OK, so, Animal fucking Collective. I might hate Tumblr more than them, what a mess of a platform that is - how the hell you all keep track of what anyone's saying I've no idea. Hence, posting this here
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I think that Rodney and Lex's "0" blurbs for AnCo are hilarious. I'd give AnCo a 5 or a 6. I think that Lex's "0" and Ian Mathers's "1" blurbs for Das Racist are funny, too. I gave that one a 10.
The only time I get my boxers in a bunch about what other people rate music I like (or don't like) is when they just get the music wrong. If they project what they want the song to be about onto what it IS (or reasonably might be) about, for instance, whether they loved it or hated it. But if the criticism stands, and I think in all cases I've mentioned it does (Rodney and Lex have both clearly spent enough time with "My Girls" to write fair reviews of it -- they aren't misrepresenting the track or pinning some ridiculous beef to it that doesn't stick; their interpretations of what it's "about" are plausible even if its defenders don't happen to like that interpretation, etc. etc. etc.), then there's just no point in getting sour grapes about it.
I happen to quite like Radiohead's Kid A, and I think that Robert Christgau said a lot more
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Just "re-"saw it, anyway, prompted from a Haloscan exchange over on Bedbugs. But I don't want to get into those things again, they're just fresh in my mind.
Oh yeah, that annoys me w/r/t individual reviews of a piece of music. What annoys me about eg the AC critical reaction is the general suffocating insistence that it's "consensus", the general "en masse" feel of the plaudits, kind of like it's being engineered into the canon. Breaking it down to individual opinions, whatever, but none of these individuals seem to be very self-aware of the larger critical machinery.
Pretty much all AC defenders seem to be clueless when it comes to reacting to AC attackers, mischaracterising and misrepresenting or just plain not engaging with our arguments, and that's what the irritation here is about. I still want to see one of these people who pompously declare its Importance as an unarguable fact admit or at least respond to the whole "your tiny indie hole is not the centre of the musical or critical universe" charge.
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The only time I get my boxers in a bunch about what other people rate music I like (or don't like) is when they just get the music wrong. If they project what they want the song to be about onto what it IS (or reasonably might be) about, for instance, whether they loved it or hated it. But if the criticism stands, and I think in all cases I've mentioned it does (Rodney and Lex have both clearly spent enough time with "My Girls" to write fair reviews of it -- they aren't misrepresenting the track or pinning some ridiculous beef to it that doesn't stick; their interpretations of what it's "about" are plausible even if its defenders don't happen to like that interpretation, etc. etc. etc.), then there's just no point in getting sour grapes about it.
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Pretty much all AC defenders seem to be clueless when it comes to reacting to AC attackers, mischaracterising and misrepresenting or just plain not engaging with our arguments, and that's what the irritation here is about. I still want to see one of these people who pompously declare its Importance as an unarguable fact admit or at least respond to the whole "your tiny indie hole is not the centre of the musical or critical universe" charge.
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