the quietus : the new look

http://thequietus.com/articles/black-sky-thinking-cutting-the-beef

What an unsufferable cunt.

Also insufferable.

Good to see Drowned in Sound artiste Bert Anderson getting some much needed coverage.

He's no longer on Drowned in Sound. In fact, without label.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/brumspur/lehmann.gif

Why don't they fucking get someone who DOES know the G-Unit album then? Best use of the term "no days off" in pop since "24 Hour Party People" for a start. AMATEURS!

As an RSS feed reader, I can't say that the new look affects me too much one way or the other. Same kind of content, same kind of frequency. I personally favour the trad blog format for most sites that are frequently updated - perhaps because I have an overly linear mind and don't mind scrolling. But since the trad blog format is still stigmatised in certain quarters, I can see why they've gone down this route.

Anyhow, I've been enjoying a honeymoon period with this site since stumbling across it about 3 weeks ago. So it's all good.

About a third of The Quietus is challops innit. Being all look-indie-kid-I'm-bursting-yr-bubble doesn't really work on a site that's suppose to be the online Mojo or Uncut though does it.

Rap music features posse cuts isn't much of a surprise, no need for a piece anyway.

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/hall-oates-the-singles-review/

It cannot be denied: word to Prince, Daryl and John got hits. The thing opens with 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)', a bona fide classic, a masterclass in sinister funk and that patented widescreen, sparking production style that cats like Dre up and ran with.

Really this is Adam out of Adam and Joe, isn't it?

You need to see his piece about how he tried to single-handedly bring rap music to a new audience (of white people) but illicit government black-ops shut him down, Marcy.

Word to your mother.

I like the new look but then again I would.

feeling grumpy that they removed the old comments on the "about us" section as sadly thats where i got a lot of referral hits from.

Good to be reminded of this...

http://thequietus.com/articles/all-you-old-bastards-should-learn-something-from-this-the-cult-of-chris-needham

I think that's the whole program on the you-tube links.
Watch it! It is very very very funny, and more.

So what do you think about Motörhead and Maiden t-shirts in Top Shop?

Don’t get me started on that. Part of me thinks it’s great, if the people wearing them actually check it out. But I know they won’t, because to them it’s like a fashion accessory. And I feel like grabbing hold of them and going “HOW MANY FUCKING MOTORHEAD ALBUMS DO YOU OWN? NAME ME ONE SONG OTHER THAN ACE OF SPADES BY MOTORHEAD! NAME ME FIVE IRON MAIDEN ALBUMS! NOWWWWW!” I know it’s their registered trademark and they’re getting paid, but as a Metal fan who loves Maiden and Motorhead who saw them recently – I’m not one of those old bastards who go “Oh yeah, I saw them on the Number Of The Beast tour”, I still go out and see these bands because I love them – it pisses me off.

Chris Needham IS the UK Alex in NYC.

Don't like the way they've replaced the full-post RSS feed entries with just the article titles.

Odd he should think that Lemmy or Bruce Dickinson should give a toss about whether he thinks, let alone what he thinks.

And I feel like grabbing hold of them and going “HOW MANY FUCKING MOTORHEAD ALBUMS DO YOU OWN? NAME ME ONE SONG OTHER THAN ACE OF SPADES BY MOTORHEAD! NAME ME FIVE IRON MAIDEN ALBUMS! NOWWWWW!”

I've never seen anyone actually do this in real life, just talk about it, but it seems like the obvious response is "I don't care at all about the band, I just wear this to annoy self-important douchebags who use their taste in music as a personality substitute"

Yes, but do you actually do that?

I'd like to see more people carry this approach over to other articles of clothing. "HOW DARE YOU WEAR A LANSING LUGNUTS CAP?!?!?! HOW MANY GAMES HAVE YOU BEEN TO?!?! NAME THEIR STARTING INFIELD!!!!"

This happens in football all the time.

