Is Ned Raggett schizophrenic?

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Is Raggett a schizo? His reviews speak crap. The Ned reviews for Cul de Sac's Immortality Lessons, The Dead C's New Electric Music, and Ludus's The Damage are sorta shitty. When he isn't writing about Depeche Mode or some other keyboard group, he sucks.

Does Ned eat shit or just write shit?

― the ghost of Ethan, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been asking myself the same question. Apparently.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my, this a mature thread. if i were you, "ghost of ethan", i'd be very embarassed.

― queenoftheharpies, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to work for bn online and we used to laugh like hyenas everytime the company bought a new review from Ned Raggett. He is what one would call a 1st rate hack. A small amount of press clipping here, a couple of bad adjectives there, some completely irrelevant comparisons to other musicians over here, and you have a Ned Raggett review. It's a joke, really.

― Claire1--1004, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to work for bn online...
you deserve what you got.
― http://gygax.pitas.com, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and i deserve a </i>

thank you very much. i wear a uniform, i'm on a government loan.

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Schizophrenic? I'd say no.

Boring and immeasurably dorky? YES, and it counts.

― Ned jr., Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, entirely likely on both counts.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

uhh...ned writes reviews? where?

― your null fame, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd have to say that review-wise, Mr. Raggett is probably one of the better ones who contributes to www.allmusic.com (well, not as good Eugene Chadbourne whose reviews of pygmy music are great). He has a good workman style that gives you the info you need to know. I really didn't think his Dead C review was bad at all -- it accurately described the record. No one can be as bad as Richie Unterberger. Besides, why do you think Ned's writing is any more shittier than yours, Ethan? A few specifics of what you dislike in Mr. Ragett's work might be nice.

― Jack Cole, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I disagree that Ned is the best reviewer on allmusic, I slightly prefer the godlike Heather Phares (about whom I know nothing btw, who is she?). Ned is merely terrific most of the time. Both his Birthday Party and Amon Duul reviews have recently given me pleasure. Of course the original coward/troll who strated this thread may also consider them 'Depeche Mode or some other keyboard group'.

― Alexander Blair, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, I highly doubt Ethan's the one who started this thread

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with alexander (and i don't get to say that often;))

what does interest me is why it is ned that gets all the attention in these anonymous hata threads, i've noticed n*tsuh has also been getting a little bit of it recently too. its a shame that people aren't a little bit more honest when they do this, but it is to be expected as many people take advantage of the way the web works to do this, but i suppose it does reflect on the aggressor more than the target?

― gareth, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, I highly doubt Ethan's the one who started this thread

It's not Ethan -- he'd say if he didn't like something of mine directly, which I appreciate.

The anon hate threads are bemusing, yes, but infinitesimally less annoying/frustrating to me than the fact that I'm awake right now at 3:20 am due to 1) hunger, 2) the fact that my housemate is playing the admittedly excellent debut by Suede at too loud a volume at present and 3) that I can't exactly tell him to turn it down because he's playing said music as the soundtrack for a night of pleasure with an unknown- to-me-at-present woman who is loudly appreciative of his efforts. Compared to this, the complaints above (some entirely justifiable -- I do think there's a certain semi-rut my AMG writing style can easily fall into, and which I do fight against) are rather minor.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, it would be more accurate to say 'infinitely less,' wouldn't it? This is what stuck being awake in this situation does to your vocabulary. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just read the reviews and i've come to the conclusion that this thread is fucking ridiculous. move along.

― your null fame, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned started this thread and has made all the posts (including this one) => he is in fact a schizo

― Andy K, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep telling me to stop talking, but do I listen? NO.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Church of Ned Raggett (25 Different People. Here’s the church, here’s the steeple - open the doors, and see the people; open the thumbs and see the fingers: a Raggett full of ringers, bushrangers and boasters – twenty five different posters ... There’re loads: Robin Carmody and Nick Rhodes, Limiter Garner, Tom, Jeff Duff ... Will there ever be enough?! At the weekends, Raggett shoots grouse in the grounds of his country house; and the finger, pulling the trigger, in his study, clicks the mouse; but his finger is stronger and bigger on his “Lord of the Rings” mouse-pad - when his tortured characters add their comments to a thread. Open the doors – look inside Ned, where all our prayers are poured. His hand is a church - his fingers, his flock; and this starry discussion board still shudders with the shock of the big bang. Will Raggett, like Kelly, hang - his neck in the noose of his mouse? At the weekends, Raggett shoots grouse, drinking brandy from a flask; his mouse is his noose, his mask; a different e-mail, a made up name: he loads his gun, takes aim, and curses the game he missed, clicking the mouse with his fist. Identities: he invented mine – my name is his to assume; and I was his first - a concubine: he left himself, came to my room, varnished my fingernails white; and the verse, he felt he could never write, was written by him, all the same - when Roy became his Christian name.

