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Old 05-21-2008, 10:07 AM   #1
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Talking Stealing Gish (no i didn't steal it)


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So, I got in a heap of trouble over Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish. Was it worth it? Hell no. Nowadays I hardly like that album, and tend to skip it when it pops up on shuffle mode. It was a solid album for the day, especially considering it was their first LP and we were only just getting to know these pumpkin kids. It would’ve been worth stealing, sure, but certainly not worth the trouble of getting caught. Therein lies the question, my friends: What album would be?
Kind of random.. but i do like the art work.

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Old 05-21-2008, 12:32 PM   #2
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What kind of name for a music review blog is "Crawdaddy"?

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 01:19 PM   #3
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Crawdaddy is really old actually. Lookie:


Crawdaddy! was the first U.S. magazine of rock and roll music criticism.
Preceding both Rolling Stone and Creem, Crawdaddy! is regarded as the U.S. pioneer of rock journalism, and was the training ground for many rock writers just finding the language to describe rock and roll music, which was only then beginning to be written about as seriously as folk and jazz. The zine spawned the career of numerous rock music critics. Early contributing writers included Jon Landau, Sandy Pearlman, and Richard Meltzer.
Paul Williams, the founder and original editor of Crawdaddy!, left the magazine in 1968, going on to write over 25 books. From 1993-2003 Williams self-published a reincarnation of the magazine. As of 2007, it has been sold to Wolfgang's Vault and resurrected as a webzine that aims to enliven the genre of rock journalism with articles that address the foundational bands of rock 'n' roll, today's newer up-and-coming bands and important issues in the contemporary music industry.
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1 Zine roots
2 Mass market magazine
3 Rename and closure
4 Later relaunches
5 External links
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Named after the legendary Crawdaddy Club in England at which the Rolling Stones played their first gig, Crawdaddy! was started on the campus of Swarthmore College in 1966 by Paul Williams. Williams was a science fiction fan with an interest in rock music who at the age of 17 started mimeographing and distributing a collection of criticisms (at first mostly his own) about rock and roll music and musicians. (He had begun publishing a science fiction fanzine, Within, at the age of 14, and later recruited some of his fellow fans to help.[1]Apparatchik #69, November 1, 1996 ) Crawdaddy! quickly moved from its fanzine roots to become one of the first rock music "prozines", with newsstand distribution.
You are looking at the first issue of a magazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy! will feature neither pin-ups nor news-briefs; the specialty of this magazine is intelligent writing about pop music.... -- issue No. 1, February 7, 1966
[edit]Mass market magazine

Crawdaddy! briefly suspended publication in 1969, but returned, with its title unpunctuated, in 1970, with national mass market distribution, first as a quarterfold newsprint tabloid, then as a standard-sized magazine. It continued through the decade, led by editor-in-chief Peter Knobler (who first wrote for Crawdaddy! in 1968) with senior editor Greg Mitchell, featuring contributions from Joseph Heller, John Lennon, Tim O'Brien, Michael Herr, Dan Aykroyd, P.J. O'Rourke, Cameron Crowe, and Martin Mull, plus a roster of columnists including at times William S. Burroughs, Paul Krassner, David G. Hartwell, the Firesign Theater, and sometimes even Williams himself. While on the run from the law, Abbie Hoffman was Crawdaddy 's travel editor. Among Crawdaddy's scoops: the first major profile of Bruce Springsteen, written in December, 1972[citation needed] by Peter Knobler with special assistance from Greg Mitchell. Crawdaddy "discovered" Springsteen in the rock press and was his earliest champion. As the decade progressed, the Crawdaddy staff included Tim White (later editor of Billboard), Mitch Glazer (now a screenwriter), Denis Boyles, John Swenson, and Jon Pareles (currently a chief music writer at The New York Times). Because of such notable talent, Crawdaddy has been described as the Buffalo Springfield of the rock magazine world.
Crawdaddy was known for its well-written, insightful profiles of musicians, athletes and people in 1970s popular culture, including Sly Stone, Bob Marley, the Who, Mel Brooks, John Belushi, Jack Nicholson, Ted Nugent, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, and Roy Orbison. The magazine covered scenes from New Orleans funk to Austin's cosmic cowboys to est to disco. Its renowned sense of humor produced the Crawdoodah Gazette and "The Assassination Please Almanac". In 1976, the magazine published the first in-depth article on the life and bizarre death of country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons, anticipating the wealth of information published about him years later. Mitchell went on to write numerous books and is now the editor of Editor and Publisher magazine. Knobler and Mitchell edited the book Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the pages of Crawdaddy, published in 1995.
[edit]Rename and closure

