>Yanqui U.X.O had no dramatic content
>if I use a bunch of big words and clumsy metaphors people will take me seriously, r-right guys?
>>66098447
Half of what scaruffi said has been fucking dumb
someone just post the ICP reviews.
A Collection of Glacial, Colorless Holograms with no Dramatic Content, Massive Black Holes that Emitted Dense, Buzzing Radiations
That's my new post rock band name
Another one, on Lift Your Skinny Fists, this is what he said.
>the spoken segments serve no purpose and detract from the overall project.
>>66098514
I mean that's true for the opening movement of Sleep
>>66098514
The spoken parts were the only thing that kept me awake while listening to that snoozefest
>>66098711
I don't necessarily agree. I think the purpose of that field recording is to introduce the tone of the track. It coveys emotion of loss of an innocent way of life, and general hopelessness.
#no
>>66098480
>thinking he writes the english reviews
>>66100118
he does sometimes
I've heard him speak english really well
>>66100118
he only writes english reviews.
>>66098447
>crescendocore
>dramatic
You must be the one that claps when a movie has a happy ending
>>66101117
he writes the reviews in italian, moron
people translate them to english for him
>>66098447
How is that a stupid thing to say? You forget Scaruffi's reviews are opinions based on how he felt while listening. You can't measure "dramatic content" on an objective scale
>>66098514
100% true
Spoken segments in GYBE are completely inorganic and over-the-top filler. Only edgy teenagers who can't derive meaning from instrumental music enjoy them.
>>66101159
nope, he stopped making italian reviews in 2001
you know nothing about scaruffi
>>66098447
>>66098480
>>66098482
he is right
Fuck that faggot. He ruined the Beatles for me.
Its literally impossible that he's hear every album he reviews. he probably never even listened to Godspeed.
>>66102737
How is it not possible? You can easily listen to 1000 albums in one year and I think Scaruffi has listened to about 6000?
>>66102737
I believe he's listened to them but he probably only gives each one a cursory listen while he does something else, and then immediately decides where it fits in his narrative of the history of rock music.
Don't forget he's like 60, more than 3x the average age on /mu/
>>66102363
The Beatles are shit. SHIT!!
>>66099930
>does already all the killing
a wordsmith
>>66098514
this is true
>>66102737
there are rym users with over than 30000 ratings
>>66105294
link one
>>66105562
Don't tell me what to do.
highlighted my favorite
>>66105657
lmao
>>66105657
>abovesaid
What did he mean by this?
>>66105657
>>66105815
hahahaha wtf
>>66102921
yeah if you want to just listen to each one once and forget about it in a week
>>66105657
Scaruffi wrote this? There is so much retardation it hurts.
scaruffi is a great resource for finding new music if you find yourself wanting something new to listen to. he's a contrarian through and through, but he has exposed me & a lot of both /mu/ and rym to some great albums
>>66105562
rateyourmusic.com/~magicsxxxxx
>>66105294
Even better, some guy already made it to the 100'000
>>66105562
Sp59
>>66102737
It's very, very doable. Just ask yourself how many albums have you heard in how much time and multiply it by how much older scaruffi is than you.
>>66105950
He's only a contrarian when it comes to Beatles though (and maybe beach boys).
>>66098514
The field recording in "Static" is GOAT, pal
>>66106064
>over 100,000 ratings
>most of his 5s are synthpop
Patrician desu
>>66106078
he has over 100,000 ratings and has rated some notoriously terrible albums well for being """"""experimental""""" or """""art"""""
this is coming from someone who by and large agrees with his taste and doesn't like GY!BE; he's a contrarian
>>66106187
is that actually him?
>>66106064
>all those fake ratings
>>66106267
I think it's possible to hear that much music by age 49, but you probably have to be single and from a wealthy family where you never have to work or do much of anything.
>>66105657
>portable foldable bicycles that fit in a backpack
Well yeah but it would still be just as heavy
>>66106078
>He's only a contrarian when it comes to Beatles though (and maybe beach boys).
He hates Bowie, Radiohead, Elvis, Bjork, Queen, Aphex Twin, Led Zeppelin, Prince, U2, and Black Sabbath too.
>>66106943
He doesn't, though. I actually remember him praising Led Zeppelin.
WHY
>>66107037
CAN'T
>>66105657
jesus christ
and people here take his reviews seriously
>>66098484
That is an amazing post
>Autobahn (1974) finally abandoned any intellectual pretense and laid the foundations of disco-pop, but now their operation of "black exploitation" was not all that different from what Presley and the Beatles had done: 1. take black music, 2. remove the provocative elements, 3. enhance it with modern technology, 4. and turn it into easy-listening music for the white masses.
There are multiple genres of "black" music that would not exist without Kraftwerk.
>>66107236
Holy shit dude I was just about to post that
>>66106943
>He hates Bowie
not true, he gave two of Bowie's albums a 7.5/10 which basically means "very good" for him. he doesn't hate Bowie, he just thinks he's overrated, but he acknowledges that he has made some great albums.
>Radiohead
also not true, Amnesiac is on his best of the 2000s list
>Elvis
most sane people know that Elvis sucks
>Bjork
true, I have to disagree with him on that one.
