Simon Reynolds

[luka]

poor old joe

 

[luka]

blames him for the breakup of his marriage, the fact he dont get to see the kids, everything

 

[Mr. Tea]

blames him for the breakup of his marriage, the fact he dont get to see the kids, everything

He seems to still have a marriage and kids from what I can see on FB (unless that's all an elaborate deception), but this is still a funny idea.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Muggers takes a potshot at the /D/ crew:

As the 21st century rolled in, journalistic tendency that you might call the Continuity Melody Maker Faction, which created an echo chamber for itself in overwhelmingly white male pseudo-academic online spaces like Dissensus and ILX, perpetuated proprietary categories that cemented the authenticity myths.

I Can’t Accept That: University Challenge, Jungle And How Glibness Creates Bad History | The Quietus

“We need jungle…. We need jungle…. W-e-e-e-e-e n-n-e-e-e-e-d-d j-j-u-u-u-u-n-n-g-g-l-l-e…” On music social media and beyond it’s become a relentless refrain this last week, ever since the team from the University of Aberdeen was admonished by Amol Rajan for answering “drum & bass” to a music...

thequietus.com

 

[william_kent]

Muggers takes a potshot at the /D/ crew:

I Can’t Accept That: University Challenge, Jungle And How Glibness Creates Bad History | The Quietus

“We need jungle…. We need jungle…. W-e-e-e-e-e n-n-e-e-e-e-d-d j-j-u-u-u-u-n-n-g-g-l-l-e…” On music social media and beyond it’s become a relentless refrain this last week, ever since the team from the University of Aberdeen was admonished by Amol Rajan for answering “drum & bass” to a music...

thequietus.com

it's just an advert for his book disguised as an article

 

[Mr. Tea]

it's just an advert for his book disguised as an article

A man's gotta eat.

 

[subvert47]

Muggers takes a potshot at the /D/ crew:

I Can’t Accept That: University Challenge, Jungle And How Glibness Creates Bad History | The Quietus

“We need jungle…. We need jungle…. W-e-e-e-e-e n-n-e-e-e-e-d-d j-j-u-u-u-u-n-n-g-g-l-l-e…” On music social media and beyond it’s become a relentless refrain this last week, ever since the team from the University of Aberdeen was admonished by Amol Rajan for answering “drum & bass” to a music...

thequietus.com

but they won the quiz comfortably in the end

No, they didn't. Sheffield won.

 

[Mr. Tea]

No, they didn't. Sheffield won.

Well spotted!

 

[woops]

it's just an advert for his book disguised as an article

i could swear I've read this article before, every time I've read a JM article

 

[Benny Bunter]

"I understand the latter urge, I really do – because I’ve embodied it myself. Back in 1994 and 1995, I looked askance at fellow white middle class students who listened only to floaty LTJ Bukem and Alex Reece tunes, clutching my L Double 12”s and Dr S Gachet mixtapes as totems of “realness”."

😂

 

[versh]

"And is 'Simon' in the room with us now, Joe?"

 

[maxi]

Excellent review of the best cocteau twins album in pitchfork today

The title of “Sugar Hiccup,” the album’s single, could almost be a description of Fraser’s singing: the action of her throat and lips as she siphons sweetness into the air. Like so much Cocteau Twins imagery, “sugar hiccup” feels obliquely sexual and utterly innocent at once, flashing back to a time when children held their breath and counted to 20. Hiccups lie on the pleasure-pain threshold, the same place where Fraser’s voice lives: rapture as rupture.

Damn good stuff

 

[martin]

Great review, and glad to see others hear Head Over Heels as the best. 10/10, truly psychedelic record. Especially dig the SARS/Covid precog.

 

[Martin D]

"And is 'Simon' in the room with us now, Joe?"

That made me laugh more than it should have.

 

[other_life]

that time he was like "Yeah. garage clubs dominated by asians are more chill because they're less aggy and more self-possessed than white and black punters" 💀💀💀

 

[dilbert1]

"I understand the latter urge, I really do – because I’ve embodied it myself. Back in 1994 and 1995, I looked askance at fellow white middle class students who listened only to floaty LTJ Bukem and Alex Reece tunes, clutching my L Double 12”s and Dr S Gachet mixtapes as totems of “realness”."

😂

@blissblogger Amidst jungle’s revived popularity, I’m carrying this torch, already discarded by you as errant so many decades ago, in my own delusional and anachronistic way

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's such a blatant lie

 

[dilbert1]

You think its retrospective preening disguised as self-critique?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Almost certainly. He's full of shit

 

[Benny Bunter]

"I missed the beginning of jungle. I knew about it, and my old schoolmates were all over it, but getting it blasted on the crap stereos of their mums’ cars and on Dave from Romford’s tiny tape player, all I heard was a chaos of clatter and gunshots and distorted MCs and stop-start mixing. "

Joe muggs. Music writer. Graduate of Sussex university