We kicked off this week with a comment party for the Grammys, a pretty tame ceremony from which we managed to find 10 least boring moments. We heard new songs from Tyler, The Creator, the Postal Service, and the Strokes. We ranked the Who’s discography and Tegan And Sara’s 10 best songs. We gave Pissed Jeans Album Of The Week. And we deconstructed villainizing musicians. Here are the best and worst things you had to say about it all.
THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
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djfreshié | Feb 12th | Score:35 |
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Yeah, Michael Nelson, you need to land your creative writing helicopter at urban outfitters, cause youre in the abbreviation sky, word fuels running low and you might as well crash where you feel welcome wordswordswords |
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Chipotle | Feb 10th | Score:37 |
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Nice to see someone beating Chris Brown. |
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Nathan Christensen | Feb 8th | Score:39 |
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Don’t worry. I’m working on an “In Defense of Michael_” column. |
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| Posted in: Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments | |||
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Corey Minagh | Feb 8th | Score:42 |
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FUCK. EVERYTHING. |
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Tom Breihan | Feb 8th | Score:44 |
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Blinkered, disdainful ignorance of mass culture is probably my least favorite thing about indie culture. |
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Connor Hughes | Feb 8th | Score:44 |
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Is it alright if I’m just neutral towards them, is that cool? |
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honlads | Feb 8th | Score:44 |
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Corey Minagh | Feb 8th | Score:51 |
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FUCK. THIS. |
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honlads | Feb 8th | Score:77 |
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You honour, my client is clearly insane… |
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Corey Minagh | Feb 8th | Score:102 |
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FUCK. THAT. |
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THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS
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Michael_ | Feb 11th | Score:-21 |
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Another non-boring thing (at least in the comment party and Twitter) was when people discovered Lena Dunhum is dating one of the guys from fun. Because god forbid some dude from fun. is hitting it with the least attractive cast member of Girls, as if she was at the top of your list of dream girls. |
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| Posted in: The 10 Least Boring Moments From The 2013 Grammys | |||
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Santiago Belandres | Feb 8th | Score:-24 |
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Didn’t even bother to finish it. |
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Andrew Burr | Feb 8th | Score:-35 |
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i’ve been number one for best comment. I really want to get number one for worst comment now. |
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| Posted in: Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments | |||
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Corky Anderson | Feb 12th | Score:-41 |
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At the very least, the advertising for their album is straightforward. They ARE bankrupt-of any novel musical invention. Unless you’re urban outfitters, the gap or other forms of overpriced and overstocked commerce departments that likes cheeky wallpaper harmless safe music running in in it’s echo chamber changing stalls mindlessly, well, then, this buds for you! This band should have gone away after 1991 or liztomania. Sorry but i’m new to the board and i just dont get the love for so many so called “indie” buzz bands. These guys have sold millions of records for basically the same formula and they are running out of ideas. Land your creative helicopter down at the gap phoenix, cause youre in the sky, fuels running low and you might as well crash where you feel welcomed $$$ |
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Phil Herring | Feb 8th | Score:-66 |
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I wasn’t aware I was not supposed to like Mumford? Oh well, seeing them in Brooklyn (of all places next week). They write much, much better songs than those dorks in Wavves, Girls, etc. |
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THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (SCOTT)
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Chipotle | Feb 10th | Score:26 | |
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I was confused for a bit when I heard the Black Keys and it wasn’t in a commercial. |
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Damn it I thought I was close that time.
you’ll get it sensei, tons of votes flying around this week
you are close
to my heart, son.
-papi
Thanks.
I guess I’m just gonna keep stuntin’ like my daddy.
whoa! thats totally NOT a bride and groom. I had a double take scrolling back up and noticed this fact. The guys face at the right is priceless. What a random, trolling pic.
It’s not random—that’s Lil’ Wayne and Birdman, stuntin’.
i’m too real to troll
I think Corky is the new rubberjohnny.
nope, corky’s the new copy_paster_cat, who was the new rubberjohnny
RUBJON IS A CHANGED MAN
Rubjohn is a man of many facets and a killer emo haircut. I dig that kid.
