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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
tbf, the last ep of lost is really funny
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 May 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
*************SPOILERS**************
Is it that the island is Hell's butt plug?
― Doran, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
I present no loose little mistress-list that rattles itself off in splendid flesh-bone-suck order.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
^ haha
"a dark and crispy nimbus"
― Benny B, Saturday, 1 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Fuck Rob Sheffield.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 June 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
It is, after all, the genre that gave the phrase “comfortably numb” to the language.
you know, that phrase people use all the time
― ttyih boi (crüt), Sunday, 2 June 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
More thoughts on the Sheffield piece.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Sheffield's also written at length about Dylan, Roxy Music, Neil Young, Pavement. Shiny perhaps, not ephemeral.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Sheffield's great and that piece is hilarious
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
"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.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
Gabriel made his list of worst singers ever.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Surprises me. He also picked "In Your Eyes" as his second (?) greatest movie-music moment ever.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
A more polished version of an older article.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
(I'm doing something that drives me up the wall--being an apologist for someone, and for someone who doesn't need it.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
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
― floored character (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah. It wouldn't surprise that Passion is his favorite Gabriel album.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
noodle vague otm
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
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
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
prog bashing is the most tired bullshit imho
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
that piece gives me nostalgic memories of the 1992 rolling stone album guide.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
KRISTEN STEWART HAS A NEW BLACK FLAG TATTOO AND IT DEPRESSES THE HELL OUT OF ME
by "The Jaded Punk"
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:05 (ten years ago) link
want to believe that's a joke
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/90s-punk-decries-punks-of-today,1486/
― what makes a man start polls? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
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
― Position Position, Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― wk, Sunday, 4 August 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
Dave Barlow is indeed little known.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
LOU
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
Haha holy shit that's amazing
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 4 August 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
There are also unknown little known bands. These are bands we don't know we don't know.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 4 August 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Maybe confused with http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c394/c39462u6g1w.jpg
― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 August 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.collapseboard.com/blogs/scott-creney/an-immodest-proposal/
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
That dude's pretty far up his own asshole
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
The Jaded Punk piece is hilarious. Change the names and dates and it could be from any year between now and 1977.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/13/hashtag-pilgrimage-abbey-road-beatles
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
^ yeah that's p disgraceful
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
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
― the secret life of bantz (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:39 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You can just call it "spelunking".
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
i looked at a few other reviews from him. they mostly read like he's writing as he's hearing the music for the first time and kept that draft.
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
lol, LA Weekly updated that Sebadoh blurb
Thank you to award-winning East Coast journalist Daniel Ralston for bringing the problems with this blurb to my attention. It was not, in fact, satire, but had a number of mistakes. Dinosaur Jr., as we all knew, were huge in the late '80s, and "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites and not in an official bassist capacity. L.A. Weekly regrets the errors.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
"Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites and not in an official bassist capacity
Wait did I miss something.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
"And contending in the World Series of Poker, Fred Albini."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
see the original blurb above
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
new display name
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
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.― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:29 PM (3 hours ago)
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:29 PM (3 hours ago)
I don't read the point of that piece as being that. Seems to me to be more a satirisation of the lack of importance of the individual music writer, and a frustrated yelp at the power and money thrown behind the chosen bands to make sure they break.
Generally I don't dig most of the negative Collapseboard stuff but I kinda enjoyed this one.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
oh its irony i see
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link