Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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lol

Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

Agreed re Twitter request.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

Aerosmith OTM here. I was going to say, DJP, nobody is saying that criticism doesn't often reduce to a good/bad verdict, what they (and I) say is that it doesn't have to be that way, and there are numerous field where in fact the good/bad duality is almost non-existent.

emil.y, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

*fields

emil.y, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

whenever someone claims a "reduction" or that X "reduces" to Y, I'm suspicious & recommend the same.

Euler, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

I can attest that writing reviews is more fun than student discussions in lit theory courses.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

setting the bar high there

pandemic, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

whenever someone claims a "reduction" or that X "reduces" to Y, I'm suspicious & recommend the same.

I feel it's fair to remind the thread here that Euler "does" philosophy and is required by the terms of his contract to suspect all claims of reduction

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

I studied computer science; reduction is the foundation of everything.

Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

that seems a rather reductive claim to me - Euler, back me up here

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

i agree w aero too

Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

i wouldnt have said anything except that rarely happens

Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

how many box sets of his tweet reviews did Whiney sell, besides the one to Markers?

Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

iirc he sold all of them

lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:41 (fourteen years ago)

proof that print media can be saved by tweviews, then

Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:04 (fourteen years ago)

fuck, I missed the alley oop due to spending half the day driving across Midwestern tundra

Good grief it's cold, I have been reduced to shivers

Euler, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:47 (fourteen years ago)

important h1pster puppy info within: http://blog.omusicawards.com/2012/01/spin-reviews/

David Blohard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

way to work around my "no mentions of h1pster puppies" filter that I spent hours coding

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

dudes, whiney deserves a raise, people on my facebook talking about spin! in 2012!

scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:33 (fourteen years ago)

antipodean counterclockwise unSpinning out the drain

Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

whiney can u post your handbook on how to write twitter reviews?

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

1. find some music that you hate

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

2. cut a hole in the box

Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

lol this is exactly the sort of thread direction that our whiney haaaaaaaates

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

3. three three for my heartache

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

4. I can give you more

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

5. #neversellnocrackwhereyourestat

Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

i hope to see a "thom yorkie" joke in this new column

pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:17 (fourteen years ago)

and all english bands albums done in a mockney style mentioning blood sausage

Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

Oh right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sausage_%28band%29

Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

whiney's theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfm6ZkDeltM

scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

its whiney's world, the rest of us just live in it!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/01/13/145107490/are-140-character-reviews-the-future-of-music-criticism

scott seward, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

good call to drop the reviewer name and score hashtags, that shit was superfluous/ugly

Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

Ann's thing is so good

David Blohard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/1351/pokinsperpetuate1.jpg

am0n, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

perpetual lolz

pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/IOOFN.png

pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

hey weingarten, somebody told me to tell you, you're killing it, bro

some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

knowledge, i mean

some dude, Friday, 13 January 2012 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

dudes, whiney deserves a raise, people on my facebook talking about spin! in 2012!

Yes, an old high-school friend posted the news on my Wall yesterday!

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

six months from now: whiney instates a new "full issue reviews only" policy

this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

yeah but will more people buy Spin because of it? Or is it all about online clicks now?

Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

maybe whiney could attest otherwise but i think most magazines are trying to think about how to survive beyond the quickly ending 'paper circulation era' and these changes are all about that

Jean-Luc Gohard (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

like maybe they'd like to keep readership of the physical magazine from dropping more quickly to make the transition easier and more gradual, but nobody can possibly expect the number of sales/subscribers to ever go up again

Jean-Luc Gohard (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

I will always prefer print mags myself but if everyone does go online eventually I really hope it's not in a half-arsed way like nme.com.
Mags like Spin,Rolling Stone,NME etc have a fantastic archive of old reviews and articles that I all hope end up online, and if they do that along with the same amount of reviews Pitchfork puts up each day, then they could have the best sites on the internet. No doubt if that were to happen they would want some silly amount of subscription money though :(

Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

isn't the full Spin archive on Google Books? or was that only for a minute

unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 13 January 2012 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

It's still there. Yesterday I was nosing around the 1998 issue with Natalie Imbruglia on the cover.

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

its the gift that keeps on giving:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/01/12/spin_magazine_to_review_albums_on_twitter_is_this_the_death_of_music_criticism_.html

scott seward, Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

"but such responses can largely be blamed on Spin senior editor and avowed troll Christopher Weingarten."

scott seward, Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

hi forrest wickman, didn't know you read ilx

Jean-Luc Gohard (some dude), Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:25 (fourteen years ago)


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