FEAR THE BOSS! FEAR HIM, I SAY!
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― all you need is love vs. money (that's what i want) (Ioannis), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
also his first instinct that "if 9/11 hadn't existed bruce would have had to invent it" is a snide aphorism was the right one; it's a risible thing to say
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
it's also funny as hell.
― all you need is love vs. money (that's what i want) (Ioannis), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Sometimes critics use albums as an excuse to write zingers – wow!
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
And sometimes non-critics use critics to encapsulate the shortcoming of a particular era -- no harm done to anyone.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
(Not critics in general -- specific reviews.)
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
suggesting that Bruce Springsteen actually welcomes national tragedy because it will boost his own "relevance" is funny as hell??
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://culturekitchen.com/files/images/web_Lee_Greenwood.jpg
― goole, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i just deleted like four bruce live albums off my ipod last night, i think i'm getting defensive because of my guilt - sorry bruce
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
no, it isn't. but suggesting that "If there hadn't been a September 11, Bruce Springsteen would have had to invent one." is, imho.
― all you need is love vs. money (that's what i want) (Ioannis), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
c'mon RI-I-I-I-I-I-I-SE UP. RI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-SE UP.
― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
just you wait til i fetch my Cain, you.
― all you need is love vs. money (that's what i want) (Ioannis), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
what would we do without music critics--how would anyone ever understand music
― Monsieur Queueue (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
by abusing copious amounts of illegal substances, natch.
― all you need is love vs. money (that's what i want) (Ioannis), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
haha @ the rapreviews.com writer eventually outing himself as an animal collective stan and comparing merriweather post pavilion to veckatimest
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
uhhhh i first read that as "rape reviews" and then as "ra previews" pls let's pretend this says nothing about me except that i'm about four deep.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/newsfocus/article.html?Straight_Edge_is_no_sex,_no_drugs,_just_rock_and_roll&in_article_id=741802&in_page_id=65
This is from today's Metro and actually worse than the URL would lead you to expect
― What are the benefits of Western democracy, better elections? (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that they transcribe the guy's t-shirt as "Party F******g Sober!" and then run a photo of the whole fucking thing right below that.
― pshrbrn, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
SleeveNotes: Tim Jonze:It's not every day you get to compare Sugababes to the band who wrote Nazi Punks Fuck Off. But this week the pop trio followed in the footsteps of extreme metal terrorists Napalm Death by soldiering on, despite the fact that, since Keisha Buchanan's departure on Monday, their lineup now has zero original members.
It's not every day you get to compare Sugababes to the band who wrote Nazi Punks Fuck Off. But this week the pop trio followed in the footsteps of extreme metal terrorists Napalm Death by soldiering on, despite the fact that, since Keisha Buchanan's departure on Monday, their lineup now has zero original members.
OK, what's wrong with the above?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Article on Creed in Slate today. Reads utterly incoherent to me and I'm not sure that it's not a joke, but it seems sincere enough I guess.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd hardly say its incoherent save for
"Higher" might turn out to be the nu-grunge "Don't Stop Believing": dismissed by cognoscenti on arrival as bludgeoning and gauche but destined for rehabilitation down the road as a triumphant slab of ersatz inspirationalism.
ersatz?
inigo_montoya.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh just go for the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
That article was fine. It was of a piece with Slate's baffling obsession with contrarianism and revisionism. It was a decent read.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It was a great read, except it would have read EXACTLY the same if it was on The Onion.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
derivative blowhards with a self-righteous Christian agenda
i like how he describes in 8 words why no one likes creed and then spends 5 paragraphs defending creed.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a sucker for a thoughtfully contrarian essay, so this worked.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Then you remembered the sex tape with Kid Rock and came to your senses.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I can share Brett Michaels' own tape with you.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is Creed "good" and "underrated"?
1. They write "first-rate schlock-rock."2. "In his lyrics, Stapp is a well-meaning, Bible-fluent doofus, easy to chuckle at"3. Stapp's stage presence is "obnoxiously anachronistic"4. "Higher" is "a triumphant slab of ersatz inspirationalism"5. "Tremonti was a brutally effective guitarist"
It's like he couldn't even take his own argument seriously. His defense is pretty backhanded.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the bar is pretty low for good music writing tbh
― access flap (omar little), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is Creed good? Cuz they write shit songs with bad lyrics and their frontman is irritating. THAT'S WHY!
― wmlynch, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, it's that they're ersatz good.
the slate thing is just a space-filler, but its hardly terrible. or terribly written anyway. dunno if it was worth the effort...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
what IS worth the effort these days? where's the good writing thread? i haven't read anything good in a dog's age. somebody must have written something good this year about music.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
you don't need space-filler on the internet. it's not like a newspaper or magazine where you have to fill space; you choose how much of the theoretically infinite space of the internet you want to use.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
but even internet newsmags have, um, theoretical space limits and such, no? they have sections. they need to fill a section. they need product, basically. same as a regular magazine.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that's probably because old people run it
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the internet just throw up whatever
in case anyone was wondering why they ran that article, its because it gets forwarded around the internet and posted on message boards like this, and then people go to the site and some of them click on the ads, and then slate gets money, and pays its writers
― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for explaining the internet Max, you are a hero.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the internet just throw up, whatever (xxp)
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
np jon seemed like there was some confusion on this thread vis-a-vis the article, and why slate would publish something that wasnt particularly insightful but was contrarian enough that people seem to want to tell everyone about it
― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it's about as contrarian as a cannned ham.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
cannnnnned ham
"utterly incoherent to me and I'm not sure that it's not a joke, but it seems sincere enough I guess."
Ha! sums up my feelings re: Creed and maybe Rammstein and Rush. Maybe ICP and Burial, too.What groups are like that for you guys?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
To compare Creed and ICP to Rush is sacrilege.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Bill Magill OTM. Faygo & Seminars>>>>>>>>Ayn Rand.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
which awful alt-weekly cover story essay on jay-z is worse??
http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=19159http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/old-bull/Content?oid=2473786
― i got nothin (deej), Friday, 23 October 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
jk the stranger one is ugh but the cp one is http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lvl.gif
― i got nothin (deej), Friday, 23 October 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
He is Gen-Why's Crack Cobain, in their search for a new musical Nirvana.
man i fuckin hate wordplay
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 October 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link