rolling 2009 thread for when critics write something that makes you go o_O

1.

http://janedark.com/2009/01/top_40_coundown_2008.html

Indeed, by now we can all probably admit that T.I. is third-tier at best, struggling to keep pace with Slim Thug and Keak da Sneak.

this is a thread for minor gripes w/ specific 'bold declarative statements'

is slim thug still a rapper

I stopped paying attention to this dude long ago but thank you for reminding me why. OH LORDY. I'm not great or anything but that's just DUH.

t.i. was the only rapper with an even halfway decent verse on that track too

dude slim thug just made the worst song ive ever heard. it "interpolates" flock of seagulls and is produced by jim jonsin.

is slim thug still a rapper

― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 January 2009 22:23 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know that The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics will have some things to contribute to this thread

serve and collect 2 was dope though you guys must have slept

http://janedark.com/gossip_girl_promos_jpg.jpg

do you think he actually gets paid to run Gossip Girl ads on his site or it's just part of the whole "old dude posing as a young female writer" schtick?

OMFG
NEW ALBUM MARCH 2009
SLIMTHUG

Svelte Thug

i know that The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics will have some things to contribute to this thread

― choom gangsta (deej), Sunday, 4 January 2009 22:31 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

We already got a Graun thread.

15) “Go Hard Or Go Home,” E-40 feat. The Federation. Plucked from one of ‘06’s top albums and dropped onto an ’07 soundtrack to become a single in ’08 and make the case for the lesser-know DJ Wes as heir to Rick Rock’s hyphy throne, it was all we had in advance of the new 40 Water album which was due out in November and just…vanished.

waht is he talking about???
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ball-Street-Journal-Explicit/dp/B001L5ZJJ0/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1231108834&sr=8-3
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/619a8KVu75L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

ha ha you recoiled from the t.i. diss but this didn't make your head spin?!?

" M.I.A. ... is the only person making records that matter"

tbh i was skimming the entire thing in the first place

also the sentence after slim thug and keak da sneak:

Thus he stands out like a sour thumb on what is basically his own song, “Swagga Like Us.”

i think typos might be beyond the focus of this thread

i dont think thats a typo. a typo would have been like soer

ya that's a malapropism i think

yeah shit came up in my google reader and i shared with an angry note!!

damn str8 hoos

serve and collect 2 was dope though you guys must have slept

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― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Sunday, January 4, 2009 2:32 PM Bookmark

Damn, didn't even know about this. The first one was hella dope.

More thoughtful and coherent and less mean-spirited criticisms of recent Jane/Joshua postings (uh, not to mention "Is it really possibly to love 150 albums that came out in a single year?") here:

http://blissout.blogspot.com/2009/01/lists-lists-lists-so-many-lists.html

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 01:31 (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh snap.

clover does 'the tuck' when he writes as jane, i bet

― gear (gear), Wednesday, February 1, 2006

XD

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/472124207_a003dbd7cc.jpg?v=0

wow, chuck's list is awesome. and it would definitely make the best mix-tape cdr boxed set. (i hadn't seen it till now)

More thoughtful and coherent and less mean-spirited criticisms of recent Jane/Joshua postings (uh, not to mention "Is it really possibly to love 150 albums that came out in a single year?") here:

http://blissout.blogspot.com/2009/01/lists-lists-lists-so-many-lists.html

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 01:31 (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh snap.

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, January 5, 2009 7:32 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

simey is biting my steez

im sorry he found it meanspirited -- i thought it was meanspirited that jane dark thinks t.i. isnt even at keak da sneak status but criticizing other critics is mean while criticizing artists is a bold heroic job for cultural warriors

youre gay

^^ meanspirited

Hercules and the Love Affair
C.f. McAlmont, this kind of capital 'S' Singing from a capital 'S' Singer always seems like a good idea on paper. Otherwise this is just Faze Action all over again, no?

maybe i dont 'get' faze action but waht

youre gay

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, January 5, 2009 8:11 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hoos is bi

Cut Copy
This is New Pop revivalism, essentially--the next logical step from the interminable postpunk revival, but drawing on New Pop's wetter side--OMD, China Crisis. Nice blurry/yearn-y sound. Will anyone care in a year?

surely not as much as they care about grime!

you have a mean spirit

So by my analogy mainstream rap is and has been for a little while now at its own equivalent to the hair metal era: beyond-parody videos,horrible shrill sonics. That sounds just about right from where my ears are sat, especially in re. the dominant mersh-rap sound of portentous digi-synth fanfares and lumbering beats, that brittle blare that seems pre-degraded to 128kbps mp3 or ring-tone level, as purveyed by your T.I.s and Young Jeezys.)

borderline jim derogatis here

i enjoy a spirited conversation

i think its weird that simon r. wants to rewind 'poptimism' to the point where he basically is parroting jim derogatis

(does Chuck really think there were 124 albums superior to Vampire Weekend released last year?)

Guffaw! The very idea!!

I suppose the H&LA = Faze Action equation is based on the notion that H&LA are to early house what Faze Action were to disco (arty revivalist rather than straightforward revivalist - which would be, i dunno, the DJ T album maybe).

b/c obv they sound nothing alike.

Although the comment implies it's a put down it's almost more a compliment: Faze Action could claim to be, if not the first, then among the first people to properly revive that aspect of disco in a serious way. H&LA don't feel that "groundbreaking" (last word in scare quotes cos obv all this stuff is primarily revivalist), and more just a really nice combination and blending of different ideas (though I could basically live with just the the first four tracks, subbing the Club Mix of "Blind" for the original).

anyways if I recall sr really liked the first Faze Action album.

I'm relieved that he's trying to be cautious in his discussions of his own increasing conservatism w/r/t the structure of his tastes (not so much the specific choices but his move away from pan-genre hedonism, the "scenius" of yore etc.). Too many people who go through this shift spend their entire time basically saying "it's not me, it's music in (insert this year)!"

i think what bothered me most about the rap thing tho was the 'its like hair metal in 2008!!' awful parallels more than just him not being into it. gold plated phooey gangsta rap, whatever that quote was.

Yeah any comparisons of anything to hair metal (unless done by people who were totally into hair metal) are just rong.

"Livin' A Lie" did make me think of "When I See You Smile" (great song!) for some reason.

It's the inverse of "x was our punk". Lazy thinking no matter how well it's backed up.

do you people seriously actively keep up with the reynolds blog? that is the most o_O thing in this thread yet

I keep reading this thread title in the voice of that singer from C+C Music Factory.

A lot of gangsta rap has had me thinking about Nugent and lesser lights for a while: still kinda good, in a quaint way now (Tiffany lampin)

But "pattern recognition gets us all in the end," as Jane D observed, before retiring from (professional) music writing.

I keep reading this thread title in the voice of that singer from C+C Music Factory.

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― Tim F, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:29 AM Bookmark

haha, glad I'm not the only one

this makes me want to revisit moving cities.

You should! The title track in particular should be a much more widely renouned standard than it is.