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http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/mark_mcgrath_2001_02_15.jpg

Brian Wilson solo T, pretty hip.

Mark McGrath was on Rock n Roll Jeopardy and cleaned house. Stop being snobs.

Yeah, he was a machine as a contestant and then, after Jeff Probst got too busy with Survivor, hosted the show for a hot minute.

Oh wait, he didn't. He was going to revive the show, but it never got out of the planning stages.

Seems like a stand-up dude, tbh.

Mark McGrath was on Rock n Roll Jeopardy and cleaned house. Stop being snobs.

― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 4, 2013 2:15 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was gonna say this. i was about the make the case for mcgrath as some kind of tragic genius figure who lucked into a wack career but i don't know enough really and don't care

lol I think goole is basically OTM

ok i'll admit when i'm wrong

mark mcgrath you know who the feelies are and i'm sorry i doubted you.

tyler's blog has some good bootlegs check em out

back to "Edge," which is terrific.

tyler's blog has some good bootlegs check em out

Sugar Ray bootlegs?

no feelies stuff, really deep cuts

Just jokin'. I've downloaded a bunch of his stuff (which of course is ace, love Tyler's site).

Sugar Ray are classic, you fuckheads.

the abridged Sugar Ray singles poll

ppl were talking about Haim covering other artists upthread; I kind of want to hear them cover the first Ruby album

SUGAR RAY & SUPERCAT FLY TRIBUTE THREAD

This is apparently only 28 copies from outselling JT's new album in the UK.

IN HELLENISTIC EGYPT THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA CRUMBLES FOR ME

― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 February 2008 07:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

wow xp

This explains the invective.

my response to everett is in the comments

http://www.collapseboard.com/everett-true/haim-an-open-letter-to-christopher-r-weingarten/

sub-Chunklet.... nice

good response, whiney

Yeah, nice not taking the bait and actually staying pretty even tempered.

really hope they get the #1

wgw otm

wait so is Haim like getting played on the radio in the uk? (I guess everyone gets played on the radio in the uk, but I mean like to a significant amount?)

"The Wire" is on the Radio 1 A list at the moment, and just appeared on the UK Radio Airplay chart.

I'm seeing them at a smallish (400 person) venue on Sunday (hopefully tropical storm Karen will have cleared out by evening). I'm a bit giddy.

Also, it’s OK to not like the Haim album, but not liking it by throwing around Bryan Adams, Wilson Phillips, and Rick Astley’s names like it’s bad to make good pop music is some sub-Chunklet aging punk bullshit, and corny as fuck.

Yeah really, having, like, taste and standards is so fucking Dischord, dudes. Can't wait for the RSD 180g diehard red vinyl reissue of Heart in Motion by Amy fucking Grant."

omg kill yourself

You know Heart In Motion has a gang of hardcore fans on ilm, do you not?

By 'gang' do you mean REDACTED?

I guess this would be easier to swallow if it wasn't some transparent social climbing 'VMA limited access' horseshit from yet another writer trying to rationalize his Lolita complex and collection of secret Richard Marx cassingles

u are a traet

oh huh haim has a song called the wire and wire had an album called pink flag and that flag was pepto pink.

I guess this would be easier to swallow if it wasn't some transparent social climbing 'VMA limited access' horseshit from yet another writer trying to rationalize his Lolita complex and collection of secret Richard Marx cassingles

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WwDaoULXp2Y/TrBi8ZG9OkI/AAAAAAAAAog/92fGO7QQmic/s1600/Mike%2BNapoleon.jpg

I don't understand -- championing Heart in Motion, released when Amy Grant was 30, is evidence of a Lolita complex?

I've never heard the album in full, but "Baby Baby" and "Every Heartbeat" hold up fantastically. Richard Marx had a couple of jams, too.

I'm on team Heart in Motion

guys his DN has "dyspeptic" in it

As a riff on a Red Red Meat album title.

I guess it's just sorta tragic to me that a writer would take a swipe at Chunklet - who, let's be honest, are sorta the Led Zep to Whiney's Kingdom Come - while extolling the virtues of the "good pop music" of Wilson Philips. My contention here is simply that failing to make a distinction between "pop music" and "objectively terrible music" is far more contrarian and corny (and boring) in 2013 than, oh, I dunno, offering to "pay bands not to play." Whiney isn't here to defend himself, so I'm not going to continue ranting (I generally enjoy CW's writing, follow him on twitter, etc) but that comment sorta made me wanna barf.

Everett linked to this thread in the comments section, lolz

If u cannot get behind "Hold On" and "You're In Love" as "good pop music" get yr fuckin ears checked imho

I actually just prefer Taylor Dane, is all - her drum sound is so much more Neurosis-y

I listen to mostly music where people growl unintelligibly about putting people through a meat grinder or drinking the blood of dead goats...and I can still admit "Hold On" is a damn good song.

music is never an either/or proposition and it became more fun for me when I quit basing my tastes on "hmm, I shouldn't REALLY like this, should I?"

When it comes to music, not liking something is rarely a virtue imo. Not that it can't be fun, but that's another thing.

Both of those posts OTM.

it's not disparaging "objectively terrible music" that scans as sub-chunk corny fuckness, but rather lining up bryan adams, wilson phillips, and rick astley to condemn by utterly meaningless association. they aren't objectively terrible artists. they're in-crowd code for a boring, obvious and massively dated antipop stance. like invoking phil collins would have been a decade back, before that same crowd got around to admitting they actually like phil collins.

and i love chunklet/owings, ftr

chunklet would've made fun of haim but there's a 65% chance it would have been funny about it

xp To what 'in crowd' are you referring, exactly? Potbellied guys who like Captain Beefheart and The Fall or the young, articulate pop apologists on this thread?

This

How fortunate that so many rock critics have discovered the latent love for pop music that always laid deep within, just at a time when it’s been proven that you will not get work if your music criticism does not attract the requisite number of hits in web 2.0.

may be cynical as fuck but it's also pretty otm

also 65% otm too