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By: Where Worlds Collide » Blog Archive » Another victory in the Prog Wars?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:37:18 +0000

[...] We never managed to get an apology out of Tony Naylor. [...]

By: bob

bob — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:41:32 +0000

Actually Stuart stayed pretty quiet IIRC.

In fact, he’s quite a big fan of prog – Gentle Giant are one of his favourite bands and I saw him in the foyer waiting to go into a Yes gig about 3 or 4 years ago.

Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder aren’t really my thing, but I wouldn’t condemn anyone for liking them. They clearly did some work that is worthy of respect even if I don’t find much in it to match my tastes. But I don’t think we should turn it into an either/or thing; otherwise we make the same mistake as the Guardian journalist.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:39:43 +0000

Did you all see Stuart Maconie and David Quantick following the usual prog-bashing party line on Pop On Trial: The 70′s? Then they predictably brown-nosed Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, which was my cue to turn off.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:27:54 +0000

And in another equally stupid blog today he admits to being in his early 30s. Which means he'd have been two or three years old in 1976. Too young to actually have been there. Explains why he's swallowed the revisionist narrative wholesale.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:47:39 +0000

>>Iâ€™ll cheerfully do a better job for nowt! You already do. I pay more attention to your blog (among others) than I do to any music rag, even "Classic Rock" (a.k.a. Guns'N'Roses monthly)

By: HippyDave

HippyDave — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:37:42 +0000

Oh, my. Fantastic! I haven’t laughed like that for months. Well done, sir (and the other commenters, of course)…

What an arse, eh? They actually pay a moron like that to write music reviews? Christ, I’ll cheerfully do a better job for nowt!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:00:32 +0000

Note how so many commentors are both better writers and better framers of arguments than Naylor. And unlike him, none of them were paid for it (I don’t *think* any of them were Guardian staffers, although one or two might have been).

Shows how peer-to-peer nature of the Blogosphere is better in many ways than the top-down model of dead tree journalism.

By: NRT

NRT — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:54:30 +0000

Nope, you’re wrong.

Couldn’t agree more. Naylor was acting like an arse; his ‘more-NME-than-thou’ attitude would have been laughable if the Guardian hadn’t paid him to spout it. Okay, normally I would recommend just ignoring that sort of nonsense (literally non-sense), but a few prods got him frothing and nicely destroyed his credibility as a music reviewer (and remember, as the NME says, credibility is all). Well done.