December 2011
93 posts
"Research"
I really wish that customer service representatives at mail-order pharmacy companies would stop putting me on hold so that they can “do some research” on my claim.
isabelthespy:
nickminichino replied to your quote: If she could shut up, because she has some good…
please force me to write the Lady Gaga Is a Professional Internet Feminist thing
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YOU NEED TO WRITE THIS THE INTERNET REQUIRES THIS IN ITS LIFE
We could do a rock roundtable on POP MUSIC AND PROFESSIONAL INTERNET FEMINISM if that makes it easier.
Rock Critic Roundtable -- Call for hats in the... →
Love these year-end roundtables, which seem to get better with each passing photocopy. So I have decided to inaugurate a TUMBLR for ongoing roundtables.
Every quarter (month?) between four and six C-listers awesome rock critic types will take up an ISSUE or THEME and DEBATE IT. Each person gets three tries to say the least-wrongest thing about the thing.
Suggestions for topics:
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Xmas Xast-offs
A few tracks that I couldn’t bring myself to actually put on the mix:
Hanson - Everybody Knows the Claus
Reminds me of Calvin’s observation upon listening to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”: “Santa: kindly old elf, or CIA spook?” That is to say, PANOPTICLAUS KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE AT ALL TIMES. Didn’t realize that the one I put on is a Motown staple (eh,...
De-gif-ified question
Never thought I’d say this but too many gifs. But yeah — is Rapunzel actually considered a “Disney Princess”?
Why my wife does not like Christmas music
25% — Christ. (My wife is Jewish.)
50% — general dislike
12.5% — in the mood/not in the mood
12.5% — Pavlovian response to the yearly tradition (“inescapable”)
That means (she says) that at any given time, there’s about a 50% chance that an eighth of her might actually be in the mood for Christmas music. Does not bode well for Totally Teenpop...
TOTALLY TEENPOP XMAS
DOWNLOAD IT!
Some oldies and some newbies, some secular and some decidedly non-, here’s a group of 19 songs that scream (or at least nudge) “teenpop.” Let’s meet our contenders, shall we?
(1) Intro / Oh Santa! by Mariah Carey
Fake-out! You thought it was gonna be all traditional and stuff and then bam, best Mariah Xmas original since “All I Want for Christmas...
alexmacpherson:
And now the mathematics of filling in my P&J ballot are breaking my brain (completing what Tumblr and Spotify have already started today). How do I get these points to add up to 100? How?
Haha, grading papers and tabulating final grades via my patented more-complicated-than-necessary rubrics have helped immeasurably at “making shit add up to 100.” I give...
Best Music Writing 2012 →
katherinestasaph:
tomewing:
o-song:
Right now, the (newly independent) annual Best Music Writing series of books is looking for nominations of music writing from 2011. If you read this blog, you probably read a lot of music articles this year, because I linked to 8 pieces of music writing a week in my ‘Music Dump’ series on the Vine. So if some of these really did it for you, nominate!
(I...
Tell me what you think being married to me would...
girlboymusic:
isabelthespy:
noorcissistic:
wander—lust:
al-muminun:
yes? lol
DO IT. I dare you.
do it do it do it
not gonna lie i’m curious as to what this would turn up
Oh shit me too.
Um… /narcissist
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Researches
Oh hey, that Grace Jones album I love came out in 2008. Spotify users, stop putting 2008 albums in your “new 2011 traxx” playlists. THANKS.
katherine st asaph: Beyoncé, Gaga, Heterosexism,... →
isabelthespy:
desperationtentacles
this deserves better than i can give it right now but a few thoughts:
-oh god you guys, are people still talking about gaga as omg so subversive? is this still a thing? uuggghhhh. look if someone wants to try to convince me that gaga is doing something…
In the context of the song, “if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it”...
A decade of my Albums of the Year
alexmacpherson:
Whetting your appetite for my albums and tracks of this year, which will appear, um, at some point.
Unfuckwithable.
Uh, unrelated...yeeeaaahh.....
But when do the next batch of 33 1/3 proposal submissions open?
JAKE CLELAND: 52 Albums: #37 →
desperationtentacles:
popcornnoises:
jakec:
popcornnoises:
jakec:
Do you ever consider that the positive contrarianism that’s led to greater pop appreciation brings with it a pressure to find greatness in all pop music while denying that you just might be totally indifferent to it?
Replace “positive contrarianism” with “culture” and “pop” with “[any genre of music.]” BOOM! Minds blown.
...
JAKE CLELAND: 52 Albums: #37 →
jakec:
The first album in this series to actually make me feel worse for having listened to it.
Calling your debut album “Autobiography” is a pretty clear statement of intent, doing away with the implicitness that songwriters write what they know and directly opposing the plausible…
Just about all of this is deeply, deeply wrong — about Ashlee’s motivations (and those of...
Anthony Is Right: Critic-Approved Archetypes It... →
anthonyisright:
Post-hardcore E Street Bands.
Female vocalists who sound like they’re auditioning for a Bond theme until they either swear or reference modern conveniences.
Theoretical dance-pop vocalists who apparently abstain from not just auto-tune, but second takes.
