From Darren Keast Sent Wed, May 19th 1999, 21:43
From Darren Keast Sent Wed, May 19th 1999, 21:43
All right, this isn't directly iDM, but man, for those who hate bloated rock criticism, you gotta read The Rock Critical List. It's a massive rant of jaded hatred for pop music writing that was submitted under pseudonym to the major music rags of the world. The copy I came across was ironically on the Spin site (it totally harpoons their biggest writers.) http://www.spin.com/poplife/koolthing/art%2D19990326%2Dkoo1/page2.html Most of it's aimed at rock and pop writing, but the writer takes one swing at The Wire: THE MY-AREN'T-WE-SMART-BOYS-WITH-OUR-TOYS? AWARD: Of course, it's the British trainspotter's catechism THE WIRE, a monthly logjam of the most defensively arrogant, humorously dense, and gleefully school-marmish verbiage (David Toop excepted) you'll hopefully never encounter in any other music magazine. After institutionalizing the annoying Euro catchphrase "electronica," lapping up everything DJ Spooky ever mumbled, and trashing rock-damaged Americans for not inducting Lamonte Young into the Baseball Hall of Fame, they just keep on droning. Special shout-out to distressed beat-writers Peter Shapiro and Kodwo Eshun (who repeatedly express disgust over the lack of critical appreciation for the music they adore): If your prose skills ever remotely approached your passion for the sounds in question, then we could chat. Until then, take your banal hyperbole and sod off.