My Favorite Music Review Ever

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I almost popped one off in mis pantalones when I saw that Kogan posts here.......by me, two thirds of VV's music staff doesn't even deserve to hold Kogan's JOCK.

But to the review.....this is what I aspire to....all of it....the final paragraph, besides being the funniest most heartwarming shit I've ever read in the Voice, defines what truly understanding hip-hop today is all about. It is un pinball.....Andalusia.....

Discuss the angles, why it works.

― Stacey Dash's Black Twin, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it works because it feels totally unforced, like easy rolling. like that faux-naivete stuff mixed up with knowing exactly what it is you want to say. when you've had a few beers or youve popped e, and you think about things, you think "hey i would write like this now, if i had pen and paper", but you wouldn't, because its all proper coherent, like

i wish i'd have seen that when we had that geezer (i never say geezer, i'm not a londoner and i feel like a sweeney/guy ritchie/combine the GQ with the walthamstow dogs type if i say that usually, but i'm kind of ok with it tonite) come on with the "music writing kills music blah blah" shit (one of those where it ain't worth the bother talking too (cf. that other thread with the negative creep), anyway, this is top notch, what i've read of kogan always is...

― gareth, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kogan rocks.

― adam, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once read an Elton John review that opened "how do you shag a horse so dead it's stopped smelling". My favourite review line ever.

― Lynskey, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That is a terrific review. Even if he doesn't know enough about martial arts and its movies (yes, that is to miss the point).

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wouldn't go so far as to call it my favourite review ever,but i just read the review of geogaddi at tangents (www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/2002/april/boc.html) and was fairly impressed...it deals well with the problem of no-one really having much to say about boards of canada that hasn't been said before (children,dreams,landscapes,etc) by working these into a story rather than just repeating them verbatim... as for the korean hip-hop,i'm impressed with the review enough that i'll probably try and download a track or two...

― robin, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Second. best. review. ever.

That is it's joint first. With Sinker's 'Yello' one.

I miss Ramosi.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, me too.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I third this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i wonder if anyone spent even a microsecond thinking they would go try and hear drunken tiger somehow afterwards

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

which isn't to start an idiotic 'value' war, but i dunno...

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

z3mko - look up!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

muse-ic

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

(yah but robin was 'sufficiently impressed', and it wasn't quite #1 but maybe the #4 favourite cough cough i'll consult the filezzz, and who wants to DOWNLOAD anything after that review anyway you wanna go and walk in the sun and find it under a pile of leaves)

(to those who were enchanted)

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't follow, bob

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"i don't follow, bob" and "have you heard asa-chang, yet - what do you think?"

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually want to listen to this record now, but I'm not really sure if much of Kogan's prose had anything to do with that. Not a fan of music journalism though so it's not really my place to comment.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you a fan of writing?

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a Frank Kogan fan.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite review ever is a Sasha Frere-Jones review of High on Fire's The Art of Self Defense. It's incredible. I quote, "The members of High on Fire play guitar, bass and drums, but it sounds like they all play fried steel pork chops. The sound is gunked, crisped, distorted, thickened. If this was a thing, you wouldn't pick it up."

http://www.timeoutny.com/rock/243/243.music.high.rev.html

― scott m (mcd), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

heh. well done cozen

― zemko (bob), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The whole drunken tiger album - and a lot more besides - is on their website at:

http://drunkenstylez.cjb.net/

― b zuraw (bryan zuraw), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(the thing on sha!zam or whatever it's called now)

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 15 March 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite review is also Kogan: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0002/kogan.php

― Kris (aqueduct), Saturday, 15 March 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Momus on Patti Smith:

To be honest, Patti Smith's music is complete anathema to me. Caterwauling pretentiously over bluesy thrashes about a world in which artists = "niggers" = outsiders = freedom = Rimbaud = the Noble Savage and "there's a million membranes to break through"... Quite frankly, for me, there's more wisdom in an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM also never incited anyone to do atrociously rousing 20-minute cover versions of Gloria, or taught U2 and Sinead O'Connor politics.

― Bob Six, Thursday, 5 March 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

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