Re: (313) Rave betty Barbie and DJ Ken/music journalism

2000-04-15 Thread Blair McBride
what bothers me about so much music journalism is how misguided and generally stupid it is. it tries to force everything into a lame post-modern perspective whereby EVERYTHING MUST BE categorized somehow and all descriptions of x track are supposed to sum up the music perfectly by using lots

Re: (313) Rave betty Barbie and DJ Ken/music journalism

2000-04-15 Thread GGeeta22
Agreed. My primary complaint with most music journalism is that it's simply boring, and generally poorly informed. For all the aspersions cast in his direction by members of this list, I at least think Simon Reynolds is at least interesting to read (even thoughe he is eminently disagreeable,