"infectious edginess"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

*does a sick*

can i hear some vitriol, please!

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think a news article on "holy crap these things are selling a lot!" is possibly the wrong place to look for vitriol. Comfort yourself with debating whether they've deliberately chosen photos that make Powter & Blunt look like they've been hit in the face by a 2x4, or possibly that they look like that all the time anyway.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Where exactly is the line drawn, is Madonna a singer-songwriter? Is Prince? Andrew W.K.?

And whither Dido? Airbrushed from history, it would appear.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i tried here http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6478250

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Madonna and Prince are nowhere near boring enough to be singer-songwriters. I saw a TV ad the other day for some acoustic comp that was full of these bastards. Also there is a HILARIOUS David Gray TV ad - "Can't think of anything to buy with your record tokens?", pretty much acknowledging that he is music for people who don't much like music. I hate them all.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

There's a big advert for the new David Gray on the platform at Hammersmith station, with a quote from some newspaper:

"As a songwriter, David Gray has no peers."


which I completely misread the first time as :

"As a songwriter, David Gray has no penis."


I stand by my initial interpretation.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i think i mainly just don't understand why people would voluntarily listen to these...awful singer-songwriters. i mean, i think i do understand, but i would like an explanation which doesn't lead to the inescapable conclusion that most people are boring cunts, as i don't think that's a particularly good perspective to have on humanity.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the thing is i have no problem with 'singer-songwriters'! i think they are a superior form to, say, Boys Wiv Guitars. but THESE singer-songwriters? a pox on them all.

was this that compilation by any chance? my god it looks beyond dreadful. 'explicit lyrics'... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ARG25K/qid%3D1131036096/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5F1/026-1032176-3390068)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

That's the one - 5 or 6 tracks out of 38 I don't hate. Aren't most of these people Boys Wiv Guitars too?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

BOTH HORRORS IN ONE, AARGH!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

sorry for doing the ilx "been there" thing, but http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?showall=true&msgid=6261781#6321418