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boring class warfare posts count as jokes in the uk?

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boring class warfare posts count as jokes in the uk?

-- deej, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ROBIN CARMODY was born in South London before Starbucks came, and when McDonald's hadn't long arrived. Arthur Daley still ruled the back streets, and most of So Solid Crew hadn't been born yet. He lived his formative years in Kent, where he read well and socialised badly. He then moved to South Dorset where, as one of his creative mentors had done somewhere else in England in the 1960s, he built up his frustration as a radical-leftie teenager living in what was then the most marginal Tory seat in the country, even as the Labour landslide swept through the land.

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom but all those posts just remind me of camronumad.gif

haw

I hate him cos he's a idiot. I'm not the only one.

http://nevsedoma.com.ua/uploads/posts/1156664005_number.jpg

I don't believe you, etc

whatyouthink13 = tori amos

RIP Stylus. I have been reading probably since the day it started. I think Todd may have e-mailed me about it, asking me to check it out when it launched. Also, didn't it have another name for like a month? Something like O.H.J., "O____ Home Journal"? Did I hallucinate that? In any event, I will miss it.

I R sad, I was gettin all set to send in a copy of our new LP for review :(

I will miss it.

Ditto. It was particularly sad to see the final page this morning. Something about the finality of it, I think.

Oligarchist Home Journal was the name waaaaay back in the day before Stylus. I don't think that stuff is even in the archives, it was basically just fucking around.

Stylus is such a great fucking name for a music publication.

I R sad, I was gettin all set to send in a copy of our new LP for review :(

WHO IS UR BAND

Society of Rockets (most of us were in the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association)

We're sorry, access to http://www.o-h-j.com has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.

That Stereogum comments section is saddening as fuck: a bunch of idiots grousing about how there isn't enough indie in the Stylus albums of the year list.

Finally, some sanity:

doesn't it bum any of you guys out to realize that you and every other commenter have the exact same taste in music?? "indie" obviously is not short for "individual" or "independent"

this comment thread depresses me to no end.

And the punchline at the end:

justice is the wrapping around the real gift in dance music this year - - SMD

What bothers me more than people complaining about the lack of indie is people expecting it to be there and claiming that Stylus dropped the ball or whatever. I mean, it's one thing to wish that the list was more in tune with your own tastes and another to act as if Stylus hasn't always been a site that looked beyond the usual indie parameters. Whenever contemporary country shows up on a Stylus list, blog commenters are all, "WTF, they're obviously pretending to like that shit" instead of realizing that the site's year-end lists are merely a reflection of their writing staff, two of whom happen to be Josh Love and Thomas Inskeep (not to mention I know that Alfred loves the Miranda Lambert record, and Todd Burns had a Julie Roberts song in his top five a couple years ago).

We have pop songs and country albums in our end-ofs EVERY FUCKING YEAR and EVERY FUCKING YEAR indie kids bitch about teir not being enough Squirrel Nutkin Gang indie records in there. Unbelieveable.

The problem: reading the comments on Stereogum in the first place. I really don't understand why anyone would read that blog.

indie kids have entitlement issues

I liked that Dom Passantino guy, he was all: "British class system, lol".

I just realized I used the present tense in that paragraph: "hasn't always," "happen to be." ;_;

Almost all comments sections are miserable affairs, especially at a place like Stereogum. The fallouts from lists being particularly idiotic, in general. Amazing to me that the fucking Interpol album on Stylus got more comments than the demise of the site. Pretty much says it all right there.

More people liked a band than a site that reviewed music?! The nerve.

So which site is now number two to PFM?

There isn't one. I'd argue Stylus left a gap in that spot. Of this type of publication, only third-tier ones remain as far as I can tell (in my opinion too, of course).

It's a good list. Lots of albums I like didn't make it, but (a) who cares? and (b) there are lots of very good albums on the list, many of which deserve the extra attention that might come from being on year-end lists, e.g., A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Tinariwen, Studio and Strategy.

Of this type of publication, only third-tier ones remain as far as I can tell (in my opinion too, of course).

You don't think Popmatters is up there? I'm not a big fan of its reviews, but it's features section has some interesting stuff in it.

PopMatters is bigger and more unwieldy and, as a result, probably more varied in quality than Stylus was (the former's sheer size precludes a lot of editing, so they rely a lot more on their writers getting it right first time). I liked Stylus and will miss it. I ought to add that I've written for PopMatters but would have been happy to have written for Stylus too. Todd Burns always seems like a decent person, as is Sarah Zupko.

You don't think Popmatters is up there? I'm not a big fan of its reviews, but it's features section has some interesting stuff in it.

PopMatters *does* have excellent music features from time to time, but in my opinion it doesn't consistently publishes work as varied and incisive as Stylus did.

*publish

It;s a real shame the Stylus writers didn't get together and form another site. A real opportunity wasted.

Obsessions are defined by:

Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.

The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems.

The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action.

The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind, and are not based in reality.

The tendency to haggle over small details that the viewer is unable to fix or change in any way. This begins a mental pre-occupation with that which is inevitable.

Stop talking about me.

'Cause he speaks of the Popmatters of love.

Sorry, I got nothing left but RJG-stylee non sequiturs.

To be RJG-like, that would have had to have been lower-case and one syllable.

true

wow, what a list chock full of crap. groupthink is always great.

Stylus kapt ermee

I've always wondered this and I might as well ask now: Why does ILX have a Dutch board? What is the logic behind that?

Why not?

~~if u ain't dutch, u ain't much~~

Hm. I thought they had all deserted ILX for greener pastures.

Why not have a tagalog board, then?

Because no one started one?

How ironic it is that on the very day I complete Jeff Nuttall's "Art and the Degradation of Awareness", a furious, inspiring and comprehensive assault upon postmodernism (among other things) that may well influence the way I think about certain art-forms, I also finally acquire the tenth and final album on Nick's "top ten postrock record" Stylus list.

not very ironic.

Just getting the conversation started with some crass sports-commentator fallacy!