Comments on: News That Radiohead And Nine Inch Nails May Be Headlining Lollapalooza Prompts More Comment-Section Humorlessness Than Ever

By: Putney Swope Sequel

Putney Swope Sequel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:41:10 +0000

@drjimmy11: Did you just call License to Ill better than Paul's Boutique?!

YOU ARE THE EXACT PERSON I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS THE BEASTIE BOYS BACK CATALOG WITH.

By: boobaloob

boobaloob — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:14:23 +0000

This is a hilarious — I ran into that entry in Kot’s blog and read all those comments you’re writing about before reading this post, and I thought *all* of the same things you did — christ, what a bunch of assholes. The Creep comment was clearly tongue-in-cheek. And even if it wasn’t, so fucking what?

By: byproxy

byproxy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:47:18 +0000

It’s a pretty great song live and do fratboys still go to radiohead anymore anyways?

By: Silverfuture

Silverfuture — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:22:28 +0000

First!

I saw Radiohead (with Belly, maybe?) when Creep was all the rage. All of the mellow kids tired to get thier mosh on when those crunchy guitars came in. I'd never ever seen 150 people all simultaneously tumble to the floor like dominoes before, but it happened, and it was hilarious.

By: NoOneCaresAboutYourFuckingBlog

NoOneCaresAboutYourFuckingBlog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:03:03 +0000

Well, to be fair, we could change Wikipedia right now to say they’ve played Creep any number of times since 2001….

By: StarlingSlipstream

StarlingSlipstream — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:47:27 +0000

Jambase.com’s commenters are the worst, but they blow away even Pollstar in the amount of tourdate information they have.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:36:20 +0000

True fact: I would be the pedant in that thread, except I don't know off hand how many times they've played Creep on the last few tours, and wouldn't look it up.

I'd just mention that, you know. They have. And I've got bootlegs to prove it.

In general: I guess I don't mind if the Chicago show was Lollapalooza. I'd still go. But it would make me even more glad that I got pit tickets for the St. Louis show, which won't be some truncated festival set.

By: GhostOfDuane

GhostOfDuane — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:29:44 +0000

if you’re posting on absurd commenting now, you should check out my work on jambase.com over the last few weeks. man firing up folks over there is like blasting bearded burnout fish in a tiny, tiny barrel. and the barrel has a phish logo on the side. and the fish are already disoriented from years of psychotropic substance abuse.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:23:50 +0000

these ... great bands

I'll let you have Radiohead, even though I think at some point Thom stopped in his local Barnes & Noble and picked up a copy of "How to start taking yourself far too seriously, become 'experimental', and pose as if you're embarrassed by your earlier, more straight-ahead work, even if, considered objectively, it is much better music" by Diamond, Horowitz, and Yauch.

But anyway, if calling Nine Inch Nails a "great band" is snobbery, I'd hate to see lowest common denominator.

By: Recury

Recury — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:50:54 +0000

Ooh, it has a “is this really news?” comment and a “someone else already posted this” comment, making it an example of Everything Irksome About Blog Commentating too.

By: Darth Funk

Darth Funk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:48:32 +0000

it’s obviously phife dog from a tribe called quest. a duh.

By: joshservo

joshservo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:48:10 +0000

I now have a lifetime goal. To be the guy who is eternally the exact person people like "Phife" don't want to see at any given show. Look for me at Coachella. I'll be the one in a Rocklahoma shirt, yelling at Beth Gibbons to take of her top, and give me some port-a-john Portishead.

Also, how did "Phife" decide on his name? Was "Pras" taken?

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:47:19 +0000

Yeah, they played it the last time they played Coachella (’04?). FWIW, the crowd seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.