• No more three-, four-, five-word (or more) band names. Panic at the Disco would have to be renamed Disco Panic, TV on the Radio would be Radio/TV, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead would be Dead Trail, and so on.
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Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
2009: Armchair Music Critic
These were the comments submitted with my ballot for the Pazz & Jop music critics' poll for 2008:
Ironically, I finished my ballot the same day the lame-duck congress authorized the massive music industry bailout. There was a great deal of wrangling on both sides, but in the end it was agreed that without any action, the music biz as we know it would cease to exist. Record company weasels did their cause some damage when they were caught snorting coke in a Capitol Hill restroom, and so had to agree to some painful concessions. Among them:
• No more three-, four-, five-word (or more) band names. Panic at the Disco would have to be renamed Disco Panic, TV on the Radio would be Radio/TV, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead would be Dead Trail, and so on.
• No more three-, four-, five-word (or more) band names. Panic at the Disco would have to be renamed Disco Panic, TV on the Radio would be Radio/TV, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead would be Dead Trail, and so on.
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