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Does it never fail? Here, the very first word of the article is "I." So eager insert yourself.
Hey maybe I'm just on a hot streak tonight but do you sometimes or ever post an article where you don't introduce something about yourself in the opening sentence?
The author opens this review by quoting themselves from a previous article? Shameless. And that article written six years ago? Have you learned nothing of your craft in that time?
Amazing story! Can't believe you got stood up at a show! Really sheds new light on this up and coming band!
Please cover every tiny tidbit of information surrounding the new Weezer album (as they are on a hott streak), as well as any and all news regarding Weezer cover bands. Thank you.
"I forgot that Scott McKenzie’s countercultural anthem “San Francisco” existed but now that I remember, I really hope that Mad Men makes use of it during its final season next year — maybe to accompany Sally’s inevitable embrace of her inner flower power and her escape out west?" What an interesting way to start a post, sharing some HIGHLY RELEVANT facts about how you forgot a song (strong music journalism!), and then VERY RELEVANTLY tying it in to some TV show you like. Then punting completely on commenting on the song at all. In the least. (It's not bad!) Very good writing. Solid.
Here's hoping it's written by someone with something more interesting and intelligent to say about it.
"We, in the media, collectively licked our chos, becaue how great would it be to see Nicki just rip a hole in Iggy’s soul?" Ha ha ha. Ha? Ha? What?
Finally, a long hard look by blogger with an aka at her memories and personal experiences about an album and band that have already largely passed from the collective consciousness and left little of lasting value in their wake.
"If you’re a Metallica fan and you’re not enjoying this moment in their career, you’re absolutely robbing yourself of some unexpected, sublime joy." Pretty sure there's room for disagreement there, but you're a blogger on an indie music site, so I guess you're the expert.
Yeah, it's a pretty solid list of 10 John Lennon songs. No argument there.
Although it would be nice if they had literally anything interesting to say about it -- this reads like a freshman essay cribbed mostly from Wikipedia. "... but that’s the value in puzzling over history from time to time." It's just an album that came out two decades ago. It happens a lot and is almost never meaningful. There's no perspective or thoughtfulness or revelations of context. Just content for the sake of content. Zzz.
Please stop writing these asinine masturbatory articles. They're awful.
"It is not possible to overstate the importance of Kim Deal." That's your lede? An unqualified lie?
It's the cheapest form of writing, these Top 10 lists. Making one on the anniversary of Cobain's death is particularly crass, so go ahead and defile however you like I guess. These lists are shameless.
Something isn't a "thing" because a couple people say it is to market a couple of pointless blog posts out of it.
Since the arrest was for inciting a riot, not rioting, it's totally irrelevant whether there ever a riot or not. From the Austin police site: "Regardless of the size of a crowd, the encouragement of unruly and unlawful behavior is against the law and cannot be tolerated."
Shot with a "cameraphone"? Sounds newfangled. Also pretty clearly a car back-up camera.
Why would you open a piece with a dig at Aaliyah that then morphs into some kind of back-handed compliment? Have a little respect for the dead.
Solid music journalism centered around brief anecdotes with no a/v support and your uncertain memories.
Because I like to read and learn about music, and Stereogum used to be good for that, and now it's not.
I'm sad you feel that way.
These lists are uniformly pointless. This is the laziest, cheapest, page-grabbing kind of thing there is.
I saw her open for The National several years ago when she was first coming up, and she was amazing. Just her and her guitar, and that's where all her dramatics and histrionics stayed. Now all this drama is spun out into a persona, costumes, whatever-the-frog she was doing in the videos for the two new tracks, spilling herself around some plastic Tetris shape. And for me at least, the deeper she goes down this rabbit hole the more boring her music -- divorced from the visual act of St. Vincent -- becomes. And when she pulls off the small stage show so well. She's so badass covering "Beyond Good and Evil" on Fallon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JySQE4axlJY, and what was that, last year or so?
No shit: " But this one, in particular, has virtually no middle ground to it: Either Oberst is the victim of a terrible and malicious trolling hoax, or he’s a titanic criminal scumbag." Or maybe the truth is somewhere in between, you know, like in a world where everything isn't black and white.
Describing something as "florid" and "unassuming" is confusing.
There's a never ending shamelessness in stereogum today ... these lists are universally shit, which is why there used "Shit List" posts citing other sites for pulling this page-view grabbing nonsense. But these posts always have plenty of comments, so I'm sure Spinmedia ain't care. The writers here all surely work for peanuts, which based on the quality of the copy put up anymore ...
DISAGREE that music / art should be so relentlessly and consistently ranked and ordered.
The important thing is another arbitrary list rustles up some page views.
Good article! I was hoping for a list of eight things, but this list of seven is also very good writing about music.
People can defend it how they'd like, but the truth is it's lazy, hack writing. It means nothing. This list and the copy around it is completely arbitrary.
That dense copy is like a club beating down the simple appreciation of a song.
Reflections? It's been out for an hour. Give it a minute.
I'm sick of these pointless lists.
"Well wouldja look at that?"