Why not? Oasis made just as many essential studio albums (which is to say, 2). The difference is Noel Gallagher is still around and making decent music.

That's a good distinction to draw. What you're talking about is the origins of the 'ironic' rock star, which was codified by Kurt Cobain. The idea that 'authentic' musicians shouldn't want to be stars, and should sublimate their ego to the music, man. That attitude produced a lot of great music, but also a lot of…

Especially in the early-mid 2000s, when every other indie rock mediocrity claimed to be influenced by Joy Division, Wire, Gang Of Four, PiL, et al.

But every music scene is full of assholes.
Except prog rock. That's full of nerds.

More like proto goth-metal. Their early singles as Southern Death Cult were pure Batcave goth, while by Electric they were a poor man's AC/DC.
Love was the sweet spot in between. Back when all the best music that's now grouped into discrete categories was dubbed 'college rock'

I've never bought the line that punk is any less ridiculous than hair metal. All that political posturing and retro-stylisation. How are The Cramps and The Misfits any less silly than Ratt or Warrant, except in how they're more self-conscious about it?

They're using the word 'objectivity', when what they're really talking about is impartiality.

I think after enough time has passed (and the elitists leave the game) new forms come to be reconsidered. Look at how these days in music criticism 'rock' music, with its emphasis on 'authenticity' and skill, is derided, with populist pop is celebrated. As a consequence, disco is now retroactively considered unfairly…

Great answer.
I read because I wanted to experience things from other perspectives, preferably things I couldn't get from real life. Which explains why most of my faves were fantasy books with female lead characters (I'm male). The literary quality of the writing didn't enter into it.

Funnily enough, I was big into him in high school. Then I got into YA as a 30-year-old.
No regrets here either.

You obviously haven't read the Hunger Games.
Which is beside the point anyway, as they address completely different themes. Battle Royale is about Japan's tendency to demonize youth, while The Hunger Games is about how asymmetiral warfare creates a cycle of violence.

The discussion around the supposed 'immaturity' of adult YA readers seems to be predicated on the idea that if they weren't reading YA, they'd be reading Dostoevsky or Cormac McCarthey or something, instead of reading books that are marketed to adults but which really aren't any better (and sometimes much worse) than…

Fair enough. Apologies if I misread that comment.
I'd argue that that isn't a YA-only phenomenon. There are adults who, if they read, they only read Stephen King, or Tom Clancy, or Nicholas Sparks, et al.

Favorite Earle songs, GO!

That attitude has been around forever. Doesn't mean it should continue.

So basically you're saying that all adult YA readers are undiscriminating morons who read solely for wish-fulfillment and can't handle 'real' literature?
Way to miss the point of the article.

*sigh* You mean Battle Royale, that film that has approximately the same basic superficial premise, but which deals with an entirely different set of ideas regarding an entirely different culture in an entirely different manner for an entirely different message?

"weird and cruel to both her and the audience"

That happened to her in the Secret Avengers comic recently (only it was A.I.M., not HYDRA) so I wouldn't be surprised.

The annoying thing is, she was also the voice of Katara, the greatest cartoon female role model of all time. Why isn't she remembered for that instead?