why british music journalism sucks
the adjective stonking, as in "a stonking version of...": whatthehell? i know it's supposed to be their language and everything, but jeez...
posted by stashdauber at 3:23 AM
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Me / My Bands Online
- my youtube channel
- dennis gonzalez legacy band intro remarks
- thoughts on trout mask replica guitar project
- further thoughts on trout mask replica guitar project
- trout mask replica track by track: dali's car
- trout mask replica track by track: sweet sweet bulbs
- katboy's stoogeaphilia archive
- hentai improvising orchestra on bandcamp
- hentai improvising orchestra violitionist session
- HIO on vimeo
- katboy's HIO archive
- katboy's pfffft! archive
- the occasionals on soundcloud
- mr. sincerity and the dirty lying bastards
Electronic Resume of My Writing
- david breskin interview
- robin sylar bio
- sonic's rendezvous band history
- ron asheton (stooges) interview
- james williamson (stooges) interview
- wayne kramer (mc5) interview
- dennis thompson (mc5) interview
- pat burrows (original mc5 bassist) interview
- robert quine (voidoids/lou reed) interview
- roy loney (flamin' groovies) interview
- marc zermati (skydog records) interview
- greg shaw interview
- mick farren interview
- nervebreakers interview
- latin express profile
- j.d. jimmerson iv profile
- ronald shannon jackson profile
- ronald shannon jackson remembrance
- hosea robinson obituary
- mike woodhull obituary
- gentlemen's bars
- wreck room stories: introduction
- wreck room stories: just the facts
- wreck room stories: brian forella
- wreck room stories: andre edmonson
- wreck room stories: carl pack
- my scrawl in the dallas observer
- my scrawl in the new york observer
- big ugly music: an oral history of the gideons
- haltom city nights: an oral history
- suiciety: an oral history
- bindle bio
- a little mumblety peg history
- the jazz heritage of i.m. terrell
- nick girgenti obituary
- jim yanaway obituary
- dennis gonzalez obituary
- charles buxton obituary
- b.d. trail
- requiescat
Inspirators
- poetry by b.d. trail
- b.d. trail
- b.d. trail's obituary
- mick farren's "complete" works
- charles shaar murray on guy stevens
- paul trynka
- josh alan friedman on tommy shannon
- josh alan friedman on keith ferguson
- david breskin
- greg tate in the village voice
- ethan iverson
- ethan iversion's jazz 1973-1990
- steve smith
- the test tube and the scale (john bargas)
- the upbeat deadbeat (max kutner)
Creative Friends
- meezlady
- jay hardesty
- heather harris
- chris plavidal
- jesse sierra hernandez
- jose serrato
- ashley akers
- frank campagna
- tom vincent
- patti haskins
Music I Dig
- deep purple mk I
- the who concert guide
- pete townshend's gear
- paul butterfield in blues access
- velvet underground
- frank zappa articles
- frank zappa gig list
- captain beefheart
- eric klerks
- max kutner
- android trio
- robert fripp
- john fahey in perfect sound forever
- john fahey tunings
- john fahey on bola sete
- renaldo and clara
- don cherry
- damon short's cecil taylor page
- paul tingen's miles beyond
- dennis gonzalez bandcamp
- kris davis
- pyroclastic records
- sculpting sound: 12 musicians encounter bertoia
- ra kalam bob moses
- satoko fujii
- joe mcphee
- ingebrigt haker flaten
- susan alcorn
- nervebreakers
- patrick flynn
- jim colegrove
- reggie rueffer
- goodwin audio
- matt hembree
- darrin kobetich
- johnny case
- stumptone
- sub oslo
- wire nest
- sarah ruth alexander
- molten plains
- bitches set traps
- elizabeth mcnutt
- sounds modern
- kory reeder
- deep listening
- new media contemporary
- trio du sang
- wendy eisenberg
- sandy ewen on bandcamp
- emily rach beisel
- gabby fluke-mogul
- laura ortman
- caroline davis
- zachary james watkins
- liquid sound company
- pere ubu
- craig bell
- craig bell on bandcamp
- tin huey
- chris butler
- half cleveland
- nick didkovsky
- doctor nerve on bandcamp (includes other didkovsky projects)
- catherine sikora
- marco oppedisano
- jeff mcleod
- the wire
- the wire's "100 most important records ever made"
- the wire's "100 records that set the world on fire"
- trouser press
- musician magazine
Previous Posts
- oh yeah...
- 11.1.2009, ftw
- BOO!
- cartoon trib to blue cheer's dickie peterson
- HIO stuff
- clash fans: get ready to fork over the dough
- cat builds instruments from turntables
- hey jude: the flow chart
- speaking of radio...
- radio dj's: the new buffalo?
1 Comments:
That's not a problem with British journalism; it's the perennial problem of slang that you don't know yet.
Reviews are one of the main ways that hipster talk gets mainstreamed. Even old fogies like us can figure out, after a while, whether "stonking" is positive or negative.
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