if this is it for Spin, you gotta give it credit, it took this thread almost exactly 10 years to come true
― scott c-word (some dude), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah it's that "whoops I dropped my thought... ANYWAY" style of writing, which pervades a lot of those junk Spin Media sites. Nothing wrong with it on a blog (or a forum) or whatever, but no sympathy for the investors just now realizing they aren't going to get rich off of it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
no i think there's a lot wrong with adults writing that way anywhere
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
Short consumer-engagement time on many of the 40 sites in the Spin network was always a problem, suggesting viewers were popping into many of the sites briefly, spending less than 90 seconds before exiting.
In the case of Spin, this might be because after loading, all non-slideshow pieces would redirect to the home page, and all slideshow listicles would only reload the first slide.
(In my work browser)
― (D1CK$) (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
lol can u imagine
― flopson, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
could be the moron who originated it
― Pale Smiley Face (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
if somebody just lost their job I think they get a pass on writing style for the day
― katherine, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Miss dash snowden
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
dash snowden was a lady? a single lady? ::straightens tie::
― scott c-word (some dude), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Back off, buster. I saw her first
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:45 (ten years ago) link
Go Fug Yourself?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 19:12 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just visited that. Credit them for committing themselves to their atrocious branding: They work some variation of "fug" into nearly every headline
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 19:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my partner used to love go fug yourself, though i've not heard her mention it in a lnog while
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6029295/spins-editor-in-chief-departs?utm_source=twitter
Someone just pull the trigger already.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
guilty lol @ "Aswad"
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Wow, Jem Aswad has been around forever. When I went to my first CMJ Convention back in 1989, he was a panellist working for Dutch East India Trading Company, I think!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
i always thought he was a chick named jen
sorry bro
― j., Friday, 28 March 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
not surprising for reasons that have nothing to do with jem, who is a good dude
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
Knowing SPIN's state these days, you could have stopped after the first two words.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
well yeah
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 06:03 (ten years ago) link
DON: Hey, that's my line.
― some dude, Saturday, 29 March 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
GLENN: Never mind, Henley. Fuckin' pencil necks.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 March 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
happy tenth anniversary to this thread
― maura, Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
belated
Slow motion drain-circling in the Internet Age.
― MV, Monday, 31 March 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
but, yeah, jem is a completely good dude.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/what-does-this-thievery-corporation-review-mean/
http://www.spin.com/#reviews/thievery-corporation-saudade/
April Fools’ Day joke? Elaborate pan? It’s unclear, at least to me. The review by Spin contributor Garrett Kamps, dated April 1, ostensibly sets out to assess the new long-player from D.C.’s Thievery Corporation, which came out on the same day. What it does instead is copy text from the Wikipedia page for “sushi.”
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
shoulda saved that gag for a neneh cherry review
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
honestly though, the copy editor didn't even fix the linkshttp://www.spin.com/wiki/Daikon
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
lol "the copy editor"
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
fair enough
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
"Asphalt can be used to cover cobblestones. It can be taken home (if no one is lookin'). Asphalt should not be confused with, with, with, with . . . asbestos. Confuse them at your own risk. Insects will sometimes live in cement but never asphalt. Asphalt soup tastes like tar. Asphalt soap does not clean especially well. Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." And now, here, the subject matter is simply gone, erased; it's not even a point to be walked away from. The screen, camera, page is blank, and Meltzer is just writing. How does it feel to be on your own?
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 4 April 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
"Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." This can be connected to his (70s, 80s?) point about "Xerox rock," where we get copies of copies of copies, graying out, as time goes by.
― dow, Friday, 4 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
http://adage.com/article/media/craig-marks-named-editor-chief-spin/293699/
Music website Spin.com has named Craig Marks its editor in chief.
Mr. Marks was executive editor of Spin magazine in the 1990s before helping to introduce Blender magazine. "I've always been very involved in music journalism and I think Spin is the best place I could possibly be for that," he told Ad Age.
― maura, Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
best place
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Spin.com had 679,000 mobile and desktop unique visitors in May, up 5% from a year ago, according to ComScore.
lol
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
spin's reviews section is going away effective 8/31
― maura, Monday, 18 August 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
sounds about right
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 18 August 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
oof
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 August 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
:(
― faghetti (fgti), Monday, 18 August 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
so what will they be… doing?
― j., Monday, 18 August 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
LISTICLES!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.ioffer.com/img/item/110/923/967/LGGRmfBPDmOc9XZ.jpg
over ten years ago
― da croupier, Monday, 18 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
Their website is really making me sad.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 18 August 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
loooooool
― markers, Monday, 18 August 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
i don't really read music reviews tho
6/10 I Miss Yous
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
the only rating system that matters
― markers, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
So Carl Wilson's going to be the senior critic for ten days?
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
this is the slowest drain. needs some liquid plumber...
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
x-postsenior critic in charge of listicles?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 August 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
senior criticle
― j., Friday, 22 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link