Music Criticism in Video Form

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You all will remember this day when this dude takes over the world.

― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:14 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link

does this really come as a surprise

dyl, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link

Only in the sense that the reasons he was already disliked don't seem to have any relation/wouldn't point to this development

Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link

Unless I missed something

Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

marcos, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link

But is he changing his pants

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link

the reasons he was already disliked don't seem to have any relation/wouldn't point to this development

wants to nail down and evaluate art = wants to nail down and evaluate human beings

Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link

Oh good call!

Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link

i guess i misunderstood this video, am i the only one? i thought this was making fun of this POV, admittedly i watched 2/3rds and didn't read anything about it.

alpine static, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link

Sadly it is not satire

Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link

holy shit, then!

alpine static, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link

what y'all think about this asshole?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xva6KUM2aWo

altony rightano (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link

Never understood the hate for Fantano. That 'SJW' attack video is def gross, but what does that have to do with his work as a music critic? Hysterical criticism of Fantano always struck me as anonymous music/pop culture writers getting salty that someone managed to become successful on their own terms with name/face recognition.

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link

Never understood the hate for Fantano. That 'SJW' attack video is def gross, but what does that have to do with his work as a music critic?

Ugh I know right? Same way Hitler was treated iirc. He did some gross things but mein gott could he paint amirite?

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link

Managed forty seconds of that video, my god

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link

wow that guy in the shadows is fuckin hateful

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link

oh, please! what does he say in that video that is so terrible? it's everybody else. guilt by association - Xgau is much more crass on a regular basis in his actual reviews.

xp

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link

Just dawned on me this week that needle drop guy is uncommonly beautiful. Looks much better with a shaved head though.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, December 29, 2015

salthigh, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link

the immediate Hitler comparison was hilarious though, thank u

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link

it wasn't so much him but that video was completely unwatchable

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link

I'm not gonna pass up on a good clean Godwin if it's presented on a gold platter, yw xp

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link

animated knight w robot voice hectoring in threatening monotone srsly going to haunt my every dream

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link

ban flappy bird

clouds, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link

@imago - Well, yeah. but so what? i don't watch his reviews regularly, but i don't hate him. people have had this visceral reaction the guy since he showed up on youtube (this thread!) and i can't figure it out. i get it, he's annoying, but he became successful on his own terms, built a following, and like i said, anonymous/faceless critics loathe him.

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link

Why did the white men pick a creepy ambient drone as background music for their amazing questions?

jmm, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link

i will cop to sometimes seeing what score he's given something if not his actual reviews. he tends to dominate the critical discourse for a lot of stuff i like. but there is undoubtedly something off about him

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link

imago, maybe its time you do a little self-reflection, bub

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link

If that video itself doesn't do it for you I stumbled on plenty others at the same time in the same vein that I can link if you want to pick and choose your favorite.

Evan, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link

of Fantano going off on SJWs or whatever in a more explicit way? feel free - i wouldn't be surprised, but people being embarrassed or sheepish about paying attention to this guy's popular video blog is so weak. it just strikes me as jealous, sour grapes critics reacting to someone who's 'lame.' who cares?

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link

the way he hates safe spaces is SO LAME

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link

what you on about whiney? sure i went a bit out of line accusing the fader of performative trendy sex-positive hipster wokeness gone mad!!1 but i've said sorry, acknowledged my sins etc - in what fucking universe am i comparable to these creepy fucking hateful goons?

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link

xp i agree, but again, what does that have to do with his music reviews? lemme know once Fantano reaches Ott levels of creepiness

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwODmry0QWzgGrV0afGkEVLVZYmZWa1UF

Evan, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link

what you on about whiney? sure i went a bit out of line accusing the fader of performative trendy sex-positive hipster wokeness gone mad!!1 but i've said sorry, acknowledged my sins etc - in what fucking universe am i comparable to these creepy fucking hateful goons?

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, December 19, 2016 2:19 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not calling u a goon! Just saying the Fader thing plus the obsession with Rate Your Music and Fantano scores means you're def hanging out in goon-y parts of the internet and I'm worried they might turn our beloved woke vaccuum enthusiast into a pepe

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link

xp hahaha WHOA! i stand corrected. is that his alt-account or something?

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link

fyi i am pro-social justice, pro-safe spaces, pro-diversity (and in certain circumstances positive discrimination), anti-harassment and anti-asshole. with a few rough edges relating to perhaps false perception of some of the more extraverted forms of woke signalling. all the pepes are hateful horror cunts and i started the alt-right thread due to my horror of them

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link

xp hahaha WHOA! i stand corrected. is that his alt-account or something?

― flappy bird, Monday, December 19, 2016 7:23 PM (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It took a YT channel chock full of alt-right shit to convince you? My Godwin wasn't enough? Sad!

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, apparently some character he's created to rant about that sort of things and other internet topics

xps

Evan, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link

thing*

Evan, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

i am going to clean up rym one comment box at a time

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

It took a YT channel chock full of alt-right shit to convince you? My Godwin wasn't enough? Sad!

― Le Bateau Ivre

yep my spidey sense just wasn't going off before i saw that

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link

wait how does rym fit in here

ciderpress, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link

Fly on, flappy bird

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link

http://files.gamebanana.com/img/ico/sprays/538578b593b47.gif

flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link

<3

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link

wow good to know my irrational dislike of fantano was always rational

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link

hah alot of that video was shot at what used to be a DIY venue called Couch Couch. the place was tiny.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link

which is funny cos there used to be a giant picture of the Beatles above that stairway.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:07 (seven years ago) link

this guys a total idiot tho, half this video is about how the song doesn't sound like The Beatles. like, no shit man

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link


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