who is Bob Lefsetz?

*the essence of genius

But the point is there’s no hip-hop, no jazz, no Madonna, no questionables like Patti Smith, everyone is deserving and it’s about time.

*closes tab*

Can't tell if that is an Onion article or not. Ha, almost quoted that exact thing

Just try going on the road. Playing to an adoring throng and then getting in the bus with the same dudes you’ve known since high school, trying to come down to do it all over again. It takes drugs. And if you’re doing drugs it’s just a matter of time until you die.

it's going to take me....a while to get over this pararaph

if you can't see that N.W.A. is more "rock n roll" than Cat Stevens, then you don't deserve to listen to music, have opinions, or write emails

That...Ronstadt...thing.

I just clicked over to his thoughts on Beyonce's album release strategy and they're unsurprisingly horrifying

haha is he always like this? this is fantastic, like a combination of robert evans, larry king, and a hard rock cafe t-shirt.

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll.

But if you do…we wanna party with you all night and every day.

fucking poetry

P.S. The E Street Band. My only point is if we’re gonna induct them, how about the rest of the backup bands?

They inducted six backup bands just last year.

robert evans, larry king, and casey kasem.

Come as you are. Please. Don’t dress up. Don’t make a deal with a fashion house. Don’t do endorsements. Keep it punk.

That’s why we believed in Nirvana. Because Kurt believed in rock and roll. Too bad he won’t be at the induction ceremony.

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Wow... Even by Notorious L.E.F. standards that is a humdinger!

There's something so horrifying about his favorite KISS song being Lick it Up

Come on, who in their right mind would start a record label? Only a delusional young fart, wet behind the ears and too stupid to go to business school.

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I might leave the browser on my phone on this thread all day, just to re-read sentences here and there. I want to stage a dramatic reading of that post, it's incredible.

He reminds me so much of Jackie Harvey at the Onion. It's as if he's learned about music through a game of whisper down the line.

"Kurt Coltrane, one of the greatest of rock talents, was ignored during the brief span of his life, but his band Nirvherder's one album album with outlive us all. Kudos, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for giving your highest honor to one of earth's true ALL STARS."

"Finally, the Hall gets it right by inducting one of the great all-female rock bands, KISS, NOT because they are female, but because they are AWESOME! Yes, a man could have come up with the lick to "Lick It Up," and may have even done it BETTER, but then it would not have been KISS. Kudos, Rock Hall, for synching your monthly cycle to this INCREDIBLE band of double x chromosome rockers."

"Peter Gumball, formerly of the progressive-rock act Ingenious, deserves to be inducted for his hit single "Steam" alone, but it's his work on "Take Me Home" by former drummer Phil Collen (of White Leppard) that seals the deal."

These same men who jerked off to her

Daryl Hall, the Lorde of yesteryear

Haha yeah only Big L would cop to a furious mid 70s "Blue Bayou" inspired jack off sesh in his Rock n Roll Hall of Fame piece

There's almost no point parsing that shit, but he calls Motley Crue the Kiss of the '80s right after citing 1983's "Lick It Up" as his favorite Kiss song.

Also, he cites "Lick It Up" as his favorite.

the irony of a man so fond of using caps-lock failing to capitalize all four letters of AIDS, it's beautiful

Before the baby boomers, life was boring.

"And inside the inner sanctum…it’s all jokes and references and life in a lane so fast only the strong survive." = ILM?

Hall & Oates are so good.

Woah, better dumb it down a bit there, poindexter.

And if you didn’t play “Tea For The Tillerman” incessantly, you weren’t alive.
And if you didn’t play “Tea For The Tillerman” incessantly, you weren’t alive.
And if you didn’t play “Tea For The Tillerman” incessantly, you weren’t alive.
And if you didn’t play “Tea For The Tillerman” incessantly, you weren’t alive.

i wonder what it's like to feel this bad about the end of the monoculture

drive your parwnts crazy indeed

But he tries to convince himself that he's hip and with it because he watches stuff on Youtube and because he snears at anyone who thinks Spotify should pay more in royalties

it's so hilarious, his one and only observation is the same old "death of the album" stuff you've heard 10 million times in the last decade, but he keeps shouting it like he's the only one who ever had the thought...

There's something so horrifying about his favorite KISS song being Lick it Up

― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 20, 2013 1:11 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Alienation. It’s the essence of rock and roll. If these people could fit in, play on the football team, date a cheerleader, we’d never have this exquisite greatness

But then in the very next section:

Linda never begged. She snorted cocaine and screwed the desirable people just like the guys. Which is why she was always an insider and the idiots on this committee are not

So wait, then the "idiots on the committee" are closer to the essence of rock and roll?

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I want to stage a dramatic reading of that post, it's incredible.

this would be monumental, so there for this

xp LOOOOOOOOOOL

When I first skimmed this, I laughed.

As I read excerpts posted here, it's morphed from being funny to being pathetic and mildly terrifying.

lol whenever you think the guy can't outdo himself... he delivers!
it is funny though, when nirvana came out were dudes like lefsetz like "oh yeah, here's some real rock n roll!" or were they more likely saying "why can't kids listen to this eric clapton unplugged record"

Come as you are. Please. Don’t dress up. Don’t make a deal with a fashion house. Don’t do endorsements. Keep it punk.

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll.

But if you do…we wanna party with you all night and every day.

Wonder if he realizes the first line is from AC DC?

it is so weird to me that ppl read what this guy writes

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KEEP IT PUNK

basically I read this and then I understand why people watch Duck Dynasty

"before the baby boomers, life was boring" is like "no man, no problem": a person suddenly made clear

It was the “Royals” of yesteryear. You only had to hear a few notes.

this is my favorite line right now

"As for becoming a Muslim… Story is he committed himself to God after nearly drowning. Near-death experiences will change you. And at least he’s still alive."

am I imagining the tone here

i read this on my phone at about 1:30 am last night, pretty sure my neighbors are gonna get me evicted now from going WHAT at the top of my lungs

Let this be a lesson to the industry, that we should focus on individuals as opposed to money and commitments. If so, Kurt Cobain would be alive today.

like, right here, to start

i read this

your first mistake

Story is he committed himself to God after nearly drowning not playing Tea for the Tillerman incessantly.

i heard it was wonderful. and it was true.

lmao

#keepitpunk