Dont no

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"beneficial in his endeavours of inspirational virtuosity, he brought forth emotional barricades to which the audience was compelled and enthralled in his every movement"

Admittedly, it's a bit flowery, but so what? I like being treated as an adult rather than a 12 year old.

Me like. Make brains bigger.

...stupid.

nah the quote is mine made it up to prove a point!

...of reading the NME in the early/mid 80's then? The worst sort of pretentious, meaningless sub-sixth form drivel you've ever read.

I'm looking at you Messrs Morley & Penman...

'dude'???

meaning of:
an easterner or city dweller who vacations in the west
"the west is the best"

but I would suggest that the problem with writers who misuse arcane language is that they DON'T know how to use a dictionary or thesaurus (or choose not to if they do).

Long words, unexpected metaphors or idioms can actually convey your views more succinctly and elegantly than plain prose - if chosen with care. If you get the tone and context right, you can even subtly introduce your readers to new words and concepts without alienating or patronising them (if you read Smash Hits in the 80s or early 90s, you'll know how brilliant they were at this).

What irritates me is when writers use words or phrases they themselves don't understand, banking on the assumption that their readers are less familiar with the terms than they are (to be fair, this happens in most areas of journalism, but does seem to be a particular vice of music writers). I recall reading a Sigur Ros album review in a "quality" newspaper, in which the writer (who shall remain nameless) suggested that "a working knowledge of North Germanic phonology" was necessary to pronounce the "voiced dental fricatives" in the song titles (if that were the case, most of us would struggle to speak English as the voiced dental fricative is what we know as the "th" sound - and I slept through Linguistics at uni!).

....that the least intelligible thing you could ever say is "the dude f**king* rocked!"

Here be trolls...

It reminds me of what my mother used to say about swearing, "A feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully."

You should always think of writing as casting a spell on the reader. Using inappropriate language jars the reader and therefore breaks the spell. If it doesn't fit take it out.

surely whatever works for the article or review is the bench mark.I think one can get a sense when it is just verbage. I love Morely and his extended flights of fancy, yet also feel the best and most profound review ever came from Charles Shaar Murray,his review of the album by Yes was...

"No".

the blog is a criticism of my own writing. a good writer should be able to express themselves through positive intellect and create debate! which we all are doing.
so thank you for your comments, it's proof there is intelligent life on planet rock.... nasa should be so lucky!

Weren't they Moxy Fruvous' backing band?

Just of them. However I may try to seek 'em out, now, having read the slightly self-reverent Wiki entry. More because they are Canadian than anything else, as I tend to like Canadians in music, Bryan Adams and the BareNaked Ladies excepted, obviously.

...that sounded like something else I didn't like either (which isn't much assistance in tracking it down, I agree) with gabbled vocals spread about various eager fat buffoons.
Sorry to be fattist; I like fat but they all look like the stereotyical fat kid in films about american school nerds, which I have only seen in trailers, I hasten to add........

I'm happy with a few big words thrown in, but it annoys me when you get an "easy read" of a review which then, towards the end, throws something in in a oops-better-look-more-intellligent way.

Especially when it's the same word every time, such as the media's recent over-use of "cerebral".

sooner if you use capital letters. At the beginning. Of new sentences.

And you point is lost on me. Use the most appropriate word. If it's short and well known then thats great. If it's longer and less known, get a dictionary and learn. If its inappropriate, complain at that point.

that are difficult to understand. I have a bigger problem with reviews that use persuasive arguments to promote a cd that is clearly crap.Joanna Newsom springs to mind but in recent months i have also seen completely over the top reviews of Bon Iver as just one example. His cd is okay but certainly not earth shattering as was the case presented by one of your rival mags.