Real talent or just eye candy?

>>74085912
1-800-HOTDADS

i swear half the time this guy writes his "reviews" he's literally thinking of a different album. it'd explain the contrarian views, bizarre rating system and rants that have nothing to do with anything. he's like a more senile more autistic scaruffi.

>>74086006
I can respect him solely off the fact that he consistently put metal heads on suicide watch.

His long-form writing from the 70s up until the late 90s was very good.
His pieces on The Rolling Stones are some of the best writing on popular music ever.

>>74085912
based james chance clobbered this nigga lol

>>74085912
Lmao sure whatever you want to believe about this ugly old coot.

>>74086100
>ersatz shit

File: IMG_1359.png (355KB, 2048x1536px) Image search: [Google]

355KB, 2048x1536px

>>74086104
Christgau blew him out a little harder desu.

Also, he helped make No Wave popular in the first place...

>>74086006
How is he contrarian he likes literally all pop stars like Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Taylor Swift etc. And NO ONE could be more autistic than Scaruffi

>>74087686
anyone who doesnt recognize scaruffi's work as some of the most important in all rock critic doesn't deserve to be on this board desu.

>>74088172
Not him but tho he has contributed with great reviews and great analisis of musical history, it's always outshined by his most autistic and pretensious works

Neither.

>>74088258
that's only for autistic retards who don't bother researching his website properly. But much like artists I think you should judge people by their best,ofc he has said tons of cringy garbage.
>Critic is the real artist
>Beatles contemporaries didn't respect them

being 2 very strong examples.
But I am yet to see any websites other then his where I can find bands like Ed Hall or Forest fang. which literally no one talks about but him,to my knowledge.