a first-time effort surely
― j., Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:27 (ten years ago)
OK, the idea that cover versions of VU or Eno's tracks bring 'dead songs back to life' seems pretty misguided, but that's not the worst piece of music writing ever.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 15:52 (ten years ago)
it's very overwritten but its point is clear enough I think
if ppl want to treat this thread as 'rolling music writing which annoyed me for one reason or another' however then so be it
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:24 (ten years ago)
it wouldn't even be the worst piece of music writing today https://archive.is/ZkPs3
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:29 (ten years ago)
that deserves to be itt, everything about it is bad
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:01 (ten years ago)
This dude is three years younger than me, but that's apparantly enough distance to where you would use the phrase "the elusive manic pixie dream girl type" without any self-awareness
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:02 (ten years ago)
i'm not gonna read all these, did any of the writers seal the deal?: http://noisey.vice.com/columns/first-dates
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:04 (ten years ago)
illusion never changed into something real
― welltris (crüt), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:09 (ten years ago)
i guess the headline would change if someone found out that mac demarco was a patient, sensuous lover
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)
30+ paragraphs by a self-professed "music writer," a (begrudging) half-sentence about his subject's music
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)
forget it, croup, it's noiseytown
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)
so it looks like most of these are just frothy q&as, wonder why this time they decided to bless us with the writer's internal monologue. maybe they were worried readers would assume they thought of her as more than just a 18-year-old spankbank entry?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:15 (ten years ago)
because everyone can relate, man, we're all 18-to-34-year-old males
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:17 (ten years ago)
https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/d/d7/Nuts_and_Gum.png/250px-Nuts_and_Gum.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:18 (ten years ago)
lol crut
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:19 (ten years ago)
Only 3 of those articles were written by men.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
yes and the rest are q&as, not first-person narratives, as i mentioned in the post the post you're quoting is referring to
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:58 (ten years ago)
The title of the article is also I Went On A Date With Everyone's Crush, Natalie Imbruglia. compare that to I Went on a Date with My High School Crush: Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara or simply A First Date With... Sky Ferreira
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:00 (ten years ago)
though i wouldn't put it past noisey to follow this with a woman's hot'n'heavy I Tried To Fuck Brandon Boyd For All Of Us, though i bet incubus' music would get more than a half-sentence of acknowledgement in that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)
god that Imbruglia thing is next-level worthless
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:07 (ten years ago)
jeeeeesus. those aren't just embarrassing, they're offensive
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:10 (ten years ago)
not if I had anything to do with it it wouldn't xxp
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:14 (ten years ago)
prove me wrong, dj mencap. prove me wrong.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:17 (ten years ago)
ugh. reading that made me want to put on more clothes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:04 (ten years ago)
and lock my door
lol
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 00:08 (ten years ago)
http://www.out.com/positive-voices/2015/8/06/was-80s-new-wave-casualty-aids
Not even close to the worst piece of music writing ever, but this feels like such a missed opportunity on such a fascinating topic. I really would like to read a more thorough piece of writing on this that didn't feel so underdeveloped and end with an oh no you didn't joke about fisting.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 9 August 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)
<3 mark simpson
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Sunday, 9 August 2015 08:45 (ten years ago)
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/aug/11/classical-one-text-message/#
"Debussy was the first composer up. His Danse sacree et danse profane is not Claire de lune or Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn. This is hard core impressionism and it’s not really easy listening even though there is a harp involved."
― rushomancy, Saturday, 15 August 2015 14:06 (ten years ago)
I found the linernotes to the Quicksilver Messenger Service live at the Kabuki theatre pretty risible. The writer decided that the short form was QSM in the first sentence and seems to have kept it consistent throughout the rest of the text. I didn't read right through it since it's a writer I tend to find pretty naff anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 15 August 2015 15:58 (ten years ago)
*ctrl + f "high fidelity," finds nothing*
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/side-1-track-1-straight-outta-compton-and-the-best-first-songs-ever/
i dont necessarily hate steven hyden but it is like peak obliviousness to base an article around a 5-minute scene in a movie from 18 years ago - a scene ridiculing this sort of geekery - and not even credit it
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)
He mentions "Championship Vinyl" at one point and links to the scene
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:11 (ten years ago)
That said, it's a dumb article and whatever fun it would be is ruined by too many arbitrary rules
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:12 (ten years ago)
Is it my limited understanding of English, or would Eazy 'cuckolding' someone's sister mean doing something Eazy would probably not do?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:32 (ten years ago)
*facepalm* i don the idiot hat for missing the champ vinyl link xxp
remain irritated tho that all the non-rock inclusions read like, "uugggghhhhh i GUESS i'll put beyonce/young jeezy/daft punk in there" due to hyden's pedigree; i don't necessarily doubt that he listens to shit that isn't rock but i do think that left to his own devices he'd prob make a fairly homogenous list that was almost entirely boomer rock plus maybe some metal and 90s indie-slacker shit
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)
what about the bitch that got shot, cuck her
― Now Dom Go Suggbanizer Way (Why?) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:14 (ten years ago)
that reads like a fantasy football article and/or bill simmons 2.0
ie *shoots self in face*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 23:32 (ten years ago)
lists lists lists ugh
The main problem I have with Hyden is that the Bill Simmons style just does not work when discussing music.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:44 (ten years ago)
exactly
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:58 (ten years ago)
Frederik … No. Not least because you can't cuckold a woman. You cuckold her husband. A cuckold is one whose wife has had sex with another man. Also, no particular practices are associated with cuckolding. It's just having sex.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 08:50 (ten years ago)
But he says that Eazy wants to cuckold the sister? So is she in a same sex relationship, would that work?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:54 (ten years ago)
"The lyrics are about the tension of desire, but the mise en scene is power."
Ah yes, of course, the mise en scene of power... (???)
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20985-m3ll155x/
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:21 (ten years ago)
Sorry, probably doesn't belong in the "worst" thread, but this still annoys me.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:23 (ten years ago)
You'll have to take that up with him, not me, Frederik. It's possible he did not fully understanding the correct meaning of "cuckold".
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:21 (ten years ago)
left to his own devices he'd prob make a fairly homogenous list that was almost entirely boomer rock plus maybe some metal and 90s indie-slacker shit
the rockist swine
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:28 (ten years ago)
xpost The line he's referring to "...and make your sister think I love her" doesn't have anything to do with cuckoldry afaict
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:54 (ten years ago)
maybe he used it in the 4chan meme sense
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 14:50 (ten years ago)
hopefully Rap Genius has answers
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:07 (ten years ago)
pop criticism in 2015: you are either an uncritical memeleader, or you are this: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/?utm_source=SFFB
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 18:31 (ten years ago)