OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

he brilliant South American grooves on Bryne’s solo efforts

Here's an example of some drumming by the writer of that piece:
https://youtu.be/orJtr738Zpc

Sorry, but when your playing is so, let's say, uncreative, you're not in a position to say shit about fuck.

a/b that shit with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsfg9SRgwEw

That guy's a shitty writer and his opinions about music, at least based on that one piece, are almost completely wrongheaded (not gonna get into the Ringo thing 'cause I fucking hate the Beatles, but the other bands he talks about, he's basically 180 degrees from reality). That said, I'm not a big fan of Blackman's myself. I saw her at a traditional jazz gig years ago, backing Pharoah Sanders, and she got completely lost when her solo came around, had to basically claw her way back into the tune - it was almost painful to watch/hear. And in recent years, I think she's tried way too hard to be Tony Williams, without coming anywhere close to his precision and timing.

Cindy gets a lifetime pass for "Are You Gonna Go My Way"

Not being Tony Williams is a bar that like 99% of drummers won't clear

why is whiney making us read poopmatters from 2007???

does a whiney still play drums? he was pretty rockin'!

Cindy gets a lifetime pass for "Are You Gonna Go My Way"

For miming in the video?

Whoa, it was Lenny all along :O

she's Rick James niece bitches

That moment when you wake up in a tunnel of yourself and then all things lost are either adult or millennial. But not one or another. Silence in spurts of manic fervor. Sort by oldest. Thus, hours of pornography will find a new depression for your skull’s cavity. (Tiny Mix Tapes review of Prurient's Cocaine Daughter)

tiny mix tapes is a reliable dealer

haha, that is kinda the best bad review though. i read the whole thing anyway. at the bottom of the page i read "Yes, they're Dockers." and i actually thought that was the last line of the review. it should have been.

half want to poll it

i will miss those sorts of reviews when they die out

NOW i know why whiney posted that old thing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-20160331

Ugh, fucking Buddy Rich again.

does a whiney still play drums? he was pretty rockin'!

I can attest that whiney is good for the job when it's time to lay down fifteen minutes of sick ass improv

on that rolling stone list my picks would be: helmet guy, dave lombardo, drumbo, bill ward. can live without the rest.

i really wish you guys could see ILX's own Tarfumes behind the kit. he does the sickest shit.

Oh Tarfumes is Taylor Hawkins? Cool

I was really hoping to see Vic Firth's name on that list

there is great recent footage of tarfumes playing some sort of matmos salon type thing in baltimore. i watched it twice. don't want to embarrass him and post it though.

thank you, scott

before ilx turns into pseuds corner, let's take a look where we're headed

http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ears/

not sure what distinguishes that from the 100 or so sophomoric reviews just like it that are uploaded each day

it's about a record that ilx is in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D

*runs*

^ FP

in danger of overrating beyond anything i've seen :D

there only like 30 posts on that thread you dork

aside from a few unneeded adverbs there is absolutely nothing wrong with that review

(I thought the album was fine, reminded me in places of laura j martin and/or the creatures soundtrack)

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/hunting-for-the-cast-of-the-sexiest-music-video-of-all-time

I have nobody to blame but myself for clicking on a Thump link but this is woeful.

overrating things is good. if you accept the existentialist premise that we make the meaning we find in the world, overrating things is what makes life bearable.

that last message was an xp to LJ

also, lol boxedjoy. that is the worst premise for an article.

lol god forbid people actually love some music on ILM

lj is probably just annoyed it isn't more "challenging"

contrarianism can also give life meaning, to be fair

The album is good, but people are being really embarrassing on that thread

what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"

whiney himself said the album was good on that thread

is it Destroyer-level fawning? cuz that is scary stuff. regular fandom and WOW! shouldn't be a problem. i'm gonna go check it out! BrB.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSXbvzW91U

what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"

― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most embarrassing overpraise of the just released 'Ears' album on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith thread

Lol, oh god

well at least whiney didn't poll the king thread

oh i see matt also made that joke

the difference is that the KING album is an actual masterpiece ;)

wait wtf is thump? how many verticals can vice possibly need

I would not necessarily call this "worst ever" but I do think it just ignores/glosses over the fact that female pop-punk artists exist (it mentions Paramore but seems to have... somehow... missed the fact that Hayley is the frontwoman?) as well as female pop-punk *fans* (5SOS's fanbase is mostly women), who probably don't have much truck with the "dominant dude-bro ideology"

shit sorry forgot the link

(pause, question priorities where one apologies for forgetting a link but not for criticizing an article)

http://www.last.fm/features/post/2259045:feature:9e81d3e2-6fac-4c64-a867-c244c2115757