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    The music journalism hall of shame thread

    I don't think you can unpick the two really - or at least it's never that simple: if you try to separate 'objective quality' and 'my subjective taste' then you just end up with a whole mess of other considerations on which those things are basically contingent. So you can do it, obviously, and...
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    The music journalism hall of shame thread

    actually to bring this thread back on topic a bit (although not really) I've been thinking lately about how great record reviews can be when they give you no sense of whether the reviewer likes or dislikes the album...when they express a really insightful opinion on it but you couldn't really...
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    Electroswing.

    my gut is telling me there is some cultural overlap between this and the chap olympiad
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    The music journalism hall of shame thread

    http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1050185&c=1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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    questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

    yeah but it syncs up with all my other Apple products meaning I can spend less time worrying about that and more time being 'creative'
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    questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

    Depends on what media player you use tho, a far few of them (by which I mean iTunes) don't play FLACs so you end up having to convert to WAV anyway, a laborious process
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    Die Antwoord

    Tea are you going to bang face? I missed them at Sonar, plan to recycle that approach
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    Jackin' / Electroline

    hah I'm flattered to be even in the vicinity of that title. what's quintessentially dissensian about it though?
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    Jackin' / Electroline

    http://i46.tinypic.com/eq4lqs.jpg
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    Jackin' / Electroline

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    Jackin' / Electroline

    I remember checking out this thread and thinking it was the most godawful arsehole of a genre but a lot of the stuff on this post actually has something to it -
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    Jackin'?

    Continuum was a year ahead ;) http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?11791-Jackin-Electroline&highlight=electroline
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    questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

    yeah as I understand it NDW is a very specific and very politicised thing, slightly post-kosmiche. Fun Trivia: Palais Schaumburg had Moritz Von Oswald in it for a while
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    The press release hall of shame thread

    twee dubstep. that is a ticking time bomb right there
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    Why I Love Keane

    Love to bait my bandmates by insisting that the first coldplay album is A Good Album it is though
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    Why I Love Keane

    I listened to the first Keane album a lot when it came out as I was in my young teens (dates me). Saw them at the brixton academy too. In hindsight, he sounds a lot like I imagine David Cameron does when he sings in the shower (or wet room more likely)
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    Why I Love Keane

    I just don't get where this discussion stands in relation to that complaint in the 'music journo hall of shame thread' a while back about the fact that nobody behaves like they're intervening in a cultural war any more, the stakes are too low, there's no passion or fervency attached to taste...
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    Why I Love Keane

    "The accompanying music video was filmed at Brockwell lido in Brixton"
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    Why I Love Keane

    the disjunct between this and the post-future-garage thread is making my brain shudder
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    The press release hall of shame thread

    deep shit
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