Sasha Frere-Jones: Really?????

http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissions/v_l.jpg

why is that picture a the yale law admissions blog

but as call all destroyer said above the albums mentioned in the article are probably the only ones he's listened to all year.

just a q btw, do you guys seriously believe this or is it a job requirement to say stuff like it

why is that picture a the yale law admissions blog

who do u think is running this country????

john it's just the way the article reads

otm

yeah no I get that but it's one thing to say "weird to me how a guy who clearly hears a lot of [genre] can come away w/those opinions" and another to actually get extend that to fantasy-land conceptions of who's more/less informed

(sorry, the whole "I disagree with someone, therefore he's clearly not in possession of the same information as me" style is a big irritant for me) (LOL along w/lots of other stuff today it seems)

dude i probably listen to <10 new hip-hop albums a year but i would never write something that was pre-framed w/"ever year has ONE BIG RAP ALBUM" which is what he basically does.

i think weve probably talked in the past about how when sf-j writes for the new yorker there's a sense that he dumbs things down a bit but to say that the blueprint 3 can be subbed in for "the state of hip-hop" in 2009 is pretty wack--if anything he should be telling that readership that just like every genre there's a bunch of interesting shit happening year in and year out.

my bad I'm just really contrary today sorry

naw man it's cool :)

SONGS
1. Shuttle “Tunnel (High Rankin Remix)” (Ninja Tune)
2. The Streets “Blinded By The Lights (Nero remix)”
3. Pet Shop Boys “Love Etc.” (EMI)
4. 16 Bit “Chainsaw Calligraphy” (Boka)
5. Miike Snow “Animal” (Fake Blood remix) (RCRD LBL)
6. Jesse McCartney “How Do You Sleep?” f/Ludacris (Hollywood)
7. Maxwell “Pretty Wings” (Sony)
8. Major Lazer “Keep It Going Louder” (Downtown)
9. The Streets “See If They Salute”
10. Miranda Lambert “Dead Flowers” (Sony)
11. FaltyDL “Party/Alpafun” (Ramp)
12. Jason Aldean “This I Gotta See” (Broken Bow Records)
13. Kate Voegele “Inside Out” (Interscope)
14. Tonéx “Fiyah” (Battery/Verity/Zomba)
15. Holly Williams “Mama”
16. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Come Saturday” (Slumberland)
17. Metric “Help, I’m Alive” (Metric Music International)
18. Kelly Clarkson “I Do Not Hook Up” (Sony/BMG)

ALBUMS
1. Mastodon “Crack The Skye” (Reprise)
2. Sonic Youth “The Eternal” (Matador)
3. Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca” (Domino)
4. Sunn O))) “Monoliths & Dimensions” (Southern Lord)
5. Neko Case “Middle Cyclone” (Anti-)
6. Sleigh Bells
7. Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” (Warp)
8. St. Vincent “Actor” (4AD)
9. Raekwon “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2” (Ice H20)
10. Prefuse 73 “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian” (Warp)
11. Fever Ray (Rabid/Mute)
12. Micachu & The Shapes “Jewellery” (Rough Trade)
13. Harmonia & Eno ’76 “Tracks & Traces” (Grönland)
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “It’s Blitz!” (Interscope)
15. DJ Sega “Live at The Bowery Ballroom”
16. Freddie Gibbs “midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik”
17. The-Dream “Love vs. Money” (Def Jam)
18. Lady Gaga “The Fame” (Interscope)
19. Lily Allen “It’s Not Me, It’s You” (EMI/Capitol)
20. Joker “Purple Wow Sound”
21. Vowels “The Pattern Prism” (LOAF)
22. Kleerup (Astralwerks)
23. Miracle Condition (Tizona)
24. Del Marquis “Runaround” (Embryoroom)
25. Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
26. Kate Miller-Heidke “Curioser” (Sony BMG Australia)
27. The Arch Cupcake “Box of Bees” (Patriarch)
28. Brad Paisley “American Saturday Night” (Arista)
29. Mokira “Persona” (Type)
30. Erin McCarley “Love, Save The Empty” (Universal Republic)
31. Vladislav Delay “Tummaa” (Leaf)
32. Udachi & Jubilee “Paypur” EP (Nightshifters)
33. Mika “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” (Casablanca)
34. Esser “Braveface” (Chocolate Industries)
35. Modeselektor “Body Language Vol. 08” (Get Physical Music)

