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September 28, 2005

A Picasso Or A Garfunkle

Apparently, Art Garfunkel is so far removed from the spotlight these days, that MSNBC misspells his name:

Solo careers separate the wheat from the chaff. For example, what happened to Garfunkle or the members of the Police who weren’t Sting? Then there’s Andrew Ridgeley. You know, Andrew Ridgeley! The other guy from Wham. George Michael sure left him high and dry.
Getting busted for pot all the time just doesn't make fame like it used to. Maybe a stint in a Japanese jail would help Artie step away from his Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine.

Posted at 11:04 AM




14 Comments

so what? stupid post.

Posted by: vcfgdlhdlsf at 09/28/05 11:34 AM | Reply
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yeah....wtf...if this is really a good music website you wouldn't care. msnbc WOULD post something like that line about sting....talentless prick...stu copeland is my favorite police and always will be. why do you have to perpetuate msnbc's stupidity...they're really reliable and on the cusp of the music scene....

Posted by: jim at 09/28/05 11:59 AM | Reply
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stewart copeland has all sorts of side projects and is one of the most underated drummers out there. who is writing this shill for MSNBC?

Posted by: hubs at 09/28/05 12:01 PM | Reply
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Supergrass last night was an acoustic set. Pass it on...

Posted by: dirt at 09/28/05 12:04 PM | Reply
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Note to stereogum: Quality, not quantity.

And to everyone else, never, ever try to read a Pitchfork review when you have a headache. In just the first paragraph of the review for the new Ryan Adams record, we get the following words and phrases: "poseur", "authenticity chic", "surfeit", "poseurdom", "precursor", "brazenly derivative artifice", "paucity" and "gilded genre exercise-cages". All I wanna know is "Does it rock?"

Posted by: jtb at 09/28/05 12:33 PM | Reply
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So? Stereogum is gonna get un-RSS'd from my shit...

Posted by: Dave D at 09/28/05 12:43 PM | Reply
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puerile post

Posted by: 2wordcritic at 09/28/05 1:17 PM | Reply
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Sooo many extra points for the I-used-to-listen-to-BNL-when-we-were-high-schoool-too reference!!!

I heart the new writerly additions to Stereogum. Woohoo to Jed and Jim!

Posted by: bex at 09/28/05 1:54 PM | Reply
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Let's not forget their lack of exclamation point after Wham!

Posted by: Edwin at 09/28/05 2:07 PM | Reply
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hey losers--stop criticizing stereogum writers and GET LIVES. it is not their duty to entertain you. if you don't like a certain post, TOUGH COOKIES. you should appreciate that they post at all. i wouldn't waste my time on you bunch of whiny babies.

Posted by: brad at 09/28/05 2:37 PM | Reply
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thread shift from the bitching:

Dungen last night was perhap the most impressive performance i've ever seen. anyone a fan of these guys?

Posted by: jar at 09/28/05 4:53 PM | Reply
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Note to stereogum: Quality, not quantity.
Posted by: jtb at September 28, 2005 12:33 PM

AMEN

Posted by: Annalea at 09/29/05 8:32 AM | Reply
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fuck MSNBC and their lack of proper music-writing. Art Garfunkel, Stu Copeland, and Andy Summers have all been active for years, albeit under the radar, since the breakups of their more popular projects. i hate it when people decide that a band is really only one person backed up by some other random dudes, because the whole is always greater than any individual part, let alone the sum of all of its parts. The Police wouldn't have been as good as they were without Copeland and Summers. While Paul Simon is a ridiculously talented man, there's something transcendent about the Simon and Garfunkel stuff; it goes to a place which even Simon's best solo material cannot reach.

re: Pitchfork, it's impossible not to be subjective when writing about something you love, and i understand that. but Pitchfork's reviewers are all about "me me me this album / band / song has to conform to MY expectations of it or it automatically SUCKS and no one should buy it." that's too much and it defeats the purpose of music criticism.

Posted by: mv at 09/29/05 11:34 AM | Reply
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Poor Andrew Ridgely. My friend Jared loves the man, and even has a zine dedicated to him. More info here: http://www.medioxcore.net/gmr/wham/

Posted by: Megan at 09/29/05 5:49 PM | Reply
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