none of these new-fangled Beatles for me, thank you
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
eh, caveman was alright
― balls, Saturday, 1 August 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
caveman singing in the dead of night
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 August 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
The art of the cover version is as much about re-animation as it is performance, raising the temperature of a stark original to an incandescence that was always lurking at its heart bringing dead songs back to life, which is certainly true of The Velvet Underground's 'Ride Into The Sun' and Brian Eno's 'Here Come The Warm Jets'. A low key invocation of the former blossoms into belligerent rock roar. Whispering, halting vocals dream and distil the music bays and protests in full fury, with a fierce rhino-hide guitar solo at its core. Wah wah pedal delirium and a brisk pace customise Eno's original into a repository of exposition and extension, pushing out the parameters into a hulking mass of guitar-oriented glory with an iron-hard carapace.
http://thequietus.com/articles/18286-bardo-pond-record-store-day-trilogy-review
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
a first-time effort surely
― j., Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
OK, the idea that cover versions of VU or Eno's tracks bring 'dead songs back to life' seems pretty misguided, but that's not the worst piece of music writing ever.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
it's very overwritten but its point is clear enough I think
if ppl want to treat this thread as 'rolling music writing which annoyed me for one reason or another' however then so be it
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
it wouldn't even be the worst piece of music writing today https://archive.is/ZkPs3
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
that deserves to be itt, everything about it is bad
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
This dude is three years younger than me, but that's apparantly enough distance to where you would use the phrase "the elusive manic pixie dream girl type" without any self-awareness
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
i'm not gonna read all these, did any of the writers seal the deal?: http://noisey.vice.com/columns/first-dates
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
illusion never changed into something real
― welltris (crüt), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
i guess the headline would change if someone found out that mac demarco was a patient, sensuous lover
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
30+ paragraphs by a self-professed "music writer," a (begrudging) half-sentence about his subject's music
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
forget it, croup, it's noiseytown
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
so it looks like most of these are just frothy q&as, wonder why this time they decided to bless us with the writer's internal monologue. maybe they were worried readers would assume they thought of her as more than just a 18-year-old spankbank entry?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
because everyone can relate, man, we're all 18-to-34-year-old males
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/d/d7/Nuts_and_Gum.png/250px-Nuts_and_Gum.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
lol crut
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Only 3 of those articles were written by men.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
yes and the rest are q&as, not first-person narratives, as i mentioned in the post the post you're quoting is referring to
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
The title of the article is also I Went On A Date With Everyone's Crush, Natalie Imbruglia. compare that to I Went on a Date with My High School Crush: Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara or simply A First Date With... Sky Ferreira
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
though i wouldn't put it past noisey to follow this with a woman's hot'n'heavy I Tried To Fuck Brandon Boyd For All Of Us, though i bet incubus' music would get more than a half-sentence of acknowledgement in that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
god that Imbruglia thing is next-level worthless
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
jeeeeesus. those aren't just embarrassing, they're offensive
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
not if I had anything to do with it it wouldn't xxp
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
prove me wrong, dj mencap. prove me wrong.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
ugh. reading that made me want to put on more clothes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
and lock my door
lol
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.out.com/positive-voices/2015/8/06/was-80s-new-wave-casualty-aids
Not even close to the worst piece of music writing ever, but this feels like such a missed opportunity on such a fascinating topic. I really would like to read a more thorough piece of writing on this that didn't feel so underdeveloped and end with an oh no you didn't joke about fisting.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 9 August 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
<3 mark simpson
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Sunday, 9 August 2015 08:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/aug/11/classical-one-text-message/#
"Debussy was the first composer up. His Danse sacree et danse profane is not Claire de lune or Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn. This is hard core impressionism and it’s not really easy listening even though there is a harp involved."
― rushomancy, Saturday, 15 August 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
I found the linernotes to the Quicksilver Messenger Service live at the Kabuki theatre pretty risible. The writer decided that the short form was QSM in the first sentence and seems to have kept it consistent throughout the rest of the text. I didn't read right through it since it's a writer I tend to find pretty naff anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 15 August 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
*ctrl + f "high fidelity," finds nothing*
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/side-1-track-1-straight-outta-compton-and-the-best-first-songs-ever/
i dont necessarily hate steven hyden but it is like peak obliviousness to base an article around a 5-minute scene in a movie from 18 years ago - a scene ridiculing this sort of geekery - and not even credit it
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
He mentions "Championship Vinyl" at one point and links to the scene
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
That said, it's a dumb article and whatever fun it would be is ruined by too many arbitrary rules
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Is it my limited understanding of English, or would Eazy 'cuckolding' someone's sister mean doing something Eazy would probably not do?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
*facepalm* i don the idiot hat for missing the champ vinyl link xxp
remain irritated tho that all the non-rock inclusions read like, "uugggghhhhh i GUESS i'll put beyonce/young jeezy/daft punk in there" due to hyden's pedigree; i don't necessarily doubt that he listens to shit that isn't rock but i do think that left to his own devices he'd prob make a fairly homogenous list that was almost entirely boomer rock plus maybe some metal and 90s indie-slacker shit
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
what about the bitch that got shot, cuck her
― Now Dom Go Suggbanizer Way (Why?) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
that reads like a fantasy football article and/or bill simmons 2.0
ie *shoots self in face*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
lists lists lists ugh
The main problem I have with Hyden is that the Bill Simmons style just does not work when discussing music.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
exactly
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
Frederik … No. Not least because you can't cuckold a woman. You cuckold her husband. A cuckold is one whose wife has had sex with another man. Also, no particular practices are associated with cuckolding. It's just having sex.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 08:50 (eight years ago) link
But he says that Eazy wants to cuckold the sister? So is she in a same sex relationship, would that work?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
"The lyrics are about the tension of desire, but the mise en scene is power."
Ah yes, of course, the mise en scene of power... (???)
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20985-m3ll155x/
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:21 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, probably doesn't belong in the "worst" thread, but this still annoys me.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
You'll have to take that up with him, not me, Frederik. It's possible he did not fully understanding the correct meaning of "cuckold".
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
left to his own devices he'd prob make a fairly homogenous list that was almost entirely boomer rock plus maybe some metal and 90s indie-slacker shit
the rockist swine
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link