Let's play a round of "Count The Crimes Against Coherence And Grammar In This Shitty Indie Rock Record Review Written By A Bitter Little Blogtwat"

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http://thelittlebluefrog.blogspot.com/2010/05/indian-jewery.html

And, FWIW, dude also happens to be dead wrong.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link

do you want separate totals for crimes against coherence and crimes against grammar, or an aggregate?

INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Age: 20

scott seward, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link

20 is the new 14 these days. i don't think you are even considered an adult anymore until you are 40.

scott seward, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm just lolling at the spelling in the URL itself.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Scott OTM, we are nearing a neotenic culture in re: indie music writing.

99 anna hay-uff jussa woan' do (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Other than trying to work out if 'cult fallowing' is a typo I can't really see what elevates this for derision over a trillion other nobodies with blogspot opinions4u out there

taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link

I guess I don't read many of these, then. I was literally shocked when I read this review. It reads like a hysterical Facebook status update by an illiterate.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

literally cannot believe that a piece of writing on a blog is misspelled

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link

i am going to craft a strongly-worded email to the blogger and CC the new york times

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

this is just fucking disgusting

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

what happened to standards

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

If I had to put on an indian jewelry album with my grandma, it would be totaled.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

holy shit this guys blog has been read by almost one thousand people--cant believe someone with an audience of that size is a poor writer

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

http://thelittlebluefrog.blogspot.com/2010/04/vampire-weekend-contra.html

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link


This isn't great. I wasn't much of a fan of their first album. They sound like a . And I can't stand Ezra Koenig's voice, so that doesn't help.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

i am going to email all 6 of his followers and let them know that they are following a blog that had grammatical errors

max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

max, you sound like a .

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

If I had to put on an indian jewelry album with my grandma, it would be totaled.

ha xpost

I don't really get the point of this thread though.

hills like white people (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Is that a 7 out of 10? If so, LOL!

bageled by dementeds (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link

It just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at allIt just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at allIt just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at allIt just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at allIt just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at allIt just sounds like every other mediocre piece of indie rock that has been released in the past 10 years. Nothing special at all

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link

also LOL!:

It's not easy for me to admit that this album is flat and uninspired and they're one of my favorite bands.

bageled by dementeds (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link

eh who cares? not a big leap from the reviews you might find on f0xyd1g1tal1$

kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't care per se, this shit is just funny.

bageled by dementeds (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link

weird cover on that album... car very un-totaled... maybe it's a shot from an 80s movie i never saw.

kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link

On Burial's Untrue: "If you've recently caught on the dubstep wave, check this out for something deeper. This is great layered electronic music. This is IDM at it's finest in my opinion. Highly recommended."

Now I know almost nothing about electronic music, but does Burial have fuck all to do with IDM?

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link

http://thelittlebluefrog.blogspot.com/2010/04/2000-2010.html

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link

2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. The later end of decade was a little more modern to the times. Chili Peppers returned with Stadium Archadium. I still remember the day I went out to buy that (probably because I bought The MArs Volta's 3rd on the same day). 2007 was more Avril and Linkin Park.

2008 was pretty recent right? Wrong. It was the beginning of the cheap bubblegum hip hop of t-pain, T.I. and Young Jeezy.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link

This is not to mention all of the "buzz ballad bands" like 3 Doors Down, Stained and Lifehouse. And people used to actually listen to this shit. Fuck as far as I know people still do, knowing that Miley Cyrus is constantly number one on itunes.

Lets hope for a better decade.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link

The early '00 were the worst. What were you listening to in 2000? Britney Spears probably.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link

2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora. 2004 was the year of "rock" with Greenday's foray into the spotlight with American Idiot, and Linkin Park's Meteora.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link

http://people.ucsc.edu/~lfhe/TheStrokes.jpg

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

2008 was pretty recent right? Wrong. It was two years ago.

I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Richard D. James' first full length as Aphex Twin. Select Ambient Works 85-92 is just what the title suggests.

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link

This guy studied at the feet of PEW.

Grisly Addams (WmC), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link

okay so this was funny before it got stomped into the ground so quickly

bageled by dementeds (HI DERE), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

It's easy to write a pop song. It's mindless to follow structure. However it is not simple to create beautiful and emotional music that goes where it wants to. Each song is a novel of sound. Silver Mt. Zion is a unique post rock band. You give a lot to the listener that others don't. They don't rely on unbearable amounts of distortion, they don't give you cheesy made up words as their lyrics, there's no sweepingly ultra emotional crescendos, and they're by no means ambient. It's a dark, heavy and extremely organic, earthy sound. The only thing plugged into the wall is the one guitar, everything else is a sting instrument.

OH GOD MAKE IT STOP

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link

don't be so mindless man.

kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link

FUCK 2004 ROCKED!

kumar the bavarian, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I consider this guy lucky: this stuff is on his blog, so one day, if he wants, he can DELETE embarrassing things he said when he was 20.

oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link

unless they're in archive.org or pasted all over the internet by then

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

he'll have to delete this thread, too

teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

if anyone's read that in Google Reader, it will have all of those posts archived too so \(O_o)/

ksh, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Another Jim Brenholts in training?

Miles "Tails" Davis (Daruton), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link

bahaha e-music vs idm

kumar the bavarian, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link

let he without his own embarrassing permanently-archived-on-the-internet music criticism cast the first stone

pokám0n (dyao), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link


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