Lazy journalism - generally awful goth article

[mrph]

I was expecting better from the Grauniad, especially after the recent review of Paul Hodkinson's book. *sigh*

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,795915,00.html

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[zotz]

It's terribly researched. Really really abysmally. I read the Grauniad six days a week and I don't think they've published an article quite as underinformed in years. Let's see . . . he assumes that "goth" and "industrial" are synonymous (let's see him try to justify that one on r.m.i . . .). "Unlike heavy metal, from where it borrows its guitar solos"?! Errr . . . this is obviously a very different "goth" from the one I'm aware of (or a very different heavy metal). I'm not going to list the ludicrous mistakes in total, but a few won't hurt :

Manson - I've met non-goth rivetheads who were interested in Manson, but no goths.

"Punk rock eventually became grunge, mods turned into casuals and heavy metal turned into speed metal and skate punk" : No no no no no.

"Grishnack of Morgue (named apparently after an ork in Lord Of The Rings" - or alternatively after the singer in a Norwegian Black Metal band. I forget whether he's the one who's dead or in jail.

"In the straightness league, Craig could give Iain Duncan Smith a run for his money" - which is a good thing, whereas "as po-facedly conservative as any Daily Mail-reading denizen of Purley" is a bad thing. Actually, I'd say both of them were bad things, but I can't spot much difference. This is a shame, because I'd kept a sneaking respect for Mr Adams in spite of not liking the Mish or the Cult very much. When was he in the Cult, anyway? Shows how much I know . . .

Very sad. Very very sad.