Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments
Bonnaroooo. I’ve already booked my plane tickets and am looking forward to seeing “Weird Al” for the first time. Maybe of some of you are too. The Tennessee fest’s lineup reveal was our most popular post in a week that also brought a new tune from Phoenix, reviews of Atoms For Peace and Nick Cave, beefs between Moz and Staples Center and Patrick Carney and Justin Bieber fans, and anniversary celebrations of the Postal Service’s Give Up and Radiohead’s Pablo Honey. We picked Moz’s 10 best songs (and cat photos) and ranked Björk’s discography. Plus, Billy Corgan was in a furniture commercial. Hopefully you enjoyed some of those stories. Relive the best and worst responses to them below.
THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
#10 | Kevin Broydrick | Feb 15th | Score:22 | |
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#9 | Tom Breihan | Feb 20th | Score:24 | |
Yes. |
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#8 | Alex Sobel | Feb 17th | Score:24 | |
Now all of those times that I reflexively check Stereogum on the weekends won’t be pointless! |
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#7 | Jarrod Grimm | Feb 18th | Score:26 | |
I can only imagine if the Keys hadn’t won anything Carney would have denounced the Grammy’s as some big label backpatting festival. But since they won “Grammy’s are for music”. Wasn’t this the same guy who blasted Nickelback last year or so? Talk about easy targets. Get over yourself Pat |
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#6 | Matthew Marvin Lingo | Feb 18th | Score:27 | |
They are humans that exist, so you’re right about that one. |
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#5 | Michael_ | Feb 19th | Score:31 | |
Yes, we’ve decided to put on our own festival instead. djfreshie |
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#4 | Taylor Adams | Feb 18th | Score:32 | |
First Nickleback, then Justin Bieber. Wow, the black keys are so bold. Why do they constantly feel threatened by pop bands with completely different demographics. Even if I think they’re right, this is a fucking pathetic waste of time and energy. Who cares about Bieber, if you want make edgy statements do it do your musical peers. Picking on trailer park bands or 14 year old loved pop stars is the equivalent of Christopher Nolan criticizing the writers of The Wiggles for not having enough plot development; it just makes him look like an idiot. Patrick Carney, i’m not even completely sold on you as being more than mediocre stadium rock. And when you do shit like this, it just makes you look like a cocky retard. |
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#3 | David Mania Worthington | Feb 19th | Score:39 | |
Downvote this if you don’t like it. |
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#2 | ‘ChrisMason’ Mason | Feb 18th | Score:53 | |
Bieber is looking more and more like my aunt’s “life partner”. |
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#1 | dbr | Feb 18th | Score:73 | |
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THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS
#5 | Daniel Warren | Feb 18th | Score:-12 | |
The way I understand it, Carney was a cool kid in high school, Auerbach a nerd. The irony being them teaming up to do Rubber Factory, a cool revivalist record in its own right. Seeing Carney act like this, though, reminds of his roots, as a cool kid. Cool kids are generally like these PR masterminds, good at making fun of different people, creating mini campaigns if you will, that demean their target. Seems like Carney’s just being a popular kid who’s donned cooler glasses and pseudo-thriftstore designer threads. And now he has Twitter, and the world to entertain, instead of prom, a flyer and his high school student body. Oh well. |
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#4 | hophead | Feb 19th | Score:-14 | |
Sadly, it happens to every songwriter at some point. After King of Limbs and now this, I’m afraid that Thom Yorke doesn’t write as good of songs as he used to. |
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#3 | TheWastelander | Feb 18th | Score:-18 | |
You can definitely tell dubstep blew up over the past few years. |
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#2 | Joe Weber | Feb 20th | Score:-25 | |
cool story bro |
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Posted in: Give Up Turns 10 |
#1 | David Mania Worthington | Feb 19th | Score:-41 | |
Upvote this if you like it. |
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THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (SCOTT)
Rob Casper | Feb 19th | Score:5 | ||
insert your typical “the audacity of jack white, his dapper suits and his depression-era victrolas” joke – but in all seriousness, i can’t think of many other people who have championed the indie record store more than he has. he’s had enough faith in the idea of the record store by opening his own, and he’s constantly trying to reinvent the physical music product as something worth holding in your hands. as someone who spent much of my youth in a long-defunct music store in my hometown, and still feel a certain amount of giddiness walking around one of those stores still lucky enough to still stand, i’ve got no problem with crowning him ambassador. |
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Posted in: Jack White Named Ambassador Of Record Store Day 2013 |
THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (AMRIT)
rubberjohnny0829 | Feb 20th | Score:-1 | ||
fuck you guys. daniel tosh is the funniest comedian of the last decade |
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[Editor’s Note: The Platonic Ideal of a terrible comment. RubJohn, you got the gift.]