Under Peter Knobler's editorship Crawdaddy's focus expanded to cover more general aspects of popular culture, particularly politics and movies, and in 1979 the magazine changed its title to Feature. When the music business retrenched, Feature lost much of its advertising revenue, and after three issues at the beginning of 1979, it ceased publication. Knobler went on to collaborate on numerous best-selling books, including the political memoir All's Fair by James Carville and Mary Matalin and the autobiographies of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, Governor Ann Richards, police commissioner William Bratton, and Sumner Redstone.
[edit]Later relaunches

Paul Williams reclaimed the punctuated title in 1993, publishing 28 issues until financial pressures forced him to end its run in 2003.
In 2006, Williams sold the rights to the Crawdaddy! name, as well as all of his published works in back issues and a handful of his authored books, to Wolfgang's Vault, a small San Francisco-based company. The magazine re-launched as an online publication in May of 2007 at www.crawdaddy.com with editor-in-chief Jocelyn Hoppa orchestrating the resurrection of the magazine, equipped with the added advantage of video and mp3 capability.
The newest incarnation of the magazine, released weekly on the internet, has taken to writing about rock 'n' roll with the same ethics as Williams originally intended (the original Crawdaddy! credo[2]): articulate writing about music that focuses on rock's ability to reflect complex cultural and political aspects of society. The magazine features a wide range of content: re-published original Crawdaddy! articles by Williams, reviews of new albums (Spoon, The White Stripes, Dinosaur Jr, M. Ward, Ryan Adams, Art Brut), discussions about the state of the music industry today, and interviews with notable figures of rock 'n' roll.

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 03:34 PM   #4
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"a solid album for their day, considering it was their first lp and we were just getting to know these pumpkin kids"?

what an idiot

i'm gonna grab my copy of gish and bludgeon him with it

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 05:54 PM   #5
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I wish I would've been caught stealing "Gish". Unfortunately for me, it was Temple of the Dog

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 06:08 PM   #6
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Getting caught stealing Gish is sweet. That's old school right there. Old album, and it's a fucking cd...no one gets those anymore lolzzzz

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 06:28 PM   #7
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"a solid album for their day, considering it was their first lp and we were just getting to know these pumpkin kids"?

what an idiot

i'm gonna grab my copy of gish and bludgeon him with it

why?

do you think he's an idiot for saying 'kids'/being quirky?

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 06:42 PM   #8
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I wish I would've been caught stealing "Gish". Unfortunately for me, it was Temple of the Dog
Ain't nothing wrong with Temple of the Dog. Now if you think otherwise I'm glad you got caught.

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 07:27 PM   #9
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do you think he's an idiot for saying 'kids'/being quirky?
no, just his opinion is superficial and stupid. to say gish was "a good album for its day" but to say you hate it now is kind of ridiculous- its not like some disposable pop record or album of some fad genre. its pretty unique and you don't have to be an expert musician to see how complex and different it is compared to any other record of its time. gish might reflect a certain period in time for the band, but it doesn't sound "dated" by any stretch of the imagination, because its still more sophisticated than most rock albums being put out today.

the guy who wrote this article isn't really a music fan, he's a shallow consumerist dweeb

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 07:40 PM   #10
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Getting caught stealing Gish is sweet. That's old school right there. Old album, and it's a fucking cd...no one gets those anymore lolzzzz
Did yo read TFA? It was a tape, dude.

Anyway, I'm an ass.

 
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Old 05-21-2008, 11:16 PM   #11
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no, just his opinion is superficial and stupid. to say gish was "a good album for its day" but to say you hate it now is kind of ridiculous- its not like some disposable pop record or album of some fad genre. its pretty unique and you don't have to be an expert musician to see how complex and different it is compared to any other record of its time. gish might reflect a certain period in time for the band, but it doesn't sound "dated" by any stretch of the imagination, because its still more sophisticated than most rock albums being put out today.

the guy who wrote this article isn't really a music fan, he's a shallow consumerist dweeb
i keep re-reading this and i can't comment it just makes me laugh

 
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Old 05-22-2008, 09:08 AM   #12
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Crawdaddy is really old actually.
You're going to half to repeat that. The youngins were busy masturbating to the "Donate Hard, Donate Long" banner.

 
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Old 05-23-2008, 01:03 AM   #13
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i keep re-reading this and i can't comment it just makes me laugh
Damn, it just made me CRY.

 
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Old 05-23-2008, 08:19 AM   #14
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