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damn, things go out of date fast these days

― Paul, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm clearly trying to avoid "clearly". And "obviously". And "stuff". And stacatto half-sentences.

― fritz, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

what i'd give to never read the phrase "balls-out" rock or of any band needing to "grow nuts"

― , Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

balls-out twee!!

― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

balls out twee jihad!!

(gently hug their balls, etc. i'm so sorry.)

― jess, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"promiscuous"

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

When I write copy I tend to use "tipped" quite a lot. Sometimes with "hotly" preceding it, sometimes on it's own.

I'll agree with whomever described "glacial" as a keeper. Except when you're describing artists from Iceland. I believe I may be guilty of this as well.

Confessions (i.e. more words that I tend to overuse): decidedly, melange, myriad, ornate and, erm (urp!) rawk

It's amazing I still find work..

― Mark, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The "incestious" Chicago scene. (It's not as colorful as that.)

― Curt, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ahem....nor as "incestuous".

― Curt, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

The word "experimental" has been causing me much consternation recently. How do the experiments run? "What do you suppose will happen if I blow on this saxamaphone, like, real real hard? For, like, ages?" "Uh, dunno"

What are the control conditions?

― Tim, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

control conditions = huey lewis and the news

― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would describe my own form of experimental ahem music as just messing about. If I did this in a lab I'd be asking for trouble. Therefore, Tim is quite right.

― jel --, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm guilty of overusing "seminal" and "angular."

― j.lu, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Took to the stage, took to the decks = yuck

It's like [something crap], but on drugs!

And most awful of all is any piece containing 'hey kids!' or similar. Don't patronise your readers.

― Anna, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Chin-stroking' to describe anything difficult/'experimental'! etc.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"(gasp!)"

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha, Tim, that's fucking hilarious about "experimental"! I say "amazing" too much, I know, and Mark, "stunning" doesn't bother me for its falsity (can you really determine this anyway?) as much as it does for its vagueness - it does no work in a review besides passing a "this-is-good" judgment.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Engaging."

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"also and "sound" and "and".

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If i hear some bespectacled dweeb with a goatee refer to any...ANY...album as a Tour de Force one more time, I'm gonna nut up and start murdering musicologists! GodDAMN I hate that! Its a stale clichéd cop-out generic one-size fits all handwaving filling column inches and paid by the word pretentious prolix pseudo-profound look-I'm-now-Baudelaire-because-I-used-a-word-in-French-does-this-beret- make-my-ass-look-big piece of crap and it never EVER NEEDS TO BE USED EVER AGAIN! And I know that some people who write for Allmusic are out there, so just remember...you have been warned.

― Lord Custos III, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

[Custos is yanked from his seat and the men in white coats give him his tranqs]

― Lord Custos III, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

how do you feel abt "tour de france" then? *runs away*

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Indeed."

― Arthur, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Calling an album a "Tour de France" would be cool...one time. But if they put in every freaking review for the next 20 years it will become as annoying as an uncle who changes a subject in conversation by saying "...anywho..."

― Lord Custos III, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"[x] reclaiming [his/her/their] crown as [genre's] best [lyricist/crafter-of-melodies/guitarist/sneezer]"

― Ess Kay, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think some german dudes already did call an album that, custos.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah. Kraftwerk, right?
But thats not what I meant. I meant a reviewer referring to an album as "a Tour de Fran^H^H^H^H Force."
...Anywho...

― Lord Custos III, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I find "'nuff said" completely unbearable.

― Patrick, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

- The "-esque" suffix drives me crazy, overused.

- "of [their/that] ilk" always reeks of smugness at the very least, but is also usually part of some larger, idiotic rant.

- I have an instinctive mistrust of any review that uses the phrase "cutting edge" in its praise of a band.

― Joe, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yet one more joke crushed against the brutal shoals of ILM literalism.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

U&K: establishment of canon for best sneezer per genre.

― Tim, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"effective" - at either boring me to distraction or resembling mutant giraffosaurs: tell me which one, U cockfarmer!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Worst word ever = '*that'?

As in "Here on the G2 women's page we'd almost forgotten Liz Hurley - a far cry from the days when she caused an, ahem, flutter with *that* dress".

In fact that sentence is a compendium of crimes.

― *that* pinefox, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"pseudo-" -- because YOU Mr. Critic can see THROUGH the FACADE, right?!?

― Clarke B., Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Re: '*that'

Didn't I say this on the "the whole [xXx] thing" thread. Also, add '*so', of the same American brandage.

― david h(owie), Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I find "'nuff said" completely unbearable.
Thank You. I second that motion. It hated it whenever it came out Stan Lee's mouth and hated even more whenever Lester Bangs would repeat it.
And whats worse, Bangs never had the audacity to end his reviews with "Excelsior, True Believers! Make Mine the Monkees!"

― Lord Custos III, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Canon

― Indieholic Anonymous, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Eponymous"

EXCEPT when used by people unaware of the word's meaning. I seem to remember Jo Whiley would always use this to describe someone's first album

― chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha ha & once i heard this kid describe nirvana/kurt cobain as "prolific" & he obv thought it meant approx. "seminal", i adopted that for a while it was so great.

btw can someone tell me what things i use too much? there must be tons of annoying ones but of course one only really notices that shit when it's someone else doing it.

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Underrated.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Duane - you slag off the Dead C too much.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh c'mon i never do that any more!

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

band being reviewed = 'band x' meets 'band y'
If this were true, we could stop the review right there.

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah & they've usually already "met" anyway

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

This opens itself up to meltzerian madness and beauty. aka:

Imagine X meets Yazoo on the moon and they take crack. The guitars are more angular than ever before in their prolific careers, and they chime, atmospheric in the arid sky. The music they scribe is willfully perverse, rising above their pre-packaged boring workaday ouveres. Now imagine you go fuck yourself.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Quick, all professional published music critics within the sound of my voice, adopt the word Pseudoesque...use it in your next review...and see if your editors notice!

― Lord Custos III, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry. I was just making that word easier to read...it is NOT, repeat NOT a hyperlink. So stop clicking on it.

― Lord Custos III, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

custos invents the combo noun-less prefix-suffix

― mark s, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

"Gang of Four."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 29 August 2002 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

PUNCTUM

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 11:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

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