Defining the enemy 4

On many levels, this is the worst music I've heard all year.

Dave Graney vs Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time

This is worth a look at - Dave Graney giving Triple J listeners a much-deserved slapping over at Mess And Noise. Here are a couple of samples...

Guitar Hero debacle, continued - Kurt Cobain vs Sunny Day Real Estate

I dunno. I can't help thinking I'm missing something important here.

Kurt Cobain vs Guitar Hero - Dave and Krist speak

Just read this over at Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Great trainwrecks of our time - 7: Kurt Cobain vs Guitar Hero pt 2

Wait a second. Now I'm reading news stories on the web about this? I'll say this once, and once only, people. I'm not that interesting.

Great trainwrecks of our time - 6: Kurt Cobain covers Bon Jovi

Um. Grohl and Love sanctioned this one for the new Guitar Hero. So respect due to Grohl and Love then. Fucking corporate cock-sucking memory-destroying fret-wanking MTV-supporting fame-chasing money-grabbing grave-turning publicity-loving vacuous spoiled jaded cunting rock whores.

The Pitchfork "Top" 500 of the 00s

Everything that's wrong with music is contained within the following list.

50 bands I have seen

Inspired by the current Facebook thread - here are 50 bands I've been fortunate enough to see live in concert. If a number is listed in brackets, that's the number of times I can remember seeing them - but it's probably more. Indeed, I've seen most of these bands/artists on multiple occasions.

The problem with free speech

This post is dedicated to those tireless champions of free speech on the Drowned In Sound message boards who see nothing wrong with using an offensive word or phrase as long as everyone else does.

Presumably, next week we'll see them using the word "nigger" everywhere - unless, of course, not enough people use that word as an insult anymore.

Radiohead - no more albums

Thom Yorke has announced that he can't bear the thought of Radiohead making another album.

writing for free on the Internet

There's a lot of literature about this right now, particularly on the Internet.

Some of my best friends are hippies.

I thought there were laws against such blatant genetic cloning.

web 2.0 music critics are boring music to death

Oh, Bangs on a bike!

Defining the enemy 3

This final part is taken direct from the Sigur Rós message board (edited). What's interesting is that it's much more good-humoured and well-argued than the vast majority of the "Outraged of Hackney" comments on the Drowned In Sound threads. You'd think it would be the other way round. Respect due this handful of Sigur Rós fans, then.

Defining the enemy 2

This edit is from the follow-up thread on the Drowned In Sound message board, in response to a post on my PhD blog. They used my words without permission (and shorn of context), so I thought I'd return the favour.

defining the enemy 1

Some of you might have blinked and missed this. A recent link to a recent post on the Drowned In Sound message boards caused some people to get very hot under the collar.

these people are the enemy

They talk a fine talk (albeit one that has its roots in - yawn - 'classic' contemporary criticism). They walk a fine walk (articles on the 'death' of the small town gig poster and why Grazia is better than the NME).

the death of the critic, pt 5317 (stop yawning, I'm serious this time)

Christ, don't these fucking broadsheet hacks give over banging on about 'how it ain't what it used to be in my day' and 'it was all fields round here me lad'?

in other news...

NME editor quits to go edit Top Gear. (It's a magazine about cars, apparently.)

The future of music criticism. Not.

There are a lot of idiots operating in web 2.0, aren't there?