Originally posted by El Tee:
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Except that I would nitpick on one tiny point, and it's a nitpick so just take it as that.
I thought I only had one nitpick, turns out I have a few. Here's one that is glaring: "their syrupy harmonies and white bread hooks...". Is that an opinion or a misspelling?
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Okay, it's almost Friday, so I'll give one more pick - What is herky-jerky? More importantly, how is it relative to Post-Punk? [/b]
not that i use a thesaurus to come up with every adjective when i write, but this is a good example of "white bread" (i also thought it worked in with the food imagery i had going):
Main Entry: average
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: normal
Synonyms: boilerplate, common, commonplace, customary, everyday, fair, familiar, garden, garden-variety, general, humdrum, intermediate, mainstream, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, nowhere, ordinary, passable, plastic, regular, run-of-the-mill, so-so, standard, tolerable, typical, undistinguished, unexceptional, usual, vanilla, white bread
Main Entry: inoffensive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: harmless
Synonyms: calm, clean, friendly, humble, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, mild, neutral, nonprovocative, peaceable, pleasant, quiet, retiring, safe, unobjectionable, unobtrusive, unoffending, vanilla, white bread
if you really want to know, i was going to go with "jejune", but i didnt think that would fly in newspaper-speak
on the herky-jerky note, that's just how i imagine all that bloc party / futureheads / franz music, a lot of angular, jerky riffs and similar antics from the band members themselves ... on the post-punk thing, their music harkens back to a certain segment of post-punk music ... as you know, labels are meaningless, and post-punk encompassed a million and one styles from synthy goth to power-pop, but i see the crop of bands i was describing as a throwback to a certain group of early 80s "post-punkers" ... it's also certainly not an original comparison, it could be considered journalistically lazy, if it didn't apply so well ...
