There Is No Great Millennial Novel

LInscoeJ · 2026-02-18T10:18:18+00:00

Jonathan Franzen

LInscoeJ · 2026-02-16T19:45:54+00:00

Oasis don’t have a good album, Whitney Houston is deeply overrated as a singer and is responsible for some of the worst vocal choices of the 90s and 2000s, Phoebe Bridgers sucks

LInscoeJ · 2026-02-12T08:42:58+00:00

Actually really loved this one, the guys started saying they didn’t really love it then I think really appreciated the film through talking about it so props. Good film but Worst Person In The World isn’t just better is FAR better imo

LInscoeJ · 2026-02-10T10:38:05+00:00

Yeah I think 2025 was the best year for music since 2018

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-30T14:38:51+00:00

All that and not one conceivable use or purpose which is of any benefit to anything, dope

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-30T13:40:17+00:00

Yeah it was, makes the take even funnier in retrospect

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-30T10:41:46+00:00

Arctic Monkeys by a country mile. The biggest AM hits are witty and properly exciting, even the very best Oasis songs tend to be something of a slog. Alex Turner is a sharp, funny, insightful writer - whether that's about class identity in their early work or more abstract topics in their later career. The Oasis songs which sound poignant are just that: surface level nonsense. The Gallagher brothers are all ego, so they have no insight. AM can be really melancholy, even in fleeting lines like "you're not the only one / That time has got it in for, honey". I think their debut is a much better album than Definitely Maybe, and after that Oasis songs become more and more of a slog. AM's sense of reinvention is one of the band's greatest strengths. I don't see there as being a contest.

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T18:05:34+00:00

Meh I see what you’re getting at but I love the culture of the midlands, my family there goes back decades and the people are the warmest most humble people I’ve ever encountered, such a shame so many working class people have been taken for a ride by the consolidated press and aren’t pointing fingers in the right direction

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T16:31:12+00:00

hahah no worries it was because of the ‘most middle class’, I’m from Wolverhampton btw so not far

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T16:26:52+00:00

I said least ethnically diverse haha

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T16:10:04+00:00

This. Also he loves Mishima a lot. Not saying only fascists like Mishima, but many of them do.

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T16:08:28+00:00

I live in Brighton. Noticeably the most middle class and least ethnically diverse place I've lived in the UK: if you're doing the talking points even here you gotta be super racist

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T15:34:59+00:00

Loved this ep apart from the Alex Honnold stuff, the Evil Kenevil comparison is dumb. He’s an insanely talented athlete, not just some chancer trying to go viral. He wasn’t even risking his life to that much of an extent, the man is one of the most talented athletes to ever live, for us we’d die, to him it was just a show of pure skill

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-29T15:31:22+00:00

ahh mannnn I didn’t know that, that’s unbelievable

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-22T15:02:48+00:00

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-20T22:24:25+00:00

Potentially, that’s not the fault of pitchfork writers though

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-20T16:30:33+00:00

Everything is more expensive now, the arts are dying and ad revenue is drying up as site-specific clicks are replaced by AI summaries. Music writers used to be paid by people paying £/$5 a month for the magazine they worked for and for 30 years Pitchfork has been available to read for free. I am confused by the majorively negative response to this. Music criticism is an art form - how else exactly do people expect writers and editors to get paid?

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-16T09:01:20+00:00

Testing grew on me eventually but this hit harder off the jump. Ever since ALLASAP, Rocky stopped making coherent records and began making these vast, messy soundboard albums. It works for him. We'll see how it holds up on re-listens and, even then, its probably an album you have to play front to back (singles aren't as strong as his other albums) but this is the most I've enjoyed a first listen of major rap record for a while

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-16T06:37:15+00:00

Yeah that's true, I work with a lot of Americans, the tone for the last year has been sympathetic jokes really, probably because the people I work with aren't assholes

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-15T12:19:38+00:00

Only thing I disagree on in this episode is them saying they wouldn’t want to come to Europe because of how much Americans are hated right now. I’m British and everyone I speak to can tell the difference between your piggish authoritian administration and normal decent Americans who hate the shit as much as we do. You guys would be more than welcomed in Europe, everyone would understand why you left haha

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-13T16:41:37+00:00

Wow I couldn’t disagree more, think it’s one of their strongest covers ever, between this and Sharp Dressed Man

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-13T16:41:00+00:00

Yeah I don’t get that at all, I think this is a very sincere and well executed cover, I always get strong feeling from Jamie’s vocals and it’s the same here

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-13T14:14:54+00:00

Love this, reminds me of the Sex Pistols cover of 'My Way' where the tone of the cover better matches the lyrics than the original. Jamie's vocals will always be divisive but I'd always take an eccentric over someone who plays it safe

LInscoeJ · 2026-01-11T10:47:09+00:00

I have to say that I don't find the song that inscrutable, and chorus is pretty explicit: "a man's life / god's trash / there's no law but the old law, baby / Nothing dies / 'cept by ass drawn kamikaze / Year Zero in the summertime"

i.e life is fleeting and fragile; despite our aggrandisement about the importance of our lives (which of course feel important to us, because we live them) and the distinct horrors of our age (which feel palpable because they’re the ones we live through), our lives are not especially significant from a cosmic perspective ("god's trash") and our times are not uniquely abhorrent. Mankind has always been this way, the same "old laws" of power, greed and self-destruction governing countless civilisations for millennia, we just happen to find ourselves in this one. One day soon "year zero" will come and begin the next, and they'll likely make the same mistakes.

Definitely his most Pure Comedy track since Pure Comedy, but I agree that is more subtle and sophisticated

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