Rappers who drop hate speech before…
Yeah, I had to furrow my brow through the Fucked Up album yesterday, too....
mactrasound: Farhadian Logic →
marathonpacks:
mactra:
To be fair, “efficient capitalism and technological progress” are pretty much built into the job description of a tech writer—and Manjoo never fails to wow me with his own efficiency, pumping out reams of clean tech prose, hosting a podcast, and appearing here and there. However, the guy seldom reflects on the underlying assumptions embedded in our use of tech. And...
“Compared with online retailers, bookstores present a frustrating consumer...”
– Okay, I know I’ve recommended him before, but I’m jumping of the Farhad Manjoo bandwagon. Not just because he prefers Amazon shopping to local bookstores—that’s well within the mainstream of course—but because his logic is so anti-intellectual, to use Amazon’s own M.O. to defend its impact on book...
Anthony Hamilton jumps the queue
Not sure if there’s enough time this year to rise to the top (doubt it will beat DEV, who has made herself very comfortable in the top spot for some time now) but could probably rise above Sunny Sweeney at #2, who I haven’t listened to as much lately. Spoiler in this race is Miranda Lambert, the strength of whose “Fine Tune” keeps me coming back to that album in all its...
"Concerts Cruise in Association with Bling1... →
maura:
=o =o =o =o
Mothers hide your daughters! Why? “Because of the implication…”
A.V. Club Best of 2011 Staff Lists →
I tend to prefer staff lists to site lists anyway, especially in years where the consensus picks are generally a barren tundra of hollow lies not my cup of tea. But I especially like this one because Genevieve Koski named Teenpop Lock and Drop Vol. 1 “Best album-length mash-up of millennial teenybopper-pop and club bangers”!
If Ke$ha winds up turning into EMA
I hope that she at least uses an €
“But figuring out why music matters isn’t as simple as checking things off of a...”
– 2001: A Taste Odyssey (via jakec)
Hate to reblog my own quote (whatever, I ONLY LISTEN TO MY SHIT) but I just want to point out that I seem to have accidentally coined “X ALL THE Y” about a year before Hyperbole and a Half!
I remember feeling particularly excluded from a conversation...
what band do you associate me with →
girlboymusic:
cureforbedbugs:
imathers:
rebelrebelbatcat:
This one is good.
Yes, I’m going to be busy with work today (and then I have a tattoo appointment tonight), but I’d love to know what you think.
Ditto, minus the tattoo appointment.
I don’t actually want anyone to answer this, I just lol’d at the thought of participating in it.
Puh-leaze. I’m not even going to...
Signs that the show I am now on will be v....
Woo!
I love how the title of this is “Whats the best twist ending in all of film” and all these four guys do is Criticize of some of the best twist endings of all time. They dont ever actually say ” That was a good twist ending” Being Critical is one thing……….but if the title of a show is a question, Can you maybe answer it??? And by the way, you guys...
microphoneheartbeats asked: Ashlee, clearly. (Prior to 2007ish, it would have been AF, but you were my entry point into the latter, but not the former, so Ashlee trumps.)
what band do you associate me with →
desperationtentacles:
cureforbedbugs:
imathers:
rebelrebelbatcat:
This one is good.
Yes, I’m going to be busy with work today (and then I have a tattoo appointment tonight), but I’d love to know what you think.
Ditto, minus the tattoo appointment.
Why not. I need distractions from ‘productivity’.
Broken Social Scene f. Cassie
what band do you associate me with →
tomewing:
cureforbedbugs:
imathers:
rebelrebelbatcat:
This one is good.
Yes, I’m going to be busy with work today (and then I have a tattoo appointment tonight), but I’d love to know what you think.
Ditto, minus the tattoo appointment.
I associate you with Ashlee Simpson, Dave!
I’m not sure I’ve understood how to “do” “this” “meme” but answer for me if you like.
Pet Shop Boys, I...
what band do you associate me with →
imathers:
rebelrebelbatcat:
This one is good.
Yes, I’m going to be busy with work today (and then I have a tattoo appointment tonight), but I’d love to know what you think.
Ditto, minus the tattoo appointment.
Since I Haven't Listened to the Ke$ha/Dylan thing...
Here’s 20 2011 songs wot I just put together for a list of some kind sort of maybe!
1. Rebecca Black - Friday
2. Avril Lavigne - What the Hell
3. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
4. Britney Spears - Till the World Ends
5. Nadia Oh - Jump (Out the Window)
6. Alexandra Stan - Mr. Saxobeat
7. HyunA - Bubble POP
8. Azealia Banks - 212
9. Mann - Buzzin’
10. Metronomy - The...
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Oh Lord
Al Shipley is doing his yearly round-up (first mention of Limp Bizkit!) and writes:
[Incubus’s] If Not Now, When? is basically an adult contemporary album that rarely raises its voice or quickens its pulse (the band’s big breakthrough ballad, “Drive,” would be one of the liveliest things here if it was on this album). And while it’s bizarre to even think of a band...
Shades of ILM-era Dave
Poor KSt.Asaph is experiencing the kind of righteous truthbombing that was typical of my ILM presence c. 2006-7. I missed it! But I’m glad it’s (for the most part) moved on to greener pastures, so to speak. THERE WILL BE BLOOD.
ETA: Comments locked for the first time in history! (There was a little blood, I guess.)
Anyway, no hard feelings — just letting off innernet steam....