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― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"people"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"things"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i say we all don capes and masks and go kick some ass!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd do that but I post under my real name

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, that's sort of what posting here is like, right? anon names and all

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Arf, Geeta, I think close study of the achives might even reveal an actual specific day where everyone was all like "fuck it, where do I even begin" and then we all went out for ice cream instead.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

kick some gluteus max

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, well where's MY fucking ice cream?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

why are we here?
because we're here

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I want spumoni!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Jonathan Richman to thread!

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

TS: Dove Bars vs. Klondike Bars

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

The word "spumoni" still always sounds to me like something Dan Savage should be writing about.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"a combination of spooning and moaning"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

the older i get, the more i appreciate christgau. albums i loved that he dissed when i was a young buck, i now realize he was right about more often than not. he just has a relentless nose for bullshit.

and his nose doesn't fail him w/r/t aerial

― old man, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Spumoni [Naples, 14th Century]
"Pistachios"; "Whipped Cream" http://robertchristgau.com/icon/s2.gif

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

some of you would be wise to lay off the ice cream/spumoni

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

A|ex P@reene I kiss u

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Spumoni in the middle, in the middle
(Where she at?)

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

some of you would be wise to lay off the ice cream/spumoni

some of you would be wise to lay off posting to ILM entirely, as you can't seem to do anything besides post caustic, lame one-liners

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm as God made me, geeta.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

and ha ha nabisco yeah i'm already almost ready to throw in the towel! i'm off to go get coffee.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

geeta remember jess' rule: "why am i arguing with someone named 'timmy tannin' over the internet!?"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure it's irrelevant, but I still roffle in my mind at whoever said that thing about being able to recognize an old thread by the presence of teh pinefox and AllyZ going on about Richie Manic. I guess I arrived too late for the days of the Organic Society but hey- who doesn't?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha sterl you're right. i'm going to go right back to what i was doing before i saw this thread--popping e's and listening to the crazy rave music.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Asserting old-timer status on message board: Classic!

And ol' Christgau still gets suckered just as often as the rest of us. See his constant love for SK.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

geeta, I think I ate lunch somewhere a few weeks ago, maybe in Brooklyn, that had your Time Out review in the window. Is this possible? Is that in your bailiwick?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

2002 seems so long ago.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

yo ken l--i don't write for time out! i used to review bars for the village voice, though--was it a bar? and i used to write about shopping for new york magazine's website, if it happened to be a shop.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

timmy tannin ain't a name, it's an ACTION, brah!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

those action brahs are always getting into all kinds of shenanagins

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

action brah? like this?

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― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that's a modern hero of inaction.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

used to write about shopping for new york magazine
Oh yeah, thanks, that sounds right. I think it was some shop with something for Mrs. L, maybe the knitting place on Sullivan Street.

ew
I'll choose to ignore that.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The Paranoid review is kind of understandable, really. Don't necessarily buy the view of Christgau as a lame hippie because he didn't happen to think that heavy metal was the greatest thing since SLICED BREADS.

A C- does seem a little overboard even if someone's going to take that view of the record, but you know, "Oh no, a critic is slightly hyperbolic" - happens a lot.

Anyway, I like Black Sabbath a lot in general - but I'm not viewing them from the vantagepoint of 1970 as a VETERAN OF TEH SIXTIES.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"Don't necessarily buy the view of Christgau as a lame hippie because he didn't happen to think that heavy metal was the greatest thing since SLICED BREADS."

sorry but heavy metal IS the greatest thing since sliced breads, bitch

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

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― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, lots of critics didn't like teh heavy metal back in the day, that's why xhuxk was such a groundbreaker. At some point Zeppelin was rehabilitated by Sabbath took a while longer. (I know there are some counterexamples, but please look in original RS Record Guide, the red one with the five-star album covers scattered throughout) In any case, he gave Band On The Run a similar grade.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't necessarily buy the view of Christgau as a lame hippie because he didn't happen to think that heavy metal was the greatest thing since SLICED BREADS.

That's not why Christgau's a hippie.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't we already have a lot of this discussion on your Xgau thread, miccio?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread is older.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

So then why did you create your thread in the first place? Oh wait, now I remember, you had some mysterious purpose that only became apparent after lots of posts where the thread was basically just another Why Did Xgau Dis My Favorite Rekkid? thread.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

actually that mysterious purpose was pretty clear in the opening post (and had nothing to do with xgau aside from him being the source of a list of shitty albums). People just wanted to go on about xgau. Why are you bringing this up?

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, I kind of liked that thread. And here it is Let the record show that the thread got a lot longer than this one before blount started posting images from sporting events.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Richard Meltzer talking about getting free tickets to concerts in the early seventies because he was a rock critic from interview in the fanzine Osmotic Tongue Pressure ca. late nineties:

RM: If they sent you the ticket, rather than pick it up at the club, it'd be very easy to sell the tickets. I remember I sold Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

OTP: Dude, you passed up a Sabbath show?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

A bored, quasi-trolling, conscious overreaction to a Christgau review of an album I like a lot, and suddenly there are 70 new posts.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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