Simon Reynolds is a gobshite

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Say what you like about Reynolds, but at least he can spell.

Otherwise I miss the point of your post, be there any. Seems to me that "nostalgic meandering" is right up your street.

"An approach that treats "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Chime", "One In A Million", "Who Am I?", "___", as equally exceptional--flashes of form that may or may not carry content in the traditionally valorized sense as part of their arsenal of impact, but that always create content through the audio-social ripples and cultural shockwaves they trigger.

I need to come up with a snappy name for this approach, this sensibility..."

... and I think, "yes, it's called anti-rockism!!!!"

(I know CoM is the elephant in Blissblog's living room, but even so...)

who does he think his target market is ffs? his whole steez is aimed at students of all ages -- that's fine, but who is he trying to kid here?

Marcello, I pretty much agree - Church of Me is an excellent example of how a music critic can be fiercely judgmental about music without having to limit yrself as a listener.

Haha, Marcello, I think there are so many elephants in Blissblog's living room right now there's hardly room to move...

UPDATE

* Hay Festival Saturday May 26; location-- the British Legion:
---6pm: 'To Hell with Mike Read' rock quiz with me (supplying postpunk questions), Nick Kent, John Harris.
---8pm: 'To Hell with Music Journalists', same as above discussing on British rockwrite/music press.
---9pm: 'In the Pines' some sort of folk-ish club: live bands of folk-ish persuasion interspersed with deejaying from the three crits (postpunk in my case)

* Borders with Don Letts Thursday May 31--event starts at
6.30pm. Free admission, tickets available from the store or telephone (t) 0207 379 8877 (not honestly sure why tickets are required if it's free but that's what it says in the mail-out)

Posted by simon reynolds at 11:37 AM

btw does anyone know where i can get hold of a copy of Reynolds' "Against Health and Efficiency: Independent Music in the 1980s" essay? Preferably online?

Did anybody here go to any of those events (Reynolds is plugging his latest book)

YAWN!!!

The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

The original Paul Kix, and still the best.

Casting *RESURRECT THREAD*
-- Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, March 14, 2003 8:03 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this sounds like latter-day martin amis.

WHAT IS REYNOLS VIEW ON THE SCOOTER ISSUE

"The odd nifty catchphrase and deft rhyme, but c'mon, this man was a pig---Notorious P.I.G. more like; Piggy Smalls, heheheheh-and with a little help from his buddy Sean he almost singlehandedly set rap down its current path of spiritual bankruptcy. And he had the most unappetising vocal timbre in all of rap- asthmatic and adenoidal and mucus-bunged-up and fat-fuck wheezy all at once.

-- Dom Passantino"

reynolds said this? regardless of who said it, what fucking nonsense.

Good call on spiritual bankruptcy in the middle of a paragraph of "LOL FATTEY" gags

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=__Php680jxM

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throw ya rollies in the sky

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Rub your titties if you love 2 girls 1 cup

I think the new shaved head/goatee/gaining two stone is a good look for him.

Goody to enter Indian Big Brother
Day 71, 11:21 BST

By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter

Rex Features
Jade Goody will enter the Indian Big Brother house, reports The Sun.

The reality TV star, who was accused of bullying and making racist remarks to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in last year's Celebrity Big Brother, has flown out to Mumbai to prepare for a stint on Big Boss.

A source revealed: "Jade wasn't sure when she was first approached because she was worried about how the Indian housemates and public might react.

"She was really upset about everything that happened after the scandal last year. People in India were burning effigies of her in the street.

"But she really wants to clear her name and prove to everyone that she's not a racist."

Goody will allegedly earn £100,000 for taking part in Big Boss.

"But she really wants to earn £100,000" morelike.

Wonder what her take is on Funky House?

The finest music journalist ever. Everybody secretly acknowledges this.

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He isn't really though, is he? Even the Blissed Out-era stuff makes pretty embarrassing reading now and the current contents of Blissblog seem to indicate that he's lost the plot.

'Gobshite' is such a mild insult, I'm really surprised so many people got in such a tizzy about it upthread.

Them was funny days, the *golden age* of ILM.

I always forget how shockingly hot Simon Reynolds is.

Thread, you may go on.

"And if '01 in garage = '96 in jungle, there's at least one or two more years of *generally* good music."

That was prescient.

Unless he meant UK garage, which I never really listened to and then it was gone.

Simey on "The Roxy Music Story" on BBC4. Billed as a 'Cultural Commentator'

"Roxy Music what was that all about eh eh couldn't tell man or woman was it the fifties or the noughties it was like Blake's Seven only with flares"

I tried to watch it but really it was such a lovefest i gave up.

And Mr Reynold's cultural commentary was hardly groundbreaking.

Paul Thompson! Hero!

"Ah cannat wear these Bryan, I divven't want me mam'll thinking I'm some kind of heemasexual, man"

Was the show deliberately timed to coincide with Otis Ferry's arrest for threatening a key witness in his theft and assault of women trial?