I'm a I'm a hunter-gatherer I kill what I eatI'm a I'm a singer-songwriter I write what I sing
(Geewhiz I haven't quoted Big Black lyrics in like 12 yrs)
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
up there with "cathedrals of sound"
― kate, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bflaska, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ben sterling (frozen in time), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry (Jerry), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry (Jerry), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
come to think of it "singer/songwriter" might become useful again eventually, it just isn't right now (heh except as in "nah, [x*] sucks; i'm into introspective singer/songwriters like eminem etc")
(*makes most sense if [x] = eg.destiny's child, but has greater potential if [x] = eg.wilco)
actually if it's meant derisively "s/s" is useful for exactly the reasons it sticks in my craw
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Jerry, felching involves shit & clingfilm, right? I've never used that in a review! Got fairly close when writing about Simian once though..."I'd rather take a shit than hear any more of this. So that's what I did".
― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
"...and X is no exception"
― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry (Jerry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry (Jerry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― james devon, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
End of thread.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 01:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
strawmen of all kinds, but especially those that begin, "All electronic music is cold/boring/austere/etc., but [artist X] isn't." believe it or not, you still see this trope disturbingly often, at least in the US.
the very idea of "electronic music," though i've failed to come up with any better umbrella concept.
"genre-defying." though you see that more often in press-releases than actual rockcrit, thank god.
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Loewenstein (Davlo), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also cringe & sieze up whenever I see "[X]pop" used, especially when the writer's trying to avoid the old [X]pop cliches.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
[encompassing as many of your pet-peeves as possible as well as mine, this should prove to be the perfect review]
― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
charlie you sound like a really good music journalist
dammit, where's that sarcasm font when you need it eh?
― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bflaska, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
(so "long and epic" = "I'm paid by the word")
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 2 July 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, I'd never noticed how annoying that is. You'd think somebody might've pointed out that it was annoying before.
― Duck Rivers (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 July 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 12th, 2003. (Ned)
Snarfing is "the act of sniffing a bicycle seat after a lady has just been seated upon it"
-- Jerry (everet...)February 13th, 2003. (Jerry)
i always thought snarfing was when you laugh when you're in the middle of drinking and it comes out your nose,no?
-- robin (robin_lace...), February 13th, 2003. (robin)
I'm sure there are snarfing e-groups on Yahoo.
-- Vic (Iodine99...), February 13th, 2003. (Vic)
Dagnabbit! I thought I had found a usage of "snarfing" in a song. It turns out I haven't but I feel I'm closing in. My misheard lyric comes courtesy of Ed Sanders and Ken Weaver from the Fugs album "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest": the track is track 7 on side two of the LP--"We're Both Dead Now, Alice."
We're both dead now. No more ViceroysNo more K-YNo more slurpings at the narthaxAll is over Over the lee.
If anyone has used Snarf(s/ed/ing) in a song, it has to be the Fugs.
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Sunday, 2 July 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 2 July 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
can we gamble on music? An ILM dream I'm sure.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 2 July 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 3 July 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― don (dow), Monday, 3 July 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
here's an excerpt of a review on stylus today:
While searching for information regarding Camille's Le Fil, the most frequent description you’ll run into is that the album is "the French pop equivalent to Björk's Medúlla." A bit troubling, considering that the Matthew Barney stroke-a-thon is one of the most pretentious, unlistenable albums of the last five years.
ooh, the pretentious/unlistenable double whammy! i've heard medulla plenty of times now and i can't say it's ever occured to me to describe 45 minutes of sound as "unlistenable."
― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― exayve (xave), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Obviously it's forgivable to discuss blogs if you're talking about the marketing of a band, (which itself is quite overdone as a story these days), but it doesn't say one thing about the music, and it's always used to seem *in-the-know* but blase while avoiding actually saying anything new about the artist.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― senator second p. newcastle (a_p), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
It's like calling a band "e-mail blastcore"
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link