Nope I dont recall much talk around the Mp3 page transition. Though I must have started posting here around then since I can recall browsing OS for the first time through archive.org when the site was down for a while and all the mp3 pages were on there. By the time I was posting here the site had been returned and he’d started rewriting things.

I havent seen much of anything from george lately. I technically still follow the only solitaire page on facebook, but I disabled notifications for it a long time ago since like 90% of the activity on there now is a guy named Rimas Lazutka who I dont care about (Alex Alex, he ain’t).

I know George liked Arcade Fire but I refuse to believe George would have scored them that highly. especially since you just brought up springsteen, an artist that arcade fire are certainly not superior to (i’m not a springsteen fan at all and I’d still say that). Their best records are worth a 12 on the George scale and no more. After all the “modern music where the hell is it going” silliness to cling to them and them alone as some saviors of the greatness of rock so strongly would just be a huge eye roll. Now if he found a number of other bands from the same era to also score that highly then that would be a bit different (Sufjan, Fleet Foxes, Joanna Newsom, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective all come to mind). Probably one of the reasons he stopped reviewing post-00s music was to avoid his readers giving him shit for things like that.