― Roy Blows, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And, for once, I didn't start this thread. You know I love you, Ned. All my threads have been love letters to you. I dare not speak my name, that's all.

― Roy 'Bosie Douglas' Blows, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, I've gotten hate threads? I wanna see!

― nabisco%%, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See, I like that 'Church of Ned Raggett' adaptation. It makes me smile, it does. :-)

To N****h -- we all hate you too much to tell you where these threads are. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Link it, Raggett! (Cause if they're about those awful reviews I've disowned I'd like to, you know, join in.)

― nabisco%%, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Because clearly I personally have to talk more shit about those reviews than anyone else.)

― nabisco%%, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

******, th*y w*r*n't thr**ds, j*st s*m* *f th* *b*v* st*ff th*t *pp**r*d w*th*n *th*r thr**ds

― ******, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ned rocketh in a not necessarily rockist way.

― Queen There Will Be No Talk of Eating People in this House G, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Take me, Ned! Roughly and from behind. And let's talk about music as we do it. Spank me with an old issue of Q magazine, roll up an old copy with Phil Collins on the front. Fist me with Phil Collins. I like conservative sex. Fist me with Phil Collins, then put in the whole of Genesis, put in the whole of your creation - take seven days and seven nights.

― Roy Blows, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can rest on the seventh day.

― Roy Blows, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How kind of you.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not THE Dan Perry? 'A' Dan Perry, surely.

― Roy Blows, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't you heard? I come in six-packs.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alexander Blair is Dean Carlson.

― Bet Wager, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever happened to Dean Carlson anyway?

Last I recall he was making a film about himself.

― Mark, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey now. Ned's mini-reviews of his favorite records of the '90s opened my eyes to a ton of cool music; his AMG reviews are consistently more descriptive, detailed, even-handed and helpful than most other writers on the site; his posts to ILM are always fun to read. Josh teased me on another thread for being too much like Ned tastes-wise (I almost typed "taste-wise", oops], but there are far worse people whose advice to take about records. Ned-hating is totally weak-ass.

― Clarke B., Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But no one's answered the most important question, which is: Did Ethan die? Why is he now a ghost? Did the other Icy Hot Stunaz kill him? Why was I not alerted to this mysterious development?

― Ally, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did the other Icy Hot Stunaz kill him?

Oh no......!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The fallout from that Eminem review...landed right on his head.

― j.lu, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's the same kid who started the anon Ned-hate posts before. Same kind of writing pattern -- coherent, but just barely. Probably dropped out of community college after a semester or so.

Advice to said kid: If you really want to lick him, you should come right out and ask him. All of this coy flirting gets you nowhere!

― Nicole, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I h8 Ned but only because whenever I want to review something for AMG, he's already beaten me to the request. Grrrrr.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The smelly indies finally took ethan down, hearts cry over ILX

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Let me just say at this point that I do thank everyone who posted kind words about me or my writing on this thread, I do appreciate it. Please believe me, I am my own worst critic.

To Alexander: Heather Phares is my editor, actually, or at least the one who handles my review requests. She's very kind and funny, I think, and yes, quite a good writer! Andy K would be able to say more, doubtless.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Ned is one of the best contributors to this forum and I am sad to come back and see that he is being the target of some douchebag's wet dream. I hope this has not been a regular thing.

― Nude Psyclops, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WE ALL WUV NED

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No seriously, I think he is the epitome of a GOOD PERSON.Sometimes over the last coupla years he might have seemed a bit pompous (to me) but overall he has a good heart always welcome to new people who enter the forum. I can spot a good honest, trustworthy person a mile off. FUCK DA HATERZ NED!

