Just found this on the web (Google Alert). It made me laugh out loud twice. Taken from the Whitechapel forum, past of a discussion thread about this.
QUOTE The important thing about music journalism isn't the "information" -- it's the writing, the evocation, the discovery and the curation.
REPLY Which is why music journalists stick in the mind so much. Some of them made such a huge difference to my life even when I thought they were psuedy cunts. Probably because of that. I still remember Everett True dissing Beck's Odelay by saying no one would be listening to it five years after release, and I'm still putting it on now and then and shouting, "Shows how much you fucking knew!" No other type of journalist spoke to us during our formative years with such passion, accuracy, and gilded hyperbole to the extent that years later I think I'm winning an argument that doesn't exist any more. Bless (almost) the lot of 'em.
Let's give the guy who posted that comment a link.
For what it's worth, I haven't listened to Odelay since about 1996.
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