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

(wow, unfortunate typo there)

I would probably say "it's an open-y" irl

*opens thread*

"oooh it's a close-y."

Haha I saw that blog a couple days ago & thought ah that's p funny ilx will have a shit fit about this

everything is just a game to you, isn't it upper mississippi sh@kedown?

Treeship, what do you think james franco would say about this situation?

TS: "isn't my ignorance ADORABLE" vs. "isn't my disinterest in sacred cows EDGY"

in the age of google (cf whiney) ignorance in the only rebellion left

I am trying to figure out exactly why I want to tie this blog to the Upworthy-fication of Internet discourse and am drawing a blank

white ppl

have you no shame at all

Shame is a pigment we only experience it temporarily thats why we go from red back to wite again after

I like the concept of that blog but the writing is so gluey. It's really, really gross. Compare with Anna Minard's "Never Heard of Em" entries linked way upthread, which are similar in many ways but, you know, actually readable and pretty entertaining. I'm not clever enough to analyze why that is, but I'm kinda sure Branwell knows, and she'll probably find a way to beat me up about it. Am I rewarding Ms Minard for performing gender in some record-nerd-approved way and punishing whatserface for doing it in a non-nerd-approved one? I dunno. I don't think so. Although some of the grossness derives from gender stereotypes or can be read that way, it's the cotton-candy disingenuousness that's the real problem for me. I'd hate pomplamoose (Mr Seward OTM about the similarities in tone and spirit between ILM's most-hated band and its most-hated blog IMO) just as much if they were a couple of dudes, or if the chick was the musician and the guy was the singer. And I hated what I read of that blog and am done thinking about it hopefully forever now, but I'll probably check in with Anna Minard once in a while for fun.

I mean... the "oh they lead such a boring precious life" stuff is the least offensive part of this, what sort of life should they instead be leaving ("the sort of life where they don't write a blog" is acceptable but kinda misses the point)

― katherine, Monday, March 17, 2014 5:15 PM (3 hours ago)

they should have a life that conforms to those of me and my friends where everyone is fairly knowledgeable about semi-obscure music

Indeed. One must fully be familiar with at least five sun ra recordings to live an exciting and fulfilling life.

wildly off-topic and i know you meant it glibly but which 5? i've been trying to get into sun ra for a while and his disco is so overwhelming

oh wait sorry, I read the chart wrong, that data is inversely correlated

Thanks to this thread I just wasted a half hour reading my husband's stupid record collection.

I've never taken this thread title literally or seriously so I find it a bit bemusing how pretty much everything that gets posted here will get at least one "why are you guys so OUTRAGED by this for chrissakes its just a ___ why aren't you fighting the real enemy which is ___"

idk maybe some people are sitting there all hypertensive going THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE EXECUTED but for me this is just another lol @ dumb shit on the internet thread. This blog is clearly really annoyingly written but I'm not annoyed cause I haven't read it. I don't think anyone has a duty to know more about music or be less boring or delete their shit blog.

they should have a life that conforms to those of me and my friends where everyone is fairly knowledgeable about semi-obscure music

But they can go on about Imagine Dragons and the thrilling fact that they haven't heard them, and that would be fine

this thread board has no desire for a voice of reason

xpost

fuck Imogen Dragoons

xXp That post was not made in earnest, dunno about that thread I haven't read it thrillingly enough

I got that, it wasn't directed at you

fuck "obscurity" fuck "nerdiness" fuck "difficultness" fuck "i don't get it" fuck expressing yr opinions fuck rating music fuck the plain listener fuck the girl/boy divide fuck "owning your ignorance"

(not directed at any one body)

this thread has become the dry rot in the ilxor party wall for some reason

wins thoroughly otm if i'm not being lucid enough

the thing that bugs me most about the blog is that in some of the photos she is imitating the album cover image and in some of the photos she isn't, but there are a few where it's ambiguous and I can't tell if she is imitating the cover or not (I'm not outraged by this, though, just to be clear).

On that AC/DC thing, I have a bunch of records that people have given me because they've been getting rid of old vinyl. Which is why I have the entire Guadalcanal Diary catalog that I've never listened to. I guess I'm asking, should I listen to it? Is it good? Do I need to have a quip for a future girlfriend?

Not being intentionally faux-naif bt on this at least it'd be nice if ppl didn't assume we all already know you write abt music, cos we don't

Unless yr Ned

this thread overnight has been even worse than the annoying and completely ignorable blog

Sorry, or Lex

What rankles me slightly wrt that blog is that usually writers do that with kids, maybe the blog is satire?

Threads are ignorable too iirc!

Hot new contender. Toxic levels of rockism and rongness.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/Julian_Casablancas_Is_Riding_Forth_To_Rescue_Rock_Again?click=feed

But was it good? That’s hard to say.

Wait. Julian Casablancas' new band is called The Voidz? For real? Um.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/18/music-criticism-has-degenerated-into-lifestyle-reporting.html

No real mentions in that article of specifics to support his point.

lol under daily beast headings

POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT WORLD NEWS TECH+HEALTH FASHION GREAT ESCAPES WOMEN BOOKS

lol, i was just coming by to roll that url into the room, shut the door and run

the dry rot in the ilxor party wall

this is a beautiful bit of work noodle vague

'The Strokes saved rock'n'roll' is my least favourite common misconception in music revisionism. Is this an American thing? I guess I've heard the same case made for the Libertines, but it never felt that way to me.

it's a fucking british thing

"Technical knowledge of the art form has disappeared from its discourse."

"I’ve just spent a very depressing afternoon looking through the leading music periodicals."

"And I read some reviews of albums, and got told by “‘critics” (I use that term loosely) that they were “badass,” “hot,” “sexy,” “tripped-out,” and “freaky.”"

Kind of reads like an editorial from the Onion.

'The Strokes saved rock'n'roll' is my least favourite common misconception in music revisionism. Is this an American thing

lol iirc this was almost 100% a british music press thing, it reeks of it

xp waterface yes