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And yet, more lists?!
I’ve seen a few of these popping up and thought it might be fun to do my own. I don’t usually like to degrade popular music (anymore) and that’s really not even what this is. More like, it’s me trying to reconcile the broad popularity and or/critical acclaim that these albums have with my own unimpressed reaction to them.
Ergo, my six most ( Read more... ) -
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First, general music post.
Second.
Because heaven knows I wouldn’t get by with only bothering all of you with this once. Since my favorites list at this point has something like 30 records on it (2011 is turning out to be amazing), I decided to make an even more concise list. I was going to go for ten, but it wound up being 12. Which is cool, I like ( Read more... ) -
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First of all, this really isn’t enough to be a full topic, but I wanted to address it.
The most recurring complaint I’m seeing from Duke Nukem Forever defenders against reviews is that reviewers are docking points for it having old-school, 90’s game design/mechanics (they’re not, they’re docking points because the controls/mechanics are clumsy and ( Read more... ) -
I started this because I wanted to talk about using sadness in music
...but I think it turned into more of a Bon Iver review.
Sadness in music is a risky business. Heck, any kind of emotion (unironic emotion, naturally) in independent music is a risky business, but that’s another topic.
( In which I say a bunch of really obvious things )