Corky’s like a long-winded, less funny remake. He’s a poor man’s rubjohn.
like a dryhump?
Exactly like a dryhump d.
Wish there was someone on here who’d create an account solely to reply “Like a dryhump?” irrelevantly. You’d click on their profile, see their list of comments: “Like a dryhump?” “Like a dryhump?” “Like a dryhump?” “Like a dryhump?” “Like a dryhump?”.
Would be magic.
done like gaddamn dinner
like a dryhump?
I’m more thankful than you’ll ever understand.
My dear friend, perhaps that is because my intentions are nor satirical, nor ironic, nor have any vestige of humour in their acrid proceedings. But Mr. Honlads, I thank you for the dubious honor of being the “poor man’s rubjohn”. It’s like being the poor man’s Bush or Vertical Horizon…which isn’t much of a challenge, would you agree you adorable mug of coffee? ;)
I’m not a mug of coffee. I’m a mug of no-no juice. A sentient cup of the good stuff.
You’ve been pretty nice to the trolls on the board. I give you that :)
Apparently, Chipotle’s delicious burritos aren’t the only thing that have a fiery kick to them.
hey guys i need a stereogum username. suggestions?
Billy Corgan
Done and done.
OUTSTANDING! Does this mean, in a way, i’m kind of your dad?
I think so… Maybe godfather or something.
Creepy uncle?
it really is rewarding
I’d stick with the Max. Max something.
Yung Puss
Lil Bitty
Yung Bitty
Stereodum
Mungford and Sunz
Carson Daly Is a Talent Powerhouse
My Bloody Tannenbaum
Girth IV: Side Splittin’
Cat Shower
Max Shitpalm
Shit Maxpalm
Palm Shitmax
Crystal Pepsi
Michael Underscore
John J. Muppetsex
The Artist Formerly Known As Palm Shitmax
Myoclonic Jerk
Phil
The YY
Poppa New Guinea
N.W.A.V.V.E.S.
Drippy Lawengo
Hax Marrold
spoonerism is like so 2007
You guys seen this beck thing with 160-musicians covering Bowie yet?
Cause it’s just as awesome as it sounds…
http://happymusicsadmusic.blog.com/2013/02/14/hear-becks-batshit-crazy-160-musician-reimagining-of-david-bowies-sound-and-vision/
“we-don’t-just-make-cars-for-mobsters”
Ha.
Also, yes. This is awesome.
yeah, that one was ridiculous. That bizzare head-shaped mike they used to record it reminds me of the monster from Pan’s Labyrinth.
I love the violinist who looks at the camera and gives a “yeah, this shit’s awesome” smile around 7:09: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOmrDzRrGQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=429s
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Corky Anderson deserves better.
Does anyone else here watch Peep Show? Just finished season 8 and I can’t get enough.
I think about series 1-5 was the peak, but yeah, it’s great. Superhans.
Yesss I love Peep Show. Not enough other people have heard of it (at least in the States).
I said a lot of dumb things this week, as usual, and I am embarrassed in retrospect about them come Friday, as usual, and I will apologize for them and keep reminding everyone I’m wading unhappy waters, as usual.
But on the topic of villainizing characters, how would everyone feel if Iceage were seriously a bunch of Nazis?: http://www.collapseboard.com/features/columns/this-blog-kills-fascists/
I mean, metal bands play with Nazi imagery to look “evil” all the time. Even as a Jew, I really love Slayer’s Reign in Blood and stuff like that. I really think most of this is just taking on that sort of “pose” unless he openly states his beliefs. The whole xenophobic attitude that’s growing in Europe really sucks though. America has some of it too, but I think it’s easier here because there isn’t one original majority culture, just a giant mix.