NAME ME THREE SPURS FA CUP FINAL SINGLES! NOWWWWW!

suppose to be the online Mojo or Uncut

oh crikey, don't tell them that! that's exactly *not* what they're trying to be.

(if anything, it's the online stool pigeon)

(if anything, it's the online stool pigeon)

whose own online setup has improved a lot recently.

That's a low blow Charlie!

Why doesn't the online stool pigeon use unreadable text and background colour combinations? Or, rather, why do they bother with a print stool pigeon?

Is it just my browser or is there meant to be that much Times New Roman all over the front page? Kind of ugly.

move over girl talk

I recognised Nate Dogg and "Today's The Day For You To Stop Love" by George Jones, but nothing else.

surely we can ace it between us...

move over girl talk

-- mark e

Um Mark, Osymyso was doing this stuff years before you or I or anyone else knew who Girl Talk was

i know - but girl talk gets all the press these days ..

hence why dj food dropped his stuff into this fantastic mashup aural document.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5fAU7tNxY

eek:

Dear all,

as of today The Quietus is no longer part of the joint venture deal with DrownedinSound and Sky. This obviously has major repercussions for The Quietus in both long and short term. Firstly, we'd ask anyone who has outstanding unpaid invoices to email them over to us within the next 24 hours so that we can make sure you're paid in full for work that has already been published. Secondly, as far as we're concerned this is not the end of The Quietus. With your help we've managed to achieve 40,000 unique users and 157,000 page views a month (that's a lot, for the webshy) since April and, more importantly, published some of the best music journalism that the British bit of the internet has yet seen. We're in discussions with various people to try and find a way of carrying on with The Quietus as an independent and financially viable entity. If you could get in touch with John and I about work already commissioned or with any questions you might have that would be a great help.

Thanks for all your hard work and support thus far,

J0hn D0r4n & Luk3 Turn3r

I wish them well - I've really enjoyed it so far.

in before LBZC

published some of the best music journalism that the British bit of the internet has yet seen.

Could someone link to any of this plz.

Maybe someone had better tell Los Campensinos' and Belle and Sebastian's lawyers about SWells referring to them as p43dos which I'm pretty sure counts as criminal libel...

...unless it's true!!?!?!??!?!?!?1/1//1/!

There's no point now though, Doran's got no money anymore.

"anymore"

Well, yeah.

http://www.yorapper.com/Photos/50-cent-i-get-money.JPG

Has Swells run so short of targets that he's hitting out at bands' legal representatives now?

doran stanky rich

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/black-sky-thinking-manchester-so-much-to-answer-for

^^ fucking retarded bullshit

Doran we've had a few convos about site design like this before (especially on the rap threads since sites like Complex tend to be the worst offenders with clickthroughs on their rap listicles) -- i'm just reposting something i said on the matter once as food for thought, not to argue with you because honestly it is nice to at least have someone from a site that trades in this practice defend it in somewhat understandable terms:

borkslovethewu (some dude) wrote this on thread DJ QUIK - THE BOOK OF DAVID - 2010 on board I Love Music on Apr 10, 2011

like if you want people to consume your work in a way that financially benefits you, then there's kind of a social contract that demands you not be too obnoxious about making them jump through extra hoops to get it

Doran, having run a site very similar to yours in America, I can def empathize with artists coming back with short or terse answers to questions or requests. You shouldn't be faulted for that, and anyone who blames you for not talking to Beth Gibbons is an entitled idiot.

However, honestly, pushing some nickel-and-dime clickthough scam over the readability of your website is just straight clowning your readers, it makes US do the work.

It was a very cool article, though, and I was happy to read it. Sorry if I'm bumming you out. :/

im surprised you guys are selling ads on clicks and not uniques!

Whiney and all: Well it's a fair cop. When we get someone like Chino Moreno or Morrissey telling us his 13 favourite albums it can really give us some breathing space to not have to hit targets with extra reviews and mad news stories or competitions that keep us in the office past midnight or whatever.

