OK but even the hackiest lazybones reviewers tend to have the presence of mind not to use the exact same turns of phrase in the same order as the press release
― Did communist FB take down the awesome bacon quran picture? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
just checked; press release doesnt have that stuff in it
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to find the mines press kit (cause the article is from 2010) to see if it originally came from there but could not do so
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, frankly, that this bastion of music journalism has sunken so low.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, honestly, that this stalwart of music journalism has sunken so low.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe the dudes from Menomena got divorced.
― tylerw, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
rip divorces
― you lost me at "chill" (Matt P), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
They made a cute couple
― nabiscuits otm (Ówen P.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Damn yo
Does NOONE AT ALL read/like Killscreen articles? Lonely out there
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 21 September 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
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― destroyers of the live music experience (bernard snowy), Friday, 21 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
haw that totally went over my head before
― some dude, Friday, 21 September 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
wut
― spazzmatazz, Friday, 21 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/ordinary-machines/8980-cold-facts/
a little much but also kinda feels inevitable. or maybe just a throwback to the brent dicrescenzo era.
killscreen is just so painful. my fav embarrassing killscreen moment were the awkward interviews with southern rappers in which the interviewer would typically seem confused they played madden instead of [insert indie game here].
― fennel cartwright, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
brent d. should really reunite, i think enough time has passed that he could headline coachella if he got back in the game today
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
just read three paragraphs about someone's facebook history and had to stop before i killed myself :/
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh! I'll read it later
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDA2NTg2NjE4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjYxMDg5._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I remember with stinging clarity the night I first made a Facebook profile.
nope!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7LNDLKfWY
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe that's the first sentence
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
the guy who tells time with a pocket watchoh that guy
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
While not as overt about siphoning prior goodwill as Cuban Linx Pt. II, Iron Fists does recall the last truly great Wu-Tang group project helmed by RZA, the Ghost Dog OST.
lol gtfo
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
I actually thought Zoladz's piece was nicely written, even as I'm not sure what its ultimate point is (other than "the Internet has changed everything!"). It also made me feel old.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
From their review of the Interpol reissue:
In retrospect, 2002 may have been the very year that we stopped talking about how music sounds, and started talking about what other music it sounds like.
So no one ever compared one band to another before Interpol?!?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it was never a thing ever before that.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
2002: The year smilie broke.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Smilie or simile?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
crap. 2012, the year my mental spellchecker broke.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
i would think pitchfork is responsible for a lot of that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of love that line for its ballsy, full-on wrongness.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com/original/14/eGtxZTNzMTI=_o_saturday-night-live-david-spades-hollywood-minute.jpg
“I saw Stone Temple Pilots this weekend. I liked them better the first time around…when they were called Pearl Jam.”
― is that my hand, dolphin? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
"we" is a bad idea in music reviews, period
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine if you're telling an anecdote about yourself and your friends
or if you are royalty
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
In retrospect, 2002 may have been the very year that I began listening to, and thinking about, music.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
But the early-aughts New York of Turn on the Bright Lights is not the young, vibrant, and impossibly cool place of cultural myth. It is a darker and more complicated place, fraught with disappointment and disconnection. It is a crushingly real place, rendered in such vivid emotional detail that it rings true even to those who have never set foot in the city.
If anything, I'm guessing people who've never set foot in the city have an easier time believing this.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
"real" is italicized in the original review, which means "really real"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
only one paragraph of this review does not feature a word italicized for emphasis
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
keepin it real, crushin it.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Interpol's singular sound
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
it is super baffling to me how some people venerate Interpol
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, i can see how if you were 15 when that album came out it could be a big thing to you. [not a backhanded compliment]
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
that is exactly how old i was when that album came out but nope
well except for the BOWWWW noises at the beginning of alternate measures of "untitled", i could listen to those all day
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
i love that first album but it's been straight diminishing returns, basically it's like REM if Michael Stipe's lyrics were blatantly come-ons to art students and they were 100% afraid to sell-out
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
i prefer antics tbh
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of do too, but only because it boasts the only two songs of theirs I love.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
me too. it has better songs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
antics has some high highs but patchy imo
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
but if you don't want to swim in the reverb of totbl i get it as a fave
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link