OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

hmmm...how do i share these quotes about recording...got a good one about the east village, some stuff about meeting dan auerbach there. hmm...lead with dan...then flash back to the east village...yes...but how do we segue...

Before Dan, there was December.

no...punchier...

Before Dan, there was December (New York, 2013, cold).

*pumps fist against chest, raises two fingers to mouth, kisses them, plants the fingers on a framed picture of joan didion*

see why the hell would you do this to a bellini

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/---dfQC8ILZ8/T9-o9piu1OI/AAAAAAAAAIY/5kGg04GTgMI/s400/1929.jpg

a bellini is a perfectly serviceable drink but it will always make me think first and foremost of paul bellini from the kids in the hall.

lol me too

Those quotes kind of sounds like the writer just watched the movie Somewhere instead of actually going anywhere.

lmao dan that story rules

also now i am just picturing the word 'bellini' being said repeatedly to the beat of 'good kisser'

i actually heard of paul bellini before i heard of a bellini

p sure that post is where i first heard of a bellini

some of us liked bellinis

I went through a very short Bellini phase around 1998 when I got bored of brunchtime mimosas for a few months

heard of the post-Don Caballero band Bellini after Paul Bellini but before the drink Bellini.

Bellini was a good band.

bellinis >>>>> mimosas

A bellini sounds like a fucking cod-Italian slang word for the glans. As in "suck my bellini".

Bellini was a good band.

― maura, Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IS a good band - saw em a couple years ago w.Shellac and I think they played the last Shellac ATP a year and a half ago!

No Damon Che I presume?

hahaha...no i don't think damon che generally gets asked back

was a younger guy, really good...their 2009 album The Perfect Prize of Gravity is really great

He should just reactivate Thee Speaking Canaries.

let me at this guy

http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-06-18/music/lionel-richie/

Getting this far was hard enough but,

It'd be easy (like Sunday morning) to say Richie got lucky,

http://cdn.soundpublishing.com/dailyweekly/MikeseelyAuthorPhoto01.jpg

The music Richie played was earnest and emotional, more reminiscent of Barry Manilow than Barry Gordy

count the number of times he alludes to the music's race!

That Richie article is probably the worst thing I've ever read because of this thread.

So it's the worst thing you ever read then?

Dunno if yr knocking my poor syntax or what, but if so, make that "worst piece of writing that I've seen linked in this thread." Criticizing poor writing with more poor writing is admittedly LOL, but hey, no one's paying *me* for this shit.

Sorry, just meant it is hard to find worse than what is linked to on this thread.

Back in 2004, when Richie, now 64, was at perhaps the nadir of his career, I interviewed him before a gig in Stuttgart, Germany. I asked if he'd had a dream the night prior, and whether it was awesome.

It remains to be seen whether history will be as generous to Obama, but odds are it will. As president, he's played the long game, confident his legacy will overcome any passing peccadilloes. He, like Lionel, has dreamed globally, viewing the world not in black-and-white, but in beautiful shades of beige. Fiesta forever, indeed.

xxpost

Oh, haha! Sorry, didn't mean to sound so butthurt.

It's okay – fiesta forever!

DN changed in honour of that article

"more reminiscent of Barry Manilow than Barry Gordy" is too perfect

xp! :D

hah great minds etc.

I'd given him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was referring to some obscure artist. There must still be some residual respect for the Voice floating around my brain somewhere.

this is the guy responsible for the 'black pop stars who should go country' piece that the vmg higher-ups slapped up on the voice's music blog immediately after my firing. good to know he's still churning out 'quality' 'content'

Think the guy meant "Barry Geordie," the John Barry of Newcastle.

Maybe should have just made that a screenname instead of a post, as is my wont.

Barry Geordie Gordy Obama

p sure that guy contributes to every DNC email with the subject line MAJOR DISASTER

suggest barry

dancing on the glass ceiling

and the Piece Of Music Criticism Most Easily Mistaken For An Onion Article Award goes to

I guess it's the Ezra Klein way to accept received opinion and call it "controversy"

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial

the phrase "even Pitchfork" appears in that twice

Indie-music blog Hipster Runoff labelled her the "most controversial broad in indie right now," saying that she carefully planned the hype around "Video Games" and was trying to trick the music world into believing that she was a self-made, American Dream Achieving, Indie-pop princess. Hipster Runoff split her coverage into two distinct camps (#teamlana and #efflana), with critics claiming that she was a poser and just a "failed mainstream artist."

I can't even express how pathetic that Vox piece is. Is the humourless recounting of ultimately irrelevant, two-and-a-half-year-old online debates a thing now?

you're soaking in it

welcome to the world of "explainer journalism" by people who have read wikipedia

[ Interest over time ]

now awaiting FT article disputing kelsey mckinney's data

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