The compilation Ultimate Worship Music got an E in 2004, and Wow Hits 2003 got an E+ in 2002.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 April 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Smacking up with a hatpin? WAT
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 16 April 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
he means shooting up, not assaulting
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 16 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
ass my dick up, smack my pin up
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
is disgusting because it's heartfelt and disgusting again because it's a grandstand play.
this has always struck me as one of the most nonsensical things I've ever read in any piece of music criticism.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 16 April 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck all of these bands. Kraftwerk isn't in .
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 April 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
then the telegraph piano and vamping in the last minute or so of the song
Holy shit, seriously, I've had piano-fade stuck in my head a lot over the past five or so years, and I could never remember where it was from, just that it was at the end of something exhausting (in a good way). Love the whole second side of Lies, "I Used to Love Her" not as much as the others though. Love the electric guitar on "One in a Million."
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 16 April 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
E+ !
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Gentleman's E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YstFFBzNzPo
― beachville, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
who's singing?
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Myles Kennedy, the guy who replaced the Creed singer and almost replaced Robert Plant in the aborted Led Zep reunion.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI709ie_fZw
― beachville, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Can't watch the clip now and I don't know any Alter Bridge songs by memory, so I dunno if this guy is an amazing singer or just the chillest bro in the business.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
They couldn't have gotten, like, Sheryl Crow?
Wait, was Izzy there? Fuck Axl. No Izzy, no cred.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Izzy seems too chill for this kind of thing.
― beachville, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
someone shoulda worn a "WHERE'S IZZY" shirt like in the "Don't Cry" video
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Josh OTM. Izzy not even mentioned in that NYTimes piece = you don't get it.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
weird every time i see axl it seems like he's gone up or down like 30-40 lbs in weight
he's not singing too bad in that clip actually compared to other stuff i've seen
really brings home how awesome slash is, those guitar solos are so composed you kinda have to do them exactly as the album
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
izzy did release a statement via duff at least: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/04/izzy_stradlin_rock_hall_of_fa.php
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I want a t-shirt that read "Izzy don't Tweet, etc."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Izzy was the soul of that band.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Are there any bands where the "soul" isn't the quiet one?
― da croupier, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Happy Mondays?
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the ones where they're not called that because they're also the "face" or the "voice" etc. of the band (xpost)
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Black Flag (Chuck Dukowski)
― Poliopolice, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Keith is the soul of the Stones, no? I mean, you could claim Charlie, but I don't think he's the soul of the band. Just, simply by being the quietest, the most tolerable.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but...shooting up with a hatpin?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Christgau is old. That's probably how they talked about it in the '20s.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
had to google "hatpin". figured he meant "rolling pin" or something.
― beachville, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
that line is as nasty as any GnR misogynistic lyrics, kudos Dean of Rock Criticism
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
that review pretty much sums up why i've always disliked christgau's writing -- glib jokes posing as insights, un-parseable borderline gibberish that wouldn't pass muster on an early manic street preachers single, and that creepy seen-it-all attitude he affects sometimes ('dicking her ass before you smack up with her hatpin' being an especially repulsive example).
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
that line is as nasty as any GnR misogynistic lyrics
it's not even as nasty as the one xgau himself cites in the same paragraph imo
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
no kidding
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
well, "dicking her ass" is in reference to the line from "it's so easy" he later quotes: "turn around bitch, i've got a use for you". xgau's language is rather gross, but no more so than what he's paraphrasing. and "smack up with her hatpin" may sound risibly archaic in the here and now, but it probably made more sense a quarter century ago.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I don't read Xgau regularly because life is too short for that, so I don't really know if there is a pattern of callous hatred in his writing that that line falls into, but as a standalone example it looks like it's taking all the repulsive hatred of the band's lyrics and reflecting it back at them.
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
He did suggest that Paxil was why Norah Jones didn't come...
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
xgau needs to go into critical rehab
― tylerw, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I looked that up and that line is drowning in backpedalling and pre-emptive context setting before he even wrote it
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
as a standalone example it looks like it's taking all the repulsive hatred of the band's lyrics and reflecting it back at them.
that seems pretty plainly the idea, you don't just stumble onto a line like that without thinking "how can I make this sound really gross and horrible, like the record I'm writing about"
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
ok ok you guys win that point but he still sux
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Except that GNR is gross in the name of art. What's Xgau's excuse?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
you're joking right
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Any critic who writes something other than the one-sheet is special in my book, so I like him. He want to embody what he reviews as much as he wants to write about it.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm joking right, left, all over this place. It's so easy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
did/could xgau know at the time that axl did in fact (try to?) anally rape stephanie seymour? and probably do drugs with her? idk it's what it reminded me of
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
wait what
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
did that come out in court documents or something
Xgau could just sense it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
i remember it from one of those early 00s era "so wtf is axl up to these days anyway" stories rolling stone did! court documents i believe yeah.
stephanie's story was that axl believed that both her and her sister were reincarnations of a pair of witches that were enemies of axl in a previous life and so he had to possess and destroy them both.
iirc.
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link