Comments on: A Response to Rob Horning’s PopMatters Article http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/ someone warn the plains! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LondonLee http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/comment-page-1/#comment-314 LondonLee Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:26:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2006/01/a-response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters-article.html#comment-314 I must admit he is right about the "look at my cool record collection" tone which drives a lot of mp3 bloggers, including myself probably. Getting positive comments on a song you posted (especially one from someone who'd never heard it before) is like being a club DJ and putting on a record that makes the dancefloor go wild - very satisfying to the ego. I must admit he is right about the “look at my cool record collection” tone which drives a lot of mp3 bloggers, including myself probably. Getting positive comments on a song you posted (especially one from someone who’d never heard it before) is like being a club DJ and putting on a record that makes the dancefloor go wild – very satisfying to the ego.

]]> By: cgpop http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/comment-page-1/#comment-313 cgpop Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:51:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2006/01/a-response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters-article.html#comment-313 Nicely done, the reason I personally read mp3 blogs and download the music is b/c I enjoy music, first and foremost. I like to listen to well informed opinion (like yourself) and find new music to listen to. Dude (meaning Horning) needs to chill out w/ his "postmodern el nino/mp3 blogger doomsday scenario" as I now like to call it. Nicely done, the reason I personally read mp3 blogs and download the music is b/c I enjoy music, first and foremost. I like to listen to well informed opinion (like yourself) and find new music to listen to. Dude (meaning Horning) needs to chill out w/ his “postmodern el nino/mp3 blogger doomsday scenario” as I now like to call it.

]]> By: whb http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/comment-page-1/#comment-309 whb Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:19:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2006/01/a-response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters-article.html#comment-309 Yeah, you missed that point. Also, something about his mother... your piece was sorely lacking anything about the guy's mother and I really think it took away from you general thesis that he smells like poo. Yeah, you missed that point. Also, something about his mother… your piece was sorely lacking anything about the guy’s mother and I really think it took away from you general thesis that he smells like poo.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Brandon Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:59:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2006/01/a-response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters-article.html#comment-307 I think the point you missed is that Horning is fucking ugly ... and probably unrequitingly Horni. I think the point you missed is that Horning is fucking ugly … and probably unrequitingly Horni.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/01/response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Kevin Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:54:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2006/01/a-response-to-rob-hornings-popmatters-article.html#comment-304 Well done again, my friend. <br/><br/>I think your most lucent point here is Horning's failure to separate (well-written) mp3 blogs from bittorrent and other full-album downloading services. One of my main goals/purposes of the blog is to share WHY albums/songs/artists have such sentimental value to me, whether through a lyric or some meaningful moment in my life. I know it sounds corny, but I can string together recollections of my college days/early 20s through songs or albums. (I lived in Lubbock, Texas, for two years, and I can make a mixtape of the songs that got me through those years.)<br/><br/>Also important to note here, as you did, is mp3 blogs serving as a replacement for commercial radio. Payola scams and the Clear Channel monopoly make it more difficult to find originality on the radio. So where do people turn for new music? Or, more specifically, independent music? At least here in Arizona, I don't really trust radio. Even on Sirius' great Left of Center, if listened to a few days straight, you'll hear the same songs, almost ad nauseum. <br/><br/>Ah, this could go on and on, couldn't it? But I'm glad you linked to that because that's not a site I read regularly. Well done again, my friend.

I think your most lucent point here is Horning’s failure to separate (well-written) mp3 blogs from bittorrent and other full-album downloading services. One of my main goals/purposes of the blog is to share WHY albums/songs/artists have such sentimental value to me, whether through a lyric or some meaningful moment in my life. I know it sounds corny, but I can string together recollections of my college days/early 20s through songs or albums. (I lived in Lubbock, Texas, for two years, and I can make a mixtape of the songs that got me through those years.)

Also important to note here, as you did, is mp3 blogs serving as a replacement for commercial radio. Payola scams and the Clear Channel monopoly make it more difficult to find originality on the radio. So where do people turn for new music? Or, more specifically, independent music? At least here in Arizona, I don’t really trust radio. Even on Sirius’ great Left of Center, if listened to a few days straight, you’ll hear the same songs, almost ad nauseum.

Ah, this could go on and on, couldn’t it? But I’m glad you linked to that because that’s not a site I read regularly.

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