Former Music-Magazine Bigwig Now Slumming It As Music Blogger

Brian Raftery | November 17, 2006 11:17 am
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You won’t find his name on the site, but Andy Pemberton–the former editor-in-chief of Spin and Q, and current talking head on VH1’s Still Talkin’ Bout Those Crazy ’80s–has been semi-anonymously blogging on a site he’s calling MusicToob. And since this a guy who took such glee in axing members of the Spin staff surely he must be a first-rate music writer himself, right? Let’s take a look at his intro post:

This site is designed to bring you the best music videos available on the web. There will also be some accompanying text which, hopefully, will be illuminating. I hope you like it. Here’s one to get started. Like a Benjamin Britten poem set to music, it’s a song that tells you everything you need to know about the mix of wistfulness and melancholy England can inspire…

And blimeny gee, does it only get worse from there. Check the site for such mind-blowing revelations as “The Beatles: Good!” and “The Walkmen: I don’t like them, but here’s a video!”

MusicToob [musictoob.blogspot.com]