OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

^ forgot to also apologise for the burdensome writing, protracted metaphors and doleful point-making, but at least it's a start eh?

"It has been brought to SPIN’s attention" jfc

given that the issue likely had much to do with it being rushed into publication without an editor or subeditor looking it at properly, that seems like a fair and candid choice of words

https://twitter.com/kissoutthejams/status/606094147448143872

so the editorial oversight is no one on earth looked at it before hitting publish

editorial is "over" putting their "sight" on what they publish

as sympathetic as I am to editors/copy editors not getting work, I think the more likely scenario is that an editor looked at it and didn't see a thing wrong

oh definitely

(for the record, when I wrote for spin the line edits I got back were quite good; different editor though)

lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS

i can't type lololololololol enough

― goole, Friday, June 26, 2015 1:53 PM (1 week ago

rly starting to hate this dude

are you on twitter j? his last honest working class metalhead scold act was in fine form today

yes that is why the hate can't be left in peace to die naturally

This is a breakup record on a number of levels—the most obvious one being the dissolution of a romantic relationship, but also a split with the guitar as a primary instrument of expression and even the end of the notion that Tame Impala is anything besides Kevin Parker and a touring band of hired guns.

But he’s also somehow the best and most underrated rock bassist of the 21st century, and it’s not even close on either front.

has Ian Cohen always been this fucking idiot? come on ilx and defend yourself, man

The chorus ("I'm a man, woman/ Don't always think before I do") finds him in league with Father John Misty's I Love You, Honeybear and My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall, taking an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance, examining what qualifies as biological instinct and what qualifies as mere rationalization for wanting to fuck around and/or be left alone.

pitchfork will always ride for abysmal sensitive-man-holding-dick privileged nonsense fucking indulgent shit smeared all over our willing faces like this & latterday sun kil moon, they will never change, it's final, let's stop paying them or their idiot music any attention

an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance

pitchfork will always ride for abysmal sensitive-man-holding-dick privileged nonsense fucking indulgent shit smeared all over our willing faces like this & latterday sun kil moon, they will never change, it's final, let's stop paying them or their idiot music any attention

― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:50 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know, the hot opinion on /mu/ right now (though I don't know how sincere it is) is that p4k only covers and supports black artists anymore

has Ian Cohen always been this fucking idiot? come on ilx and defend yourself, man

― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:47 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically yes

A New Music and a New Criticism: Dissent in the Age of the Internet

Scientists say that punk was not ‘a revolution’ in music, and much as I admire science for its ceaseless exploration of the boundaries of understanding, in this case scientists have got it wrong

finally a thinkpiece about punk

with all due respect, science

a sentence worthy of David Brooks.

i beg to differ, science

Guys. Remember the legendary 'was the drummer for Gay Dad' essay?

Per Mike Daddino on Twitter, turns out the author of this piece was the bassist for Bloc Party.

NOT KIDDING.

if there's a rock'n'roll thinkpiece heaven, they must have an ok band

LOL i want to see that lab w scientists in lab coats handling The Ramones first album.

https://hollywoodrevue.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/rock-and-roll-mouse.png

What is that from? It looks familiar.

rock n roll high school

Freshman profundity. Something tells me we're going to see a lot more Cuepoint in this thread from now on.

http://whyideletedyourpromoemail.tumblr.com/

pretty lolzy

^not as good as ned's fbook feed

i thought ned was just moonlighting

After we broke up, I started record- ing new songs on my own. Filtering them through Crass, the Oblivians, and classic guitar riff-rock like Ted Nugent’s ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and Foreigner’s ‘Juke Box Hero,’ they took on a similar feel to what I was after.

based on that description I'd prolly give this a shot

It's the one coherent bit in the whole feed. (And no, not my tumblr -- but it IS a friend of an ILXor.)

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/all-74-led-zeppelin-songs-ranked.html

i no doubt committed some of the same sins as a callow young rockwriter but holy shit, this just may be the worst piece of music writing ever. led zep song by song with more ad hominem attacks, sneering self-righteous moral judgements, cloth-eared musical analysis, wooden prose, unsupported assertions and just plain rong opinions. sure "counterintuitive" arguments are a big part of the clickbait strategy these days but a lot of this just feels contrary and calculated. written like a stunted clone of christgau & derogatis. ugh.

Looks like the Stones get off tour and dude has too much time on his hands

Off topic slightly, but "Hots On For Nowhere" (#72 out of 74) is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs I actively like. Meanwhile, "Hot Dog" is #28. Was this randomly generated?

uh, as I'm sure that both Whiney and MC know, that guy has been around forever and does seem to be possessed of particular variety of midwestern, Dero-reminiscent smug jackassery, but he hacks it out more baldfaced-ly than dero. It takes a lot for me to side with albini, who reps a a lot of midwestern quasi-puritanism himself, but his putdown of Wyman was really funny.

whiney: do you like Jidenna "Classic Man"? do you like "whip/nae nae""?

on first glance I didn't think the Zep list was that terrible other than the remarks about Bonham (who cares) and Plant's lyrics (deserved but who cares).

Love "Classic Man"

Whip/Nae Nae just seems like kind of a formless jumble of existing dances. Weirdly generic compared to even like "Chicken Noodle Soup"

Do the keyword, do the hashtag

now drop and do the google trend

i love watch me! it's a fun dumb song and it's perfectly calibrated and a good throwback to mashed potato / shangalang / camelwalk type shout-em-out-and-do-em songs.
i predict a long and fruitful career for the singer j/k that is the most one hit wonder i have ever heard

eh i took the bait on the zep thing. it happens. otherwise we're cool for the summer.

This SPIN "cover story" is really something else:

http://www.spin.com/featured/vince-staples-summertime-06-interview-cover-story/

dog bites man girlfriend