"Use other words please."

i too hate wondrous

what do people mean by "vibey" wrt music? i know what a vibe is, but vibes can be anywhere, on any spectrum

I don't know if I've heard/seen that, but it reminds me of 'evocative' in its lack of specificity.

it means it's got a lot of bass, man

Roy Ayers and Bobby Hutcherson and the like

its a dance thing

drugs

Sounds like I could use a refresher course in vibeology.

v-i-b-e-ology

i have no idea what vibey means

evocative sounds otm

paging Milt Jackson to thread

I agree with the vibe spectrum assessment. I would probably infer "vibey" to mean laid back and stoned - lots of reverb, modulation, synths. I don't think I've ever read this term in context though, so god knows.

I'm hearing it everywhere

music called a "balm" and/or "tonic"

Last night I was listening to NPR and I started predicting and saying the cliched phrases along with the announcer like I was in a freestyle battle clowning the other guy for using trite rhymes.

use non-other threads please

"sticking out like a sore thumb" is an unsalvageable cliche. "sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb" is not a clever way round this fact.

lol

while we're here can i express the confusion that arises whenever i hear someone say "to coin a phrase"? because they always say it after repeating some old chestnut. is it irony??

in-built ambiguity in the term "coin" used as a verb i think: mint as in "new and fresh" versus the mint where every single identical coin is made year after repetitive year :)

BAH

it makes me so mad!!

i mean basically they shouldn't say it at all: if anything using it wrongly is breaking out of the prisonhouse of cliché

(albeit into another prisonhouse, also ultimately of cliché)

to coin the proverbial phrase

and take it to the bank

I'm of the opinion that people in the main are much less interested in coining new and fresh phrases now than they were when "to coin a phrase" was a popular phrase in its non-ironic sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No82kn1EfPk

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days

I remember that The NME in the 1990s used the word "angular" a lot. A bit of googling throws up this feature in the NME from May 1995 in which they describe Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood as angular. On the cover: Dodgy. They must have described Menswear as angular at some point but I'm not googling that. To be fair Jonny Greenwood does have thin arms.

"To be fair", or TBF, that's another one. I write "in their defence" instead. Amirite?

How about “angular” to describe music — “Wire’s taut, angular post-punk,” etc.

Reminds me of the days when “muscular” drumming seemed to be everywhere.

I mean, describing Greenwood as angular is a lot more tolerable than describing music that way!

Physically and musically angular: Jonny Greenwood, Tom Verlaine...

When the word "Because" is used as both a subordinating conjunction and a preposition. ("Sentences" that solely consist of "Because ____, I guess.", or a similar linguistic silliness.)

____ is usually 'reasons'

or 'communism'

I feel like that was a cutesy Internet trend that has largely run its course?

The use of it as a clever and unexpected sentence structure has largely run its course.
The use of it as a lazy joke is probably years from petering out.

Language is bad.

howard cosell used to call philadelphia eagles wide receiver harold carmichael (who at 6'8" was the tallest WR in NFL history) 'the angular one'

probably a topic for another less lawn-defensive thread but i'm intrigued how and why some usages pall and others just bed in for eternity w/o anyone minding

"most ambitious work to date"

For some reason "angular" to describe vaguely post-punk guitar riffs has never really bothered me. Yeah, it's a cliche, but I also know exactly what it means when someone uses it.

It's mentioned a bunch of times here, but "seminal" is the one that really bugs me. I always read as "this foundational work that was literally jizzed into existence."

my absolute least favorite is when musicians who are perpetual side players or have played with a lot of different bands are described as "promiscuous"
no.
and yes -- i am aware that the word can be used in a non-sexual way but according to the definitions i have found, all of them carry a vague to serious negative connotation.

demonstrating or implying an undiscriminating or unselective approach; indiscriminate or casual.
"the city fathers were promiscuous with their honors"
synonyms: indiscriminate, undiscriminating, unselective, random, irresponsible, haphazard, thoughtless, unthinking, unconsidered, casual, careless
"the promiscuous popping of antibiotics hasn't helped his T-cell count"
antonyms: careful, selective

"in-demand"?

sure beats "promiscuous" and is more accurate

I've complained about this before but "kiss-off." not every breakup song is a sassy emoji!

The phrase "torturous path" is an indication that with 95% probability, the author doesn't realize there is a separate adjective "tortuous" meaning "twisting, turning, winding".

If cover blurbs are to be believed, every book of history is 'magisterial' and many history reviewers need to buy a thesaurus.

The "artist / album does blank, blank, and blank—-sometimes all in the same song" construction really needs to go

Haha, paged away from this comment and immediately encountered your likely inspiration:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/100-gecs-1000-gecs/

Feels like a pretty effective summation of the 100 gecs appeal in this instance, though.