the first one

You’re ignoring most of his arguments

12 year old girls?

A whole album of stuff like that and Because would have been really cool.

I don’t care for any of them. Negative art criticism like that is useless. That is now widely considered a copy pasta meme that no one takes seriously and will be long after he’s gone.

both in my top 10 all time so it's chill

Oh yeah an hour and 12 minutes runtime is pretty long for the 60s I guess

Thanks Ruffi for putting me onto Scraping Foetus and Lisa Germano but I’m good with the hot takes.

You must not have heard yellow submarine soundtrack it's all too much

With a 14 min song ending it

got em

I mean a “real” album

MMT is an ep as was the yellow submarine soundtrack

But you’re right cause Only a northern song is the type of s*** I was talking about

With your meeeerrrrrrrrrrrccuuuuryyyy mouth

It’s edgy but I think it’s a good point that doesn’t apply to the Beatles tho which ruins what he wrote cause it makes him sound edgy

_ 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.
In a sense, __ are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena 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, most 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.

i would say it's near impossible to be truly original these days

dont mind either, good music is good music

speaking of old scaruffi, has anyone else ever read his poetry?

this reminds me we always think of befly with the "eating his own j*** thing" but you can't forget the natalie portman in Leon the Professional s*** he was on

The funniest part about that article is the paragraph at the top where he claims it's won international awards for being the best article ever written about the Beatles. like what?

What did he say?

I guess it’s bad for the Beatles to be successful but not for him lol

dont quite remember the whole thing just that he said she was cute or something. she was like 13

"Captain Beefheart is the most important musician to rise in the Sixties, far more significant and far-reaching than the Beatles; as important for all music as Ornette Coleman was for jazz, as Leadbelly was for the blues."
Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

wonder how Lester and Piero would have gotten along

he called her sexy if I recall correctly