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

i will miss those sorts of reviews when they die out

NOW i know why whiney posted that old thing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-20160331

Ugh, fucking Buddy Rich again.

does a whiney still play drums? he was pretty rockin'!

I can attest that whiney is good for the job when it's time to lay down fifteen minutes of sick ass improv

on that rolling stone list my picks would be: helmet guy, dave lombardo, drumbo, bill ward. can live without the rest.

i really wish you guys could see ILX's own Tarfumes behind the kit. he does the sickest shit.

Oh Tarfumes is Taylor Hawkins? Cool

I was really hoping to see Vic Firth's name on that list

there is great recent footage of tarfumes playing some sort of matmos salon type thing in baltimore. i watched it twice. don't want to embarrass him and post it though.

thank you, scott

before ilx turns into pseuds corner, let's take a look where we're headed

http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ears/

not sure what distinguishes that from the 100 or so sophomoric reviews just like it that are uploaded each day

it's about a record that ilx is in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D

*runs*

^ FP

in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D

there only like 30 posts on that thread you dork

aside from a few unneeded adverbs there is absolutely nothing wrong with that review

(I thought the album was fine, reminded me in places of laura j martin and/or the creatures soundtrack)

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/hunting-for-the-cast-of-the-sexiest-music-video-of-all-time

I have nobody to blame but myself for clicking on a Thump link but this is woeful.

overrating things is good. if you accept the existentialist premise that we make the meaning we find in the world, overrating things is what makes life bearable.

that last message was an xp to LJ

also, lol boxedjoy. that is the worst premise for an article.

lol god forbid people actually love some music on ILM

lj is probably just annoyed it isn't more "challenging"

contrarianism can also give life meaning, to be fair

The album is good, but people are being really embarrassing on that thread

what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"

whiney himself said the album was good on that thread

is it Destroyer-level fawning? cuz that is scary stuff. regular fandom and WOW! shouldn't be a problem. i'm gonna go check it out! BrB.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSXbvzW91U

what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"

― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most embarrassing overpraise of the just released 'Ears' album on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith thread

Lol, oh god

well at least whiney didn't poll the king thread

oh i see matt also made that joke

the difference is that the KING album is an actual masterpiece ;)

wait wtf is thump? how many verticals can vice possibly need

I would not necessarily call this "worst ever" but I do think it just ignores/glosses over the fact that female pop-punk artists exist (it mentions Paramore but seems to have... somehow... missed the fact that Hayley is the frontwoman?) as well as female pop-punk *fans* (5SOS's fanbase is mostly women), who probably don't have much truck with the "dominant dude-bro ideology"

shit sorry forgot the link

(pause, question priorities where one apologies for forgetting a link but not for criticizing an article)

http://www.last.fm/features/post/2259045:feature:9e81d3e2-6fac-4c64-a867-c244c2115757

Not sure if this is the right place to bemoan something like this but I'm gonna bemoan this here: http://coolmaterial.com/media/best-vinyl-records/?utm_source=Cool+Material&utm_campaign=605458e35e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f248e7d25b-605458e35e-297496053&mc_cid=605458e35e&mc_eid=6128f9e24d

Usually click bait like this isn't even worth the bandwidth but the writing and editing here is woefully bad and shallow and bad

My favorite gem, talking about Kid A: "an album that blipped, beeped, and floated effortlessly in the background when you played it."

(PS should there be a thread called something like "Shitty web links your dad sends you because he knows you're into records"?)

My favorite gem, talking about Kid A: "an album that blipped, beeped, and floated effortlessly in the background when you played it."

disappointed that they didn't throw a 'blooped' in there as well.

the inclusion of Joe Jackson's Body and Soul means I can't hate that article, though

Vinyl is back. And with the best year in terms of sales since 1988, it doesn’t seem like vinyl is going anywhere.

It's true. Astonishing numbers.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgJuCq5XEAA3hoG.jpg

I didn't know vinyl sales were on the decline a good three-to-four years before CDs came out in 1984. What were people buying in the early 80s? Cassettes?

Yes. The Walkman changed everything.

I was. And like lots of people I didn't start buying CDs until well after 1984 -- 1992, maybe?

They didn't fit in the Walkman, was the thing.

I switched in '92 as well. Went from walkman to discman.

What is the source of that graphic above?

Home taping is killing the music industry.

We got a CD player in... 1985? 1986? I know I did the Columbia House thing in 1987 to jumpstart my collection and taped them to play in my Walkman (one perk of my dad working for 3M was piles and piles and piles of cheap blank cassettes basically any time I wanted them)

never would have guessed that 45 single sales outstripped LPs consistently like that

xp

i think that graph was first published on digitalmusicnews.com, which claims the figures are from the riaa

taped them to play in my Walkman

Me, too. That was the first time I started being interested in sound quality as a thing, was when I noticed how much better tapes recorded from CDs sounded than tapes recorded from vinyl.

Maybe I'm being picky. because it's not the content that's bad here, but the writing is...ugh.

http://flavorwire.com/571669/grimes-reveals-that-numerous-male-producers-have-demanded-sex-from-her?utm_campaign=FlavorwireSocial&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow