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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
OK, this is escalating beyond what is reasonably tolerable.  I gave that TS thing a swift (sorry - for the bad pun, that is) run-through (sorry not sorry; I couldn't bear to listen to it all in full detail) and from what I could gather (please don't make me do it again) it's absolutely nowhere near the level of Tapestry, MUCH LESS Blue - I mean, unless you're comparing cheekbones, Joni and Swift might as well be different species. American Pie, meanwhile, is... these clusters of rhyme after rhyme that add up to a pool of nothingness. What can I tell ya, g.!
As for being too noise cool for pop school, anyone who reads the torrent announcements thread (I think there's, like, two of you who do  ) knows I certainly don't spend the whole week surrounded only by blasts of depraved atonal fuck-you rackets. So I'm off the hook on that front at least.  |
I do look at that thread!!
I wasn't trying to say that
folklore or
evermore are just as good as
Blue or
Tapestry. I just wanted to throw out a couple of famous "singer-songwriter" albums. I thought (perhaps wrongly) that this was all about the
kind of albums Taylor Swift made.
I love my Sonic Youth and Swans and Merzbow and King Gizzard and Electric Wizard, etc etc etc, but I will never be a snob about any genre or any artist if they make a good song.
Fucking Bee Gees have made many good songs.
Sue me.
Edit: I note that you gave it a partial, "swift" run through. Sigh....