http://www.frontiernet.net/~shirleydelfino/DollPhotos/VeryContraryMary20.jpg

my bad I'm just really contrary today sorry

no you aren't

Now what's this.

(xpost to deej)

i just think it's dumb how this whole trend is based off a couple songs and of all the things the new jay z album. he's calling 2009 the end of hip hop over something it seems he's been noticing a bit in the past few months. if he's heard a lot of other hip hop this year, and i don't doubt he has, it's not like he's figuring any of that into the argument.

wait deej are year end lists supposed to be lists of everything a person has heard? fuck I have been doin it wrong for years

that #1 song is exactly why i dont get dubstep.

im just pointing out his year end list doesnt exactly suggest hes particularly immersed in rap music that the rest of the country is listening to

well, or it suggests, as he is saying outright, that he's not that taken with what he's hearing

I mean this is exactly what I'm talking about - "he doesn't like what I like! he must not have heard what I've heard!" lol wut, if I don't see something on somebody's list I don't assume they're ignorant to its glories

has anyone here listened to that dude from gary indiana? is he any good?

hes good & constructs good albums but as a rapper hes a pretty plain trad-gangster rap dude being pushed by a guy w a day job @ stones throw who apparently knows how to market to the white boy crit market

this is just a really shortsighted article - the jay-z album isnt a barometer or indicator of anything beyond an aging artist attempting to tighten his grip on the ability to feel in touch - the freddie gibbs tangent is really disconnected & gibbs in general is good but is not anything special in terms of trend. the type of thing that gibbs is doing with mixtape-as-album has been going on for two or three years now. the piece just makes it look like SFJ is skimming what all rap fans & sorta rap fans are talking about - jay & rae - and what the 'right' tastemaking blogs are talking up - gibbs, who is a good rapper in a looooooooooong line of unsigned rappers putting out fully formed albums for free .

yeah, if your perfect consumer is the white boy crit market you are gonna go hungry. they never pay for anything. he should market the album to critical 12 year old white boys. they got money.

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has anyone here listened to that dude from gary indiana? is he any good?

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes and yes he is very very good IMO

as soon as i noticed that this thread had been updated, i knew exactly why

because sasha frere-jones recently wrote an article?

http://stuhasic.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/psychic.jpg

as soon as i noticed that this thread had been updated, i knew exactly why

rip sfj

rock crit died today. along with rap.

people still listen to prefuse 73 rekkerds?

rip people

rip black people and their music

rip...everyone (tiny tim voice)

women writing poetry itt

http://www.kidsuki.com/Images/scooby-doo.jpeg

rip rop?

i looked up joker from that list. joker is a dubstep artist.

because sfj wrote a "hip hop is 'dead'" article, folks.

i don't know if i really feel like looking up the arch cupcake though. i will just assume that they are a dubstep artist as well.

http://www.myspace.com/thearchcupcake

spoofed link to lemonparty, do not click

would read a well written article on canonical shock images

rap = dead, dubstep = best music out

got it

not that big on the song, but i'm digging the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGAP15CT3X4

rap = dead, dubstep = best music out

got it

were rock stans this belligerent when the genre was 25 years old and people didn't think it was still some radical new force for shakin up the charts and started lookin around for other shit to get excited about?

wait lol don't answer that

well basically that's why we ended up with punk rock; if hip-hop's version is snap/jerk, I can only wait with bated breath for the awesome post-jerk hip-hop that should be rolling out this decade

xpost disco-burning stadium rallies etc etc.

they were enraged! they killed disco cuz they were so mad.

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