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

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like, what publication allows a Gaga review to go near the "is she a man" thing, much less quip "I've got $50 on yes." ugh, fuck this dude and whoever publishes him.

alpine static, Friday, 8 November 2013 08:49 (ten years ago) link

more:

http://i.imgur.com/70v73Dq.png

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 8 November 2013 09:51 (ten years ago) link

love this guy

I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 09:55 (ten years ago) link

TS: Thicke's "unambiguous misogyny" vs Tyson Wray's unambiguous misogyny

Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:00 (ten years ago) link

"their" right to choose.

Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link

like he's only talking to men

Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:18 (ten years ago) link

what % of people who have enjoyed the music of Robin Thicke in 2013 know or care who his dad is?

too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:18 (ten years ago) link

Tyson Wray doesn't seem to have much interest in how music sounds

. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link

Captain Save-a-Thicke

In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 8 November 2013 10:57 (ten years ago) link

His songs amalgamate WHAT to the artistic creativity of a singing fish, Tyson?

Unsettled defender (ithappens), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link

Ugh. (Universal)

there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link

I'd love to see the research paper which proposes that rubber fish can sing.

you've obviously never met billy.

http://diztopia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/11152004.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHchmWsrfUo

Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link

In Tyson Wray's world, every musician would be called Big Mouth Billy Bass.

now i have Robin Thicke singing "Tight Lines" in my head

. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link

re: Gaga / Perry, I wonder which is the higher rating: 1 star flush left or 1 star flush right

alpine static, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link

Want to read more tyson wray

you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link

http://thegrillandbarrel.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/what-the-music-industry-can-learn-from-the-ale-industry/

only 200 words but packs an impressive amount of chuckleheadedness into that small space

too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link

The title track is a vociferous number characterized by curling breakbeats, frantic snares and Taylor’s signature penchant for meticulously clipped R&B samples. “Werk” follows the lead with a breakbeat formation, but employs a bulbous bass line to lead the assertive vocals through a sea of skittering hi-hats layered over pulsing cowbells. The third original, “Give In To You,” is held together by a relentless drum roll powering through melancholic chords and inconceivable vocal cuts. French Fries’ rework of “Bash” is rendered with a big-room aesthetic, its marinated grooves edging delicately through more spacious territory. Rounding off the release is Isotonik’s take on “Give In To You,” which rings reminiscent of a 90s warehouse rave with frenzied synths and heavy bass lines; however the culmination wanes in authenticity and results in a maladroit number that falls misplaced amongst it’s more restrained counterparts. There’s arguably little innovation within Bash as Taylor simply weaves his regular aural artillery, but it’s his scrupulous composition and predilection for subtle progression that keeps his work emotive, novel, and authoritative over any dance floor — a formula that’s showing no signs of going stale.

the boy likes adjectives

. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link

Everything is just so determinedly middle-of-the-road, one can only picture a dotted yellow line while listening to it.

^ this is great

Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link

inconceivable vocal cuts

I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link

a formula that’s showing no signs of going stale

I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link

It's easy to misjudge Rob Schneider.

. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link

Classic tyson wray

you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link

Everything is just so determinedly middle-of-the-road, one can only picture a dotted yellow line while listening to it.

^ this is great

― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, November 8, 2013 10:22 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is actually good

rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link

god, i read my own reviews and cringe (horribly) at my use of adjectives and adverbs.

Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link

Lol really? The review isn't awful but "i'm gonna call something mor and then get this compare it to the literal middle of a road oh the wit" is some weak obvious zinging imo xp

you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link

I mean its not tyson wray public transport zing level

you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link

At least he is trying to describe what the music sounds like though, if ineptly. I'm more sympathetic to that passage than the ones in this thread that involve grand pronouncements about how the music fits into some meta-cultural narrative the writer has just invented, involving tropes about hipsters or the prog/punk divide or whatever.

Treeship, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link

It's not terrible, not brilliant. I was just taken aback that that line was being singled out when "clever" riffs on "middle of the road" are almost as cliched as the phrase itself

you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link

middle of the road is cliche but the imagery after is funny/clever

rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/11/giorgio_moroder_dj_daft_punk.php

"Hailing from northern Italy, Moroder is basically a G."

the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link

tbh im worried i just wrote the worst review of 2013...can some objectively tell me if the review of 'it hurts' by creeper_ on here is awful:
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/features/tracks-broken-bells-bombay-bicycle-club-more/

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link

in my defence, very difficult to write about music made by friends of yours.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link

Camp, however, has found a much warmer home in pop music, a genre that seemingly appeals to women and homosexuals.

^^^amazing sentence

my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link

It's from the Tyler Coates article some dude linked to to be clear, not Dwight Yorke's review.

my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link

'pop music, a genre that seemingly appeals to women and homosexuals' could be a good ilm board description.

my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link

well, y'know, not really.

my UK suburban lifestyle (soref), Saturday, 9 November 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link

it's good that women and homosexuals can put aside their differences to stand as one under the umbrella of pop music

too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 November 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link

Dwight, I don't get the first sentence - "contemporary lovelorn bedroom pop game Todd Rundgren." Is there a word missing there? Other than that it was ace.

grease grease (stevie), Saturday, 9 November 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link

Cheers Stevie! Was riffing on the 'rap game + [something usually not related to rap]' construction which tends to drop the 'the' so I fully admit that it looks a little awkward on the page.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link

my posts

color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link

Idiots, that song is about meth and the overman.

― Sheik Yitzhak Patrin (usic), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 23:24 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

overruled

durianlychee (imago), Saturday, 9 November 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link

cant be as bad as the one johnny cigarettes did for the nme years ago. That really was the worst ever.

۩, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link


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