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― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
XP: See The Haxan Cloak's recent favourite teenage metal albums list as an example.
― Doran, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
oh man i want to do a weird obscure list! i'm not famous though...or in deerhoof or whatever.
i have my list-y moments.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
I'm working on one at the moment... my 13 favourite screen drunks. We may blast the idea into smithereens after Xmas.
― Doran, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
I've picked up some amazing LPs via Bakers Dozen and that was maybe the secondary or tertiary reason for me starting the series originally but after a while it did feel like I wasn't reading enough interesting choices after a while. So it feels like just giving people the option isn't maybe enough, like we have to actually pro-actively say to people, 'Will you choose your 13 favourite Turkish psych records' or 'Will you choose your 13 favourite horror sound tracks?' just to get it back to more of a potential buyer's guide or listening recommendation device.
― Doran, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I would do: 13 Records that Dr*w Dan*el Would LOVE to Pieces!
― scott seward, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I loved doing mine w Luke but was disappointed that I didn't actually go deep with the how's and why's of Total Freedom's music saving my life
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
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― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
*squares hero-worship of hammill w/ all this, can't, weeps*
i suppose his thing was always to stray the slightly wrong side of emotional largesse & get away with it on the strength of the music, plus he's fairly seasoned now, not that this is an excuse
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
I like A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers as much as the next man but that was a major own goal right there.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Personal taste in music is transferable. Because if somebody- anybody, really, doesn't have to be someone I know or care about- is sufficiently enthusiastic about a record, I am going to listen to it in a different way, and after I am done there are two likely outcomes: I will love the record, or I will hate that person. There are plenty of bands I simply didn't like until I read a recommendation from someone who was really enthusiastic about that band in a compelling and persuasive way.
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
This looks wonderful (and organised by an ur-ilxor, too). The list of contributors is v.strong.
http://marksinker.co.uk/birkbeck_under_over.htmlhttp://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/underground-overground-the-changing-politics-of-uk-music-writing-1968-85http://therockwriteproject.tumblr.com/
UNDERGROUND / OVERGROUNDThe Changing Politics of UK Music Writing: 1968-85This will be a two-day symposium at London’s Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, consisting of panel discussions and Q&As. Run by Mark Sinker, former editor of The Wire, it will bring together writers, editors and readers of the underground and trade music presses of the 1970s and 80s with academics and other media commentators, to discuss the emergence and evolution of the countercultural voice in the UK, as inflected through the rock papers between these dates. The plan is for proceedings to be recorded and transcribed, to form the core of a subsequent published collection, alongside additional memoirs and essays from participants (especially those unable to attend).
This will be a two-day symposium at London’s Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, consisting of panel discussions and Q&As. Run by Mark Sinker, former editor of The Wire, it will bring together writers, editors and readers of the underground and trade music presses of the 1970s and 80s with academics and other media commentators, to discuss the emergence and evolution of the countercultural voice in the UK, as inflected through the rock papers between these dates. The plan is for proceedings to be recorded and transcribed, to form the core of a subsequent published collection, alongside additional memoirs and essays from participants (especially those unable to attend).
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
so mad i won't be able to fly to london for this.
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
That does look like a great May event:
Simon Frith , Paul Gilroy, Barney Hoskyns, Cynthia Rose, Charles Shaar Murray ,Bob Stanley Richard Williams and more
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
ILX's Michaelangelo Matos has the best Christgau interview from his book tour up on Red Bull Music Academy. Fantastic piece:http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/robert-christgau-interview
― campreverb, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Another good post from Damon http://pitchfork.com/features/oped/9667-drop-the-bass-a-case-against-subwoofers/ - apparently he's writing a book. Good news.
On a different note: I'm going to see the Patti Smith Horses tour in a month, and I was thinking I should read up beforehand and then I looked up the 33 1/3 book on Horses, but judging from the user reviews it deals mainly with post-structuralist thought / academia stuff, and so I figured nah I'll just reread Just Kids. Made me think about what I like in music writing, which is not really clever analysis, more like narrative and poetry.
― niels, Friday, 17 July 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
I read that Horses book when it came out and I don't remember it being that academic-y. What I found strange about it was the amount of space the author devoted to Smith's life and career leading up to the album, only giving the album itself an inordinately brief song-by-song analysis. I think any fan of the record will find entertaining, if not particularly revelatory, but I can't really argue with the decision to reread Just Kids again instead.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
A double dose of Taylors - love both of these.Jia Tolentino reviews Taylor Swift in Washington DC for Jezebel: http://themuse.jezebel.com/taylor-swift-is-definitely-in-her-zone-1718196417Taylor Parkes interviews Sleaford Mods for The Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/18327-sleaford-mods-interview-2
― mike t-diva, Friday, 17 July 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if this is the canonical Best Music Writing thread, but anyhow I'm greatly enjoying (most of) the writing on this site, as well as the tournament they're running and the 90s nostalgia it is inducing: http://www.marchfadness.com/
― davey, Saturday, 18 March 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
(also rooting for "Groove is in the Heart" to take the title)
― davey, Saturday, 18 March 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link
who is voting on it? some pretty shameful results there so far
― dyl, Sunday, 19 March 2017 01:10 (seven years ago) link
but i did just read some of the essays and i will agree there is good writing to be found
― dyl, Sunday, 19 March 2017 01:23 (seven years ago) link
Anybody can vote! Look in the "current games" page. I think lots people are voting for the more faddish songs rather than the best songs, hence the embarrassing results.
― davey, Sunday, 19 March 2017 06:17 (seven years ago) link
the writing is good but scanning the list of writers I do not see many people known for writing about music, and do see rick moody, which is a trend that (selfishly, obviously) worries me
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
― righteousmaelstrom, Sunday, 19 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
*of
― davey, Monday, 20 March 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't familiar with Rick Moody but I will brace myself because I guess he'll be writing the Final Four analysis this year again.
Anyway, vote for Deee-Lite everyone!
― davey, Monday, 20 March 2017 10:56 (seven years ago) link
If everyone could go and vote against "Torn" today, I'd be much obliged: http://www.marchfadness.com/#/championship/
― davey, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/03/15/520133445/culture-wars-trap-innovation-atlanta-hip-hop
thought this was kinda worthy (mumble rap thread participants may disagree. I dunno)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
what would be their objections?
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 31 March 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Too superficial maybe. Others might say "well of course the city is not supporting 'trap' culture"
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Damn, Quincy Jones has some stories: https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story
― davey, Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link