Who are the best music journalists currently/ever?

IdleRich

IdleRich
I mean - to be honest I dunno what TP looks like - but the other three could never pass for members of that band.
 

bun-u

Trumpet Police
Glad there‘s some love on here for Chart Music podcast - I love it (and wouldn’t have had me down to like something so nostalgia-driven). Especially Taylor Parkes‘ contributions - it’s like he’s found his perfect groove on there
 

sus

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2010-2012 Tom Ewin, Nitsuh Abebe, Lindsay Zoladz, and Mark Richardson were a multi-columnist powerhouse at Pitchfork, before that website fell apart.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
I liked Penny Reel's weird deviations into literature.

RIP.

@craner is right about Morley's Ask book too.

I was also a huge fan of Steven Wells' ranting.
 

luka

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Barty's completely under the spell of more brilliant than the sun. It's the first book he's ever read and he's in love.
 

Woebot

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Barty's completely under the spell of more brilliant than the sun. It's the first book he's ever read and he's in love.

the book - or rather pamphlet - that kodwo narrated to mark fisher might be better. @john eden do you remember what that was called?
 

luka

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Yeah there is this mythical phase where he reckons he read the entire western philosophical canon before growing out of it at 14. That's true.
 

version

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Barty loves all comics. He's a massive comics nerd.thats why he got droid to start that comics thread. He's obsessed with them. The only book he's admitted to reading on here is crisis on infinite earths
Barty hasn't read a book since he was 14 so it's vital we encourage him here.
According to Barty he read all of Wittgenstein at 12 and had invented his own philosophy at 14 so I'm not sure he needs a beginners guide in any case
 

luka

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If you read that sentence carefully you will notice I didn't say the claim was true I said it's true there is such a claim.
 

luka

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He's always coming out with outrageous claims that might be true, if they're not true he's the most outrageously ambitious liar I've ever come across cos these stories are all about the perfect superhero. He's always saving damsels in distress, diving into rivers to rescue drowning babies, chasing off armed thugs, averting military coups in democratic countries etc
 
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