MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS

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jon, please ban miccio for:

though complaining about this kind of loudmouthed ignorance on the noise board seems ironic

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, hello? 20 years of alcohol abuse over here. and i only own, like, 5000 records. and i remember most of them. but, yeah, i have to look stuff up all the time. thanx interweb, yoo are keen. U make me look all smart.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a shit memory for details and dates, etc. just vague notions.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't even know who any of you are

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have two sons, one them a owl? are you that guy?

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

do you know where my "of" is? i misplaced it again.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes, fucking plate tectonics man.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 5 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

SKREEEEEEE

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i already forgot what i was gonna post.
m.

― msp (msp), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

永遠の方が先に手を出したのさ

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Who started this thread anyway?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, hello? 20 years of alcohol abuse over here

jesus scott! how old are you? I need to stop assuming most of us are 18-25.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

im ancient too -- and definitely not in the 18-25 bracket.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I am teh 29

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i am thee 35

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am over 25

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

32 AND OLD

― Reed Moore (diamond), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

geezer noise powers activate!

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

wow.
rosemary the one pic I ever saw of you, you looked about 19.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

otm Gear!
m.

― msp (msp), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i am 19. roffle.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm 35. I'll be 36 in Roctober. But I still get carded for cigarettes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm turning 23 :/

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

since we're all sayin ages now i r 24

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://robinstigator.com/robnewsonicyouthshirt.jpg

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wow david cross really let himself go

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Washing Machine was such a great album. God I love Sonic Youth.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

FAG!

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM LISTENING TO DAYDREAM NATION RIGHT FUCKING NOW

HAVE AN ABBOTT'S CUSTARD FOR ME JON

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ARE YOU FOR SALE? FUCK YOU. DOES FUCK YOU SOUND SIMPLE ENOUGH? COME ON DOWN TO THE STORE, YOU CAN BUY SOME MORE MORE MORE MORE

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sonic yoof rulz

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE AND WYH IS MY ROOMMATE REHEASRSING ACTING SCENES IN MY LIVING WITH LOUD EX THEATER STUDENTS

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.abbottscustard.com/

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

guys, ther eare lots of people here who i don;t know and they gave me pot!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/76/21/3301267/3916785097614l.jpg

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ian, stay strong.

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

SO HIGH.

BONG HITS, A (HUGE) BLUNT, FIVE OR SIX BOWLS,k MORE BONG HITS.

OMGWTFLOL HOLALA!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

IAN, LISTEN TO "IT'S ALL TOO MUCH" BY THE BLOODY BEATLES. IT IS A TREAT.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.biggerthanjesus.de/bilder/george11.jpg

I LOVE GEORGE

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

LISTENING. WISE SUGGESTION.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

blasted music tonight
exuma - st
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

One, two, three, four
Can I have a little more?
Five, six, seven eight nine ten I love you.

A, b, c, d
Can I bring my friend to tea?
E, f, g h I j I love you.

Sail the ship, jump the tree
Skip the rope, look at me

All together now....

Black, white, green, red
Can I take my friend to bed?
Pink, brown, yellow orange blue I love you

All together now....

Sail the ship, jump the tree
Skip the rope, look at me

All together now....

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the guitar break in "Hey Bulldog" is so fucking amazing

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Best Beatles guitar solo: "Good Morning Good Morning."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM ELLISON I DID NOT AGREE WITH YOUR ALL-TIME BEST BEATLES SONGS LIST ON YOUR BLOG

but you are still a cool guy

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

TALKING ABOUT THE BEATLES IS BORING

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

OH GO WRITE ABOOK ABOUT THE VOOREDOMS.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

