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QC Music Blog discussion thread
Dimmukane:
Chalk it up to me being lazy and running off of little sleep for the past several days then. I have this odd tendency to just suck at boarding when I'm exhausted. If you're telling the truth, which I'm pretty sure you are, then I need to go on a spree. I'd never even heard of the Dirty Three at all until that blog post, but apparently they're more popular than Low. I swear, I am so ass-backwards at this kind of thing. Apologies all. I still think there should be a little more variation in types of music reviewed, though.
Jackie Blue:
I'm not demanding that the blog change, and I was under the apparently false impression that the people reading it were different than they are.
I don't know why you say I'll never "like" anything written in the blog, though. Something can entertain me while still being full of information I already know. An example of this is Freaky Trigger. Tom writes about songs that are so universal they're part of the collective unconscious and I still find him consistently engaging, and the other writers on the site are usually just as good. Take this as an example:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/12/the-trouble-with-pop-avril-lavigne/
amok:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Dec 2007, 09:59 ---http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pop/2007/12/the-trouble-with-pop-avril-lavigne/
--- End quote ---
Well that certainly was a blow by blow account of an Avril Lavigne video.
This bit was good though.
--- Quote ---before hearing ‘My Humps’ I had no interest in Fergie or the Black Eyed Peas, I assumed they churned out mediocre R’n'B
--- End quote ---
tee hee
On a more constructive note, thanks to the blog and this thread for introducing me to Dirty Three, who I'm quite enjoying.
Jackie Blue:
I'm not asking you to change who you're writing about. When did I ever say that?
If criticism is unwelcome, perhaps this thread should be locked and deleted.
Jackie Blue:
I'm not asking you to stop writing the blog. I understand the blog's exisntance. At this point all I am saying is that I certainly could enjoy articles about Dirty Three and Polvo, were they written in a way that entertains me.
If the purpose of the blog is, as you state, merely to expose people to new music, then I think the posts should be more factual and less editorial. This is more in reference to Inlander's Dirty Three article than the Polvo one.
(And to use the argument "Lots of people like the blog, so it must be good" is the same logic that I was vilified for when saying "Lots of people like the Eagles, so they must be good". Pick one and stick with it, people! Either populist opinion matters or it doesn't.)
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