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

post-Beatles catalog of Pacific Northwest angst

I think my favorite part of this is the implication that between 1969 and 1989, *nothing* happened in the Pacific Northwest

like, why are the Beatles even in that sentence?

i'm fascinated by the choice to wait until the fifth time he mentions elliot roberts, 20 paragraphs in, after describing elliot's porch, after watching tv in elliot's living room, and after elliot orders pizza for everybody, to point out that elliot is not currently alive.

the reveal happens in this sentence, a masterpiece of bad editing:

His second studio album — and first with his longtime band Crazy Horse — “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” is my personal favorite Neil Young record, and was also Elliot Roberts’s favorite (he died two months ago).

last sentence from Brad's quotation is also a tour de force of bad independent clause usage

Courtney Love paid the Mentors dude to kill Kurt, but Neil Young is still alive

Biggie killed Elliot Smith

he killed elliot roberts, too, iirc

How in the world does that sentence quoted by fcc even make it through the lightest of editing?

While the circumstances of both deaths are disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably still here.

this is, indisputably, an amazing way to make a non sequitur immune to criticism for being a non sequitur

what's with all these comments about how ppl don't know how music is supposed to sound bc they only listen to streaming? i go to concerts regularly, play piano every day -- i think i know what music is supposed to sound like. i also use spotify extensively. it sounds fine.

pbbbbbblt

that's why it's so bad, it's even ruined your ears for real music, ruined. ruined!!

Soon as I saw the thread revive, I knew it was this article. One gem is his description of Mozart as "perhaps the most perfectly structured and at the same time most effortlessly fluid sound that human beings have ever made." [fart joke redacted]

While the circumstances of both deaths are disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably still here (Elliot Roberts died two months ago).

Was this piece edited by a quahog?

while kurt cobain and elliot smith were perhaps "chris gaines" style projects of neil young, "neil young" is indisputably an ongoing project of neil young

Young got mad about his Facebook user agreement, which not even his high-priced lawyers can untangle. “I’m pissed off about my user agreement,”

...Young says, using an unprintable post-Beatles slang phrase for anger [make sure to check w/NYT whether actually unprintable]

While Bush's involvement in 9/11 is disputed by conspiracy theorists, Neil Young is indisputably there in the melodic-depressive grunge music of Bush.

the Irving Berlin and Cole Porter of suicidal ideation and addiction

I would like to be thought of as the Lorenz Hart, or possibly the Ira Gershwin, of suburban ennui and tipsiness.

I think my favorite part of this is the implication that between 1969 and 1989, *nothing* happened in the Pacific Northwest

a heartless suggestion

well I don't think we should overlook Queensryche, the Rodgers/Hammerstein of 80s Pacific Northwest fantasy metal

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ÿeah ÿeah I wasn't sure how to make that sÿmbol

blasting 'jet city woman' in their/your honor

Cindy Van Lunen
Long Beach Township NJ 11h ago
This article is painstakingly beautiful. If you have a child that is atypical in your life, it will pierce your soul. This sentence at the end made me cry.

Me: As I read this article, I just started sobbing and I couldn't stop!

Friend: Oh, do you have children with neurological disorders?

Me: No ... I'm a writer!

The Wipers
Dead Moon
Heart

xpost ha ha ha

The comparison of him and Fruciante was my least favourite among many many awful moments.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/mogwai-created-a-spiritual-experience-at-canton-hall-with-their-hope-through-darkness-rock-symphonies-11742010

In anticipation of the headliner, 14-year-long Mogwai fan Houston Ellsworth, host of the punk podcast Local Obscene, says that he is stoked for the night’s performance and remembers a time when Mogwai’s music nourished his soul during a particularly difficult period.

Am I missing something there? He’s been a fan of Mohawk for 14 years.

Guess you're right -- that reading didn't occur to me, I assumed it was a flub of "14-year-old." Don't think I've ever seen that particular construction before (like most of the article, the phrase feels like it was autotranslated from another language).

young team!

Is the Alternative Nation website written by an insane A.I.?

Links have been showing up in my Google News, and every one I've read has been completely incoherent.

https://www.alternativenation.net/eddie-vedder-makes-painful-the-who-revelation/

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name

Ozzy Osbourne Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News
Led Zeppelin Icon Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News

It's like they keep filling out the same Mad Lib over and over.

hey the writers get four cents per completed Lib go easy on the poor wretches

all my friends are bankrupt, take it slow

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has uploaded a clip of his ‘Life on the Road’ series on AXS TV where he interviews Metallica drummers Lars Ulrich, who is drinking alcohol in the clip. Ulrich also discussed a ‘crazy’ show with AC/DC. An AC/DC Axl Rose breakup secret was revealed yesterday.

Johnson said, “It looks rock and roll, that’s the good thing about it.” He added, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. It looks the business.”

Ulrich responded, “We’ve been here 15 years.” Johnson shot back, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. That’s fantastic.”

An AC/DC icon revealed why Angus Young is a ‘recluse’ last week. Ulrich laughed and proclaimed, “I like that. There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be.” The two then hugged. Ulrich recently wrote on social media, “28 years ago today, on August 10th 1991, we played the first show on the AC/DC European tour at Gentofte Stadium just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.

what

Talk to transformer writes articles now huh

ha was just abt to post this^

there’s nothing here that shouldn’t be

talk to transformer really doesn't yield too different results

Eddie Vedder Makes Painful The Who Revelation

Onstage at the Rock & Brews in New York's Times Square in December 1989, Eddie Vedder's final Rock & Brews performance before his death at the age of 47, Vedder took aim at the Who, his favorite band, by revealing that they were "torturing him."

"I've known the Who for years and they have been very kind to me," Vedder said of the band. "But lately I think they've been torturing themselves. I think they are trying to find something and I don't know what. They are playing for too many people and I'm getting tired of hearing them play and they want to play more."

Vedder was referring to the band's recent decision to release a new album, With or Without You, which contains tracks about his personal life. Vedder expressed his frustration with the band, calling them "the biggest group in the world, the biggest band in rock and roll and I think they are not enjoying it."

The Who recorded the album themselves, with Vedder

They have to be using Talktotransformer or something like it.

https://i.imgur.com/rLYHMbz.png

I’m intrigued and wonder what the revelations are. Must subscribe to find out
(revelations never to be revealed)

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name -- I cannot stop laughing