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

Rollins Suggest Banned.

Rollins rollins rollins I ain't slept in weeks

right i read the joke here as 'isn't it absurd to imagine this guy who publicly has taken such joy in this music for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'

the tone deafness there being that of course, there was a lot of misery along the way

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:20 AM (Yesterday)

i took the joke to be, "well-respected artist is horrifyingly bitter about the complete futility of his life in a retrospective profile piece." we typically expect such things to consist of fondly-remembered peak experiences and reassuring life lessons. NYer piece upends the form, using rollins only as a jumping off point. all you need to know about him to get it is that he's a jazz dude. it'd work just as well with carl sagan or mary lou retton. the best jokes are all simple inversion: "that was the worst day of my life."

no such thing as bad publicity imho

it'd work just as well with carl sagan or mary lou retton. the best jokes are all simple inversion: "that was the worst day of my life."

― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 7:55 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'isn't it absurd to imagine this guy who publicly has taken such joy in science for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'

'isn't it absurd to imagine this woman who publicly has taken such joy in gymnastics for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'

idk i think imagining it as a joke about the lion in winter profile piece is exceedingly high concept but

I was looking for a DJ rich list and found this. I thought it was a parody at first - the Moby entry is particularly special.

http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-richest-djs-2014-net-worth

Music has no boundaries and that is certainly true.

that moby entry really is a treat

i dunno, that is just some one horse webpage, every entry is written by this guy:

About Author Manishk

Manish Khatri is an acclaimed writer who's good at what he's doing. He writes about various subjects related to relationships, social media, tech reviews, gadgets, health, travel, etc.

i did enjoy the characterisation of rooney as "this short player from England (who) looks to be very pale" from here though:

http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-best-football-strikers-world

that's not even Moby in the picture is it??

we are all made of stars

stellar buffoonery

would have liked to hear some of those entries turned into a Wesley Willis song

similar style to this site:

http://listdose.com/top-10-best-famous-jazz-musicians/

Benny Goodman is among the most respectable and famous Jazz musician, he is esteemed at such an extent that his clarinet is among the world’s most expensive musical instruments today

Miles Devis

http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-popular-countries-monarchical-government

[Nat King Cole] was very famous for his unique and pulchritudinous soft voice.

!

Okay, that one is a keeper.

Miles Devis

at least he acknowledges the importance of that Louis Armstrong classic “what a beautiful world is”.

lol

Music is a very important part of life, music has the power to change a person’s mood in a blink of an eye, it is capable of making you smile, and it is also capable of making a person cry. Music can bring a person back to life, it can make you enthusiastic, and it can inspire you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK2hx377iU

music can make your soul less hungry, and it can feed your soul.

describing Monk as a singer gives the game away. It seems quite mean sneering at someone who is just making "content" and grappling with English as a 2nd language. I'd guess the author knows this is a load of shite, it is the hacks who purr away at their perceptiveness and ingenuity whilst talking a load of shite who deserve the real contempt.

http://sherly.mobile9.com/download/media/446/rastasmile_XXfBedHk.jpg

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/08/in_defense_of_sublime.php

i think this is really it. the one. the one we've been waiting for.

I have so many feelings, probably too many

"I say this as a person who was sixteen in 1996" = the person who wrote this is not actually 16.

which might be the stunner for some.

Miguel is like the fucking Rick Ruben of the O.C., doing what Ruben did at Def Jam (and with other acts, like the Beastie Boys)

that line caught my eye too

fucking Rick Ruben ese

why does Kurt Cobain get treated like dead royalty and Brad Nowell get the bum rap of being the lesser-than frat-dude version?

because uh

My god, every line of this

Yeah, srsly

"But the third wave ska movement was a big and important one, ushering bands into the mainstream like the Aquabats, Reel Big Fish and, of course, No Doubt, while changing the way rock radio sounded forever."

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/why-beyonce-knowles-doesnt-deserve-mtvs-vanguard-award-20140808-101raz.html#poll

xp
so we're writing think pieces in response to stupid avclub clickbait now, huh?

The Sublime piece has a shaky premise--aren't they far more rated and loved than most dumbass 90s ska bands?

fucking Rick Ruben ese

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:32 PM (Yesterday)

lolllllll

Rick Ruben Blades

I grew up in the '90s, and guess what? Chicken butt.

What I'm saying is, to your average sixteen-year-old music fan in 1996, Nirvana and Sublime could be enjoyed all the same. I say this as a person who was sixteen in 1996, loved both bands and saw no difference between one and the other.

This person is as old as me and this opinion seems like it's from someone who can name more than five pokemons

its like that piece was written just for you Whiney

I mean, I'll tell it like it is, I definitely banged some Sublime in 1996, I can't lie — and I can even still ride for 40 Oz. to Freedom, mostly as a conceptual triumph.

But to see no difference between them and Nirvana would have been the opinion of an insane person, even in 1996. And to not recognize that in hindsight as someone approaching 35 is either willfully blind or unabashed trolling

yeah i dunno...i mean....i guess to me back then there were like Major bands (nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, RHCP) and then like tons of alt rock radio bands, but i didn't necessarily see sublime as a bigger deal than marcy playground or garbage or w/e

well, there were definitely 'sublime fans'. like, overlapping with the deadheads/phishheads who were also into alt rock and not just trapped in an alternate universe of tape-trading.

yeah i'm sure but i think for the average they weren't on the same level as nirvana