Simon Reynolds is a gobshite

btw does anyone know where i can get hold of a copy of Reynolds' "Against Health and Efficiency: Independent Music in the 1980s" essay? Preferably online?

Did anybody here go to any of those events (Reynolds is plugging his latest book)

YAWN!!!

The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

The original Paul Kix, and still the best.

Casting *RESURRECT THREAD*
-- Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, March 14, 2003 8:03 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this sounds like latter-day martin amis.

WHAT IS REYNOLS VIEW ON THE SCOOTER ISSUE

"The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

-- Dom Passantino"

reynolds said this? regardless of who said it, what fucking nonsense.

Good call on spiritual bankruptcy in the middle of a paragraph of "LOL FATTEY" gags

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=__Php680jxM

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throw ya rollies in the sky

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Rub your titties if you love 2 girls 1 cup

I think the new shaved head/goatee/gaining two stone is a good look for him.

Goody to enter Indian Big Brother
Day 71, 11:21 BST

By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter

Rex Features
Jade Goody will enter the Indian Big Brother house, reports The Sun.

The reality TV star, who was accused of bullying and making racist remarks to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in last year's Celebrity Big Brother, has flown out to Mumbai to prepare for a stint on Big Boss.

A source revealed: "Jade wasn't sure when she was first approached because she was worried about how the Indian housemates and public might react.

"She was really upset about everything that happened after the scandal last year. People in India were burning effigies of her in the street.

"But she really wants to clear her name and prove to everyone that she's not a racist."

Goody will allegedly earn £100,000 for taking part in Big Boss.

"But she really wants to earn £100,000" morelike.

Wonder what her take is on Funky House?

The finest music journalist ever. Everybody secretly acknowledges this.

http://warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com/files/2008/06/slater8ii6.jpg

He isn't really though, is he? Even the Blissed Out-era stuff makes pretty embarrassing reading now and the current contents of Blissblog seem to indicate that he's lost the plot.

'Gobshite' is such a mild insult, I'm really surprised so many people got in such a tizzy about it upthread.

Them was funny days, the *golden age* of ILM.

I always forget how shockingly hot Simon Reynolds is.

Thread, you may go on.

"And if '01 in garage = '96 in jungle, there's at least one or two more years of *generally* good music."

That was prescient.

Unless he meant UK garage, which I never really listened to and then it was gone.

Simey on "The Roxy Music Story" on BBC4. Billed as a 'Cultural Commentator'

"Roxy Music what was that all about eh eh couldn't tell man or woman was it the fifties or the noughties it was like Blake's Seven only with flares"

I tried to watch it but really it was such a lovefest i gave up.

And Mr Reynold's cultural commentary was hardly groundbreaking.

Paul Thompson! Hero!

"Ah cannat wear these Bryan, I divven't want me mam'll thinking I'm some kind of heemasexual, man"

Was the show deliberately timed to coincide with Otis Ferry's arrest for threatening a key witness in his theft and assault of women trial?

Quipped cultural commentator Bobby Gillespie: "Ah gie'd ma old Rolo wrappers tae Brian Eno in exchange fir some Barrett's sweet cigarettes an' next thing ah know thur he is oan TOTP wi' yon Roxy Music wearin' thum and the oscillator he nicked oot our O Grade Physics class. Mind you it sounded a wee bit better than ma suggestion thut he should play the recorder."

xxp
Yeah, Thompson should have have been in it more, deflating the pretentiousness. More him, less Eno. More music would have been good as well. Just as a song was kicking in bloody Bono pops up to tell us something wholly unoriginal about it.

What was the point of Roxy Music if not pretentiousness?

Mind you, yes; the "you're too stupid to sit still and listen to/watch a piece of music for three minutes" policy of these programmes is very tiresome.

Bob: "Next ah tried to get yon Andy Mackay tae play the recorder, but the cunt wahnts to play a fuckin' oboe! That's no' very fuckin' rock n' roll is it?"

What was the point of Roxy Music if not pretentiousness?

The toons, man, the toons!

No, I was right.

Quipped Andy Mackay: "That doss cunt Gillespie couldnae blow a single note oan the oboe whin the music teacher passed it roond the class. He might've hud a better chance if his goab hadnae been stuffed wi' the Bazooka Joe chewin' gum he nicked aff wee Lydon in second year."

Unless you mean "toons" in the Terrytoons sense.

Bob: "An' ah said, listen Mackay, jist 'cos yer da' is in "Porridge" ye think ye're gallus... well ye're no'! Ye're bogus, man!"

And thus was Mackay replaced early on in Roxy Music by saxman Rikki Fulton, whose acclaimed 1974 solo outing Can Ah No Park Ma Bike Oan Evan Parker? has been known to reach prices on ebay in excess of 80p.

Genuine lol^

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/wonky-ketamine-dubstep-zomby

if the grau had any sack it'd pay reynolds hard cash to, idk, try some drugs and listen to dance music in way that doesn't involve firing up youtubes.

lol he quotes an "expert" on ketamine, who turns out to be an anonymous bbc online news reporter

These Bobby G skits turn up in the unlikeliest of threads (xxxp)

He could have asked me. It did make me feel wonky tbh, like Morph.

No mention of the 'chopped and screwed' scene of Hosuton. Their drug of choice is 'lean' and has very similar effects. This is the obvious source of the UK's K scene. Not aware of it Simon?

these FUCKING people

funny that when i've been out to see Rustie most people were just drunk, or on pills, or cocaine. i suppose you couldn't make a crap piece for the Guardian out of that though.

and that most people i know who've been to/live in Berlin say that speed is extremely popular, more so than K.

but again, Simey couldn't make a crap connection between minimal and wonky if he stuck to the truth.

hate this whole idea of 'synergy' between drug and music tbqh. lurking behind it is some really dubious deleuzian 'man machine' ish. no idea what the appeal of it is as a meme.