It’s Good Friday and Passover, but it’s also regular Friday, which means it’s time to look at the highest and lowest rated comments of the past 7 days. Early this week was sort of slow for comments, but we made up for it with blog posts about Soundgarden and Kurt Cobain. 1994 4eva. Speaking of 1994, did you see Edward Droste’s non-fight with the Toadies about “Possum Kingdom”?
Woke in the middle of the night 2 that shit 90s song that goes “do you wanna die?” in my head. Toadies? Hrs later-slept. Now up w/ cold >:o
— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) April 5, 2012
oops sorry about that, it’s the cold talking :( RT: @thetoadies@edwarddroste Be nice, we’re GrizzlyBear fans. Hope you feel better.
— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) April 6, 2012
sorry to @thetoadies for dissing the ‘do you wanna die’ song earlier…i’m sure there is PLENTY in our catalog you’d hate to wake up to! :)
— Edward Droste (@edwarddroste) April 6, 2012
Ed is too nice. I was really hoping that would turn into a Where’s The Beef?. Hopefully Dave Longstreth will dis Crash Test Dummies next week. Until then, we have your insults to each other to enjoy…
THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
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Stephen Hall | Apr 5th | Score:19 |
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Soup R Crackers franchisee |
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| Posted in: What Would Kurt Cobain Be Up To In 2012? | |||
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plb102 | Mar 30th | Score:19 |
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Damnit, there is no comeback for jizz fest. You win triangle. |
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| Posted in: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” | |||
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Nick DiLalla | Apr 3rd | Score:20 |
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I will take the stark realism of Damian’s hairy tits over the digitally enhanced tits of Katy Perry any day of the week. |
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| Posted in: Can We End This Fucked Up/Katy Perry Meme? | |||
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godsdog | Mar 30th | Score:20 |
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There is no comeback, but there may be a little splashback. |
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| Posted in: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” | |||
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Greg Messina | Apr 5th | Score:23 |
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He’d be considered washed up in 2012, and everyone would have some sort of smug comments towards any type of new material he’d put out, if he hadn’t already become a complete shut-in. Thats how we treat most of our aging rock stars, at least. |
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| Posted in: What Would Kurt Cobain Be Up To In 2012? | |||
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jawnofthedead | Apr 4th | Score:25 |
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Most under-appreciated Avenger? Spoon Man. |
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| Posted in: Soundgarden – “Live To Rise” | |||
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evil empire | Apr 3rd | Score:25 |
| Posted in: Can We End This Fucked Up/Katy Perry Meme? | |||
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Sarah Fonder | Apr 3rd | Score:25 |
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THE TEENAGE DREAM ENDS NOW #STOPKATY2012 |
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| Posted in: Can We End This Fucked Up/Katy Perry Meme? | |||
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annoyingmouse | Apr 5th | Score:28 |
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“What Would Kurt Cobain Be Up To In 2012?” is just a polite way of asking “How good would the world be if the Foo Fighters never existed?” |
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| Posted in: What Would Kurt Cobain Be Up To In 2012? | |||
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annoyingmouse | Apr 5th | Score:37 |
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THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS
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Robert Miller | Apr 4th | Score:-11 |
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Cause they’re good? |
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| Posted in: Soundgarden – “Live To Rise” | |||
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bryanknows | Apr 2nd | Score:-12 |
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just ’cause Longstreth paid tribute to one of the best, most honored albums of the ’80′s, “Damaged,” doesn’t mean he gets a free pass for the rest of his career with putting out this incoherent garbage. Dave, we thought the r&B thing was an ironic passing comment from an immature bedroom artist about the music industry that would soon mature into a respectable, unique form of your own. not campy, ’90′s r&b production forever. and honestly, the press overrated Bitte Orca because you triggered and prefigured a nostalgia bomb for Black Flag and other ’80′s hardcore we are still in the midst of. 9 half baked songs does not a follow up to “Rise Above” make. though some are great musically, lyrically, they’re terrible. “Swing Lo Magellan” sort of sounds like a racist album title if you ask me. how he goes from thinking he can hijack “Damaged,” which is an album about demanding freedom basically and frustration at society’s confinement, to putting out this album that connects an African American slave song to a Portuguese explorer sort of tells you something anti-intellectual and deceptive about Longstreth. he wants to cash in on conflict, IMHO, conflicted tastes within the indie community and conflicting themes that don’t coherently go together. |
