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

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (10313 of them)

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

― 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 (誤訳侮辱), 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

Οὖτις, 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 😏, 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

I'm still pondering the image at the top of the page, of course.

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

I suspect Don van Gorp will be particularly amused by this page:

https://www.jazzatbudds.com/musings.php

Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link

the 'musings' section makes me think of an ilx thread with those three posts, then "11 years pass", then dozens of paragraphs ranting about sjws

is he a professional reviewer or is AllAboutJazz a website where anyone can set up an account and start posting stuff?

soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link

WASTEMAN

soref, Monday, 20 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link

is he a professional reviewer or is AllAboutJazz a website where anyone can set up an account and start posting stuff?

The latter.

Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 20 March 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link

the game of trying to figure out who online is a reasonably well-adjusted person and who is just sitting alone in a room pounding on a keyboard alone coming up with hateful ideas of the world at large

brb the cat just walked in, need to see what he wants

mh 😏, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link

melvin gibbs' response to the araminta review:
https://www.facebook.com/melvin.gibbs/posts/10208792547123250

aaj editor michael ricci's apology (the review has been taken down):
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz-in-the-age-of-the-politicization-of-everything-araminta-harriet-tubman-by-budd-kopman.php?pg=1

mark s, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link

I didn't get to see the Kopman piece before it was taken down, sound like I'm not missing much though

Wimmels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link

sorry, i meant to link this too (gibbs preserves/reposts the original): https://www.facebook.com/melvin.gibbs/posts/10208795027665262?pnref=story

mark s, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link

I didn't get to see the Kopman piece before it was taken down, sound like I'm not missing much though

yet another chance to test your rage aneurysm threshold / eyeroll capacity

Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link

gibbs piece is excellent, if perhaps too kind

Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link

I cannot begin to convey the degre of shock I experienced when, after all that buildup, the album review turned out to be positive.

Champiness, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link

idk I don't think you necessarily need derrida to take down that review

a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link

Hasn't this clown noticed that Wilders lost?

Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link

bud kopman notices JAZZ, buddy

Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 March 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/once-we-listened-to-the-beatles-now-we-eat-beetles

Most of the top music from the 1990s, such as say Alanis Morissette, would sound current if released today, a sign of cultural stasis in what was once a highly socially charged and rapidly changing sector. In 1967, music from 20 or even 10 years earlier sounded quite different and indeed archaic.

As for where the change and innovation have come, it’s hard to think of any sphere of American life where the selection and quality have improved so much as food, whether in the supermarket or in restaurants. American cities become more interesting places to dine each year, and the attention paid to food on TV and online has been growing steadily since the 1990s.

j., Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link

I haven't listened to Jagged Little Pill in a long time, but I'll bet it couldn't sound any more of its time.

The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link

http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/john-mayer-could-learn-something-from-game-of-thrones.html

There are few easier targets in music writing. But somehow this guy still aimed the shotgun right at his own balls.

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 6 April 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link

Should have just talked about the band Marillion instead.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 April 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link

"I’m not saying that John Mayer should be sealed away, tortured, blinded, and de-fingered because it would better his music."

go figure

budo jeru, Thursday, 6 April 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link

Whether Jagged Little Pill sounds of it's time probably comes down to whether you heard it at the time. The reference points for music are so different now that perhaps it would sound new to someone who is younger and only aware of the current sounds in music. That's a huge assumption on my part though

Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 6 April 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link

Over the weekend my girlfriend and I were on a quick road trip and for lack of anything else we listened to one of those Jack-FM style stations -- "Ironic" came up at one point and in the context of the mostly newish songs around it, it just sounded pretty out of place more than anything else. (Less so than the Thriller-era Michael Jackson songs they played, or anything random from the 80s.)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link

I was gonna say, it would probably sound old to someone who is younger, like '60s music did in the '80s.

...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link

i think the basic point is that, when it comes to production, you can cherry pick more or less any element from the last forty years of music and use it as a filter, a signifier, whatever, and most likely people will hear it as contemporary. nobody in the '60s had that luxury and nobody wanted to "sound like" robert johnson or joe liggins or amos milburn in terms of production.

budo jeru, Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link

what that has to do with food, or eating beetles, tough, is beyond me

budo jeru, Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link

though*

budo jeru, Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link

I can't ever imagine the drum loops on 'All I Really Want' or 'You Learn' sounding contemporary to anyone in 2017.

...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.