Flamethrowers At The Ready (tickets, hip-hop, pop, George Harrison, American)

NSW · 04-17-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

The Rolling Stone is an awful awful awful magazine desperately trying to stay hip and relevant by championing some of the most banal crap ever. They're the only magazine I know besides crap like Alternative Press that would give Fall Out Boy critical acclaim.

To get off topic for a sec, can you recommend a GOOD music magazine?

I don't care for Jay-Z myself, but it does seem like Noel's comments were a little on the prejudiced side.

sleepy jack · 04-17-2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

To get off topic for a sec, can you recommend a GOOD music magazine?

I read Under the Radar and like it alot. I also read Stylus which is pretty good. Harp and Uncut are also decent. On a more popular note SPIN is okay except when they start talking about Paramore. I guess Paste would be okay too if they weren't so generic and their writers weren't a bunch of tasteless assholes.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-17-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

I don't care for Jay-Z myself, but it does seem like Noel's comments were a little on the prejudiced side.

Are they really though?

He's commenting on Glastonbury , I mean your average Glastonbury attendent is either a middle class NME reading student or crusty hippies. Hardly a hotbed of Hip Hop action.

~~Farfisa~~ · 04-17-2008, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

The Rolling Stone is an awful awful awful magazine desperately trying to stay hip and relevant by championing some of the most banal crap ever. They're the only magazine I know besides crap like Alternative Press that would give Fall Out Boy critical acclaim.

Well thats what's hip right now and making false claims to bring in more readers is more important to them right now then good music.

sleepy jack · 04-17-2008, 01:46 PM

So then my Kooks assessment was correct. In that case I agree with him, he never once criticizes Jay-Z as an artist he just says it was a bad move on the organizers part and seeing as it didn't sell out as usual that's hardly a statement I'd object to.

sweet_nothing · 04-17-2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by pheurton

Yes, Noel is just a bigot.

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

I don't care for Jay-Z myself, but it does seem like Noel's comments were a little on the prejudiced side.

How is Noel being racist? Maybe he just thinks Jay-Z sucks & has nothing to do with his skin color.

Davey Moore · 04-17-2008, 04:01 PM

Noel is like the model for arrogant musician who isn't as good as he thinks. I mean yeah, some of his songs I think are excellent, but he isn't a genius, therefore he isn't warranted to spout off any opinion he wishes to. He acts like an elder statesman of Rock, but he totally isn't.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-17-2008, 04:34 PM

Not even at a festival he's headlined & sold out twice?

pheurton · 04-17-2008, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

How is Noel being racist? Maybe he just thinks Jay-Z sucks & has nothing to do with his skin color.

Yeah, and Morrissey is the epitome of comme il faut.

NSW · 04-17-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

How is Noel being racist? Maybe he just thinks Jay-Z sucks & has nothing to do with his skin color.

I didn't say he was being racist...I said he was being prejudiced. Prejudicial in that he assumes it's because of Jay-Z that tickets sales were down, whether it be because he's black, or hip-hop, or American, or whatever the case may be. It didn't seem like he had anything to back it up other than coincidence.

But Urban brought up a good point, in that I don't know anything about the location where the concert is being held, or the type of people that live there, so I could be speaking out of turn. I was just calling it how I saw it.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Not even at a festival he's headlined & sold out twice? __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.