I had way, way more things to ask, but he said he was quite busy and could only chat for "20 mins max" so I had to totally change what I was going to ask and I was a bit thrown off, but we ended up talking for like 35 minutes. Also, for some reason he could hear himself while talking to me, so sometimes there is a little echo but it's not super bad.
My show is on next week, and I'll be playing some stuff he's chosen and some stuff I've chosen which I've found through reading his music reviews. Anyway, I hope I don't sound too dumb. Enjoy.
Andrew Garcia
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Jack White
thank you for your work OP
Thomas Allen
thanks OP! will give it a listen as soon as I can, saved the link
Juan Parker
this man is still alive? dammn
Wyatt Reyes
Holy fuck op you actually pulled through here. You're also an aussie. How did you get the interview though?
Brayden Roberts
You sounded too fanboyish a lot, but at least it was interesting to hear the meme man himself speak a bit.
Elijah King
why do so many people hate scaruffi nowadays? the man clearly has an independent, original taste and doesn't just spam reviews of top 40 albums 3 weeks after release based on what everyone thinks about them I bet all of his haters haven't even listened to a quarter of his favorite releases otherwise I guess you just have to be european to understand his tastes, sorry
Jordan Green
wtf I love scaruffi now
Chase Torres
good
Asher Morgan
Thanks, hopefully it was ok. I emailed him, explained my show, and asked if he would be up for an interview.
I tried not to fanboy, apart from the first bit of course, maybe it's just how I sound.
Mason Butler
How did you get involved with that site? Does your program get broadcast to radio? Also are you involved with the local music scene besides just that site? I'm kind of inspired right now.
Juan Brooks
I liked it as much as I like scaruffi so pretty much
Adrian Hughes
Wait you're with Latitudes? As in the record label?
Matthew Hall
I like Scaruffi, but read the whole bjork page he wrote. I dislike bjork very much, but this page tells a lot about him.
James Wood
It's a community radio station here, most places all over Australia have them. Radio Adelaide is (I think) the oldest running station in Australia. The university owned it (they sold the building our studios were in and control of the station a few months ago, so we've had to move everything to new studios), and through my degree I had the chance to do a course where 10 of us would make a show every week. It was super fun, so when the course ended, I kept doing it, and eventually joined this program where I get to play 90 minutes of whatever music I want. Yes it's broadcast on FM radio, and digitally too (as you can see).
I'm not involved with local music at all.
Nicholas Thomas
good job OP. he doesn't sound like he's the kind of guy who's easy to interview but I think you did well. I could see you put a lot of thought into the questions, they were all on point. If I have to criticize something then it's true, you sounded a bit too fanboyish but that can't be avoided, I mean it sounded like you have genuine admiration for the guy.
Xavier Long
Very nice. I'm in melbourne so I don't know if it's any more difficult especially without a degree. I saw your programs schedule though, pantera to huun huur tu to black saint and the sinner lady. What's your audience like?
Alexander Anderson
If you're in Melbourne, just find a community station, and email/call to go in and learn how to do everything. It's not very difficult, and the main hurdle is getting the courage to go on air and talk. Luckily, since pretty much nobody was going to be listening to our university show, I wasn't very worried about messing up. The show I do now has 3 different presenters, the last 2 shows I did were interviews with people who also picked the music. I dunno what the audience is like, or even how many people listen, I just play whatever I want and talk about it and try not to make an idiot of myself too much.
I asked them all in a kinda weird order/way, since I had to cut like 80% of my questions out since we didn't have a huge amount of time, but thanks. I do have an admiration for how much he writes and how little of a fuck he gives about what anybody else thinks of it, even if he is quite baffling sometimes.
Luis Hughes
I haven't listened yet, what did he say about Divers???
Jayden Wood
He hasn't listened to it yet :(
Tyler Stewart
Not gonna sit through 30+ minutes of garbage like this, did he answer any questions about how he seems not to listen to some music that he reviews?
