Come back Simon Reynolds all is forgiven

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Come the 21st century, however, and the mainstream began to congeal into a certain beige perma-blandness, neither soulful or soulless, semi-tasteful, efficient pop fare made by capable, acceptable sorts, a music rich in everything but inspiration.

Oh good grief...

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[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

That is a much more nuanced point than the one he is making though! ("Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone / I don't like Lily Allen very much")

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Stevie T pointed out on Twitter that I make a lot of the same points as Stubbs in this piece:

http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/6716-poptimist-9/

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, I think this is kind of what he's getting at with his "the real story is at the margins where Sunn O live"

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I think the Lex hit the nail on the thread over on the Quietus ILM thread, chiefly:

"how you can write an article like that and not even get anywhere near to the real story of the decade i have no idea - that it's not any genre that's dying, it's the music industry, and that the tabloidism and default to conservatism of pop recently is a consequence of that."