Comments on: I blame the musicbloggers https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/#comment-24372 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:11:12 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8633#comment-24372 Jaybone, see I disagree because I want more subjectivity on the part of music bloggers. I want them to tell me what they thing is good or bad, and not just tell me what is new.

You see?

]]> By: Jaybone https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/#comment-24371 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:23:27 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8633#comment-24371 Why get upset over some subjective “Best Of…” list? They are never definitive and ultimately mean nothing to anyone…excepting, perhaps, the person who created the list. I’m remembering a friend who, years ago, became apoplectic after a Rolling Stone Magazine list of the best guitar players ever failed to include his favorite in the top ten. I mean, he actually became red in the face! I couldn’t get through to him that the whole thing was meaningless. While such things may make for good bar or restaurant conversation, there’s no point in allowing one’s blood pressure to be affected by it. However, I do agree with you as to the “hipper than thou” attitude one encounters on many music blogs. There tends to be a lack of perspective. As you say, seemingly every new band or artist is touted as being brilliant. There’s an emphasis placed on how new or “underground” a band is rather than the quality of the music. This is fine when one is writing on, say, one’s personal blog — again, the appreciation of music is totally subjective. But there is a way to write about art and music in such a way as to avoid the subjective. Especially if one is writing for a larger entity, one should approach the subject as a journalist might. Too often there does tend to be that lack of an editorial eye, as you point out. And that, of course, points to the larger problem of the decline of the newspaper and other traditional means of news gathering . While the digital medium now allows EVERYONE the chance to publish, not everyone should be considered a journalist. This, I think, is the mistake that a lot of bloggers are making. Anyway…yeah.

]]> By: tito https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/#comment-24307 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:05:58 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8633#comment-24307 (countless other list criticisms self-edited, in the hope of preserving my sanity)

]]> By: tito https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/#comment-24306 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:03:56 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8633#comment-24306 head nods.

as to the list, college dropout was nice but waaaaaayy too much filler to be #2 for the decade.

]]> By: david https://iwilldare.com/2009/11/i-blame-the-musicbloggers/#comment-24290 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:05 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8633#comment-24290 Jim Breslin makes a great suggestion, Carrie Brownstein not only points out great music, but she solicits worthwhile suggestions from her readers (Monitor Mix has a lively and intelligent readership).

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