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Neutral Milk Hotel is...scholarly?
Hat:
Honestly, how many of you have read the whole thing? I only ask because that galling first sentence and the ridiculous title aside, it doesn't read too badly. It's well structured and isn't particularly obfuscatory in the way it's written. My only problem with it, and this might be because it was edited down, but it really doesn't leave you with the impression of having understood the album any better for having read it, which as I understand, is the point of this whole fancy academic writing business the kids are talking about lately. (In the arts anyway).
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Feb 2009, 07:05 ---But does its prevalence in academia make clumsy writing acceptable?
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No; but you still learn to dissociate the style from the content, particularly when the purple prose is mainly concentrated in a beginning intended to impress.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: el_loco_avs on 04 Feb 2009, 05:25 ---
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 04 Feb 2009, 02:39 ---Well the 15-20 other music forusm I've been on would beg to differ. Quite apart from, 'officially?' Where are you getting that from?? Even in quotation marks I'm doubting your sources.
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'officially' was meant as 'multiple magazines say' :-)
A quick look on wikipedia:
Nude as the News U.S. The 100 Most Compelling Albums of the 90s 1999 #3
Magnet U.S. Top 60 Albums, 1993-2003 2003 #1
Pitchfork Media U.S. Top 100 Albums of the 1990s 2003 #4
"It is currently ranked as the 53rd greatest album of all time on Rate Your Music"
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This might be just because they're American, but I've never heard of either Nude or Magnet (who does a top 60 anyway? 100 or 50, yeah, maybe even 75, but 60???). And as for Pitchfork, Lord knows if you just sing out of tune and have shitty production you'll probably have a 10.0. To be fair, I've never listened to this album, but that's because I can't stand all the wank written about it on this board.
Dimmukane:
True Fact: I have not listened to the entire album. I listened to a couple songs (including Two-Headed Carrot Sister or whatever), decided "this probably could've been on the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack" and haven't listened to it since.
Cernunnos:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 04 Feb 2009, 10:27 ---To be fair, I've never listened to this album, but that's because I can't stand all the wank written about it on this board.
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To be fair, that's an attitude that will close you off to a lot of good music. People actually praise things that are worthwhile quite often, believe it or not. Even hipsters. Either way, if you haven't listened to it, it's not really fair to complain about it, or even complain about the praise it is given. how would you know if any of us should praise it profusely or not? Quite honestly, none of us should; it's good, but not anywhere near that good, but that's beside the point. Green Eggs and Ham, man.
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