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

The answer may be that the relentless and unforgiving feedback loop of social media has made being unfeasible anything other than consistently awesome, like (and forgive one last culinary metaphor) opening a bad restaurant in New York

First of all, this sentence is garbled -- maybe "has made unfeasible anything other than being completely awesome" is meant? And what is going on with the metaphor? Surely New York is a notably EASY place to get by running a bad restaurant.

I don't know, before social media it was consistently awesome to be unfeasible; I miss those days tbh

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Zaireeka_cover.png

Surely New York is a notably EASY place to get by running a bad restaurant.

nah not really. the usual quoted figure is that 80% of NYC restaurants close in their first five years.

still a terrible sentence.

And that sentence goes out of its way to be terrible! It like goes all the way across town to be terrible and gnarled and wrong!

the usual quoted figure is that 80% of NYC restaurants close in their first five years.

Sure, but the question is whether this is different from other cities! That sounds like a long median lifespan to me.

For six seasons, I obsessed over “Lost” and wept prolifically through the last episode.

Me too. Like WAAAAHHHH!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE? WAAAHHHH!!!

hahaha

I've still only seen the last 5 minutes of the last Lost episode

That's the worst part!

I've still only seen the last 5 minutes of the last Lost episode

...in today's lack of surprise, that's all I've seen too. Plus that little epilogue thing. Series should have been about the two drones at the warehouse wondering what the hell they were doing.

tbf, the last ep of lost is really funny

*************SPOILERS**************

Is it that the island is Hell's butt plug?

The first few sentences of this article actually made me angry. Fine, try to have a "unique" writing style, but when you devolve into fucking gibberish you've gone too far and need to dial it back a little. And that's without even bringing up the sections that are just bad English, with misplaced or missing articles, etc. Gurgh.

I present no loose little mistress-list that rattles itself off in splendid flesh-bone-suck order.

^ haha

"a dark and crispy nimbus"

Fuck Rob Sheffield.

It is, after all, the genre that gave the phrase “comfortably numb” to the language.

you know, that phrase people use all the time

More thoughts on the Sheffield piece.

Yeah, Sheffield really should stop being close-minded and taking about things he knows nothing abo—

Hip-hop critics are some of the most myopic, Year Zero-minded writers in all of music criticism, with virtually no interest in anything predating the summer's hot single or mixtape

Sheffield's also written at length about Dylan, Roxy Music, Neil Young, Pavement. Shiny perhaps, not ephemeral.

Sheffield's great and that piece is hilarious

"At one point, Peter Gabriel is praised as the bluesiest of prog singers, which is like calling Betty White the fiercest arm-­wrestler on 'The Golden Girls.'"

Great! (And my guess is that Rob likes Peter Gabriel fine.)

Gabriel made his list of worst singers ever.

Surprises me. He also picked "In Your Eyes" as his second (?) greatest movie-music moment ever.

A more polished version of an older article.

I remember that piece. I checked his "In Your Eyes" blurb from a couple of months ago, and while he does have it #3 on his list, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the song. So I guess he doesn't like Gabriel.

My point is, though, that there's hardly anybody or any genre I can think of where Rob doesn't eventually like something--he just doesn't hate stuff unreservedly, not that I remember. He'd give somebody a low rating four singles in a row in Radio On, then turn around and enthuse about the fifth one. So I bet there's prog-rock he likes. He just might not like it or express it in the same way that a devotee of the genre might.

(I'm doing something that drives me up the wall--being an apologist for someone, and for someone who doesn't need it.)

anybody still churning out the same not-particularly-true cliched jokes about Prog Rock that were being made in 1976 shd probably write about something else

Oh yeah. It wouldn't surprise that Passion is his favorite Gabriel album.

noodle vague otm

lol @ ppl getting mad over that sheffield review

probably anyone would have a low opinion of prog after reading rick moody's raves about it

prog bashing is the most tired bullshit imho

that piece gives me nostalgic memories of the 1992 rolling stone album guide.

KRISTEN STEWART HAS A NEW BLACK FLAG TATTOO AND IT DEPRESSES THE HELL OUT OF ME

by "The Jaded Punk"

want to believe that's a joke

http://www.theonion.com/articles/90s-punk-decries-punks-of-today,1486/

Sebadoh kicked off their first tour after a 14 year hiatus at Bootleg Tuesday night. Bassist Dave Barlow and Jay Mascis wrote songs as little known, late '80s band, called Dinosaur Jr. Barlow started a side project, Sebadoh, which then became a underdog indie group that gained serious street cred throughout the years. Their soon to be released LP, "Defend Yourself" comes out in stores Sept 17th. Opening the night was a heavy guitar trio called the Dumb Numbers. Indie Alt-Rock royalty reigned supreme and reclaimed their throne at this eastside establishment.

http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/sebadoh-reunites-at-bootleg-40097933/#1

LOL

Dave Barlow is indeed little known.

LOU

Haha holy shit that's amazing

There are also unknown little known bands. These are bands we don't know we don't know.

Maybe confused with http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c394/c39462u6g1w.jpg

http://www.collapseboard.com/blogs/scott-creney/an-immodest-proposal/

That dude's pretty far up his own asshole

The Jaded Punk piece is hilarious. Change the names and dates and it could be from any year between now and 1977.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/13/hashtag-pilgrimage-abbey-road-beatles

^ yeah that's p disgraceful

Scott Creney might be the worst music writer in the entire world circa 2013

― congo nattefrost (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:10 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never heard of him before but he comes across as a total dick in that piece. I like the idea that Savages were poised for massive success until Scott Creney bravely spoke the truth on Collapseboard and it all came crashing down.