The article struck me as kind of clueless in itself because Iceage is like, basically all image and art, so it’s almost like this dude is the last person to realize that they aren’t meant to be tough. Elias’ VAR project is very visually homosexual, too, so there goes the hateful agenda theory.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/charles-krafft-is-a-white-nationalist-who-believes-the-holocaust-is-a-deliberately-exaggerated-myth/Content?oid=15995245
As a European, I don’t think you can really say that the whole continent has a growing xenophobic attitude. That’s a bit of a generalisation. It is a problem among some groups of people, but there’s 3/4 of a billion people here, across 50 different countries.
True, of course not even a majority of people have that attitude, but it’s a vocal enough minority with their own far right nationalist parties, which have been gaining parliament seats. I guess it’s similar to the tea party here except we have this system where it’s impossible to do anything as a third party, so they try to latch on to the republicans.
And it really worries me that there’s such a vocal amount of radical nationalist movements growing all over the world at a time when we’re all so much more connected than we used to be.
I don’t think that’s the case. I’m Dane and I’ve followed Iceage since their first EP (sorry, I’m not trying to sound like a douche though it may come out like that) and I experienced that it was only until Iceage had it’s US release that it became subject to these accusations.
The problem is really generalizations and this is difficult to explain without making some myself. I don’t experience any kind of xenophobic tendencies in Europe, but I believe – and this may not be true – that Europeans, or atleast Danes, has less focus upon the subject. That is why Iceage is less aware of what may be interpreted as ‘racism codes’ anywhere else in the world. Iceage’s lyricism is (among other things) about this sort of apocalyptic universe inspired from Nordic mythology, and while in Denmark ‘White Rune’ is something that is associated with some kind of historical heritage, the same exact things may have ‘facism’ written all over it in other more ignorant places of the world (and by “ignorant” I don’t mean to say anything negatively about Americans – they just experience and interpret the same things differently than Europeans… that’s just my point). That is why Iceage got it’s fingers burnt when the record hit American streets.
That whole article seems to be stretching a bit to me. Those are very weird sieg heils their fans are supposedly doing.
Andrew Burr was so close to getting one of the best worst comments.
And I would have too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
Seriously though, I hate all of you. You’re terrible people and you’ve ruined my dreams and my whole week.
get out of my dreams and into my car.
I can’t downvote that.
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Jesus.
And so ended the journey of Corky Anderson, Troll extraordinaire
My four-year-old son has an overly furry black-and-white dog he named Corky. I wonder if he’d change it?
shine on you crazy verbose diamond
Your inanely insipid drivel is nothing to be proud of. Step it up or step off the platform. There are people here who actually know how earn their down votes appropriately. Continue with your nonsense as you are and you’ll just end up getting ignored.
How does one anctually “earn” a downvote lol? Sorry Cerebus but thats an ironic comment :) No offense. Corkys kinda funny but still dont know if hes a troll or just anoying pompous music fan.
and with -41 downvotes the dude was most certainly NOT ignored :). Thats trolling of the highest order me thinks!
….ssssssssSSSSSSHHHHHHHhhhhhhhpt……
That was the sound of something flying over your head.
wow cerebus….I used to always like you too :( *sniff
You don’t know me, so you couldn’t possibly know whether you like me or not. But if you read what Corky and I wrote, compare the two and find mine more offensive on any level, then I can assure you your lack of “liking me” will be no loss.
I like your persona you mystical poster :) And I do agree Corky’s trolling was inane. I prefer RubberJohnny….but he’s apparently reformed from his pagen rants.
“Better to burn out, then to fade away”. Well, shine on Corky…whatever/whoever the hell you are.
I hope corky burns out real fast.
I hope Corky’s soul’s face burns so badly that his soul is forced to piss soul urine onto its own face, not knowing that soul urine is basically kerosene, thus torching his ugly soul mug up even more.
What the fuck man?
Thats a scary overzealous Phoenix fan :(
You just want his downvotes :P
Yeah. :(
Hey guys, i know im a little late to catch you all this week, but i just wrote an introduction to the antlers, and i’d love if you’d check it out.
This is one of my favorite bands.
http://happymusicsadmusic.blog.com/2013/02/19/you-oughta-know-the-antlers/