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He's very smart. He's also very jaded.

  On 12/21/2012 at 4:50 PM, LimpyLoo said:

He's very smart. He's also very jaded.

He's jaded, but not too jaded. And he's old enough that he talks about stuff that not many other people are touching on (or even remember). It would be unbearable if every video was like the Disintegration Loops one, but you can tell he really loves music. The episodes on Highlife, Boy George and Duran Duran are outstanding.

we should petition him to do an IDM episode. He's a huge Farmers Manual fan.

He's well-read on music and his videos are engrossing.

Can anyone think of anything comparable? Any other stand-out music video blogs ("vlogs")?

  On 12/21/2012 at 6:07 PM, LimpyLoo said:

He's well-read on music and his videos are engrossing.

 

 

Can anyone think of anything comparable? Any other stand-out music video blogs ("vlogs")?

It's not that he's just well read on music. Like Lucy says, he's someone who has actually lived close to the pop music world since the mid 80s. He's very obviously jaded about his writing career and how he believes music magazines are just extensions of advertising, but it's obvious he's a genuine music lover. I love the episode about Lollapalooza where he explains how he taped MTV's 120 minutes (since he wasn't allowed to stay up that late) and recorded the audio on casette so that he could listen to it while mowing lawns when he was a teenager. And how when he saw Mercury Rev they were booted of the stage because they played so loud the band playing center stage became inaudible and how they lost that aspect after the second album yet music journalists today fail to notice what he means are "two different bands".

This is pretty much a "VH1" documentary about the history of pop music from the really subjective point of view of one really opinionated person instead of just a list of safe and biographical facts that those documentaries usually consist of. I don't even know or care about the music he's talking about half the time, but the stories he has because he has taken part in so much of it are really entertaining to listen to.

Yeah, I understand he saw alot of it in real time.

Is that Ricky from Trailer Park Boys?

This man is a cry baby.

  On 12/22/2012 at 8:54 AM, thanks robert moses said:

This man is a cry baby.

...that spouts beautiful insight like baby diarrhea.

  On 12/21/2012 at 6:07 PM, LimpyLoo said:

Can anyone think of anything comparable? Any other stand-out music video blogs ("vlogs")?

yeah- me. i recommend you read everything i write here

  On 12/21/2012 at 6:07 PM, LimpyLoo said:

He's well-read on music and his videos are engrossing.

 

 

Can anyone think of anything comparable? Any other stand-out music video blogs ("vlogs")?

I don't know of anything that's on this level really. Making talking-head videos about this stuff is hard as fuck. You really have to be hyper-articulate to avoid boring the audience or coming across like a goofball.

I don't like him.

  On 12/22/2012 at 11:55 PM, Friendly Foil said:

I don't like him.

Care to eloborate?

  On 12/23/2012 at 12:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 11:55 PM, Friendly Foil said:

I don't like him.

 

Care to eloborate?

He's annoying.

  On 12/23/2012 at 12:04 AM, Friendly Foil said:

  On 12/23/2012 at 12:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 11:55 PM, Friendly Foil said:

I don't like him.

 

Care to eloborate?

He's annoying.

I can totally understand that feeling, though I don't feel that way myself.