Now you get to listen to My Morning Jacket!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/images/Parchment%20and%20Pen/Ruth%20Tucker/Hell.gif
― tylerw, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing wrong about My Morning Jacket, although Flaming Lips do roughly the same thing better :)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
you'll have to pry my jethro tull records from my cold, dead hands
― Domm P))) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom is like Jethro Tull only NOW, man.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Jethro Newsom - Aquaharp
― tylerw, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i really hope the author can explain how all those bomb throwing radical generation rock terrorists of the 60s spent most of their time obsessing over blues and folk records recorded in the 20s and 30s
― Domm P))) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
^^
― mark cl, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
See, the problem I have with the original article is that he makes some stupid mistakes in spelling, grammar, and music knowledge.
'...who can quite frankly can screw themselves..." <---- no Editor, even a Uni newpaper twerp, should make such a horrific mistake.
'Greenday' <-----you fucking kidding me?
In terms of music knowledge, the guy who wrote this is obviously retarded.
― the table is the table, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I really hope the author can make peace with his parents ... he seems to have issues.
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^for realz. this is the first thing I thought of too. Like, does he not realize that the entire concept of generational-warfare-via-pop-culture was developed by, um, the baby boomers?
― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I was just envisioning some chick he was interested in flirting with his dad instead.
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
a new challenger?
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406425
― joe, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
was unable to read that.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
shredded moose morelike
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
At first, chords were enough: to simply hammer, as John Lennon did, a chord, a root, a seventh, a sixth - anything.
listen to some fucking charlie christian, arsehole.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
hendrix as phallic, clapton as anal
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It might be noticed that I mention only English guitarists,
Ran. Screaming.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
was going to post that hendrix-clapton line but thought it would be unfair to inflict it on anyone who hadn't already read it. An image that will haunt the rest of my days.
― Stryder's on the Orme (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"There is hardly one classic electric guitarist to have come from America. Blues, jazz, country, etc, indeed - and they have mastered the art of the Paganinistic solo in grand masters such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. But these are not guitarists with the right spirit, able to serve and transcend music at the same time."
No way, you did not just say that.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i like how he claims hendrix as an english guitarist just for the hell of it
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised to find the guy is only 36, assumed he was some nostalgic baby-boomer.
― joe, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Why is there so much music writing on the internet that's like 20 paragraph think pieces? Who is reading all of this?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
some people think the point of not having an editor is not editing themselves?
― Briney Deep Coralgarden (some dude), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
this piece was in the tls though rite? which is pretty respectable (or used to be).
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
was responding to Whiney's question about "writing on the internet," not talking about that piece
― Briney Deep Coralgarden (some dude), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Off piste: A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise
― just sayin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
not the tls, the times higher - used to be part of the same stable but less culture and lit-crit, more news and features about university funding, admin, jobs etc. they run a weekly column where an academic writes about a subject outside his specialty.
xpost
― joe, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
It is in England that an odd mixture of pluck, determination and ignorance came to fruition between 1960 and 1970. There is no guitarist worth listening to who started playing after that time: the inauthenticity is too evident.
― display mane (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
James Alexander teaches Hongroic theory at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
― display mane (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I vaguely recall posting something like this before but is this kind of application of confidence broadly thought of as a positive thing? Like the idea of writing the two sentences I quoted above when I couldn't possibly have the knowledge to back them up just seems, to me, like such a weird and alien thing to do
― display mane (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I vaguely recall posting something like this before but is this kind of application of confidence broadly thought of as a positive thing?
i think it is by editors. as i've gotten older and read more, i find myself reading papers/magazines and just knowing they're fronting half the time. but i think that appeals to editors and maybe readers. same way tanya gold gets published i guess.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
This dude and the guy who wrote the anti-classic rock piece should have to live together. It could be one of those abject generational comedies.
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
But the tutored geniuses of later decades, who imitated these faster models, achieved the ultimate Aufhebung of the electric guitar, a sort of apotheosis by way of auto-da-fe whereby the blistering solo became so effortless that it was turned into a form of mechanical blandness, mere empty virtuosity.
this sentence is where i started to assume the whole thing was a prank.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Because of the turn of phrase? What he's saying is... not something I'd get behind much but not all that insane or challopy either
― display mane (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
compared to almost every other paragraph he's written
not the sentiment, just because of "the ultimate Aufhebung of the electric guitar" etc.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Why is there so much music writing on the internet that's like 20 paragraph think pieces? Who is reading all of this?"
sorry, wait, what, where?
― thomp, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
NME capsule review finds new depth to plummet to: http://www.nme.com/reviews/sam-isaac/10733
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 10 August 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was pretty lol
― Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 August 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
For anyone who is interested, Sam Isaac's album, 'Bears' is a refreshing, honest, album of melodic indie-pop, with songs written with conviction and passion
What a disaster for fans of refreshing, honest, melodic indie-pop, with songs written with conviction and passion
― Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 August 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^LOL
"I had become Passantino"
― cockles (country matters), Monday, 10 August 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
that was fantastic.
― the shane bourne identity (haitch), Monday, 10 August 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
His line of “what you think I rap for/to push a fuckin’ Rav4” was both hilarious and truthful
lmao
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/111082-jay-z-the-blueprint-3/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
wouldn't call this the worst ever but lots of unintentional lols
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
pedantic maybe, but:
"His debut, Reasonable Doubt, was easily one of the 1990s’ best albums, hip-hop or otherwise, and it featured some of the best producers and rappers of our time."
rappers plural, as in besides Biggie? either dude is being generous to Foxy or we've found the world's only Sauce Money stan.
― the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head (some dude), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
dying
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-08-06/music/lift-every-voice/
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link