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| Posted in: Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan Details | |||
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Robert Miller | Apr 4th | Score:-14 |
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Terrible movie, terrible franchise, terrible band, terrible song…what in the fuck is wrong with DA SGUHMS? |
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| Posted in: Soundgarden – “Live To Rise” | |||
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triangle | Mar 30th | Score:-15 |
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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| Posted in: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” | |||
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rubberjohnny0829 | Apr 2nd | Score:-22 |
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Sooooo gay!! |
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| Posted in: Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan Details | |||
THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (SCOTT)
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Mike Pop | Apr 5th | Score:2 | |
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He’d settle his differences with Katy Perry inside Hell in a Cell, I’m sure. |
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| Posted in: What Would Kurt Cobain Be Up To In 2012? | |||
THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (AMRIT)
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Zachary Richard Wren Payne | Apr 2nd | Score:3 | |
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More rappers should sample Twin Sister |
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| Posted in: Kendrick Lamar – “The Recipe” (Feat. Dr. Dre) | |||
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#4? Not bad, not bad at all.
Oh Ed, don’t lie.
EVERY Grizzly Bear song is perfect for waking up.
So unrelated but I’m madly in love with this gif and I just want to share it with the world.
I have a terrible feeling there’s another gif floating around in the deep, dark nether regions of the WEBZ~! utilizing something entirely different being inserted into their screaming mouths.
I was talking about string cheese. Who downvotes string cheese?
To me, the most disturbing thing about this gif, and there is a healthy list of disturbing things, is that the creatures holding the toothbrushes have such thin arms. They must come from a planet with very low gravity.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID
I hope if we are ever invaded by aliens from another planet that they come from a planet with a weaker gravity than Earth. That way when their ships land and the boney storm troopers come marching out they will be stomping around like they weigh far more than they should, and maybe even their skeletal systems will just give out immediately and we will just have to clean up their crunchy pancake bodies with shovels.
Of course, the alternative would be that they come from a planet with much higher gravity then ours, and then they will end up stumbling around like a bunch of drunk astronauts on the moon and all we will have to do is sneak up behind them and scare them and they will accidentally jump off the planet into space.
So, either way, I’m not too worried about Earth being attacked by aliens.
AMAZING THOUGHT PROCESS
Well, if we’re posting unrelated gifs…
For whatever reason this much beloved, but unrelated gif, isn’t loading at the moment. But allow me to describe it:
A hockey player, sitting on the bench, is enticed by the sudden, magical appearance of a floating waffle. With a slight, sly smile, he follows it with his eyes longingly, before said waffle guides itself towards the mouth of said hockey player, as he quickly inhales it in satisfaction.
Ah, Olli Jokinen. One of my very first posts
Speaking of gifs paul scheer made a great tumblr of breaking bad gifs called breakinggifs.com
That’s um….bigger than I thought it would be
Just big enough to masturbate to.
Damnit autocorrect!
I meant to type “Just PIXELATED enough to masturbate to”
TWSS
Thank you, Scott. I can now rest. in. peace.
Toadies ‘Rubberneck’ was, and still is, a really good album. And I would like to point out that while we are handing “nicest guy on earth” awards to Ed for apologizing, he was the one that made the (benign) rude comment. It was The Toadies that diffused it by being totally chivalrous. Let this be an invitation to check out a really awesome rock band with an apparently great taste in music.
“Possum Kingdom” was also not the best way to represent that album. “Tyler” is the best thing on that album, and one of the best mainstream alt-rock singles of that decade. It’s a shame they became a one-hit wonder because they were a surprisingly great band.
