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I'd recommend looking at http://www.digmind.com/store/index_500.html , depending on your priorities. Several people I've known were looking at the iRiver because of drag-and-drop file loading (no iTunes type stuff). The player I linked is ugly as sin, and a good inch longer and half inch wider...

Re: testosterone, it seems like the problem usually arrises when testosterone becomes the point, when machismo outpaces any other concern. Phalocentric music always feels innately defensive and insecure---maybe it's why, say, Iggy Pop (at his height) seems menacing in a way that becomes almost...

You're probably on to something. Although I socialise so little these days that I'm not really bothered with what anyone thinks of me/my music taste. It's almost like I'm defensive/offended on behalf of music itself hehe--that in the minds of impressionable, passionate listeners 'GSYBE' should...

Well put, Tim. And I think most of the statements in this thread probably use a heavily qualified "hate" because that was the term in the thread-starting question. Or perhaps I under-judged the question's threshold for "hate". The proximity concept is absolutely correct. The truth re: metal...

You just went meta-hate! You can't escape the black hole! I'm actually impressed by how reasonable* this thread has seemed. Feels like there's a common thread, almost. But maybe that's because no one has skewered any of my sacred cows. . . (*In other words, very little that seems to seem...

I don't think I proactively "hate" any kind of music, because there's too much that's good to spend time on shit. Unlike bad architecture, bad music can, fortunately, generally be ignored. However, I sometimes wonder if it's possible for bad music to do as much damage to the general...

I think my point about GSYBE was contingent upon the the point you're making, Blissblogger, not opposed to it. I meant: shouldn't the apparent freedom of choice now available to a listener/consumer of music (or even of "indie rock"), and the purported lack of hegemonic figures (for better or...

It's mainly the banality of the decision to be "risque" in that way that's offensive. Like taking messageboard trolling into real life.

If this is true, then things really have fallen considerably in the world of "rock and roll". I mean, I'm not a huge Joy Division fan, but I can still see the confluence of influence and popularity and mythicality. But God Speed You Black Emperor? Yikes.

This guy is the best. If you were so deserving of "respect," you wouldn't get your shit so bent over "losers" failing to give you enough. I'm not sure I've ever read any of your literary gifts to the masses, but if they're as smug and solipsistic as your messageboard posts, I doubt many people...

Outkast as canonical I won't mind seeing. They'll be taken as the Sly & The Family Stone of the 90s/00s.

Do the Mnemonists count? 'Horde' is astonishing.

HMV 3 for 20 canonical, or people-who-think-about-music-50%-or-more-of-the-day canonical? ; )

What's the working definition of important here? Will become canonical? Will become standard issue must-buy "pop history" that kids getting into music will buy in 20 years to know what the early century was about? Is musically innovative? Is the current commercial trend? I've felt like...

Just for the record, I believe I also replied to this critique, stating that the "1981" box isn't being presented/touted as a survay of (all of) 1981, but one with certain parameters. '1981,' as I stated, just worked better graphically than "1981...

Way to be intellectually condescending whilst oversimplifying an argument to sub-mental levels in order to avoid having to argue a counterpoint. Unless you were trying to concisely exemplify the exact sort of reactionary-relativist, anti-anti-corporate intellectual disingenuousness I was...

Exactly. That's what I wasn't getting in the "Definition of Rockism" thread--the pseudo populism I detect in the antirock-ist/anti-rockist "camp"---though maybe I'm seeing "pop-ists"--seems to relativise (not a word, is it?) political action or criticism out of possibility: conflating popular...

The new batch. . . Anyone got any of the new batch yet? I ordered them all yesterday. 'Future Days' was the one I was most looking forward to---seemed to have the most small detail that could be well-served by a quality remaster. The first I heard was 'Tago Mago,' which was probably just...

Obviously I didn't mean legally, or admittedly. Just guessing at the male psyche of sexual morality in America.

I'm not certain I was arguing anything too different from what you've said, but thanks for "fleshing it out" a bit. Except, perhaps, with this bit: I find it hard to imagine that more direct discussion of the root "evils" of "rockism"--with terms which cut more directly to the chase--could...