I mean the former is an aggregation of tweets
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
But what tweets
― niels, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
More replieshttp://www.metalinsider.net/columns/headbangers-brawl/headbangers-brawl-is-there-really-an-sjw-problem-in-extreme-music
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
I like how they let the dumbest person go first and let Bram bat cleanup.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
bram's batting third. nick ("Corpsegrinder is a World of Warcraft-playing dork who spends one hour a day growling songs about murder") is in the cleanup spot.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
(apologies, but as your fact checking cuz, i do feel kind of obligated)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
What's craziest about that metal SJW piece is the implication that murder and arson are normal and natural, and part of the "appeal" of extreme metal. That might be true for some people, but it doesn't exactly amount to a convincing case against social justice in metal.
― jmm, Saturday, 25 June 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
What's craziest is no one outside of the like 100 people in metal media cares about any of this.
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 June 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
So we should only post examples of bad music writing that the general public actually cares about? Good luck.
― Evan, Saturday, 25 June 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Nah, piece def belonged here, I'm more talking about everyone writing responses
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 June 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
murder and arson are normal and natural
Of course, just normal and natural to the EXTREME.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 June 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Personally, I'm waiting to hear the Obama press conference addressing this extreme metal controversy. He should invite the author and his critics out for beers.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 June 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
are there ANY music articles that dont appeal to just 100 people in the media these days?
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
not really
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 25 June 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
― Cosmic Slop
yes, but they're by chuck klosterman
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 June 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
*sobs*
― maura, Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
so many people shared that de la soul thing. if you write sucky stuff about things you don't like lots of non-media people will read you.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
The nihilism and violence of the second wave Norwegian scene was "interesting" insofar as it was a determinate negation of certain stupid tendencies within extreme music but it seems like a bad idea to argue that that sort of thing should be allowed to continue within the scene by people who should know better. The writer of that decibel piece seems like a bad person.
― Treeship, Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
sorry but this is appalling https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/1990s-spice-girls-celebrity-culture?CMP=fb_gu
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Twenty years on, the No 1 album is by Radiohead (from the 90s), our funniest TV show is Frasier (from the 90s), our most eagerly awaited new film is Absolutely Fabulous (from the 90s), the Stone Roses (from the 90s) are forever back-back-BACK
I love Frasier, but I'm confused by this reference to Frasier.
― soref, Monday, 4 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Also aren't the Stone Roses from the '80s?
― emil.y, Monday, 4 July 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8cNmsAq.jpg
shit just got hyperlocal
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/yg-still-brazy
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 July 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
I wondered about that too. Did Frasier win some best sitcom poll? Or is she referring to the daily repeats on C4?
Is anyone eagerly awaiting the Ab Fab movie? That dead horse has been flogged to homeopathic levels.
Sylvia Patterson can be a fantastic features writer, but she was never someone I went to for critical insight. I mean, she gave Kula Shaker's K 9/10 in the NME. This tossed off clickbait is beneath her.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Monday, 4 July 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
That YG review is something special.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 4 July 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm more disturbed that the writer considers Noel Gallagher a sage.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 July 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
in which the editor of a website that doesn't pay its writers complains that writers are actually losing money every time they review a record because record companies are too cheap to send them hard copies of the music and how terribly unfair that is:
http://blurtonline.com/2016/07/fred-mills-economics-rock-criticism/
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 July 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
new board description...
"Still Brazy is analogous to the very biosphere we inhabit, becoming oblique in the same instant we perceive it most lucidly."
― scott seward, Monday, 4 July 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
i can't read that fred mills thing. mostly it reminds me that magnet magazine never paid me 10 bucks for a review once and i was too embarrassed to ask them for ten bucks.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 July 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
nothing like a tiny mix tapes review to give me an enormous dose of perspective on my own overwriting
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 4 July 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
"Assume, as a base, that a reviewer spends 90 minutes listening to a 45-minute album twice before setting down to write. Then assume he/she puts in another 90 minutes’ minimum to write, proof, revise and finalize a review. Could be more, could be less, depending on the record."
this is not the amount of time it takes me to review a record
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 4 July 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
...I pullquoted way too soon didn't I
"if you actually want to keep the album, you’ll probably want to burn it to a CDR, print out some artwork or at least tracklisting, and insert both into a jewel case. That’s at least another buck for the disc, the printer paper, and the ink used printing it."
in what oblique biosphere are people still doing this in 2016? and why are they paying those prices?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 July 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
I do, sometimes.
― Mark G, Monday, 4 July 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
I, also, wondered what that Frasier reference was about.
― kinder, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Twenty years on, the No 1 album is by Radiohead (from the 90s), our funniest TV show is Frasier (from the 90s), my favorite jeans are starting to get real worn these days (from the 90s), i subsist entirely on a diet from my storehouse of hungry man tv dinners (from the 90s), and my busted hip from a golfing mishap (from the 90s) is forever back back back
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Monday, 4 July 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
I'm excited for the ABFAB movie!!
― maura, Monday, 4 July 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Me too tho Im waiting for the dvd...
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 4 July 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
God that Frasier reference.
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Monday, 4 July 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
God that YG review
― alpine static, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 07:05 (seven years ago) link
Also stating that the Spice Girls were the first example of a 'band as brand', even after comparing them directly to Take That.
Pretty much every 'it were better in them days' thinkpiece reads like this:
1. I know what you're thinking, but this isn't your typical 'it were better in them days' thinkpiece.2. Here are a bunch of highly-subjective and carefully-selected things that I think were better in them days3. Here are precisely zero examples of things that were worse in them days4. Here is just one tenuous example of a thing that sucks about today.5. Conclusion: 'it were better in them days'.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Today we'll be serving a stark antiporous sonic aesthetic, braised in hyperlocalized zones, unfurled with viscous eraism. That's $34.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
So that's what happened to Fred Mills, whom I remember from his '80s zine days. I want to challenge him to write an article without either a) using the first person or b) referring back to interviews he's done or rockstars he's met.
OK, he can do b) once an article, since I don't believe he's capable of not doing it.
― mike a, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Perhaps Frasier reruns are popular in England right now? Similar things have happened.
Frasier is probably the most popular TV show on weird Twitter
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
spongebob
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Seinfeld is back! Ads for Seinfeld on Hulu with Seinfeld fans make me hate that show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1frO8JjX3do
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 July 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
reading or thinking or god forbid watching seinfeld makes me hate that show
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
a little tangential- as terrible as that la weekly piece was, i'm heartened by the response. it's helped me to realize why i find the christine chubbuck fetishists so disturbing. it's not because she died on tv. we've seen lots of people die on tv since then. it's because after she died the wapo published that sally quinn piece that jizzed on her corpse. that's where today's chubbuck-fetishist underground really comes from.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 July 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
i had to google who that was. never heard of her! there was an LA Weekly story about her?
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 July 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/10/robert-lang-photography-camden-town-london
― Odysseus, Sunday, 10 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link