meet me meet me meet me meet me meet me don't beat me just meet me
at the waffle house, i'm a mouse from ecuador, you're a duck and you're a ducky whore you like to suck duck dick all day, i like to suck mouse dick all day too but that don't mean i am a jew. i am a rap bastard and im a rapper that's a crapper i don't like to rap too much cuz i know i can't do it but you know what my rhymes are fluid so i don't wanna not, just wanna give you a pizza pie and say that's amore, that's a whore-ay, suck my dick all in its glor-ay, it's only three inches but that's okay, you can fit it in your throat piece and you dont have to worry about anything, it's a nice little tiny package and ya know what? it's all yours for the small price of 29.99, so let's go do some lines or we can not do drugs and we can just chill out with my thugs from west chester, the best chester, we are all the honkies in the world, we like to take little girls on the zone coaster and then put them in the toaster until they're nice and brown, until they hear the nice sound of my rhymin, on timin', i said i want the diamonds, i want the duckets, i want the buckets, i wanna just say fuck it mom, i don't wanna go to bed, let me stay up another hour, i'll take a shower in the morning before i go to school, momma why you such a fool, why you gotta play me, i ain't gay G, my dad is, that's why he likes to fuck with other men, that's why he looks like a little hen, that's why he likes to fuck and say he knows about yen but he's never been to japan, used to take that frying pan and slap me with it, yeah that's what you wanna do, i know it, i learned it from you dad, i learned it from you, that's why i do this, that's why i drink crys, that's why i drink piss from old businessmen when they piss in my mouth and they treat me like you dad, like you you you, i wanna be a jew like sammy davis junior, oh my god i like junior mints, let's talk about for a second, homeboy i fuckin wreck it, i wanna eat butter pecans, and i wanna change my name to stan the man, and i want a golden ham for my birthday, daddy i want a golden goose, daddy i want a golden moose, daddy i want you to nail me in the caboose with your fucking consil (??), i wanna ronsil, oh ronsil i hate you ronsil, i hate when i make up new words, but i don't hate when i make up new birds, that's a flying pickamoonoonoonoo, that's a flying pluckalackoonacka, oh new birds, i love me, oh i love money, and i love sunny d, fuck the grape stuff, or the purple stuff, or the nurple stuff, i just want the orange stuff, i want the white stuff in my hair, i don't use nair on my back for i'm a monkey and i get funky and i'm a junky but that's soo gravy, like the train, like the insane mother fucker from new york come with it while i spin it, wanna get with it i fuck it up fuck it up fuck it up for you for you and your crew and i'll just say it's so breezy easy, i like peezy it's a funny word, i like funny words, i like funny words, amen

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never seen them xpost

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

*casts Cone Of Cold*

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 200 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I think the idea is that, unlike snakes and lizards etc., tuataras (a/k/a rhynocephalians) actually co-existed (or even maybe pre-dated) dinosaurs (though the Wiki entry sez "recent taxonomic and molecular work has shown that they have changed significantly since the Mesozoic era," so maybe not.)

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― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:53 (seventeen years ago)

i recognize that as an editor chuck had approved some interesting stuff, but as a writer he comes across as falling back on a species of anti-intellectualism way too often, and this "i don't really remember, whatever" schtick is just one manifestation of that.

― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:22 (seventeen years ago)

the other, worse manifestation is the whole "it just ROCKS, and if I have to explain it to you dude..." stuff he pulled on nearly every thread in which we spent any time locking heads.

(an unrelated, even more annoying trait is the infantile contrarianism which i always found it difficult to prove. i mean, it seemed to suffuse his whole taste, at least as he elaborated it in print. but he could always just say "but i really do like this stuff" and there wasn't much i could say.)

― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

i also get the feeling that his rhetoric is 80% cultivating and sustaining a persona and maybe 20% actual argumentation.

― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

I never had much use for chuck as a critic but I really like him as an ilm poster. when he cares enough to bother he gets people to question their assumptions about music and defend their positions in an engaging way. which is probably why he was such a good editor at the voice.

