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For The Clash, there's no way Combat Rock is worse than Cut The Crap.
cut the crap would be the worst if it were a real Clash album
without Mick Jones, it really does not qualify.
For The Clash, there's no way Combat Rock is worse than Cut The Crap.
Like I said, I respect the guy as a writer, and his experience is certainly worth something. He does, however, certainly have a self-righteous, self-congratulatory streak as well. And it just simply is not convincing when you to try to use him as a buttress for your opinions because he is just one voice in a sea of experienced critics.
This community on the whole seems afflicted by some strange sort of anti-critical reverse-elitism syndrome.
This community on the whole seems afflicted by some strange sort of anti-critical reverse-elitism syndrome.
lazarus said:I wonder if LM also finds the Velvet Underground self-titled "going through the motions". After all, just a collection of pretty songs with little of the adventure found on the debut or White Light/White Heat.
I know we just agreed on something hi5 but this view really annoys me. I've seen the way you two post in the movie threads and I find it extremely off-putting.
I read critics' reviews of music just like we all do here but I'm completely with iYup on this one. You can make all the arguments you like about how exalted these big-name critics are, but in mine and many others' opinions, they're just critics, they're talking about things that are totally subjective and no amount of experience or whatever makes them objective writers.
This quote comes off as pretty elitist to me, ironically.
Either way, anyone who wants to seriously learn about, discuss and grow intellectually about a subject, even entirely subjective ones like art, should take critics seriously. Or at least respect the fact that the majority of the ones worth their salt know a hell of a lot more about what they're talking about than the average person, which itself is an objective fact. It doesn't make them right ever, but it unequivocally does make their opinion more relevant in the realm of discussion. There are plenty of people out there who write about art, music and film professionally whose writing can be incredibly valuable, and people who read it should know enough not to take their preferences as some smug elitist play at objectivity (though there is the occasional smug elitist asshole who gets paid to brand his opinions, but they're pretty obvious from far off).
Or at least respect the fact that the majority of the ones worth their salt know a hell of a lot more about what they're talking about than the average person, which itself is an objective fact.
Who (Quadrophenia, The Who Sell Out)
New Pornographers
Demon Days is probably second to Plastic Beach, but both albums have miserable back ends. Albarn really has no idea how to end an album.