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.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Really this is Adam out of Adam and Joe, isn't it?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Word to your mother.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the new look but then again I would.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Good to be reminded of this...
http://thequietus.com/articles/all-you-old-bastards-should-learn-something-from-this-the-cult-of-chris-needham
― bidfurd, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that's the whole program on the you-tube links. Watch it! It is very very very funny, and more.
― bidfurd, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't like the way they've replaced the full-post RSS feed entries with just the article titles.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Odd he should think that Lemmy or Bruce Dickinson should give a toss about whether he thinks, let alone what he thinks.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, but do you actually do that?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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!!!!"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
This happens in football all the time.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
NAME ME THREE SPURS FA CUP FINAL SINGLES! NOWWWWW!
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(if anything, it's the online stool pigeon)
whose own online setup has improved a lot recently.
― mark e, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
That's a low blow Charlie!
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it just my browser or is there meant to be that much Times New Roman all over the front page? Kind of ugly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
move over girl talk
― mark e, Thursday, 24 July 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I recognised Nate Dogg and "Today's The Day For You To Stop Love" by George Jones, but nothing else.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 24 July 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
surely we can ace it between us...
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 24 July 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
-- mark e
Um Mark, Osymyso was doing this stuff years before you or I or anyone else knew who Girl Talk was
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i know - but girl talk gets all the press these days ..
― mark e, Thursday, 24 July 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hence why dj food dropped his stuff into this fantastic mashup aural document.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 July 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5fAU7tNxY
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 24 July 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
in before LBZC
― Just got offed, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
...unless it's true!!?!?!??!?!?!?1/1//1/!
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
There's no point now though, Doran's got no money anymore.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
"anymore"
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.yorapper.com/Photos/50-cent-i-get-money.JPG
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 18 August 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Has Swells run so short of targets that he's hitting out at bands' legal representatives now?
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 18 August 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
doran stanky rich
― Just got offed, Monday, 18 August 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thequietus.com/articles/black-sky-thinking-manchester-so-much-to-answer-for
^^ fucking retarded bullshit
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree with it to the extent that undergrads are attracted to Manchester because of its music scene, but that's hardly a searing insight is it.
― Neil S, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
saying 'the wire' is like 'hill street blues' meets 'the great american novel' (like what, saul bellow? philip roth? not seeing it homes) is just ignorant bullshit.
is it really so bad that undergrads find this city appealing because of its music? no worse than londoners who affect to be interested in the psychogeography of the east end or whatever.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it's not bad, you're right. And a lot of crap gets talked about a lot of cities' music scenes, Manchester perhaps only marginally more than anywhere else.
― Neil S, Monday, 15 September 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 15 September 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Standard manc 'everything is shit' cynicism, just directed at Manchester not everything outside of Manchester, for once.
Just about sums the piece up, really.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 07:59 (fifteen years ago) link
A whole generation of walking lists, that’s what they’ve become: mention The Stooges or Scott Walker on your mySpace page and you’ve made it.
It’s as if the whole ethos of ‘Rock & Roll’- the whole fuck-what-came-before, daringly primitive and unabashed idiocy of it all is the one thing from the past that nobody can locate: not truly anyway; that, in reality, nobody wants to find.
For like lads huddled round the damp porno mag in the six - week holidays, or girls gawking at Big Brother bodies, the real thing might just be a bit too much to handle and live with: better the surface, the page, the TV, the comfort of make-believe.
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― your worst fucking nightmare (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
this thing abt a 'social contract' still seems weird to me. if you dont like it, dont read it
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Death To False Camp (Doran), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
'Girlfriend In A Medieval Torture Instrument'
― Death To False Camp (Doran), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Okay this is now the second thread in which we've been creating Morrissey/Maiden song titles in the last two days. Impressive ILM.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
It'll never happen. Bringing your daughter to the slaughter is death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Run To The Hillside Desolate
― Death To False Camp (Doran), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
When did Thequietus do away with comments? Was there something that precipitated it or just an acknowledgement that they weren't very useful?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― Doran, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
maybe i don't visit often enough but this is an... odd review right?
http://thequietus.com/articles/24917-drake-scorpion-album-review
― devvvine, Monday, 16 July 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
yeah that is odd. Tommy Monroe's two other reviews are equally strange, not sure what the deal is
― ufo, Monday, 16 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
To make you work for your edification. :-D
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:12 (three 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 (three months ago) link