I disagree with him at almost every step of the way on the swings w/ a vengeance thread but the discussion was interesting (or maybe it should just get filed under "two a-holes arguing over xgau and who cares what he sez anyways"):

Not swinging with a vengeance: Robert Christgau on new wave disco and hard bop, 1978

― Edward III, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

JIMINY CRIKITZ OVA HEAH:

I forget who Drive Like Jehu are. I think I heard them once, and they left no impression at all. Ditto the Hot Snakes, but maybe not. (The New Jersey Mass Choir, on the other hand, were almost as excellent in re: Foreginer cameos as Junior Walker.) (And I AM high maintenance!! In my life there's been heartache and pain! I don't know if I can face it again! Can't stop now. I've traveled too far.) And my favorite recent album of cynical adult-alt world class sex rhymes is by the Notwist. But maybe I just misunderstood their German accents.
-- chuck, Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:00 PM (5 years ago)

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 15 August 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

LOL at this impersonator:

As far as IDM goes, I'm really into the new Books CD and definitely Four Tet still, and I'm going to mention Brooks and Dunn (as well) who maybe don't count (though they probably should (am I (of course) right?) since they erase all genre boundaries). I played them at this IDM party I DJed. I DJ, you know, don't know if I mentioned that before, I'm still hep w/ the kids, new Dirtbombs is boring, etc.
― charley, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:19 PM (5 years ago)

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

probably a gareth sock

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

(though they probably should (am I (of course) right?) since they erase all genre boundaries)

― eman, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

"Nights on White Saddles" still makes me lol

― mad loli vamp bone (cankles), Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Wait, so were Front 242 actually considered fascist once? And if so, by who? (Laibach I was aware of, but not them.) Anyway, these Christgau reviews (which I admittedly don't completely understand, even though I used to edit him) suggest they were:

http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=front+242

― xhuxk, Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― and what, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

i think i wrote a review or maybe two for that paper once? but i can't remember who asked me to. it wasn't matos.

― scott seward, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

melissa maerz?

― goole, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dylan hicks? i think that's who it was.

i wrote something for someone named melissa in seattle once.

― scott seward, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

― nog right (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

haha i don't think forgetting the ppl u traded pitch emails with fits the thread

― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

MAAAAAAAAA!!!! THEY IS PICKIN' ON ME AGIN!!!!!!

http://www.consumerist.com/images/2006/04/MulliWalmartGreeter.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:15 (sixteen years ago)

chuck married the art of pretend forgetfulness
y'all niggas still engaged

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^______________^

― say what up to u hans and franz (some dude), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:03 (sixteen years ago)

omg scott that pic

― tehresa, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:04 (sixteen years ago)

I'm assuming that is either
1) Halloween costume
2) Budget-cut biohazardous waste removal suit

― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

roll 'em back, move 'em out

― I'm gonna put on an iron burt, and chase stanton out of urt (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:54 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

chromeo comparison seems on-point but I'm surprised this bothers anybody that was into herculues & love machine or whatever they were called

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, August 12, 2011 4:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Friday, 12 August 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)

are you under 30?

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 07:53 (fourteen years ago)

are you under 30?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:53 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://wilsonknut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rock-and-roll-always-forgets.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

Ha. Saw that but didn't think about this thread. Where did the spacesuit picture from Nov 2009 go, Scott?

― Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

Also never noticed the misspellings in thread title before

― Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

i don't remember the spacesuit thing.

chuck's book is so great.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

someone mentioned 'Josie Packard' to me recently and I couldn't even guess who she was

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 16, 2012 1:19 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Also, wasn't the AC guy off the map for a while? He had nothing to do with "Dingleberry Jam" or whatever and "MPP," didn't tour behind them, didn't really do interviews, and the other AC guys iirc weren't terribly forthcoming about his activities or whereabouts.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 14, 2012 10:56 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.stereogum.com/1689158/vic-mensa-major-payne/mp3s/

― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:17 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

sum total of time I've spent on computer games in my life = 5 mins of mario the hedgehog when i was 7, 5 mins spent repeatedly running it into a ravine

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:33 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:24 (eleven years ago)

ten months pass...

Lindsay Logan – Speak (Casablanca 2004 CD) $1

― xhuxk, Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:40 PM (1 month ago)

― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 18 July 2015 20:47 (ten years ago)

seven years pass...

What's "RIO"? You mean like Duran Duran??
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

― brimstead, Sunday, 18 September 2022 04:23 (three years ago)

I remember the pcikles

― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:10 (three years ago)

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