Ah, the humor impaired

One of the most valuable services the internet has provided is the demonstration that some people just cannot detect when something is a joke, no matter how obvious it is that that is in fact the case.

There's someone arguing with Warm Voices Rearranged over their review of Elvis Costello's Armed Forces who seems to be taking the entire thing seriously:

[warmvoices.blogspot.com]

Unless the Anonymous poster is also joking and I'm missing the joke.

I clicked the link and got scolded. Observe:

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HURT!

No access to a blog? Who cares?

Ever get the feeling you work for some real rat bastard fascist $%^&*s?

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Fine. I'll read it when I get home.

Obviously, your access to TP is uninhibited though. Our reputation must be squeaky clean.

maybe im a masocist or just have a warped sense of humor but i am deeply dissapointed that the site doesnt have a negative critique of the clash or the replacements.

something i have been doing lately is looking up really negative reviews of bands or movies that preety much 99.9 precent of people like including myself and try to see their side of the story.
example someone saying the clash or the beatles are a sophmoric band who cant play or write for shit or someone whon lists a epic movie as one star saying its the worst movie they ever saw

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omething i have been doing lately is looking up really negative reviews of bands or movies that preety much 99.9 precent of people like including myself and try to see their side of the story.

Whatever. All I know is ... guitar groups are on the way out.

@rebel See the Spin record guide review of London Calling. THink they gave it a 6 out of 10.

guitar groups are on the way out? Try Cymbals Eat Guitars. You'll believe.

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something i have been doing lately is looking up really negative reviews of bands or movies that preety much 99.9 precent of people like including myself and try to see their side of the story.

Have you ever tracked down this book?

[www.amazon.com]

Of course, that's a book dedicated to being contrarian in retrospect. It's probably more interesting to track down negative reviews that were current at the time the work was released.

See if you can find any of Michael Musto's reviews from Us magazine from the late 70s/early 80s. I remember him trashing London Calling and making fun of it for having a song about the Spanish Civil War on it ("That was Ernest Hemingway's war, kids!" I recall him writing) and calling The Jam's Setting Sons "Zero. The worst. It's a shame stuff like this gets released when there are so many talented American bands unsigned."

I think it was Musto anyway. I think he was the record reviewer for US back then, but I may be mistaken.



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> See the Spin record guide review of London Calling. THink they gave it a 6 out of 10.

Rob Sheffield wrote that review. He also wrote the Clash summary in the most recent edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide, in which London Calling got a five-star rating. Whatever, dude.