Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Manchester.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/29/a-to-z-of-pop-genres-2012

"Indielectual" eh?

Indiegestible morelike

There is a band called Alt-J ???

I like how it starts off pretending to genuinely help the confused uncles with 'Afrobeats' and then slowly descends into hardcore trolling.

Hardcode Trolling?

What kind of music is that then?

what is EDM?

Epileptic Dance Music

they've been very lucky with the distribution of initial letters there...

Not to mention

Is guitar music on the way out?
Are guitar bands becoming a thing of the past, as dance and rap groups become more popular? Readers share their thoughts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jun/29/readers-panel-guitar-music

lol

In theory, "Night Bus" would be the most awesome genre in the history of music.

But I always imagined it to sound a bit like drunk girls singing the Specials' Nite Club along to tinny mobile phone beats.

Why give such a great genre name to such terrible music?

they've got Night Bus wrong in fairness

It's a pretty clever way to highlight lots of good new music while simultaneously winding up the kind of people who take these lists too seriously. Hats off.

hmm yeah im sufficiently estranged from what steve lamacq once described as 'new music' to learn something from the guardian

and a taxonomy of stupid names is often useful

interesting to see how the premises formerly trading as wonky are now operating under the name lazer funk which is even an improvement

I don't think that one is accurate either. The term "lazer bass" was knocking around in the wonky days along with aquacrunk etc.

aquacrunk was the kerlon of post-nuum genrenames, quality dismissed as pretention by the coarse and unthinking masses

also purple wow iirc

RIP

http://www.factmag.com/2012/06/27/various-artists-purple-legacy/

joker was the one that got away

Rather annoyed with the Guardian app for bunging a whacking great medal table in the middle of the home screen, with no option to remove it in the settings. I emailed them, and they just said it'll be taken down when the Olympics are over. No response about spoilering, or annoying people who don't give a toss about the Olympics.

is there an equivalent of http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian (i.e. just the articles that appeared in the print edition) that doesn't look terrible ON IPHONE?

(note: i do not want to give the guardian any money until they stop publishing martin robbins)

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ ???

thanks, but that's the current home page. i want the print edition, i.e. the page that changes once per day, not rolling news + commentbait like http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/24/harriet-harman-wrong-conservatives-feminists

This should do the job for you, caek (third-party thing produced using the Guardian API)

http://guardian.gyford.com/

perfect! thanks!

Outdoing themselves here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo

Whoops just noticed someone's already posted that to the not Onion thread.

Can see the value in their US coverage having a range of opinions but employing this guy isn't a particularly good look:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/aug/16/2011-gaza-flotilla-tweet-clarification

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2012/aug/22/prince-harry-royal-status

He could get as drunk as he likes and strip of all over the place –
just like any old toff. Zzzzz to that, we'd say.

this genuinely reads like it's written with ten-year-olds in mind

capitals in first par, closed window.

Observer, but the first sentence is inexexcusable for getting to publication:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7867366280_2fde44c86b_z.jpg

It doesn't make sense!

inexexcusable?

Yes, my editing is as bad as theirs.

I don't know about the readability of the sentence, my main worry (not sure if this is also the point aldo was making) is that it's surely wrong to say "revamped range of Marvel comics" since Justice League is and always has been a DC publication.

Yes, my point is that, and a bit more. It's like describing when the Graun went tabloid sized as their "revamped range of Times newspapers".

Or the launch of BBC3 as part of the BBC's "revamped range of ITV television". Oh no, wait, that works.

open goal, but couldn't resist posting the second comment on this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/04/online-reviews-rant-in-restaurant?commentpage=last#end-of-comments

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/9/4/1346753390687/A-man-using-a-computer-008.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iGFHbdFHnjhH3.png

Online news sites: the art of not clicking on things

as much as that article is largely polyfilla I found the stuff about the novelist who tried to visit everyone on her friends list quite entertaining

Shame to see this go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/allotment/2012/oct/05/allotments-gardens
"After five years, Allan Jenkins and Howard Sooley bring the Observer Organic Allotment Blog to a gentle close ..."

Interesting double standards in today's paper.

A long editorial about Jimmy Savile and the BBC and a Rock & Pop front page piece on Led Zeppelin on which Jimmy Page is not questioned about his predilection for 14-year-old girls.

Lost in Showbiz mentions Chris Brown and Justin Lee Collins as negatively as you would expect, while the radio reviewer protests about Andy Kershaw not being put back on Radio 3.

This is not to mention certain prominent columnists who think it dictatorial that a dickhead with a long criminal record should be jailed for wearing a T-shirt, while at the same time practically labelling Assange a rapist when he has neither been charged nor tired for the offence.

It would be useful to know whete they draw the boundaries.

sp: "tried."

Housing is an emotive subject because most people are struggling to pay rent, or a mortgage, making life-altering decisions about where to live based on how much they can afford to spend – so making the case for the state to be subsidising large chunks of rent for other people to live in London does not instantly elicit sympathy. If you're in any doubt about this, just glance below to read the comments that inevitably follow pieces on this theme.

this is like breaking the four or fifth wall or sthing, ostensibly a news article which acknowledges its own inevitable backlash