>Queen
Queen is mainly a singles band rather than an album band so that's why he doesn't give them high scores. I'm pretty sure he put Bohemian Rhapsody on his best of list for the year it came out.
>Aphex Twin
not true, he praised Syro
>Led Zeppelin
dunno about this one
>Prince
he gave Purple Rain a good score
>U2, and Black Sabbath too.
don't know about these two
tl;dr: you don't know what you're talking about
>>66107673
björk has 2 7s and 2 6.5s by Scaruffi
>>66107673
>he doesn't hate Bowie, he just thinks he's overrated
Well that's what I meant by hate. Bands he thinks are overrated are usually bands he doesn't like. Him praising 1 or 2 albums from an artist does not mean he likes the artist. Actually read his bios instead of only looking at his ratings.
on Radiohead:
>"Radiohead, the most hyped and probably the most over-rated band of the decade, upped the ante for studio trickery."
>"Radiohead are masters of the artificial. Their parable crowns a long tradition in British rock music of putting form before content, of concentrating on "sound" to the expense of "music"."
>"Radiohead's career has been one long bluff and it gets harder and harder for them to disguise it."
on Bowie:
>"David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them)"
>"Bowie's "masterpieces", works that were manufactured ad hoc (by the greatest rock communicator ever) to induce intellectual excitement (to disorient) in order to hide what little substance the music had."
>"One of the most over-rated artists of his generation, David Bowie could have spared himself the embarrassing prophecy of "Never Get Old": as a matter of fact, he was born old."
>"...Bowie remains a second-rate vocalist singing second-rate pop for a second-rate audience."
The only time he praised Bowie was for his early 90's material:
>"Surprisingly, he resurrected his career in the 1990s with a trio of experimental works that suddenly showed he had become a musician, not just the pretense of being a musician.
>"...and he was briefly a real musician (no, not the collaborations with Brian Eno, but the mid 1990s)"
tl;dr: you don't know what you're talking about
>>66108438
I've read all of that before.
Thinking a band is overrated =/= hating that band.
>>66105657
at least he's right about coltan and like nobody ever speaks about that
>>66107673
>he gave two of Bowie's albums a 7.5/10
he only gave a 7.5 to Heroes
>>66108690
Scaruffi gave the Beatles two 7/10 scores, but we all know he hates them. He hates Elvis. He hates the Beatles. He hates Bowie. He hates Radiohead. Just accept it. He probably doesn't hate all the bands he thinks are overrated, but you know damn well he hates the those 4 artists based upon the vitriolic tone of his bios on them.
>>66108907
and we all know he gave sgt peppers a 7 because it's circus music
>>66105657
>Zero carbon zero waste citizens
How in the fuck would that work, especially since he points to not wanting
>Genetically engineered babies
Make up your mind scaruffo,
>>66102363
>Letting someone ruin The Beatles for you
Who fucking care's what some assholes on the internet think, The Beatles are amazing even if they're far from the best. I'd give all of their albums at least a 5/10
>>66108907
A 7.5 is s great rating from Scsruffi m8. He might br vitriolic, but that's to emphasize that they're not as great as other people say iho.
>>66104556
I mean, you could word it like that
It's not necessarily 'wrong'
the contrarianism continues
>>66106187
>#no
>>66098514
>m-muh beaches muh feels
Hes right desu, a lot of albums would be better without that style of interlude. SOTL is the worst offender
>>66106635
i was looking through his .5s and he has almost every Deerhoof release under it including EPs, live albums, and splits
so he either went out of his way to listen to a massive amount of music he knew he wouldn't like or they're fake
How has nobody posted this yet?
>>66109527
this made me cringe
>>66109459
>likes Andy Stott
He's okay in my book
>ranks himself as one of the greatest poets
>check out his poetry
>it reads like as if a teenager wrote it
>>66109459
>didn't deserve the hype
>Car Seat Headrest
>Radiohead
>White Lung
edgy teens BTFO
>>66110206
scaruffi is a complete idiot with a superiority complex so who really has been BTFO here
>>66102921
>>66105294
True, but look at all the other stuff he does. He's not at home all day listening to and reviewing albums.
If he really has done all of this he is one of the greatest men alive regardless of a lot of the stupid shit he has said
>>66110288
You, actually.
>>66110815
no you
>>66110567
He's also like 70 years old, so he's been listening to music for much longer than rym avant-teens
>>66099930
no guns manlet italian.
>>66102363
cuck that lets no guns manlet italians decide their music taste for them.
>>66109527
Lol scaruffi thinks he's important
>>66105657
holy fuck.
>>66109527
He's right you know
>>66109527
"the critic is the real artist" may be a bit hyperbolic but other than that he is 100% correct
>>66108438
>"Radiohead's career has been one long bluff and it gets harder and harder for them to disguise it."
After AMSP this should be accepted as true
>>66107673
>not true, he gave two of Bowie's albums a 7.5/10
He also gave two Beatles albums a 7/10.
>>66105657
His point about self-driving cars is correct, though.
The fact that he reviewed Boards Of Canada albums that never made it to the public
>>66099930
looooool
