so mister sinker, guess who's editing the "da capo best music writing 2001"?

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i'll give you a hint: it's initials are N.H.

― jess, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

your thoughts? ;)

― jess, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OH! It that John Cusack?

― Gage-o, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thought one: i am unlikely to be included heh
thought two: i get to REVIEW IT!!! "Please God let mine enemy write a book" haha i am already preparing...
thought three: it is a good thing because it will mobilise and unify the opposition hurrah

he is the comfortable safe "grown-up" side of music fandom: it is no surprise hardly.

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Question one: Didn't NH edit the last one?
Question two: Wasn't it half-Salon?

― Andy K., Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the last one was not edited by nh (i picked it up cheap on my bus. trip this fall), but i forget who actually did edit it.

when yr best feature is a reprinted bit of lester bangs' liner notes yr in trouble.

― jess, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will confess that my name appears on the cover of "Best Music Writing 2000" (as, cough, "series editor"--the "guest editor" was Peter Guralnick). I will also note that I had virtually nothing to do with what ended up being its contents. If anyone wants to email me privately, I can give you further info.

― Douglas, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Question 3: who NH?
Neil Hamilton?

― stevo, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neil Hagerty, duh.

― Arthur, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neutral Hotel. Milk is just a middle name.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought this to read on the plane back to LA. The only articles I remember are Richard Meltzer's rant about 70s wunderkind rock crits and Cameron Crowe/Almost Famous, Metal Mike's Radio Disney rave and a report on West Bank hip hop kids by Lorraine Ali. And a really funny article about Streisand's last stand at the Garden, very sharp and on the moolah.

There was A LOT of puzzling, inconsequential stuff--wow, big surprise! I can't wait to hear what mark s. has to say about it.

― Arthur, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm confused now: is the nh-edited book out or not? nh edited a book w.*rMeltzer* in it? bang goes the heart of my review if so!! surely arthur the book you read is Da Capo 2000?

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NH = Nick Hornby, for fellow ignoramuses.

― stevo, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no, arturo speaks the troof; hornby book out NOW RIGHT NOW, and the opening salvo is indeed meltzers bashing of "almost famous"/crowe.

― jess, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I may have seen this (now it's FINALLY clarified - ? - as Hornby). It includes Marcus on S-Kinney. Coming across that in a shop, I almost laughed: THIS ends 'Best Muzik Writing of 2001' when "we" demolished Marcus on S-K (OK, a different piece - I think) sometime back in the summer...

― the pinefox, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Da Capo 2000 features some fine stuff on Fela Kuti & the Shaggs & Run DMC (by Sasha Frere-Jones), as well as neat article on obsessive Robert Crumb-like 78 collectors & this Chicago house band. I confess, I bought the book because of Douglas' involvement (which I guess was eff all - Guralnick's best known for books on Elvis & roots music; that influence is more apparent). Some very questionable stuff on Madonna (an interview where Madge sounds off on Herself; something talking about Donald being a playa; a piece on P. Diddy about P. Diddy for P. Diddy).

I also bought the 2K1 volume, w/ the hopes of the good stuff outweighing the naff stuff. Haven't read it yet, though; given Hornby's involvement (and that rather sketchy article in the New Yorker Music Issue), I'm not sure if it'll be any good. ("Greil Marcus raises the stakes w/ Sleater-Kinney"; yeah, that's fresh - where's Dave Marsh on Springsteen?)

However, I can say that the list of Notable Essays in 1999 (in the back of the 2K version) is MUCH better than the Notable Essays of 2000. (The 1999 list is where Douglas is most apparent, I'm guessing, listing articles from Last Plane & Cometbus & TWAS.) Isn't that ballyhooed Courtney Love piece just a rewrite of Steve Albini's Heckler essay?

BTW, I'm not sure if it's been noted yet, but that Lester Bangs piece was in the 2000 edition.

― David Raposa, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

o poo i haf thus missed the chance to review it in deathless paper-based print (= the wire heh): OK FT it is, then (gimme gimme a deadline Tom)

pf: hv you read mr h. on football and if so what did you think? eg fever pitch but also has he continued to write since (if not why not eh?)

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Deadline - gor blimey well I'm aiming to get the redesign up for the first Sunday in January (i.e. the uh 6th?) - that is too soon of course, and I have lots of stuff ready so can I say start of February?

― Tom, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can do: also gives me time to reread high fuckn fidelity, which wuz truth-to-tell my sticking point lo these [x] months

(new yorker presumably online to subscribers only?)

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, New Yorker online to all, but they only archive the previous issue (or the current issue); regardless, the Hornby article is not to be found there. Google might be your best bet.

― David Raposa, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S: I have only met you once, but do have a feeling that on that occasion I took the opportunity viciously to lambast Hornby as footy writer while you and le T were dissing his music credentials.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

have we met? who are you then? what do you think of beany sigel?

so grate is our client's hornby-hatred that all other criticism is merely to his mind in effect unwarranted further praise, and ignored as such. That is the essence of our case, m'lud.

er yes, actually yes i *do* recall hostility was in the air, pf: but not its exact justifixication — can you (re)outline the basis fr yr dislike for those not sat at our table?

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i don't fucken know what the hell you all aree talking about. I came to this fucking site to look for Avril lavigne magazines, not no fucking peice of crap shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― none of your god damn business, Friday, 28 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

hi jess

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 28 February 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

NEILLLLLLLL HAMBURGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 February 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

you ever notice all 7-11's look the same?

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 28 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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