Comments on: Stephen Troussé’s Review of “Acolyte” by Delphic

By: Dutch

Dutch — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:39:52 +0000

Wow, I’m sorry I came late to the urination contest. I wish we could all just get along, but that’s not likely. Please allow me to be the unofficial and independant arbitrator.Jersey, please just shut the fuck up. Simply change the channel. Don’t like what Matt’s doing? Don’t read it fer crissakes. Barry? Carry on. Matt? If you don’t carry on, all hope is lost.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:30:01 +0000

Peter Saville did the art design for Factory’s record covers. His work is pretty famous, and almost synonymous with Factory. The Blue Monday 12″ was rumoured to lose the label money for every copy sold because the sleeve was so expensive to manufacture.

By: barry

barry — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:44:17 +0000

I, too, am disappointed that Matt isn’t Carrot Top, and I disagree with the premise that negative criticism is never justified. If I could tweak his mission statement, perhaps I would. And I do wish Wendus weren’t so lazy.

You know what, dude? You’re totally right! Maybe you should start a blog or something.

By: Jersey

Jersey — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:35 +0000

barry, this is fun, I’m not sure why you’re getting your panties in such a twist

You’re right that most of the reviews Matt singles out blow serious chunks. If this blog billed itself simply as a snarkfest, and if Matt were funnier than he is, this could be amazing. But he has set his sights higher (see the self-important mission statement on the About page) and he can’t help but make unsupported claims that detract from what he’s trying to do. Just to repeat, he wrote here that NO publicly aired negative music criticism is justified–do you agree with that? Ripfork has serious potential that’s being wasted by a writer who is just as lazy as the people he’s mocking.

By: barry

barry — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:47:04 +0000

Jersey –

Look at how seriously you take yourself! Getting all tied up in knots about a little blog. Wow.