I agree entirely. I could listen to “Tyler” on repeat from now until the day I die, and I would never get bored of it. Also, for the record, I much prefer the album ‘Hell Below, Stars Above’ to ‘Rubberneck’ on the whole. It didn’t make a very big splash when it came out, but I think it had a muscular rock core wrapped in a warm emotional dynamic that is much more suited for today’s audience. If something like “Pressed Against the Sky” or “Dollskin” showed up next week under the guise of some new young band they would have the blog world eating out of their hands.
Travesty!…Mutiny!
Even though I didn’t make any of these week’s lists, I had a fun time thinking outside the comment box and going off on wrestling-related tangents which 1% probably understood. Sidenote: I’m still in a grumpy funk and I think the only cure might be Coachella next weekend.
So you’re all leaving early to celebrate the death of our lord Jesus Christ ? – Sounds like my friend Mel Gibson was speaking the truth about you NYC “media” types.
This weekend I will be attempting to recreate the famous Cool Hand Luke scene, but with Chocolate eggs.
Obviously they are in New York, they are celebrating Passover, or better known to us as Jewish Thanksgiving. This explains why the posts this week were feeling pretty flat, or dare I say, unleavened
Stereogum: Circumcising the Competition Since 2002.
Godsdog’s and my comments were actually made last Friday before Shut Up, Dude came out, but at the time didn’t have enough upvotes to make the cut. But then over the weekend and earlier this week they continued getting upvotes. I was wondering if they would qualify for this weeks list, and tbh I’m a little surprised to see them on here. Shut Up, Dude works in mysterious ways I guess.
I think we all learned a valuable lesson about Jizzfests – Never question a Jizzfest; just go with it.
i was infuriated at this Shut up, broski oversight until i saw “jizzfest” and I laid down for a 1 hour nap
Gosh that comment about the Foo Fighters makes me look a bit of a dick. Just listened to Everlong for the first time in ages and it’s still awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y
If a band makes two great albums and 8 shit ones, the two great ones still happened
That’s the Weezer code.
HA HA HA Weezer really do suck now
Harold Bishop Could never look like a bit of a dick.
Yo where’s that Best Buy wallpaper at? I’m tryna find some deals!
You ever heard of Bing?
I think so… they’re by far the best search engine that would never bring up completely counter-intuitive results for your search terms, right?
I actually Bing’d Google the other day and Google.com was the first result.
Not bad Bing.
You know what? That Toadies song is still way, way overplayed, it gets stuck in your head really easily, and it’s not even that great a song. Mr. Grizzly Bear should not worry about who he offends. He was right the first time.
Well, Mr. Grizzly Bear can have his band. Because Daniel Rossen is the true genius songwriter. Otherwise you’d have actually enjoyed “Horn of Plenty”.
how do mr. little jeans and mr. nice watch factor into this?
WTF? I just saw on TMZ that Axl Rose and Lana Del Ray might be an “Item”….this is going to be fun http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/07/lana-del-rey-axl-rose-video/
Well, there’s no way that’s going to end well. Has she read nothing about him?
she can’t read
Just a few weeks ago, she was also rumored to be an item with Marilyn Manson: http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2012/03/are-lana-del-rey-and-marilyn-manson-coupling-up/
Girl appears to making her rounds, preying on deflated rock superstars. Or maybe they’re all just sharing cosmetic surgery secrets?
Fred Durst your next!
Sleeping with Brittney Spears and Lana Del Rey in their primes would be like the football coach who wins a championship in two different decades.
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Eat a shitsicle and then go fuck a bag of lit dynamite. Tell me what you know after that.
well, that certainly is a reasonable reaction.
i don’t like dirty projectors –> EAT POOP AND BLOW YER DICK OFF
gotta love the internet.
What “internet”?
as they say, any press is good press! have a thumbs from me to you, old chap!
wait a moment.. why, mr. green, you have inadvertently become my publicist! how ever shall i compensate you? do you accept greenbacks ? ho ho ho! we’re having fun now, mr. green! do try to let off some happiness, will you?
i’m only happy when it rains.
oh, and also when you blow yer dick off while sporting poop-glazed lips.
Let’s try that again: