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using the word "SONIK" to describe a band is retarded, the author should be held down by Kim Deal and Lee Renaldo and...(you fill in the blank).
Iggy Pop is seminal in several ways.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

female "equivalent" of semen = Quam

― Ian SPACK (Affectian), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

use other threads, please!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha ha i don't actually care (much), i just wanted to take the opportunity to do more ant-work in the eventual cross-linking between each conceivably related thing ever on this biiaatch

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"beeyotch" (or equiv)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"fun"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

(yes i hate fun)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

dumbest music journalism term

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

(just trying to help the cause)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Using the words "drops on" instead of "is released on" when discussing the imminent arrival of a new album. This makes me want to eat my own hair and paint the walls with blood.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Paint the walls with blood!' My goodness, I am going to use that phrase at every available opportunity.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apercus.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Generic"!

I'm sick as hell of seeing people use "generic" as a synonym with "bad".

That being said, I'm probably the last person to whine about what people write in their reviews, considering I've written phrases like "superultramegaduperbunny technical death metal."
But that won't stop me!

"Sophomore effort" has a tendency to make my kneecaps run rampant in my legs. "Kvlt" and "br00tal" are pretty annoying too.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, anything that is made up of a combination of letters and numbers is extremely annoying!

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

What a review using all these terms might look like:

The new CD from "Paint The Walls With Blood", which drops on May 9th, is a sonik pastiche which unlike most hip hop, signals a sea change in the ouvre. Through a savvy use of seminal influences PTWWB manages to avoid the sophomore effort cul de sac into which so many other bands have driven.

While there is a generic feeling of fun, it never veers towards the pretentious cinematic folderol that has been suggested in the hype. The 11 (eleven!) tracks range from bluegrassy death core to operatic electro sludge. Of course, the overall effect is profound and smacks of a retro 80's-cum-retro-60's bubblegum Zeitgeist.

Many have critized PTWWB, saying that they sound just like Eat My Own Hair, but in answer to the question: Is it fun? Natch! This bee-yatch is way fun. Should you buy it? Puh-leeze!

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

BAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's brilliant Davlo. I think Paint The Walls With Blood is the best band name... eva!!!

One thing though... call me an NME nostalgist, but I'm sorry you didn't use the phrase "sonic cathedral of sound" in their somewhere.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just read it again. It really is brilliant. Distrubingly, it reads like Christgau.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks. Maybe I missed my true calling...
and I always wanted to be the next John Holmes...

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

My apologies to Alex in NYC for appropriating PTTWB and EMOH. Of course, both of these bands play nothing but KJ covers.

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

What!! When did it become May 1st? Where does this exist? It's only 9:23 PM on April 30th here in Rhode Island. Did I go into a time warp?

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Next person to use "undie" in my presence gets glowered at. If he* uses it disparagingly, he gets a special added bonus sneer and/or middle finger. If he also uses the term "backpacker" and insinuates that people who listen to underground hip-hop are lonely dorks who hate fun/dancing/sex then I will chloroform him, kidnap him, sequester him in my apartment's laundry room, duct-tape him to an uncomfortable chair and then it's FOUR HOURS OF CAN OX'S "RASPBERRY FIELDS" INSTRUMENTAL ON CONSTANT LOOP, MOTHERFUCKER

*it's always a "him"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

"dark"

― rumplestiltskin, Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keenan, when I went to your link for pastiche, there was a link for the 'ten most popular sites for pastiche'. Strangely, I Love Music was not among them.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

"earn [x] a slap"

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

(That's a little joke.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Pretentious" is unforgivable. It has no meaning when
applied to music.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 4 May 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

What, not even Emerson, Lake and Palmer?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

funniest thread in a long time ... do any of you mind if i start a band named 'eat my own hair'?

― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

For a fee.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

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