Scaruffi general thread
>>121435533Will there ever be another 9/10?
>>121435533Why does he suck off nu metal so much?Also checked
>>121435595I don't know. I feel like there needs to be another musical renaissance for one to pop up. All of his 9s came out of young genres or movements.
>>121435595No way. Rock music is done, and he doesn't seem to like rap all that muchUnless... that upcoming taylor swift album...
what do you all think of his review of Diamond Jubilee?
>>121437712scruffy will pan that boring shit hard
>>121435533Sorry to say it, but Scaruffi lost me as a fan forever with this one
>>121435533There's nothing to talk about
>>121437712Stop posting this fake, misleading crap.
>>121435634Because he's based
>>121437307Noteable lack of electronic albums.
>>121441000There's Bricolage and Ambient 1, so there's more electronic than there is Hip Hop
>>121441787True point, and it's a decided lack of hip hop. How infuriating.
>>121441000Is there any electronic you can think of that would fit up there? Any time I have heard it get good, it is always becoming more along the lines of classical music with a different palette.
>>121440971good taste
>>121435533I have listened to more scaruffi 6.5s and 7s more than anyone else in this board. AMA
>>121439003Yes there is. Scaruffi's 6.5-7.5 are barely discussed or brought up by anyone here, and most of them are really good. Wouldn't have discovered any other way since some of them have like 50 monthly listeners on Spotify, not recent bands but 90s gems.
>>121442348I'm surprised he doesn't have much passion for Burial, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, etc.
>>121444365Kraftwerk is highly rated by him. a 6.5 by his metric is like an 8 or 9 for others >>121441000He put me on tons of good electronic music, like Terminal Sound System, Amon Tobin, Funki Porcini, Mu-Ziq, Appliance and much more. Just because something is not rated 8 does not mean he does not appreciate it, I'd say he's a good resource for electronic that is focused on composition and texture
>>121438950More like blowjob it hard to stay relevant lmao. Easy 7/10.
>>121441000Irrlicht, Suicide, Neu, Soft Machine, Jon Hassell, Diamanda Galas, Steve Reich, Tortoise are all (proto-)electronic
>>121444663Doesn't count.
>>121444709>Doesn't count.You haven't beat the game then
>>121444852What game?
>>121441803That chart doesn't list all his 8s though the only hip-hop record he's given that score is Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions. There's a decent amount of records in the 7-7.5 range at least.
>>121444859Dark Souls
Lmao
>>121445341Embarrassing
>>121444312What are you having for lunch?
>>121445384Wasabi slurry with fish
>>121437307The ones I really like here are just the Syd Barret stuff and Not Available. There's some other great stuff of course but that's just what I like
>>121440971Dr Strangelove was pretty unfunny even if it would normally be up my alley. It's only relevant because it spoke to the current generation and their fears and whatnot. If anything it's relevant for the same reason Lain is to terminally online zoomers. They may have some cultural meaning but as a piece of work they're just good at best
>>121440971Fassbinder mentioned
>>121446395dogbowl mogs barret
do you think scaruffi will review 3776 and chiyono solo albums? he did for some other jap pop musichttps://youtu.be/2dOgcja5xvs
>>121435533Hot take: I find his 8's overwhelmingly better than his 9's.
>>121447778This is definitely the case. The 9s he promotes are typically crazily obtuse and experimental.
>>121444553Really now? I never got into Electronic music because it's mostly either party music or ambient which I don't really care for.
>>121437307>the only good albums are VU & Nico and LovelessWhat a pleb
>>121437307Morphine are so mid, I never got it
>>121447976Morphine is fedora-tier.
>>121447760If you nag him enough about it over email he might do it. I don't think he'd care that much about it though.
>>121448120He never replied to mine. I always call him a filthy gumba wop in them. Maybe that's why
>>121448120I wonder if he'd like Sheena Ringo or Susumu Hirasawa though. But I'm probably not gonna email him about anymore stuff. I'm pretty sure I was the guy who got him to review Fishmans, which he didn't care for.