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a bit pompous

*adjusts flowing robes, tears self away from floor to ceiling mirror* Wait, what? ;-) Seriously, only a bit? At points I've thought I've been terribly pompous! Hopefully not often, though.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a bit mean spirited this thread, but Ned once described me as "not worth it" in an ongoing discussion/argument context which i thought in turn was a bit mean spirited or churlish, but then i've given up on the "being frivolous and jokey for the collective good of the place" style of posting where the risk is still that over-the-top can be construed as nasty even today when one person's "ambiguous joke" might just be accidentally dis-missing someone else's ego whole

Clarkebey wrote :"Hey now. Ned's mini-reviews of his favorite records of the '90s opened my eyes to a ton of cool music; his AMG reviews are consistently more descriptive, detailed, even-handed and helpful than most other writers on the site; his posts to ILM are always fun to read..", something he sure doesn't feel compelled to write about many ILM posters here and compliments he usually doesn't bother with at all.

Nice positive reinforcement Clarkebey. What function do _others'_posts_ serve you when you're not praising them ? What are your typical follow-up motives ?

― George Gosset, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't say Ned's schizo - just smart-ass and annoying all the time!! As for A Dan Perry, that isn't even an original joke - haven't we all read HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY?

― Anna Rose, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shhh, Anna, everyone will want one. Everyone here is so unhip it's a wonder their bums don't fall off.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello Anna, Anna Rose - the whilstling bogie lodged in my nose. It was my tribute to Phil Silvers, who described himself as 'A' Phil Silvers when checking into a Bed & Breakfast during the filming of 'Carry on Follow that Camel'. I was being pleasant, more than funny; unoriginal more than original. I am Love, though I dare not speak my name. And I genuinely do think Ned is smashing.

― Roy Blows, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ghost of Ethan, you have a weird fascination with feces.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But even as fecalphiliacs go not very interesting...

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned likes A-HA, that makes him grate in my book.

― Chris, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who recognizes the brilliance of "The Sun Always Shines on TV" (except U2, I hope smurfs puke on them) deserves an apple and a pat on the head.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Talking of pooh -- R*gan W*itenails has a new track on his Electromancer page. It's called 'This Morning, Before Visiting the Toilet', and the words were taken from his recently published new book: 'Failure Crawled up my Leg 2002', published by Indoor Fighting Press.

R*gan W*itenails is so like Ned Raggett, I sometimes suspect they are the one and only, to quote Nik Kershaw.

― Christopher Robin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yawwwn.

So, so boring.

Your post tries (and fails) to be a Marcello Carlin-esque lark. Ask your teacher for some writing advice, young miss.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As for A Dan Perry, that isn't even an original joke - haven't we all read HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY?

I have never been criticized for making an allusion before. Cool.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What a bilious yawn that was. You feign boredom badly. Prince Edward got the same response when he launched 'It's a Royal Knockout!'. Is there any way I could be really useful here? I mean, if if there's no place on this board for tender, playful comments about R*gan W*itenails, with copious commas,, what opportunities are there - what post could I fill? I don't suppose your bored/bilious post will become vacant any time soon?

― Christopher Armitage Shanks Robin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what post could I fill?

You've already filled some posts, young lassie - as Mariah fills landfills with discarded soiled panties, so too have you filled your posts here with an overwhelming sense of dullness. So there's nothing left for you to do.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You call me young lassie, young miss. Do you want me to be a little girl? Would that make you feel less threatened?

― Christopher Robin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You write like a little girl, why are you so offended? Perhaps the Village Voice will offer you a job, I wouldn't take such an aggrieved tone.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You think there's something innately masculine or macho about posting anon? Hoo boy.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a bit pompous

*adjusts flowing robes, tears self away from floor to ceiling mirror* Wait, what? ;-) Seriously, only a bit? At points I've thought I've been terribly pompous!

Wait, so now you're admitting that you are the music geek from Beat the Geeks?

― j.lu, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If anything it means you must hide behind the safety of your My Little Pony collection rather than reveal who you are and what you honestly think.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're very angry, I sense it. Some soldiers have described how they get stiffies when driving their bayonets into their enemy. I'm not your enemy, Mr. Bored. You seem as crazed and drooling as these soldiers and, at the same time, you've characterised me as your young lassie. I want to know why.

― Christopher Robin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do you call me Mr.? So I would fall for your girlish charms?

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah ... I think I see why now.

― Christopher Robin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course you can pretend like you know anything. But your faulty reference to Nik Kershaw points to an inferior mind incapable of comprehending anything other than "Ned bad! Trolling fun!".

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread isn't half as funny as the one where Sterling turned into a pedophile. I'm pretty disappointed.

