Comments on: Rumbled! http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/ Independent music from Edinburgh, Scotland - with added gin and swearing. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Raconteurs - Almost Music 2.0 « Song, by Toad http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3354 The Raconteurs - Almost Music 2.0 « Song, by Toad Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:30:55 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3354 [...] from the Guardian).  Whilst I may take issue myself with accusations of laziness, in light of the recent Black Crowes comedy, music journalists are not in the best position to be self-righteous about this at the [...] [...] from the Guardian).  Whilst I may take issue myself with accusations of laziness, in light of the recent Black Crowes comedy, music journalists are not in the best position to be self-righteous about this at the [...]

]]> By: jc http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3355 jc Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:12:40 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3355 6 am in the morning and you lot are masterly debating whatever this is all about. Get some sleep.... 6 am in the morning and you lot are masterly debating whatever this is all about.

Get some sleep….

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3357 Matthew Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:39:35 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3357 Fucking pervert. Fucking pervert.

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3356 Drunk Country Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:36:02 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3356 I file it as <i>research</i> when the boss wafts by. I file it as research when the boss wafts by.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3358 Matthew Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:29:00 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3358 Those pump things? What pump things? Christ, for all my filth I really am just incredibly innocent sometimes. Those pump things? What pump things? Christ, for all my filth I really am just incredibly innocent sometimes.

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3359 Drunk Country Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:31:00 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3359 You know those weird pump things that brain-wrong amateur interweb pornographers use (to create an airtight vacuum/suction around the wisp-free cameltoe minges of cash-strapped US college girls) in order to make the goods go all putridly uber puffy/bloated & blood vessel burstingly red/purple/black? i.e. the twot version of Pete Burns' gob? That's exactly what Megan Fox's lips (on her mouth) look like. Real or botoxed, I wouldn't want them anywhere near <i>my</i> goods. I don't want to appear overly picky, but she looks like any number of vacuous mannequins slagging about the likes of <i>Charmed</i>, or <i>The OC</i> or, Christ help us, <i>Hollyoaks</i>. I wouldn't say she's a minger, just an obvious clothes horse for spunk. You know those weird pump things that brain-wrong amateur interweb pornographers use (to create an airtight vacuum/suction around the wisp-free cameltoe minges of cash-strapped US college girls) in order to make the goods go all putridly uber puffy/bloated & blood vessel burstingly red/purple/black? i.e. the twot version of Pete Burns’ gob? That’s exactly what Megan Fox’s lips (on her mouth) look like. Real or botoxed, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near my goods.

I don’t want to appear overly picky, but she looks like any number of vacuous mannequins slagging about the likes of Charmed, or The OC or, Christ help us, Hollyoaks.

I wouldn’t say she’s a minger, just an obvious clothes horse for spunk.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3360 Matthew Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:13:08 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3360 Well I too find myself writing reviews about albums I drift off for the second half of, and no matter how often I play them never seem to get past the first four songs. Journalism seems to be such a hierarchical industry that getting ahead seems to occupy people more than actually what they are doing. A lot, it has to be said, like the music industry. I have yet to notice anyone ripping off my live reviews, but once you'd stripped out the bad language it would probably be unrecognisable anyway, and it would probably be harder work cleaning it up than it would be to just write the fucking thing yourself anyway! Well I too find myself writing reviews about albums I drift off for the second half of, and no matter how often I play them never seem to get past the first four songs. Journalism seems to be such a hierarchical industry that getting ahead seems to occupy people more than actually what they are doing. A lot, it has to be said, like the music industry.

I have yet to notice anyone ripping off my live reviews, but once you’d stripped out the bad language it would probably be unrecognisable anyway, and it would probably be harder work cleaning it up than it would be to just write the fucking thing yourself anyway!

]]> By: manicpopthrills http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3362 manicpopthrills Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:03:51 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3362 I suspect that the practice of reviewing gigs/LPs without listening to them is fairly widespread. In one of Tony Parsons' novels one of the characters does exactly that and you'd suspect that Parson of all people would know what goes on. On a lesser scale of laziness there was a time when reviews seemed only to mention the early songs on a record. I suspect that some people couldn't be bothered to flip the vinyl over! I've also some personal experience of this - a live review of a band I'm very fond of in a Scottish evening newspaper contained so many of my own words/opinions (from the web) with the rest apparently taken from a band interview that I'm convinced the guy concerned just didn't bother to turn up. And it was a good points/bad points review. Sadly there were no setlist bloopers to prove my theory but the guy had phoned in advance to ask what they were playing! Journalists (particularly many young ones) are SOOO lazy ... but clearly devious. I suspect that the practice of reviewing gigs/LPs without listening to them is fairly widespread. In one of Tony Parsons’ novels one of the characters does exactly that and you’d suspect that Parson of all people would know what goes on. On a lesser scale of laziness there was a time when reviews seemed only to mention the early songs on a record. I suspect that some people couldn’t be bothered to flip the vinyl over!

I’ve also some personal experience of this – a live review of a band I’m very fond of in a Scottish evening newspaper contained so many of my own words/opinions (from the web) with the rest apparently taken from a band interview that I’m convinced the guy concerned just didn’t bother to turn up. And it was a good points/bad points review. Sadly there were no setlist bloopers to prove my theory but the guy had phoned in advance to ask what they were playing! Journalists (particularly many young ones) are SOOO lazy … but clearly devious.

]]> By: Campfires & Battlefields http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3361 Campfires & Battlefields Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:28:26 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3361 I don't believe I've ever been on a misogynistic, xenophobic playground. What's it like? I don’t believe I’ve ever been on a misogynistic, xenophobic playground. What’s it like?

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/rumbled/#comment-3363 Matthew Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:18:54 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1348#comment-3363 It would pretty much peg the fuckwits for what they are. It would pretty much peg the fuckwits for what they are.

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