[screamingskull]

 

 

 

[jon boy]

thats like so like honest.

[Danny Himself]

 

Moses is way more talented.

Avril Lavigne sucks smooth butt.

[screamingskull]

can you believe number 5????!!!!!!!???????

[Danny Himself]

She told her assistant to take boxes of her shit to 'Katrina', not realising Katrina was a hurricane and not an actual place.

PUNK RAWK!

[screamingskull]

it's from Q magazine, anyone read Q??????

I do when I have some spare change and want to spend it on something that will make me despair at the state of the world even more. I read any sort of rubbish because, in a way, I find it interesting.

[jico.]

i didnt even know q magazine,it seems to be one of those toilet magazines.
they are wonderful.

[screamingskull]

 

Q magazine is actually pretty good quality. But just focuses on popular music.

[jico.]

i bet they have all the top 10 whatever i've been wanting to read

I have that issue too. I find that the writing is of incredible poor quality, but it's aimed mainly at people who haven't got enough time and patience for music, so it makes sense. Occasionally it's entertaining, like when someone described a Garbage album as being so overproduced that even the silence between the songs sounded like it was.

[Washing Machine]

"MORRISSEY - He's gone sex mad." hahaha

what a load of bollocks (the avril thing that is). I hate people using new age buzzwords, "energy" what fucking energy, "picking up energy", you are just reading peoples body language you tart. Ok you can call it "energy" if you want, I'll call it common human perception. And this silly 'Im so hardcore attitude'. I'm sure I can out party Avril and without making a jackarse out of myself and telling everybody how I jump on tables. Thurston was right. Yoko Ono now THAT is a women who rocks. Still Complicated and Sk8ter Boi (the spelling makes me wanna puke mind you) are great songs.

[h8kurdt]

I read Q there's a much better thing in that issue...The essential SY albums. That Avril interview is just fucking funny. If she wants to think she's all cool and saintly then let her. Grrr thinking about her makes me angry...although I wouldn't say no to her.

[Green_mind]

That can't be genuine, although the stupid 'strong, tough girl' pose to the right can't be fabricated.
I think no. 3 is the daftest.

[the ikara cult]

Avril Lavigne in talking out of her arse shocker.

Seriously now, she annoyed all the people who took their skate-punk aesthetic beyond just dressing up and having fun to pretending they were somehow on the fringes of society, and that pleased me enormously.

But do people actually give a damn what she says any more than Britney or Rhianna or whoever? And complicated and Sk8er Boi are really not good songs at all, the collossal amount of effort put in by all concerned to be something they arent just washes across the room and sticks to your stuff and makes it dirty and wrong whenever her music is played. It doesnt matter how hard I try, i just cant pretend its not there.

The sad thing is that it probably is true. Journalists are generally arseholes, especially those who write for magazines like that, but it's also a hard task for them to extrapolate anything vaguely entertaing from some of the stupidest people that they have the misfortune to interview.

[the ikara cult]

On the subject of muso journalism:
I dont trust any of the reviews i read anymore, which is probably a good thing. Im more likely to take advice on what to listen to from freinds or from somewhere like here. I dont know what it is, there seems to be this mandatory culture of giving the right bands the right ratings to keep them onside. I mean, Q gave the last Razorlight album 5 stars.... Razorlight. When that sort of thing happens theres got to be some kind of conspiracy going on.

[the ikara cult]

Oh and say what you will about Pitchforkmedia, but more often than not their reviews of trendy young British bands are considerably more reliable in terms of scoring (even if you dont like the writing) than British newspapers/magazines

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

On the subject of muso journalism:
I dont trust any of the reviews i read anymore, which is probably a good thing. Im more likely to take advice on what to listen to from freinds or from somewhere like here. I dont know what it is, there seems to be this mandatory culture of giving the right bands the right ratings to keep them onside. I mean, Q gave the last Razorlight album 5 stars.... Razorlight. When that sort of thing happens theres got to be some kind of conspiracy going on.

That's a very interesting thing that you are saying, there. I was in fact thinking of something similar about music criticism in general because of those reassestment threads. A good music journalist would criticise the music simply for what it is, regardless of their perceived feelings of what it is or what it might be, when it's simply not what they might think it is. Also, attacking the music because the reviewer doesn't have simpathy for the musician is one of the worst acts of unprofessionalism ever. Who gives a toss if such and such musician is a real arsehole? For as long as they make good music, it's all fine by me. Then you have cases when both the musician and the music are shite, and in that case they don't stand a chance. In general, music journalism is one of those professions that's being shat upon for so long and so many times, that it became really hard to find out who's doing a good job, rather than being a haven where people flash their own arrogance around.
Another thing is people who improvise themselves as experts in music simply because they have a big record collection, or because they have half an idea of this or that. They are the worst, same as those people who have access to gear and want to make music, but fail to sit down and truly think hard about the amount of talent that's in them. Sorry for this long rant, but it's a quiet day at work.