Son vaults ahead of father by joining the select grouping of music critics who have had diss songs aimed at them by aggrieved musicians.
In this case, the wounded ones rather disingenuously claim that "this song is about the modern American music critic, not about one single person, and any resemblance between the characters in this video and any persons, living or dead, is their own problem" - oh yeah, pull the other one, you start the video with screenshots of the measly score he gave your record.
(Funnily enough I rather enjoyed the Callahan & Witscher record Think Differently).
Still waiting for an inverted-tribute like this to happen to me, although I did get gently piss-took in this Saint Etienne advertisement, which delighted me (although I'd still rather have been in a Saint Et song like Joe Dilworth and Simon Price were)
Here's some new Kieran - a piece for Mixed Feelings on "Rollywood" - TV soap operas and full-length movies made using Roblox.
This is a sad and pathetic decline from J.J. and Jet kidnapping journos and tying them naked to chairs.
ReplyDeleteReally? I thought J. J. merely punched Jon Savage.
DeleteWell, at 2:08 they say something like "you're the old man staring out at sea", so maybe it is aimed at a generalized, Older Rock Critic.
ReplyDeleteFunny video. I like them. However, it's impossible to unpeel the layers of irony in it. I don't know if I'm supposed to feel embarrassed or proud or simply laugh about-- or, y'know, like, *all of the above*-- about the appearance of a few books I own showing up in the opening seconds.
From the review: “'Long Drive' rolls and pops with the unwieldy bounce of a monster truck in a cartoon" is very, very good.
That is very funny. It's a pretty select group of critics who have been targeted personally by diss tracks. Robert Christgau, Mick Wall, Bob Guccione Jr - all named. Mat Snow - not named, but made obvious. And is 'Mere Pseud Mag Ed' about Paul Morley?
ReplyDeletePete Townshend wrote a song about Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons.
DeleteRobin Hitchcock did a song called "The Lonesome Death of Ian Penman", not sure if the Soft Boys ever recorded it.
Crass had a song that referenced Garry Bushell and Tony Parsons.
More generalized swipes would include Adam and the Ants's "Press Darlings" and Gary Numan "Me I Disconnect from You".
Not sure who "Mere Pseud Mag Ed" is aimed at....
Always wondered who inspired - who ired - Kev Rowland to spit out "There, There My Dear". Unclear if it's a journo or another musician....
and that gig where Sid and Wobble went at Nick Kent with a bike chain and knife
ReplyDeleteNot a song, though.
DeleteThere are plenty of examples of non-artistic responses to bad reviews - one angry band left a load of maggots on the front desk of Melody Maker, another arranged for a fish to be delivered to the office after a live slagging and said fish was placed on a radiator, so the whole office stunk out.
Platypus (I Hate You) by Green Day rejoices in the impending death of Maximum Rock n Roll founder Tim Yohannon
ReplyDeleteThat's not very nice. What was their grievance? Being accused of being namby pamby sell-outs?
DeleteThe one that i remember best is when The Cure recorded 'Desperate Journalist' during their second Peel Session in '79 and changed the lyrics of "Grinding Halt' to fire back at Paul Morley's bad review of Three Imaginary Boys. Robert incorrectly attributes the review to Ian Penman in the lyrics but the text is word-for-word from Morley's review.
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