Why I'm not the crotchety old rockist I used to be

soulmarcosa

When you can have a handy guide to everything worth condescending about, why bother anymore? b/wThis book would have been funny, even hilarious, about 15 years ago. Now it's merely tiring. "Wow, you compiled a list of everything worthwhile or notable in music for the sole purpose of making fun of anybody who admits to liking it. Way to go guys!"- DJ "Listening to Ghostface, Wolfpack, Da Backwudz, Young Jeezy and Meiko Kaji in NC so don't call me crotchety" Marco

SoulOnIce

Since I never got around to asking in that other thread,
did you handle the design/visuals of your old magazine yourself?
Because the look of it was outstanding.
Also, thanks for reminding me of Motorbooty.
I have a few of those packed away somewhere that reading
that made me want to go mining for and read again. The covers
on MB were always on another level.


Sorry I'm not being snobbish here - ummm... "yeah, Steve Albini
couldn't hold Wharton Tiers' blue pencil"


Nothing beats Tesco Vee writing for Forced Exposure, definitely one
of the greatest (maga)zines evar.

p_gunn

Nothing beats Tesco Vee writing for Forced Exposure, definitely one
of the greatest (maga)zines evar.

so true. his tour diaries are laugh out loud funny. i just came across an old stash of Forced Exposures and it's hilarious to see it move from a HC mag to its Lydia Lunch/Diamanda Galas/Foetus "we are artists" schtick...

SoulOnIce

I found an old coverless Forced Exposure in my record crates
a few years ago, and read this massive interview with Rudy Rucker,
insane mathematician/sci-fi author, whom I had never heard of before.
After reading the article I spent the next year finding and reading
Rucker's books. That's the kind of mag Forced Exposure was (is?)

DocMcCoy

When you can have a handy guide to everything worth condescending about, why bother anymore?

b/w

This book would have been funny, even hilarious, about 15 years ago. Now it's merely tiring. "Wow, you compiled a list of everything worthwhile or notable in music for the sole purpose of making fun of anybody who admits to liking it. Way to go guys!"



- DJ "Listening to Ghostface, Wolfpack, Da Backwudz, Young Jeezy and Meiko Kaji in NC so don't call me crotchety" Marco

I'd be interested to hear what that book had to say about early-80's Scots indie-pop lynchpins Orange Juice, for example; its co-author Steven Daly used to play drums for them, and their tireless referencing of c&w, the Velvets, classic English punk-rock, southern soul and disco would, according to the definitions set down by his book, have marked them as rock snobs par excellence, even in 1981.

Bsides

I didnt really find the tone of it to be very condecending at all. SOme of it was kinda interesting. Some of it was funny, and very true about almost all music journalists.

Seminal. Catchall adjective employed by rock writers to describe any group or artist in on a trend too early to sell any records. The Germs were a seminal L.A. punk band, but guitarist Pat Smear didn???t realize any riches until he joined Nirvana.

i liked this one. Reminded me how many use that word when they talk about UGK though.

tonyphrone

this was dated when it first appeared in Vanity Fair years ago...although the film part is gettin me open!

Second-unit director. A deputy to a film???s main director whose job is to shoot scenes and footage that don???t require the presence and immediate supervision of the main director, often action sequences and expositional location shots. Many a second-unit director, having overseen his own semi-autonomous production crew, has eventually graduated to supremo-director status, though Snobs glory in knowing the names of such career second-unit specialists as Yakima Canutt (who was also an ace stuntman in John Wayne movies) and B. Reeves Eason. No disrespect to Paul Verhoeven, but the real reason RoboCop rocks is that Monte Hellman was the uncredited second-unit director.