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

any study that says "dumb people listen to jazz, smart people listen to red hot chili peppers'....man idk

those poor kids w/a 1316 have spent so long studying they have no time for any music and they still can't crack 1400

every music study sucks

like, just blow it all up and start over

Rip it up and start again, I'd say.

Friend on fb just posited the theory that Counting Crows ranked so high in this because people with high SAT scores like counting.

This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff:

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2014-10/return-aphex-twin-110978

Amherst College 1419 1430 83% 31 (~1365) 17% 1648 amherst Amherst, MA
1. The Shins ... 5. Radiohead ... 7. Beethoven ... 9. David Bowie ...

15 Williams College 1414 1420 97% 31 (~1385) 20% 2003 williams Williamstown, MA
1. Coldplay 2. The Beatles 3. U2 4. Jack Johnson 5. Radiohead 6. Counting Crows 7. Bob Dylan 8. Guster 9. The Killers 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers

LOL

Colorado School of Mines 1244 1250 59% 28 (~1240) 75% 3310 mines Golden, CO
1. Metallica ... 3. Linkin Park 4. Lifehouse ... 6. John Mayer 7. Disturbed 8. Country 9. Bob Dylan ...

i know a dweeby hyper-catholic oil-industry dude who for some reason is really enthusiastic about metal, that explains a lot

Lifehouse!

they played a casino near me recently! i had no idea they were still a band or still had a following

"No Name Face" 33 1/3 written from the perspective of a Colorado School of Mines freshman hearing "Hanging By a Moment" for the first time

This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff

Also, DeRo continues to call him "THE Aphex Twin."

Saw this article linked and thought of this thread. http://i.imgur.com/Ya2j4NR.png?1

That is kinda wondrous

Third para especially a masterpiece

it's got a touch of objective game reviews.

https://medium.com/@boma23/dear-artists-no-one-cares-if-you-put-out-new-music-bc03f9aebc6d

Chance The Rapper hasn’t put out a project in almost 2 years

18 months and counting. A regular Axl Rose.

Let me give you another example. Hoodie Allen...

nope.

hahahaha

You’d think at this point people would quit going to his shows maybe, but they just keep coming, and coming. 60,000 people showed up for his Lollapalooza set even though he had toured the entire country twice the year previous and hadn’t put out music in over a year.

60,000 people showed up to Lollapalooza SPECIFICALLY for Chance the Rapper, then promptly left afterwords, leaving the grounds completely deserted

i know a dweeby hyper-catholic oil-industry dude who for some reason is really enthusiastic about metal, that explains a lot
― j., Monday, October 27, 2014 9:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you need music you can still hear above the deafening industrial sounds of an oil rig

If you're going to do clickbait put your back into it son. The only good thing about this is the picture of Dave Grohl waiting for a train in the snow, which I'm sure he does all the time.

http://www.bdcwire.com/the-pretender-why-i-cant-stand-dave-grohl/

(Usual thread caveat: probably not literally the worst piece of music writing ever)

the writing itself is pretty wack, the argument is one i can understand

"I say this firmly, and people look at me like they just walked out of a warm porta-potty at Bonnaroo. Their face contorts to an expression somewhere between anger and confusion – they know they’re supposed to be appalled but forget why – until they finally blast out a large 'WHAT?'"

Yes I'm sure people give a shit.

the physical symptoms of receiving a challop

xxp to myself: i wouldn't be nearly as snide and dickish making the same argument bc grohl isnt even close to that hateable despite his goofily earnest rockism

I can only name about Foo Fighters songs and think they're dull as mud and I don't think this makes me a straight-talking maverick. This self-aggrandising "yeah I went there" approach is silly. Also, Grohl's problem isn't that he's not "real" enough.

"I just don't like thing that some people like, it's just my gut reaction" is such a terrible premise for an entire thinkpiece, it's like showing people arty photos of your turds.

"This self-aggrandising 'yeah I went there' approach is silly."

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen this used in a situation where I found the (whatever) stance as edgy as the writer wants me to think. Yet there's always a little story about how the writer SHOCKED somebody they were talking with this opinion (like what I pasted upthread).

I'm SHOCKED if I meet someone who passionately loves the Foo Fighters.

You weren't here when Aja posted I suppose..

I've met (worked with) at least 3 people who passionately love the Foo Fighters. Two of them are/were women under 25.

The other was Taylor Hawkins.

The enthusiasm of my total bro cousin (studying grad school economics in London, natch) for the Foo Fighters knows no bounds.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways-is-the-so-so-rock-doc-gene-1660615929

concourse did a much more reasonable, non-hot-takey version of criticizing sonic highways than the pompous hate-screed posted upthread

hmm who is this mysterious anthony miccio character and can we get him to post here I wonder

has any other musician switched instruments mid-career like DG?
off the top, I can only think of Phil Collins...........

You mean are there other musicians who can play more than one instrument? Yes. Lots. Most of them actually.

Karen Carpenter

Miles Davis

Scarface

kanye

yeah but come on, MC is talking about people who were pretty much exclusively associated with one primary instrument and switched mid-career.

scarface and kanye actually work pretty well

Miles Davis was known for playing the trumpet for the vast majority of his career - then abruptly switched to organ for a large portion of this electric period

Drummer of B52s became their guitarist.

Carpenter drummed and sang for the first half of her career, then p much just switched to singing (just like our man Phil)

xp

Bobby Gillespie lolz