why is this guy a meme?
Because his taste is awful.
>>60987262
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
>>60987282
Nice pasta
>>60987246
I have no idea man, only learned about him last night despite occasionally browsing mu for 6 months now. He seems like a autistic narcissistic virgin.
because everything is a meme is more that two people know about it
>>60987316
is deaf grapes a meme?
>>60987355
them dubs are a meme
Because he defined the taste of intellectuals for generations to come.
>>60987300
Naw he's a womanizer
i remember about a decade ago on here no one gave a shit about these "music critics"
>>60987246
What's that Italian pop song that was his SOTY a few years back?
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" band ever only tells you how far music still is from becoming a serious art. critics have long recognized that the greatest musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. critics grow up listening to a lot of music of the past, critics grow up listening to a lot of music of the past. critics are often totally ignorant of the music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of criticism: critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
>>60987592
DALE
Because his opinions are terrible, and his tweets are r/iamverysmart material. He tends to mostly give good scores to avant-garde stuff.
>>60987756
>browsing Reddit
>expecting to have an opinion that has worth
>>60987756
has he given any good scores to some dope ass avant garde new metal?
>>60987810
Lana Del Rey - Ultravoilence
>>60987810
pyrhhon is the most recent thing that got an 8 in metalland
>Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 1985-92 (1992) and Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) were experiments in ambient house and abstract electronic/concrete composition. They were childish and antiquated (and perhaps a joke on music critics), but they increased James' reputation, making him the first star of ambient house.
He's a pedo and a autistic contrarian, in other words the average /mu/tant
>>60987932
syro is a 7 and SAWV II is a 6.5 to him, not that bad
>>60987932
>childish