A fine good looking gentleman and a scholar
>>121437307None of this albums are better than Rubber Soul
>>121445532haha that feels like an eternity ago that i saw the guy recall bourdain sushi shlock story
who?
>Ramones: 7>Rocket to Russia: 8i will never understand this
>>121441000I think that's just his rock list. It's missing his jazz picks.
if your an artist who lurks /mu/ and is savvy of these things a reasonable milestone for your music would be to get a review from this guy, most think it'd be fantano but fantano is too easy
>>121447976That slide bass is aural sex
>>121451121Piero Scaruffi, a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence.
>>121440971>Riget/Kingdomuh, based?
>>121437712What a clown, idiot can't translate his own text
>>121440971Is he stuck in time? There's just old shit on his list
>>121452111Old movies mog new movies
>>121446418Dr. Strange love is one of the only comedies from the 20th century that holds up though. And it holds up better than most comedies in general.
>>121452111Love Exposure was from 2008 and like the other anon said, older movies were generally better. There was more artistry.
>>121452068It's not real.
>>121448120>I don't think he'd care that much about it though.its leftfield music and as i said he reviewed other jap pop music like that happy hardcore anime girl>I don't think he'd care that much about it though.elaborate?
as musical sourcesjohn peel radio program>the critic scaruffithe curator over the meanigless critic
>>121456298>not grabbing their waist I cant take his opinions seriously anymore
>>121445341based
>>121448120I wish the tranny discords would stop e-mailing him to review their crap.
His worst take is on Les Rallizes Denudes.
>>121457400that's something that i noted. tons of rym fag shit reviewed by him. it also helps that the guy tend to overrated fag related content>the tranny discords would stop e-mailing him to review their crap.how's that?
>>121447976Morphine's definitely his weirdest 9. It's an okay night walker band I guess. Compared to the other zany shit that gets a super rare 9 from it's extremely underwhelming though.
>>121457450It's kind of apparent for many years now he doesn't really care to look into new stuff that much, and is relying on e-mail recs. Unsurprisingly rym hipster fags are the kind of people e-mailing him, many of whom are tranny's. The sewerslvt stuff recently was probably their notorious discord spam brigade pestering him for a while.
>>121457521>their notorious discord spam brigade pestering him for a while.what a pathetic bunch.
>>121451277Maybe you should read his reviews then>The new-wave band that was going to have the greatest impact worldwide was the most unlikely one: the Ramones, who simply played inept rock'n'roll at supersonic speed. Their frenzy was not exactly intellectual, and certainly had no artistic ambition, but was exactly what legions of frustrated kids had been waiting for. Inspired by New York Dolls and Dictators, Ramones (1976), a rapid-fire collection of brief songs that were intentionally demented and clownish, invented the most significant genre of the last quarter century of the 20th century. Blitzkrieg Bop stands as the anthem that woke up a slumbering generation. Rocket To Russia (1977), their masterpiece, was the ultimate item of "junk art": a ridiculous catalog of rockabilly, surf music, Mersey-beat and bubblegum music, but charged with the violence of the slums. Teenage Lobotomy and Rockaway Beach were as irresistible as devoid of instrumental or vocal skills. A few more classics followed, although Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio (1980) and Bop Til You Drop (1987) flirted with heavy-metal and missed the exuberant recklessness of their early days
>>121457416why?
>>121454812"Don't fight in the war room" wow that shits hilarious. You see the joke is they said not to fight in the place where they talk about fighting this is some fairly godparents tier writing>
>>121437307It's like he has a worse version of my tastes lol.
>>121459748poast chart
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>>121460298good one
>>121460285Don't have one but Gong>Robert Wyatt for canterbury scene, DOM>Faust for krautrock, PiL>Pere Ubu for post-punk, Robbie Basho>Fahey for american primitivism, literally anything>Royal Trux the list goes on... most of his picks are honestly normie picks for these genres.
are there any other rock/pop critics alive who compare to him? even from the latter half the 20th century?