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

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Waiting for people to do the heavy lifting and send him relevant songs

mh šŸ˜, Sunday, 5 February 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link

We used to sit around and sing Beatle songs, playing the chords on our guitars. I havenā€™t seen a group of kids sitting around playing todayā€™s musicā€¦ever!

niels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link

lol must have never been to a fuckin' bar on a Friday night or to any dorms ever.

Neanderthal, Sunday, 5 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link

ugh this board is at its worst when people think it's fun to joke about shit like Alzheimer's

sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link

If only there were some meme depicting an old man, say, yelling at a cloud or something

Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link

quite the conundrum

dorsalstop, Sunday, 5 February 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link

itā€™s become self-referential, kinda like metal. You canā€™t understand todayā€™s metal unless you listened to decades of it before.

It's a special kind of agony when Lefsetz says something you kind of agree with.

Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (čŖ¤čØ³ä¾®č¾±), Sunday, 5 February 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link

Stopped clock etc

sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link

I'm missing the part where anyone joked about Alzheimer's

a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 5 February 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, I missed that too. Maybe a post landed in the wrong thread by mistake?

Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (čŖ¤čØ³ä¾®č¾±), Sunday, 5 February 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link

I think that was supposed to be a joke? As in, don't make fun of this guy, he can't help himself, "senior moment," etc

that's how I read it anyway

Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link

bingo

sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link

Does this count

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQUSEiwl_zY/

Evan, Friday, 10 February 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link

i like it

removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 00:58 (seven years ago) link

Though the following exhibit came out in 2013, I maintain that it is the worst piece of music writing ever committed to pixels:

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/what-if-you-dont-like-beyonces-album/

pomenitul, Monday, 13 February 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link

When I was standing in line to validate a parking ticket after American Hustle, ā€œPretty Hurtsā€ was stuck in my head, and I couldnā€™t get it out, even after sitting in a theater honed in on another piece of media for nearly three hours. Those are the moments that matter, and they never happen immediately. Thatā€™s how I was proven wrong.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 February 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link

When I was standing in line to validate a parking ticket after Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, ā€œThe Chicken Danceā€ was stuck in my head, and I couldnā€™t get it out, even after sitting in a theater honed in on another piece of media for nearly three hours. Those are the moments that matter, and they never happen immediately. Thatā€™s how I was proven wrong.

pomenitul, Monday, 13 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link

this one time at band camp

removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link

lol, the byline is a good kicker

maura, Monday, 13 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

well there's this
http://louderthanwar.com/221207-2/#.WMevy6R8hts.twitter

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link

i mean, not the worst. just painfully earnest and long and sorta unreadable.

the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Friday, 17 March 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link

a good editor coulda saved it, but we don't have those anymore

the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Friday, 17 March 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link

well we do, they're just not employed to edit

mark s, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link

I've liked a lot of Everett True's writing through the years, not such a fan now he's dismissing music on the grounds of being made by a "beardy ginge". It's almost enough to make me try listening to Ed Sheeran.

https://everetttrue.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/ed-sheeran-is-shit/

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 19 March 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

good music made by a beardy ginge or beardy ginges: Vivian Stanshall, Average White Band - who else?

soref, Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/features/9512/a4b83d5d.jpg

mark s, Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link

absolutely shocked that E True wrote something in the style of a pissy 15 year-old

Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 March 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link

absolutely shocked that E True wrote something in the style of a pissy 15 year-old

ā€• Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:19 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link

so True, funny how it seems

salthigh, Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link

Not enough comparing of aquariums to blue construction paper or mentions of the interiors of geodes for my liking. Ed Sheeran is shit, though, so there is that.

Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Fela_Kuti_Live.jpg

Doran, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link

This review of the new Harriet Tubman album is kind of amazing...if you want to read the author's (actually pretty positive) thoughts about the music, you have to skip to paragraph 14. He had some stuff he wanted to get off his chest first, though.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/araminta-by-budd-kopman.php

Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (čŖ¤čØ³ä¾®č¾±), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link

wow

SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link

yikes

maura, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link

how dare SJWs politicize a band called Harriet Tubman

SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link

the n-word "Nazi"

lol

ĪŸį½–Ļ„Ī¹Ļ‚, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link

BUDD KOPMAN seems like such a computer generated sock-name for a jazz reviewer as well, mind you so does Harriet Tubman!

calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link

So, who really are the fascists?

hmm, indeed

mh šŸ˜, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link

Now, what does all of the above have to do with Araminta by the band Harriet Tubman? The given name of Harriet Tubman the woman was Araminta Ross, hence the name of the album. Politically, the message is hardly controversial in that they are preaching to the converted.

Musically, however, the story is entirely different

Sad lols. This guy's lost the plot.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link

Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders represent some of the voices and actions that are saying "No more! We are defending our culture!" This self-evident attitude is considered so horrifically shocking and immoral that college students have to retreat to their "safe spaces" so as not to be infected by "white privilege."

i... uh. ok... hm. *slowly backs away*

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, 20 March 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link

I don't mind reviews where people go off on little odysseys, that good person who did the Thelonious Monk review for P4k did it well recently. But this cunt needs to be taken around the back and put out of his misery.

calzino, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link

I strongly suggest checking out Budd's personal page.

https://www.jazzatbudds.com/

You are on the official website of Budd Kopman. I am a regular reviewer at AllAboutJazz who gets a kick out of being able to combine my love for jazz with computer programming.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link


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