Looking for a good place to put this. Failing.
A pretty good conversation between Carl "Let's Talk About Love" Wilson and Jesse "Jian Gomeshi's a Raging Pervert" Brown, on Brown's podcast: http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/last-music-critic
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
Bit dull. Also, hyperbolic and meta. Would rather he was just talking about new music that he's into etc. That should be the job of a music critic. Next podcast: "what does it mean when the writer we're calling the last music critic goes on a show and never discusses any music."
― everything, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
"the writer we're calling the last music critic"--do people actually say that?
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
"The Last Music Critic" is the name of the podcast episode. Starts off with Brown saying stuff like "Carl Wilson changed the way we think about music. I don't know if that's hyperbole or not". I'm listening to this thinking "YES. IT'S HYPERBOLE!"
― everything, Friday, 7 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Thanks--why the royal "we" is a terrible idea. (Not really a knock on Wilson; definitely a knock on whoever would make such a statement.)
― clemenza, Friday, 7 November 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
In the podcast Brown goes on about how he (I guess as a teenager) hated hip-hop but finally started to like it in the early 90s, realizing his own musical snobbery. In 2007 Wilson did his book about Celine Dion which somehow reminded Brown of his own experience (of shedding his rockism or whatever). In this way, Wilson "changed the way we think about music". It's all a bit silly. I'd rather have Wilson just do his job and talk about whatever music is on his radar right now.
― everything, Friday, 7 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
He who is not busy being born is busy dying
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 November 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link