― Ally, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe Sterling would like to sleep with Christopher Robin, that would hot things up.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You called?

― A Lawyer, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Threatening a lawuit, so scary. That would be the best thing to happen to this thread, it would get deleted.

― Bored, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

defamation of whose character? sterl is like 20, christopher robin is in his 80s

oh wait, maybe he's dead: in which case, defamation of sterl's (so no worries heh)

i met christopher robin once, he ran in a bookshop in dorset: he was very tall (but actually at the time i was very small)

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that was jerry dammers, mark

― , Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Brian Jones owned the house with the giant statue of Christopher Robin the child in it which Christopher Robin had finally sold as it had overshadowed his subsequent life; 'til then poor Christer (or Robin) had to put up with living in it while maintaining the livlihood of a gentleman in the sale of books. More recent books in theiw wake suggest both Robin and Jones suggest had terrible lives ??

― George Gosset, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

George, I didn't volunteer those pro-Ned comments out of the blue; this is, after all, a thread explicitly attacking the guy. I'm not going to kiss everyone on ILM's ass constantly or anything; that's lame. However, I really could find good things to say about most everyone, you included. Did you not see the post I made on the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club thread complimenting your comments? I think that perhaps your anti-pop diatribe put a lot of people off, but you really do make some interesting, thought-provoking arguments on this board. Sorry if it seemed like Ned was the only one I liked on this board. I know I get a little carried away with the attacking end of things sometimes, but a lot of us do from time to time; that doesn't mean I don't like certain people.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what bothered/confused me the most was the whole "is ____ a schizophrenic?" i mean, obviously the person who started this thread meant it to be a diss, but it really isn't [if it is, it's a pretty stupid one] - i don't understand how calling someone that illustrates anything beyond a lack of knowledge over what "schizophrenic" means

― geeta, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A better question would be is he schizophonic.

― Ally, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well geeta he's uh ned's obviously uh like... that's not normal

― Josh, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Ned Raggett schizogonic?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am the Alpha and the Omega. Oh yes.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know this is my own fault, but now every time you say "Oh yes" I'm going to think you're budding. Ew.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A veritable battalion of Ned Raggetts, roaming the globe, proseletyzing post-rock, and posting to ILX. "Begun Ned's clone war has."

― j.lu, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Taking Sides: Red Naggett versus Ned Tugent.

― nabisco%%, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All these scenarios that have been posited have their virtues.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever happened to Dean Carlson anyway? Last I recall he was making a film about himself.

Actually Mark, I'd heard from Dean recently, and he's still busy spreading his own gospel....Hell, for a split-sec, I thought he had started this thread. But then, he'd be direct, too;>

It's amusing to see the level of utter objectivity going on here. But as Ned already knows what I think, I ain't repeating myself;>

― Nichole Graham, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hello, dean? you're a STUPID-HEAD!

― Josh, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dean Carlson? The same Dean Carlson who was on wild-ones? Sorry, I seem to have missed some context here.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Dean Carlson the AMG writer who wrote a bunch of reviews, none of which were higher than 1.5 stars? His totally unhelpful (but fairly entertaining) reviews were woefully out- of-place there.

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ned likes def leppard "hysteria" therefore he is great.

― queenoftheharpies, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amon Duul reviews? AMON DUUL REVIEWS? Christ.

― Matt, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ned likes def leppard "hysteria" therefore he is great.

*blush* Amon Duul reviews? AMON DUUL REVIEWS? Christ.

Er? Are you mad at the reviews or mad at the concept that anyone would want to review them?

I should say that if anyone notices any factual errors in my reviews -- I'm sure there are quite a few that have cropped up over the moons -- please let me know so I can inform my editors.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes yes DC is a legend 'round these parts. We quote him like we quote Morrissey and Sly Stone. Quite a while back, someone wrote this in honor of him:

