What’s your problem with Norah Jones? That’s the second time you’ve hit her with a cheap shot in the last week. Let’s make fun of one of the more talented and deserving artists right now for no good reason and at the same time, hold up on high Britney Fucking Spears’ antics at every possible opportunity we get. I’m surprised your bosses let you post even a third of that bullshit.

Holy crap, I didn’t even read down further to see that you actually did have to mention some Spears minutia. Figures.

Billy Corgan is a douche with an annoying voice. If you’re going to abuse the legacy of a band that was famous a decade ago, at least have some talent to go along with it (Axl, yo!)

the velvet underground tracks are real…just not very good. And certainly no better than the versions that appear on the released record, as many have claimed.

what´s your problem with zeitgeist?
it´s an awesome title album!
I´m sure that you don´t know what it means
Come on billy!!
i trust in you

If Billy Corgan didn’t do pretentious and haughty things, he wouldn’t be Billy Corgan.

Zeitgeist is a good reason to live
thank you pumpkins

andrew me cago en tu madre

Zeitgeist? Whatever, as long as the music is good…

Yes, Britney, you are old. You were old back in 1999, so now, for the love of God, just GO AWAY!!

Nobody likes you.

Dear Mr. Corgan,

Don’t fuck this up.

– The Fans

Rolling Stone is so biased whenever they talk about BC, they always have something negative to say. Fuck that. Wait for the album to come out then they can be critics because the album will either be completely amazing or suck huge dick.

Norah’s “background noise” will be listened to long after the no-talent popsters and alt flavors of the moment get supplanted by the next round of over-produced twats. And McPhee’s showing is horrible by industry standards (and what was shipped out on the disc). This is one of the worst showings for an Idol yet. Terrible set up for a major release. A #2 doesn’t mean anything — it’s the 120k buyers out of 40m Idol fans that actually spent money on the disc that really count here.

Music news and information that you might actually use (sorry no Britney gossip):

http://www.direct-current .net

How can you consider yourselves a respectable music magazine when you diss Norah Jones and breathlessly disect the latest Britney Spears quote? Norah has proven last year that she is more eclectic than the mellow jazz songs that she is known for. Ex: The Little Willies and her collaboration with Mike Patton on “Sucker”. I am very disappointed by the “Background noise” remark. Come on, Rolling Stone! You can find deserving targets to criticize than an actually talented artist like Norah Jones.

I saw Britney’s booty…she is old!

Durn, that Norah Jones is a pretty lil’ thang! What’s her music like? Bet she lies about her age all the time!

Isn’t Norah Jones the favourite jazz noodler of lonely, perverted, trench-coated, middle-age businessmen who want to hear a 20-something sexpot breathe love songs into their headphones while they’re masturbating to Japanese porn and still feel like they’re “into” new music? Because those are only people I see buying her CDs whenever I go into Best Buy. Otherwise her music is interchangeable with dozens of other young jazz muffins. Her face is just more marketable.

The Velvet Underground in their prime (the Nico, John Cale years) would smoke every act around today. They were loud, talented, brilliant, uncompromising and angry. The Velvets’ first album still sound relevant and contemporary. You could record the same album today and critics and hipsters would be falling over themselves to come up with new ways to praise it.

Like The Stooges, the Velvets can be said to have made music that still struggles to find an audience today because it doesn’t sound like “classic rock” should. That’s a big part of the way a lot of 20-somethings relate to bands who had their last hit record a decade or two before they were born.

For example, “Classic Rock” is an aggressively marketed genre of music that targets young men who have yet to listen to and buy their copies of Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. But while “Stairway to Heaven” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” sound like the time in history that produced them (late 60’s, early 70’s), and are now accepted as harmless relics even by conservatives, “Heroin” from The Velvet Underground & Nico cannot be dismissed by parents and politicians so easily (I figure it gets a pass from scrutiny because of it’s age and invisibility to all but devoted VU fans.) It’s still as explicit about it’s subject matter as rap songs today are about drugs, violence and misogyny. It doesn’t have a 60’s context that puts the song in it’s time. It could have been written today about a heroin addict and not be considered dated.

Also, let’s face it, the baby boomers who control the world today deliberately spare their own music from criticism: a lack of profanity should not mean drug, sex and race-related albums like “Sticky Fingers” should be exempt from a parental advisory sticker, unless it’s the Stones’ first generation of fans who are making up the rules. Chew on that.

Classic rock therefore becomes the new thing the “kids” are into, but not if, like The Stooges’s “Raw Power”, your music embarrasses today’s 20-something acts who can’t match the intangible fury and dysfunctional charisma of “Raw Power”, or “The Velvet Underground & Nico”.

Competent musicianship, glossy production and professionally-assembled songs are fine, but the majority of today’s bands (a rare exception is Sleater-Kinney) are spineless. Like Green Day, they gently imply dissidence with the powers-that-be, but they never publicly, expressly side with explicit anti-Bush-administration forces and accept, like adults, the unpleasant consequences that come of it.

They’re too afraid of being Dixie Chick’d out of radio play, CD sales and concert dates. That’s just weak because no band that castrates their music for those reasons can truly say that they’re a rock band.

These pussy-whipped corporate lapdog bands reinforce the climate of fear and Orwellian state of mind control they claim to oppose. It takes a guy in his 60’s like Neil Young to say bravely and clearly “Let’s Impeach the President.” Neil Young, a Canadian living in the United States, believes more in the American spirit of skepticism of authority than the majority of Americans!

School’s out, children.

haha…britney spears is funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NORAH JONES IS BORING

hehe Norah Jones is a pretty lil’ thing, but her music is quite boring.

Springsteen losing the Grammy t Norah Jones in 2003, that’s how I associate her name these days.

I live 30 minutes from rock im park,germany I will have my ticket in hand for the smashing pumpkins reunion,3 days of rock!!! Ill let u guys know how it goes down in June.

WHAT HAS TAKEN YOU SOOOO LONG NORAH!? I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR LATEST MASTERPIECE AND FINALLY I NOW HAVE IT IN MY HANDS. REAL MUSIC AT LAST!