We know that you lot are in the right as regards to the letter of the law but we'd like to see it as a very, very minor transgression. Ideally we won't always do stuff as a click through but for now, once in a while we don't mind.

We're in the middle of saving to get the site redesigned, which will make the gallery feature a lot nicer. Basically it works on thumbnails but it's better than that makes it sound.

I mean, after all we did our first end of year lists as a click through gallery and we deserved the bollocking we got for that. It was bloody chicanery, pure and simple.

My bottom line is that we're obviously on a different side of the fence from all the click fodder music sites like Clash and Artrocker or whatever.

That said, if this is GENUINELY becoming some kind of ideological thing then I will think about stopping doing it sooner rather than later.

No one's bumming me today. I'm full of coffee and the joys of late Summer.

Max: Our advertising - which is the bane of my life - is always in a state of flux and we sell on a number of different ways. None of them are click throughs per se but some of them are done on page impressions instead of unique users.

bet that's the first time anyone's ever used the phrase "someone like Chino Moreno or Morrissey"

I'll bet Iron Maiden have said it to their manager recently: "What's all this about Metallica and Lou Reed... We should do this... Can't you get us someone like..."

POWERSMITH

this thing abt a 'social contract' still seems weird to me. if you dont like it, dont read it

Doran - love Thequietus, really appreciate the balance between my old punk/post-punk faves and new artists. I'd gladly spend some dosh to support the site, why don't you offer up some compilation CDs or something?

Cheers dude! Much appreciated.

We're actually going to do a thing with limited run vinyl next year but we've got to wait until we can do a really good job of it.

We'd love to do an annual or a quarterly but again, we'd only do it if we could put out something really well produced.

'Girlfriend In A Medieval Torture Instrument'

Okay this is now the second thread in which we've been creating Morrissey/Maiden song titles in the last two days. Impressive ILM.

It'll never happen. Bringing your daughter to the slaughter is death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder.

Run To The Hillside Desolate

When did Thequietus do away with comments? Was there something that precipitated it or just an acknowledgement that they weren't very useful?

I just noticed that today. Maybe it's still available if you have an account? There are 56 comments for this recent article but I can't see them since I'm not logged in.

For good? Recently. Within the last fortnight. Nothing in particular. It was essentially left to me to moderate them and after a decade of near constant unpleasantness and tons of spam I'd just had enough.

We had a trial run a couple of years ago and I outlined the reasons for a short piece in the Guardian.

We've had a few ideas on how to improve the situation but for all the effort it's going to take I just don't see the point.

maybe i don't visit often enough but this is an... odd review right?

http://thequietus.com/articles/24917-drake-scorpion-album-review

yeah that is odd. Tommy Monroe's two other reviews are equally strange, not sure what the deal is

bring your kid to work day was my first guess

huh...

that was too harsh of me but just seems very off the house style

loool, i smell jolly japes here tbh

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

Finally, early Pitchfork reviewing is back in vogue

that's a joke guys

if it's a joke, they've been playing the long con https://twitter.com/TommyMonroe_

Men that allow other men walk through the door first are the real gentlemen.

— T O M M Y (@TommyMonroe_) July 16, 2018

:D

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.

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

it would usually have to be funny to be a successful parody really

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

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

this guy keeps following and unfollowing me on twitter and i'm like......my dude

http://thequietus.com/articles/25121-graham-lambkin-interview

nice write up on Graham Lambkin

Happy 10th Anniversary!
The Top 100 Albums Of The Quietus' Existence, As Picked By tQ's Writers

Nothing Important is in my decade top 2 as well! Good shout Quietus

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 :) )

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?

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.

great site for 10 years

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

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 :)

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 :)

ditto, but without the emoji.

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 )

oh yes will do that now

tQ needs a subscriber boost -- if you can contribute, please do!

https://thequietus.com/articles/32853-quietus-subscriber-discount

I uhm ... doubt that I'm the only Quietus reader over 40. Why then the eyechart typeface

To make you work for your edification. :-D

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.