<![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:13:55 EDT Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:13:55 EDT http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans]]> http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans#c4614162 Enough is enough.

This is the 21st century and there is no reason why we're still fussed with guitars.

A blanket ban on the instrument in all its forms should be put into immediate effect.

This will get rid of the "rock lead guitarist", the "college indie strummer" and the Sonic Youth inspired wanker all in one efficient move. Studios will be equipped with the Roland 808, mellotrons and glockenspiels. Popular music will be instantly richer.

Our descendants will thank us.

angshu

]]> 33:363477:c4614162 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:13:55 EDT <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans]]> http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans#c4608723 If i remember correctly, the Revolver review of NERD's first album called it "hip-hop's Pet Sounds"-so maybe they were better off sticking to rock.

I was 13 when Revolver first starting publishing and I think I bought their first four or five issues. These issues included an interview with Alex Chilton, a consumer's guide to the Yo La Tengo back-catalog (adjacent to their review of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out) and footnotes explaining all the semi-obscure references in their interviews and articles. All in all, a good resource for an aspiring adolescent rock snob.

Putney Swope Sequel

]]> 33:363477:c4608723 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:36:45 EST <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans]]> http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans#c4530862 I liked Revolver before it went heavy metal - it was a magazine that I actually liked reading.

Now that honor has been shifted to Blender, because I'm just not all that into Rolling Stone or SPIN (well, not as much as I was in college for the latter).

scarletvirtue

]]> 33:363477:c4530862 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:59:45 EST <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans]]> http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans#c4527295 Oh, how I miss Rip. I learned about so many bands, good and bad, from it's glossy pages. Friend wrote Life on Planet Rock, a light but interesting book a year or two ago, that I recommend if you're looking for some rock fluff...

Silverfuture

]]> 33:363477:c4527295 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:52:55 EST <![CDATA["Revolver" Takes Aim At Metal's Devoted Fans]]> http://idolator.com/363477/revolver-takes-aim-at-metals-devoted-fans#c4520456 Revolver switched formats to metal in the middle of my subscription. I'm still pissed off.

Chris N.

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