"who remembers when toby driver dissed sputnikmusic"
What did he say?

"Actually, I disagree about Sputnikmusic. At least with Pitchfork, there's *some* standard of quality in the writing, editing and research (i.e. journalism). I'm sure people have to submit writing samples and prove they have some kind of command over expressing themselves on the page, before they're hired to publish super-influential, potentially career-altering dicta on the internet. Sputnikmusic is just a schoolyard of trolls reviewing each other's painfully navel-gazing excuses for reviews; it's basically a huge circle jerk tantamount to a more nicely-designed Youtube comments section. Sites like Sputnikmusic and Rateyourmusic are good for helping people discover new bands, but they really do serve to bulwark this cult of the amateur in a pretty nauseating way. =)"

Nice. My only problem is the Pitchfork part tbh, those people have no standards.

Based af Toby.

Album Rating: 4.0

I said he was a lovely dude just a bit goth too which he screenshotted and all the comments on FB where slating sput hahha i was being nice too dammit

You weren't even lying about the goth part.

Album Rating: 2.5

wah

Obviously he's spent some time lurking

Driver is reading this thread right now.

he made a bunch of alts to 5 this yea

Album Rating: 4.0

Toby is a Sowing alt

I am Toby Driver.

AMA.

Album Rating: 4.0

Toby Driver bemoaning an amateur music fan reviews site for being an amateur fan reviews site seems a bit mean spirited and prissy.



Also, he seems to get way more worship and indeed any sort of attention here than anywhere else.



Seems a plummy twerp in a Reservoir Dogs get up (on this album anyway) but he does drop the occasional plummy voiced anthem.



And he allows Alex to rate some 'current pop music' over a 2.5 for which he should be knighted.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

He can’t think it’s all bad, he shared this review on his FB page, and I remember seeing a quote from my Madonnawhore review for the online press release for this.

He’s probably not about the trolling and goofier side of the site from people who want to mess around and cause trouble.

It’s made me apprehensive at times telling people about my role here and what they might see if they visit the homepage haha

I've seen him bemoan a review about Madonnawhore, but I also remember the review saying something about creativity or something, which...come on, man.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

He posted something about how generally there’s misinformation about the album credits online and seeing that in coverage of Madonnawhore, and it was more official sites than this for the most part that had those small mistakes.

Driver is just mad because of the Gamma Knife review mentioning "free-jazz wankery".

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm pretty mad about that too.

Same. Not pretty, just mad. The (now gone) Art of Life review mentioning Xenakis though, now that annoyed me a bit more.