Album Rating: 3.5

“can you give some examples?“



The most recent example is P4K’s review of the new Foo Fighters. The FF does seem boring but the dude writing actively wants hard rock to die. Anytime a rock or metal band tries to go somewhat mainstream P4K shits all over it. Most mainstream hard rock is bad but the condescension it gets from outlets like P4K is still infuriating

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

I think it's just like guitar music is kinda folding into a more niche genre to be appreciated and performed by increasingly middle class people and like I dunno, I guess as Simon Reynolds has said, it's always been obsessed with it's past even way back to like The Beatles but it feels increasingly as I've got older the audience for these kinds of bands are kids who it's their first time hearing this kinda music and think it's amazing and like middle aged guys who wish they were kids again and it feels like it makes everything get caught in this stasis where nothing really new or exciting can happen.



I saw like a hype band (Who crashed and burned) who shall remain unnamed a few years ago at one of their smaller shows and it was the absolute most fucking embarrassing thing you've seen but there was all these dads down the front loving it.



Couple that with the fact like I think one of BCNR's Dads is in like a fairly prominent 90s band and like it just feels like very not punk rock and that the opportunity for like working class kids to break into this kind of level of the industry is completely vanishing and the people with a platform who could do something about it are just championing stuff from their inner circle.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/foo-fighters-medicine-at-midnight/

is this the article you're talking about? so i can read it for myself

Album Rating: 2.5

brilliant review

Album Rating: 3.5

@parksungjoon yes that’s the one

@park RYM has a tendency to overrate releases that aren't very notable. Cheekface had above a 3.3 at one point, and that's pretty generous by their standards. Not to mention Microphones last year almost hitting a 4 with a snoozefest to show for it.

Album Rating: 1.5

pos'd

Album Rating: 1.5

to channel my inner zak *clears throat*



private art school wank punk

Not nearly enough references to when he was but a young lad

Album Rating: 3.0

It’s no TDAG

Album Rating: 2.5

sputnik has a tendency to overrate releases that aren't very notable

Album Rating: 2.0

everyone has bad taste except me

>but the dude writing actively wants hard rock to die.

cant say i got that impression at all. i'd say the writer did a good job of straddling the line between telling people like me that it's completely uninteresting assembly line music while also conveying the idea of "this sure is a foo fighters album and if you happen to enjoy that you'll probably like it"

>Anytime a rock or metal band tries to go somewhat mainstream P4K shits all over it.

i never put any stock in the publication, but a brief skim over some of the other things the same author wrote for them doesn't really feel that way to me. and further i'm not sure how this connects to foo fighters who have never not been mainstream

>Most mainstream hard rock is bad but the condescension it gets from outlets like P4K is still infuriating

why be infuriated at someone else's opinion

>RYM has a tendency to overrate releases that aren't very notable.

i would say that happens both less often and to a lesser degree than it does here if im being honest, but you and i may well be looking at entirely different genres

"everyone has bad taste except me"

that's what I've been saying!

niec dig bro

The food fighters

Reading this review: this seems like a projection
Reading the comments: oh it is

Album Rating: 4.5

yep lol this is the kind of pseudo-intellectual spaff you get from some 1st year philosophy student

Ulcerate thread part 2? Is it time?