Ryder Anderson
he has answered that long before this interview you turd
Liam Bell
Where exactly?
Hunter Brown
Does the interview acknowledge Sup Forums at all?
Evan Hughes
(chirping crickets)
Nathan Flores
you bastard
Brody Rogers
find it yourself fag
it's not hard
Isaac Myers
I asked him if he knew how popular he was on Sup Forums and reddit and RYM etc.
Finally somebody found it
Jonathan Green
So he hasn't addressed it, then, I take it.
Christian Rodriguez
yes, he has, you're just too lazy to find it yourself.
he addressed it in emails and also on one of his FAQ pages on his own site
Ian Carter
Then just show me a link, shouldn't be too difficult, no?
Joshua Morgan
no, I'm not spoonfeeding you, fuck off and die
Nicholas Martin
>No, I refuse to present evidence that supports my claim kys
Daniel Martin
>being okay with being stubborn
Samuel Campbell
you're not even the real Hampus you waste of sperm
this is Sup Forums, not a debate class
I have no obligation to present shit you
suck my dick
Andrew Parker
>you're not even the real Hampus you waste of sperm But I am
>I have no obligation to present shit you And as such I have no obligation to take anything you trust seriously or even believe you
Caleb Torres
he's very arrogant and pretentious
Carson Rivera
you don't have to believe me. that's your problem.
William Reed
I knew scaruffi was Italian but for some reason I didn't expect him to have such a thick accent. Good stuff though, like his reviews
Henry Kelly
well yeah I get that. still it's pretty nice that of all people you decided to interview scaruffi. he's kind of an internet thing, did you expect people at your uni to know him? how did people react
Chase Murphy
Damn, you weren't trolling after all. Good job!
Nolan Gray
1. Hates all my favorite music 2. Writing style is pretentious 3. Doesn't even seem like he enjoys listening to music 4. ratings make no sense (will trash an album and give it a 7, but then another 7 praised to hell) 5. He wants to marry 12 year olds
John Roberts
I did the interview yesterday, I finished uni last year, so they werent related.
I'm pretty pathetic, but I'm not pathetic enough to troll on Sup Forums
Sebastian Howard
where did you get that last point from
Aaron Moore
Given that 99% of people are trolling, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Josiah Jones
>5. He wants to marry 12 year olds
Whats wrong with that
Thomas Rogers
this it's even less verificated than his reviews
Nathan Baker
. Hates all my favorite music
that probably means you have shit taste
Easton Kelly
Anyways, OP here, thanks for listening if you did and always open to feedback
Luke Richardson
Just finished listening to it. If Scaruffi forgetting the Can albums in the end isn't proof that he doesn't even listen to the shit he reviews, I don't know what else can convince the scaruffi drones.
Ayden Morales
I was a bit disappointed about that but the guy listens to so much music and keeps track of so much other art forms that he probably doesn't get much time to listen to albums he likes. I definitely don't remember much about albums I haven't listened to for years.
Jaxson Sanders
he's reviewed literally thousands of albums and Can aren't even in his top 100 all time, can you really blame him for forgetting? I forget shit I listen to just a month after I listen to it sometimes.
Jaxon Watson
I just listened to the whole thing, this is gonna be paraphrasing, however:
>when you were asking him about Divers, and he said he hadn't listened to it, and then you brought up HYIMW, and he hadn't listened to that either >"Well, I am really excited for your review/to hear what you think of it!" >"...Okay."
kek, it's so obvious that Scaruffi didn't give a shit at all and probably isn't even that interested in listening to those yet.
I also like his comment about the idea of jazz being dead, it seems like he's implying that he actually likes where jazz is going (or at least think it's better than rock music right now) which I think is interesting because these days all you ever hear about jazz is that it's "dead" but Scaruffi seems to have some faith in it. I remember he had a top 20 jazz list for last year, I should check that out.
Angel Murphy
Thanks for asking about the liner notes. Seems like something he'd easily forget about, since he has difficulty remembering many of the albums he's listened to.