Artist: Nirvana
Album Title: Nevermind
Date of Release: Sep 24, 1991
AMG Rating: * [one star]
Genre: Rock
Styles: Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock
1994: Doug Fieger, phone your brother. Poncey Knack-ered pop songs that add pinch-upon-punch of guitar sludge with all the enthusiasm of Jamie Oliver in front of the prawn case at the local butcher have now become de rigueur on US radio. Invisible airwaves crackle with strife. The two-note tortes are all Kurdt's fault, and no it isn't pukka. Black Francis lectures on Soft/Loud but that Spicoli bloke is in the back with spitballs. Care to share some with the rest of the class? Ed Kowalczyk's up front scrawling "I Alone" while having a spell of Rum-Tum-Tug-That-Daft-Pontytail with the Hairy One from the Melvins. Even the headmaster loses the plot. "Aloha, Mr. Stomachcramps." Loverboy's been warned: Nirvana's got a fuzzbox and they're gonna throw it through their SUV window. What's worse, there's a Youngbloods reference. Is that Freedom Rock, mate? Someone's pulling our hole-knee bekecked legs. Yanks raise a collective eyebrow. 2001: Gregg Alexander sticks up Cinnabon with his droogs and kicks all our asses. An Ark 21 bigwig by the name of Miles chokes on his shark steak sandwich. Fibonacci rips off Diophantus. This is tardcore. And I swear that I don't have a pun.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my. But yeah, on wild-ones he really never gave any evidence of, um, this side of his personality.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

best review ever!

― geeta, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andy, whoever wrote that is a genius!

― Vinnie, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jamie Oliver has a new show and stuff.

― Andy K, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Casting *RESURRECT THREAD*

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If you insist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

custos, why don't you fuck back off to hyrule or candyland or wherever it is you come from

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I love you too, jess.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Im so lost as to why so many people hate Ned.

Judging soley from what Ive seen him do on the internet, he seems like the consumate nice guy.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't want to see inside my mind when I'm raking myself over the coals for stupid things I've done, David. Let me leave it at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ned's boss is cool, that's all i'm gonna say... (besides that she's a great writer IMO, the best at AMG)...

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

also, though I cant say I agree with Ned on some things, he does have unique taste, in the sense of liking both Oasis and the Dead C, two things that arent always compatible -- which can't help but creating an interesting friction or approach in his reviewing. Moreover there is lot to be said that Ned can defend or describe why he likes Oasis without being kneejerk or playing the Indie Guilt/pop card.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

but ned hates AWK = ned cannot be trusted.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I like AWK, but dislike Steve Malkmus -- can I be trusted? (winky wink)

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

you like early pavement though so you're okay.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, now everyone knows. *sobs* YOU BRUTE!

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, if you're listening, you're great.

Always enjoy yr contributions on here and your AMG reviews are fine.

I'll even forgive you liking Oasis. How's that?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned rocks. His tastes are genuine (if seemingly masochistic from my P.O.V.) and he's not pompous about 'em (though the pics of himself point to a certain amount of understandable self-fascination). Though I'm surprised he doesn't walk around with funnels in his ears and his glasses off so that the world is as echoey and blurry as his record collection.

But seriously, he's the second most badass Ned I know.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ned Flanders is #1?)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned Kozlowski. You wouldn't know him.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

how about Ned Nickerson, (Nancy Drew's very whipped boyfriend).

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

masterpiece shows up in a lot of ned reviews on amg.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

top ten words I wish Ned would use in reviews more often:

1)hated-on
2)succulent
3)duh
4)genteel
5)Corgany
6)equine
7)rhapsodic
8)bask
9)implicit
10)Ned

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

top ten words *I* wish Ned would use in reviews more often:

1)"haaaaaayted it"
2)"cheese flavored"
3)"dung"
4)"androgyne"
5)"Milwaukee or Milpitas"
6)"porcine"
7)"funktabulous"
8)"Basque"
9)"Parental Advisory: Implicit Lyrics"
10)"Right Said Ned"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

though the pics of himself point to a certain amount of understandable self-fascination

Heh. That's because all the other photos of myself I hate, so maybe my only photo look is my smug bastard look, alas. (And thank ya for the kind words all.)

masterpiece shows up in a lot of ned reviews on amg.

Doubtless. Part of it is because I like a lot of records very much, but also because I'm well aware that 'Use Other Words Please!' could easily apply to my own writing. I probably wouldn't recycle as much were I writing much longer takes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i mostly agree with your masterpiece insertions.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Ha ha the return of Ned

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the internet is scary

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I suggest that this thread is 'back from the Ned'?

Oh yes, I believe I can.

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I should've gone with 'Dawn of the Ned'

Fuck :-/

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the prosecution rests, your honor

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you still a schizogonic, Ned?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't even read this thread very far beyond its ignorant beginning, by the way. Nor did I resurrect it; I just enjoy terrible puns.

Sorry :(

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you still a schizogonic, Ned?

Yes, precious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, at least you'll never be alone.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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