Xgau takes music criticism to a new level

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Their links change! So I made my own archive of my Voice stuff years ago (also ones for stuff from other publications, having learned the hard way that older things can get flushed). Last year, I think, couldn't find anything of mine on the Voice site, but yesterday I checked again, and it was all there: mixed feelings about that now, since I've tweaked and improved some of the olde pieces in my own archives---
xpost bird, Rolling Stone still has some ancient works in there, like Paul Nelson's celebration of the Ramones debut: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/ramones-206065/
in the three collections of Consumer Guide columns, xgau mentions re-listening, and sometimes he'll give the original grade and a new grade. Also, sometimes he indicates in a review of a later album that he's changed his mind about an earlier effort, that it sounds better or worse by comparison, or that he'd already gotten tired of it.

dow, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link

(warning: opening line contains a slur that was A-OK in 2009)

haha ok man

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link

haha ok man

My editor — which was either Rob H. or Maura J. at the time — let it pass without blinking. We are none of us angels.

but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link

We R none of us angels

marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link

There's that Pauline Kael Geocities site, but I don't know if it's searchable, and half the time your virus protection will block it. But we argue about her anyway.

― clemenza, Tuesday, August 23, 2022 4:56 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"we" = 2.5 people

neverending discussion of this jerk off here (xgau not pauline kael) is such a blight

(grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link

https://giphy.com/explore/who-gives-a-shit

sarahell, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link


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