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

No Damon Che I presume?

hahaha...no i don't think damon che generally gets asked back

was a younger guy, really good...their 2009 album The Perfect Prize of Gravity is really great

He should just reactivate Thee Speaking Canaries.

let me at this guy

http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-06-18/music/lionel-richie/

Getting this far was hard enough but,

It'd be easy (like Sunday morning) to say Richie got lucky,

http://cdn.soundpublishing.com/dailyweekly/MikeseelyAuthorPhoto01.jpg

The music Richie played was earnest and emotional, more reminiscent of Barry Manilow than Barry Gordy

count the number of times he alludes to the music's race!

That Richie article is probably the worst thing I've ever read because of this thread.

So it's the worst thing you ever read then?

Dunno if yr knocking my poor syntax or what, but if so, make that "worst piece of writing that I've seen linked in this thread." Criticizing poor writing with more poor writing is admittedly LOL, but hey, no one's paying *me* for this shit.

Sorry, just meant it is hard to find worse than what is linked to on this thread.

Back in 2004, when Richie, now 64, was at perhaps the nadir of his career, I interviewed him before a gig in Stuttgart, Germany. I asked if he'd had a dream the night prior, and whether it was awesome.

It remains to be seen whether history will be as generous to Obama, but odds are it will. As president, he's played the long game, confident his legacy will overcome any passing peccadilloes. He, like Lionel, has dreamed globally, viewing the world not in black-and-white, but in beautiful shades of beige. Fiesta forever, indeed.

xxpost

Oh, haha! Sorry, didn't mean to sound so butthurt.

It's okay – fiesta forever!

DN changed in honour of that article

"more reminiscent of Barry Manilow than Barry Gordy" is too perfect

xp! :D

hah great minds etc.

I'd given him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was referring to some obscure artist. There must still be some residual respect for the Voice floating around my brain somewhere.

this is the guy responsible for the 'black pop stars who should go country' piece that the vmg higher-ups slapped up on the voice's music blog immediately after my firing. good to know he's still churning out 'quality' 'content'

Think the guy meant "Barry Geordie," the John Barry of Newcastle.

Maybe should have just made that a screenname instead of a post, as is my wont.

Barry Geordie Gordy Obama

p sure that guy contributes to every DNC email with the subject line MAJOR DISASTER

suggest barry

dancing on the glass ceiling

and the Piece Of Music Criticism Most Easily Mistaken For An Onion Article Award goes to

I guess it's the Ezra Klein way to accept received opinion and call it "controversy"

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial

the phrase "even Pitchfork" appears in that twice

Indie-music blog Hipster Runoff labelled her the "most controversial broad in indie right now," saying that she carefully planned the hype around "Video Games" and was trying to trick the music world into believing that she was a self-made, American Dream Achieving, Indie-pop princess. Hipster Runoff split her coverage into two distinct camps (#teamlana and #efflana), with critics claiming that she was a poser and just a "failed mainstream artist."

I can't even express how pathetic that Vox piece is. Is the humourless recounting of ultimately irrelevant, two-and-a-half-year-old online debates a thing now?

you're soaking in it

welcome to the world of "explainer journalism" by people who have read wikipedia

[ Interest over time ]

now awaiting FT article disputing kelsey mckinney's data

HOW SNOOP DOGGY DOGG BECAME SNOOP DOGG AND OTHER SHOWBIZ TRICKS TO FOOL U

GWAR - real or fake?

Andrew W.K. - Steev Mike or Steve Harper?

Yo Vox Is it true Vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef?

"I do get that new releases on vinyl can get pricey – and therefore have the potential to create an elitist audience – but in a climate in which indie musicians can open for Radiohead and still not afford health insurance, anything that creates a way to bring real, live musicians closer to making monday off their work, so that that they can make more of it – hey, that's cool with me."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/21/vinyl-record-collector-sales-jack-white

can someone break that sentence down for me?

"So, even as yet another person in another underpaid creative field who is busy collecting probably one too many records, I'm happy to spend whatever I can afford."

that "even as yet" has got to go. you could probably learn that in a class somewhere.

"Rainy Day Records up the block, however, was the platonic ideal of a local record store: half dozen or so boxes of 45s (sorted by new, used and local bands)..."

i hate those used bands. they are the worst.

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whood
21 June 2014 12:56pm

I've just had a very nice avocado sandwich. Can I have a column, please?

a golden oldie. I am not British so I don't know how long John Harris has been giving the music coverage in the Guardian a bad name, but this has to be a low point for the publication:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jan/05/popandrock

(Although it does use the word 'acme' in a sentence, which I rarely come across, so that's kinda cool I guess)

John Harris continues to give music coverage in the Guardian a bad name to this day

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/20/warpaint-cate-le-bon-st-vincent-rocks-future-is-female

That funk thing by JH makes a worse case than the student item in the first post. I got bored into giving up before even managing to get to the offensive part in that women in rock one, but then I don't think I got past the first paragraph either.

factual errors and questionable theses you can drive a boom clap through:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/10905375/Is-Charli-XCX-the-new-Adele.html

Casey Kasem, Ronald Reagan and music’s 1 percent: Artificial “popularity” is not democracy

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/22/casey_kasem_ronald_reagan_and_musics_1_percent_artificial_popularity_is_not_democracy/

http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/blog/jacques-greene-brought-back-house-music-for-the-people