The music journalism hall of shame thread

[slowtrain]

Yeah, but you could've called the thread something like "some thoughts on x, y and z" instead of what you did call it

 

[primate]

This should be merged with the press release hall of shame thread.

 

[wise]

sorry but your 'journalism' is basically unreadable ranting

 

[Mercer Finn]

^^^^^

YES YES YES YES YES

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

more righteous (and relevant, honest) kulkarni:

http://fuckyouneilkulkarni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/new-list-from-nme-and-some-thoughts.html?spref=tw

that is a great piece. pretty otm too. those quotes hes plucked from the list sound embarassed.

 

[slackk]

Can we reclaim this thread from that stuff at the beginning please ha.

I love a good "I hate this more than life itself" review and this Quietus review of the Enemy is just that- http://thequietus.com/articles/08813-the-enemy-streets-in-the-sky-review

The new Enemy album is finally here. There it sits, being shite, in the noonday sun, attracting flies

Almost as good as the time When Saturday Comes reviewed Tim Lovejoy's book-
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/145/29/

That is the pinnacle of hating things though.

 

[Mercer Finn]

Such a funny piece. This bit particularly relevant here:

Evil will prevail if good folk do nothing. And if all the good folk are otherwise engaged simply bathing in the milky plenitude of their own good taste, documents that seal the horror of the age like Streets In the Sky will simply be allowed to slip out there, venture into young minds unchallenged, perform their moves of atrophy and enfeeblement, and be passed like a virus of pisspoorness to more and more people convinced this is as good as rock can get

 

[Benny Bunter]

more righteous (and relevant, honest) kulkarni:



http://fuckyouneilkulkarni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/new-list-from-nme-and-some-thoughts.html?spref=tw

Not usually a huge fan of Kulkarni's writing but that piece is great, he's definitely one of the good guys.

The piece slackk posted had me flashing on the days of Steven Wells doing the singles reviews in the NME. If necessary he wouldn't baulk at slagging off every single record! In a highly entertaining fashion too. At that point (mid-90s) it was pretty much the only reason I would buy the paper.

Neither am I a big fan of alot of the music on the mnml songs blog, but these pieces are on point.
http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/d-we-need-to-talk-about-blandoscattered.html

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/from-melbourne-to-berlin.html

 

[bassbeyondreason]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/12/the-darkness-lady-gaga

 

[Patrick Swayze]

But as a student in Stoke-on-Trent, I went to Keele University to watch the Darkness. And I had the best night ever. I sang along! I crowd-surfed!

wonder if she inserted this to make her more or less likeable.

 

[Benny Bunter]

for balance, here's a bad mnml ssgs piece:

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/why-edm-matters.html

Yeah thats a shitty piece of writing for sure.

Must admit I've never heard of the term EDM being used in this way before, is this just a post-skrillex/Guetta American thing to describe superstar DJs or what?

That video of Guetta clanging though...oof!

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Big respect to Blackdown for handling the criticism in this thread without doing a Muggs/Scuba.

 

[Blackdown]

ahahha. i'm not sure i can answer that without offending Muba/Scuggs... bless 'em

 

[Slothrop]

TBF, since this thread is all about how bad it is that everyone's afraid of offending anyone so all music journalism is all vacuous big-ups with no critical engagement or entertainingly unbalanced ranting, it'd be harsh to expect any comments on writing by people on the forum to be all vacuous big-ups with no critical engagement or entertainingly unbalanced ranting for fear of offending anyone.

 

[outraygeous]

If someone dont like your music, get over it. Some people dont like Fish Fingers, I dont see Captain Birdseye blogging about it.

My view anyway

 

[Blackdown]

If someone dont like your music, get over it. Some people dont like Fish Fingers, I dont see Captain Birdseye blogging about it.

My view anyway

http://wwwcaptain-birdseye.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[outraygeous]

http://wwwcaptain-birdseye.blogspot.co.uk/

OMG captain birdseye loves skating. I bet he likes Odd Future!

Anyway, I think it all kicked off on the www today with regard to this

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/18/u...s-will-never-be-a-match-for-powerful-writing/

People get too upset on the internet.

 

[Webstarr]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/12/the-darkness-lady-gaga

They're amazing apparently

 

[Esp]

Anyway, I think it all kicked off on the www today with regard to this

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/18/u...s-will-never-be-a-match-for-powerful-writing/

People get too upset on the internet.

Fact seem to me to be publishing more and more 'news' like this these days:
http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/08/m...reveals-a-few-matangi-details-in-the-process/
That type of music journalism frustrates me way more than poorly written opinion pieces.

A major issue I have with so much modern music journalism is the lack of a sense that anyone is getting outside and seeing anything or speaking to anyone. Its difficult to quantify but you do get a feel for when someone is writing from first hand experience rather than observing something through a screen. An example would be all the articles about Juke when that broke, it almost seemed like if you'd watched a footwork video you'd then experienced the scene in some way and were qualified to write about it.

 

[outraygeous]

when I hear juke/footwork in the club, I want to see some people footworking/jukin. Still yet to see it.

Not sure why that is or maybe its too hard. Looks hard.

I agree fully with your point by the way