfork reviewing is back in vogue
― PaulTMA, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
that's a joke guys
― ogmor, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
if it's a joke, they've been playing the long con https://twitter.com/TommyMonroe_
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
Men that allow other men walk through the door first are the real gentlemen.— T O M M Y (@TommyMonroe_) July 16, 2018
:D
― imago, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Pusha T has a discography filled with lyrics about drugs. On “The Game We Play,” he gives a shoutout the drug dealers—the people behind the scenes— “the names they fade”. This song is for people like El Chapo. ”This is the drug money your ex nigga claim he made” will have many girlfriends asking their man why he isn’t making drug money. With the message behind this song, he shows respect for drug dealers, and the profession (Yes, the profession) of drug dealing.
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
i was certain it was a joke but reading through his twitter TL it really seems like a long and weird way to go for some simple-ass parody
― imago, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
it would usually have to be funny to be a successful parody really
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
As The Quietus sometimes does Mr. Agreeable reboots it's no surprise that it's intended humour has a tendency to leave one's sides intact
― PaulTMA, Monday, 16 July 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
back with a banger...
Travis Scott invites a league of top-rate collaborators to the album. Unlike most artists who would like to utilize featured guests to the maximum, Scott takes a different approach. There are many contributors on the album, some even unmentioned. The interesting thing about his approach is, on songs like ‘Stop Trying To Be God’, ‘Skeletons’, and ‘Yosemite’ for example, not all the guests play major vocal roles in singing as they might usually do. This genius approach by Scott leads to a blend of so many sounds, vocals that act as condiments on these songs.
http://thequietus.com/articles/25096-travis-scott-astroworld-review
― devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
this guy keeps following and unfollowing me on twitter and i'm like......my dude
― austinb, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/25121-graham-lambkin-interview
nice write up on Graham Lambkin
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
Happy 10th Anniversary!The Top 100 Albums Of The Quietus' Existence, As Picked By tQ's Writers
― willem, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
Nothing Important is in my decade top 2 as well! Good shout Quietus
― imago, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
superb stuff; great list and an awesome number 1
looking forward to delving into all the records i hadn't heard b4 (after revisiting field of reeds first :) )
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
interesting list at the very least with the occasional completely bizarre pick, like i would have never imagined the quietus would rep for travis scott's birds in the trap sing mcknight, of all things?
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
agree with a lot on the list but the travis pick is ludicrous, especially considering all the artists he ripped off have made better albums/tapes. the us rap picks being kendrick/kanye/travis/death grips is so "i don't like rap but _____", really just missing run the jewels.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
great site for 10 years
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
ah reading again this list was voted on by everyone who's ever contributed to the site, unlike the end of year lists which are compiled only by the 5 core staff. that explains why it's in some ways a lot less distinctive than i would have expected for a quietus list, but still doesn't explain travis scott showing up
― ufo, Thursday, 4 October 2018 07:33 (five years ago) link
that claim can't be true cos I contributed a few reviews to the quietus and they never contacted me for this article, the bastards :)
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 4 October 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
ditto, but without the emoji.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 October 2018 08:20 (five years ago) link
Twelve years old and a subscription model to help the site continue -- as well as get a slew of bonuses -- is now live:
https://thequietus.com/articles/28833-the-quietus-subscriptions-birthday
Think about it, won't you? (So I can write even more for them. :-D )
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
oh yes will do that now
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
tQ needs a subscriber boost -- if you can contribute, please do!
https://thequietus.com/articles/32853-quietus-subscriber-discount
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
I uhm ... doubt that I'm the only Quietus reader over 40. Why then the eyechart typeface
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 22:44 (four months ago) link
To make you work for your edification. :-D
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:12 (four months ago) link
The Quietus is one of those websites that doesn't specify a typeface. So if you go into your browser settings, change the default typeface and reload the site you should find something more to your liking.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 18 January 2024 06:21 (four months ago) link
redesign is unusable
― adam, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 15:33 (one week ago) link
... seems ok on my phone?
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 15:42 (one week ago) link
fine to me, and certainly a huge improvement on the previous incarnation
― giraffe, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:29 (one week ago) link
Fine here and it looks great
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link
yeah redesign is much better (puts away reading glasses)
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:15 (one week ago) link
The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:45 (one week ago) link
I gladly cannot think of anyone less likely to pivot to any kind of conservatism than John tbh
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:23 (one week ago) link
lol very true
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:21 (one week ago) link
or Luke
Yes of course Luke as well!
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:37 (one week ago) link
Looks nice but I did a few reviews for them years ago and the first few paras of them don't appear under the new look, which is weird.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:47 (one week ago) link
Worth getting in touch to explain that - I'm sure they have an easy way around that glitch...
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:24 (one week ago) link
if you have the urls we could check the source code and see if there's some css styling/js that is creating that glitch!
― fpsa, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:17 (one week ago) link
The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 7:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 7:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Curious to know why this would make you think that?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:14 (one week ago) link
The actual language I saw on Twitter was:
The Quietus has regenerated.Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.
Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.
I'm old enough to have seen too many media outlets (especially ones emanating from TERF Island) use language like that to signal a pivot to "iconoclast"/"contrarian" editorial perspectives that boil down to middle-aged right-wing bullshit in a leather jacket. And since my only exchange with the editors, some years ago, was an unpleasant one (they asked me to write a review, but only on the condition that it was negative), I was suspicious.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 16:15 (one week ago) link
You can't Quiet Us, woke moralists
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:58 (one week ago) link
it's called humour, unperson.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:23 (one week ago) link
i am just rather chuffed that the 4 (thomas dolby, age of chance, don letts, and foetus course), interviews i did for them, have been ported across to the new site.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:27 (one week ago) link
"foetus course" : "foetus of course"