Re: (TV) Record reviewers are often stupid

[Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>]

For fuck's sake, The Atlanta Rhythm Secton got a 5 star review in that thing.

M.



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From: Ty Burr <tyburr@comcast.net>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:01:23 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Record reviewers are often stupid

As I recall, that entire 1983 edition of the RS guide was the Dave Marsh show, with absurd snap judgments and conventional-wisdom trashing on every page. (Proustian confession: I liberated my copy from the RS stockroom where I had a part-time phone sales job during college, trying to talk mom-and-pop stores across America into carrying "that Comyewnist hippie magazine." This was during Wenner's coke days; he punched out the frosted glass in the lobby one evening.)

The 90s RS Record Guide threw all Marsh's stuff out and started from scratch, with results that were less loopy but much more bland. I kinda missed Marsh's snark, even when he was wrong. No idea where he is these days.

Ty

On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Russ wrote:

> They say time heals all wounds and wounds all heels - so what is Dave Marsh
> doing these days?  I remember Rolling Stone back in the day and how it could
> n't praise Television enough, or so that how it seemed to me. First heard of
> Television because of RS....
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Parts 1 & 2.
>> 
>> http://slushcity.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> Specifically, the 1983 edition of the The New Rolling Stone Record Guide.
>> 
>> --Phil
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