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He says some really nice things about Vulture Whale that are all completely true.
on A Guide To All These Whale Bands at October 14, 2009 11:41 AMScore = 0
Uh fuck yes.
on New Baroness - "Swollen And Halo" at October 9, 2009 1:52 PMScore = 0
It's getting harder and harder to defend this guy. His bandmates are (or were) his friends and nice people; it sucks that he's talking shit about them now.
on Jay Reatard's Band Calls It Quits at October 6, 2009 12:12 PMScore = 0
Love that nasty guitar tone.
on St. Vincent Brings "Marrow" To Kimmel at September 3, 2009 12:06 PMScore = 1
And that was supposed to be in response to sufdub and asif. Be nice, you two.
In reply to exst's comment on Watch Jay Reatard Documentary Waiting For Something at August 7, 2009 7:10 PMScore = 0
I am an admitted Jay Reatard apologist; a lot of the comments I've posted here are about him. It's not because I'm obsessive or anything, but because Jay is pretty much the only musician that Stereogum follows about whom I have some sort of personal perspective. I grew up in the south and currently live in Memphis. I've interviewed Jay for my college radio station. I was standing next to the camera guy at the Record Store Day show at Goner. So there're my credentials, I guess.
I don't think either of you are wrong. Jay does tend to come of as antagonistic toward contemporary bands and even here paints a portrait of himself as an outsider (I don't know about martyr). However, it's my opinion that he does this because he IS an outsider, and reacts badly to being shoehorned in with a scene to which he has no real physical or emotional connection. Memphis is not Brooklyn or Portland or LA; it's a musical town by nature but there is no real indie scene here outside of a couple of good bars. Moreover—and I could be talking out of my ass here—the "scene" (and indie rock in general, at least since the early 90s) has been steered predominately by upper-middle-class, suburban white kids with easy access to a nurturing scene. I don't mean to denigrate that method; most of my favorite bands come from that background. Southern musicians, though, are almost by nature outsiders; I think that they tend to develop as artists in reaction to or dialogue with the region and all the tension that comes with it. This doc did a really good job of capturing that, I think.
Score = 4
I've interviewed Jay and he's actually very soft-spoken, polite, and intelligent. I think that he plays up the outsider fuck-everyone-else image for publicity, which punk bands have been doing for years anyway. No reason to get upset about it.
on Jay Reatard Vs Brooklyn at July 11, 2009 1:11 PMScore = 15
I want so badly for it to be them doing the tricks, but I realize it's pretty unlikely. In any case, it totally works. Dinosaur Jr. has my heart (and eardrums) forever.
In reply to Connor 's comment on New Dinosaur Jr. Video - "Over It" at June 6, 2009 3:01 AMScore = 5
I would almost certainly buy a next-gen console for this. So long, Dreamcast.
on The Beatles™: Rock Band™ Gets A Trailer™ at June 2, 2009 1:16 AMScore = 7
I've got a 20-minute or so interview with Jay that's just sitting on my hard drive. Do you guys want it?
on New Jay Reatard - "It Ain't Gonna Save Me" at May 28, 2009 10:39 AMScore = 0
I feel like it's funny if you don't think about it, which is surprisingly easy to do sometimes. But when you DO think about it, all the jokes are random and off-putting.
So....truce?
In reply to caractacus's comment on The Cleveland Show Is Going To Be Even Worse Than We Thought! at June 9, 2009 11:00 AMScore = 13
I have a friend who spent some time in Africa, and he has a ton of monkey stories. He woke up every morning to the sound of them fucking on his roof, and at one point his research partner got slapped in the face by one after offering it food.
on Monkeys Stage Car Hood Sex Show For Hysterical Teenagers at June 4, 2009 11:12 AMScore = 4
was that the Wilhelm Scream? Kinda sounded like a TIE fighter to me.
In reply to etc's comment on The Road Trailer Tries To carry The Fire at May 15, 2009 11:48 AMScore = 2
And that was supposed to be in response to sufdub and asif. Be nice, you two.
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