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

xp Oops I just accidently Permalinked you Geir. Sorry about that.

LMFAO

The same people that have dinner parties where the hosts put Heart on the stereo have 90 shitty contempory bands they like too. Who do you think is buying all the Coldplay records?

A few points: I assume there are several millions Coldplay fans who have never had any use for Heart at all; I don't know what Coldplay and Heart have in common in the first place (one was a great hard rock band, one wasn't); I've never been to a dinner party where Heart was played in my life; and though I never thought of it before, I think it might be kind of neat if somebody did play Heart at a one (especially if they put on Bebe Le Strange or Jupiters Darling, neither of which get played on classic rock radio much either, I don't think.)

Actually, if the food and company was good, they could even play Coldplay, for all I care. Hell, it's their party. They should play whatever they want.

Now I was speaking of the original article.

Classic rock is the canon is good. Of course.

(But nothing wrong about checking out new stuff - as long as it sounds like the old stuff)

Right, I've killed myself. Now what?

Now you get to listen to My Morning Jacket!

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/images/Parchment%20and%20Pen/Ruth%20Tucker/Hell.gif

Nothing wrong about My Morning Jacket, although Flaming Lips do roughly the same thing better :)

you'll have to pry my jethro tull records from my cold, dead hands

Joanna Newsom is like Jethro Tull only NOW, man.

Jethro Newsom - Aquaharp

i really hope the author can explain how all those bomb throwing radical generation rock terrorists of the 60s spent most of their time obsessing over blues and folk records recorded in the 20s and 30s

^^

See, the problem I have with the original article is that he makes some stupid mistakes in spelling, grammar, and music knowledge.

'...who can quite frankly can screw themselves..." <---- no Editor, even a Uni newpaper twerp, should make such a horrific mistake.

'Greenday' <-----you fucking kidding me?

In terms of music knowledge, the guy who wrote this is obviously retarded.

I really hope the author can make peace with his parents ... he seems to have issues.

^^^for realz. this is the first thing I thought of too. Like, does he not realize that the entire concept of generational-warfare-via-pop-culture was developed by, um, the baby boomers?

I was just envisioning some chick he was interested in flirting with his dad instead.

a new challenger?

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406425

was unable to read that.

shredded moose morelike

At first, chords were enough: to simply hammer, as John Lennon did, a chord, a root, a seventh, a sixth - anything.

listen to some fucking charlie christian, arsehole.

hendrix as phallic, clapton as anal

It might be noticed that I mention only English guitarists,

Ran. Screaming.

was going to post that hendrix-clapton line but thought it would be unfair to inflict it on anyone who hadn't already read it. An image that will haunt the rest of my days.

"There is hardly one classic electric guitarist to have come from America. Blues, jazz, country, etc, indeed - and they have mastered the art of the Paganinistic solo in grand masters such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. But these are not guitarists with the right spirit, able to serve and transcend music at the same time."

No way, you did not just say that.

lol

i like how he claims hendrix as an english guitarist just for the hell of it

surprised to find the guy is only 36, assumed he was some nostalgic baby-boomer.

Why is there so much music writing on the internet that's like 20 paragraph think pieces? Who is reading all of this?

some people think the point of not having an editor is not editing themselves?

this piece was in the tls though rite? which is pretty respectable (or used to be).

was responding to Whiney's question about "writing on the internet," not talking about that piece

Off piste: A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise

not the tls, the times higher - used to be part of the same stable but less culture and lit-crit, more news and features about university funding, admin, jobs etc. they run a weekly column where an academic writes about a subject outside his specialty.

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It is in England that an odd mixture of pluck, determination and ignorance came to fruition between 1960 and 1970. There is no guitarist worth listening to who started playing after that time: the inauthenticity is too evident.

James Alexander teaches Hongroic theory at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

I vaguely recall posting something like this before but is this kind of application of confidence broadly thought of as a positive thing? Like the idea of writing the two sentences I quoted above when I couldn't possibly have the knowledge to back them up just seems, to me, like such a weird and alien thing to do

I vaguely recall posting something like this before but is this kind of application of confidence broadly thought of as a positive thing?

i think it is by editors. as i've gotten older and read more, i find myself reading papers/magazines and just knowing they're fronting half the time. but i think that appeals to editors and maybe readers. same way tanya gold gets published i guess.

This dude and the guy who wrote the anti-classic rock piece should have to live together. It could be one of those abject generational comedies.

But the tutored geniuses of later decades, who imitated these faster models, achieved the ultimate Aufhebung of the electric guitar, a sort of apotheosis by way of auto-da-fe whereby the blistering solo became so effortless that it was turned into a form of mechanical blandness, mere empty virtuosity.

this sentence is where i started to assume the whole thing was a prank.

Because of the turn of phrase? What he's saying is... not something I'd get behind much but not all that insane or challopy either

compared to almost every other paragraph he's written

not the sentiment, just because of "the ultimate Aufhebung of the electric guitar" etc.

"Why is there so much music writing on the internet that's like 20 paragraph think pieces? Who is reading all of this?"

sorry, wait, what, where?

NME capsule review finds new depth to plummet to: http://www.nme.com/reviews/sam-isaac/10733

I thought it was pretty lol

For anyone who is interested, Sam Isaac's album, 'Bears' is a refreshing, honest, album of melodic indie-pop, with songs written with conviction and passion

What a disaster for fans of refreshing, honest, melodic indie-pop, with songs written with conviction and passion

^^^LOL

"I had become Passantino"

that was fantastic.