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I mean, I read your little post and everything, but still. How in the hell does Jack White come up as number eight on your indefensible list, let alone at all?

There are just things about them that suggest they're wind ups given ET's track record?

Hard to argue that anyone with that beard / hair / face combo isn't a dick though.

However Everett, you slag off The Kills I notice too. Therefore you are now dead to me...

but isn't promoting and enthusing about bands you DO like an ultimately more interesting and worthwile way for a grown up music journalist to go?

Just a thought.

Oh and 'The White Stripes'? Contraversial. As has been pointed out many many many times 'Defending the Indefensible' makes no sense on any level whatosever; a better title would be 'Shooting Fish in a Barrel'

but the writings still thin on the ground. It reads like the ill-prepared drunken rants of a bitter man. And he looks more like a non-melted Michael Jackson than Holly Golighty. But in fact, the more i think about this whole thing the more I think balls to it all. If you're gonna jag yourself on the forums then get something substantial to jag about. Otherwise you're just leaving yourself open to some serious rinsing, as I'm sure you remember from the Animal Collective debacle.

Jack White is still a multi millionaire popular music icon who undoubtledly doesn't give a shit about what everett true thinks of him.

that last comment is entirely true.

um, and sunbakedsnowcave, you really haven't LOOKED at my blog if you think all i do is slagging bands.

I love the White Stripes, but outside of that band he's managed a grand total of one decent song by my count.

Shouldn't diss the Kills though. Is that actually Alison Mosshart in the comments?

Focus on the positive! Liechtenstein! Liechtenstein!

http://everetttrue.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/et-recommends-7-liechtenstein/

and yes, it is Alison. One of my (former, presumably) Facebook "friends"

The only person who would put their real (I know it's not REALLY his name before you start) name as their username thinking people give a fuck or it adds some kind of gravitas to an otherwise dull load of ball dust, aka blogs in general.

GET A FUCKING JOB.

Also if it's 'defending the indenfensible' you're trying to achieve why not set your bar a little higher?

Like peadophile lifeguards. Or Hitler. Or music writers.

ET Recommends - 15: The Lost Girls

http://everetttrue.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/et-recommends-15-the-lost-girls/

Has so far been a sad session of critics sitting down and drinking the Kool Aid delivered by Robert Christgau, in which anything experimental and not having a standard pop structure is decried as having "no songs." It seems that these "journalists" are trying to create controversy and make their younger readers hate them so they can maintain some sort of "relevance" which they probably never had in the first place.

I'm pleased to report that True has failed to create any controversy whatsoever, seeing as it seems that everyone knows that Jack White is a goofy character with a sporadic output, so as usual, the only target is the lousy writing.

For my two cents, I'd like to add that calling the Flaming Lips "REM lite" just makes no sense whatsoever. And I don't even care that much about either band. It's just dumb Everett (you don't mind if I call you that, do you?)

Give up, Stegosaurus.

Don't generally like Oasis, but thought Noel's comment (above) was funny.

The first 5 albums have some great stuff on, but are all too long and too same-y.

(1) If you are so happy to criticise ET can you please let us have a look at your superior music criticism?
(2) If you are so happy to criticise ET can you please let us know which magazines and websites display better writing? If you could point me to a couple of decent articles as well so I can check that would be helpful.
(3) There are 2 main purposes of music writing. 1 - inform people about new bands. This is less important now people can just listen on the net. 2 - provoke, educate, entertain, politicise. Basically write decent articles that happen to be about music. I prefer these type of articles. Many people on websites like this seem to just want an unbiased description. This is utterly pointless. Set your sights higher kids.
(4) Notwithstanding the above the Jack White article is a long way from ETs best. A long way.

(1) You can pick any album you already own and publish it here.
(2) Any particular articles that illustrate your point?
(3) I fear that you make the fatal mistake of taking music criticism far too seriously, whilst not taking it seriously at all. You, I think, make the mistake of assuming that 'quality' and 'research' and 'thought' and 'balance' make a decent article, whereas in fact it is for example 'passion', 'wit', and 'provocation' that you should be looking out for. Either you are a boring person, or you will one day grow up.
(4) No it wouldn't.