Controv!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here are some links that may entertain or aggravate ya!

(If you read my tumblr or Lex's LJ you'll have seen them)

What hath Popism wrought?: critics being nice to albums - WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP.

Right Music Wrongs: popism means that the righteous anger of the people against bad music must now be outsourced to corporations like Virgin Mobile Australia.

Simon Reynolds on 'wonky': a losing move in the game of genre jenga, sez Lex (and many others)

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

*How* old is most of the music on the Right Music Wrongs website? Are they saying that crimes against music are less frequent now, or, indeed, since c.1990? Well hell, that sounds like a straight-up rebuttal of Wyman's thesis right there, doesn't it?

I find the idea that encouraging greater levels of thought and complexity around criticism leads to weaker and more supine reviews to be, frankly, arse. Not just a straw man, a straw legion.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

The reason they are virtually all old records, I think, is that the test of time has been settled - the critics have agreed these are crap records. Frankly there are none I'd really want to defend in the top ten, but if the best things you can find to attack are those, you are wasting your time.