pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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Pitchfork 2016:

omg, Bowie was, like, such an innovator, right? I can't even

I wonder if Khloe Kardashian has a verse on Swish, that shit would be off the hook

Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, 14 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

is 'racist idiots' just that they named their band viet cong or is there more to this

carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link

uh hello obvious the notable carlos d thread was a motivator

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/8203not_yours_to_play_with_why_viet_congs_name_offends-hooded_fangs_april_aliermo_on_community_racism_appropriation_of_neighbours_culture

In a Guardian piece, they explained that their name came from a moment when their bass player was holding his instrument like a weapon. One of them remarked, "All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong." The band have claimed "There are zero political connotations… we just honestly thought it sounded good and that it gives some imagery that matches our music in terms of it being explosive and dark." In an interview with Impose Magazine, the band talk about how, in old movies, the Viet Cong were so "bad ass."

Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link

"All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong."
"There are zero political connotations… "

does not compute

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link

When I was a 10-year-old boy, surviving the cultural wilderness of inland Queens

marcos, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link

cultural wilderness of large NYC borough

marcos, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link

everyone should read the carlos d thing, it is full of gems

tylerw, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link

they should change their name to the Nazis next. and after that they could change it to the Khmer Rouge.

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link

I’d done it again, only this would be the last time: I’d toyed with a fragile nervous system, dousing it with chemicals and warm bodies well past the hour when most mortals had already made it to the office somehow.

lots of humblebraggin in there

Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link

misread that as "full of germs" xxp

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:04 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc

J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link

haha thanks forks. that's a shame i half like the record i wish they weren't dumb

carly rae jetson (thomp), Friday, 15 January 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link

hey, back to that 80s list:

114) Talk Talk - “Life's What You Make It”

whaaaaa "RAINBOW" TOP 10 PLZ

niels, Friday, 15 January 2016 11:21 (eight years ago) link

the '80s list was 2015? seems like years ago.

billstevejim, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link

The decadence of the '00s was at an end. It was a time of conservation, of the profit principle, of high anxiety, of major label betrayals, of group therapy and raised voices, of cold, stony pursed lips on poker faces disguising a contagious terror that trickled down from managers and executives quivering in their boots. Free downloads threatened to take away yachts. The end of art was nigh, I could feel it.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link

I didn't even make it that far

Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link

To top it off, I was sick of being in a band where my nickname was "Shamu."

tylerw, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link

I didn't even make it that far

― Οὖτις,

The end of art was nigh.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

man, that guy is a total buffoon.

hackshaw, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

i think everyone kinda knew they were wrong about "GOOD Fridays is back" even though they kept writing those completely unconfirmed words so many times throughout the past week as if it they could just make it true by writing them over and over again.

billstevejim, Saturday, 16 January 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link

it's music internet SOP now considering the ridiculous way people have acted about the Frank Ocean album

some dude, Saturday, 16 January 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link

Kanye Didn't Release A Track Last Friday, And That's OK

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 January 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link

Fucked up thing is I can no longer tell if that headline is for real or parody

Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 16 January 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link

Of course, there’s a long tradition of rock musicians using heroin to inspire their best music—think Lou Reed, Neil Young, Keith Richards—but Smith found no truth in such myths. “You can’t write music when you’re high,” he says plainly. “You can’t do much of anything productive.”

I suppose the generous reading here is that Neil Young used *the subject* of heroin but still wtf editors

Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 January 2016 23:38 (eight years ago) link

could've substituted any number of less ambiguous figures (Cobain as already mentioned in the article, Sonic Boom etc)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 January 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link

Wow, 2014? That was a little over a year ago! What have those dudes been up to?!

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link

Putting together an airtight case for any funkiness that could occur on this tour

I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link

cannot believe a band waited a very normal (or what would even be the shorter end of normal) period of time btwn playing shows, what a world

lol shocked they are doing something w David Byrne too. next you will tell me they have a remix coming.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link

DJ Windows 98 plays a viral Drake song

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link

Take note James Murphy - Pitchfork still covers you even if you don't announce a break as a breakup.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link

yeah, just got the latest issue, looks great -- andy beta's alice coltrane thing is nice, lisa jane persky's NYC 70s piece too! and of course matos is fantastic on Prince. it's a nice mag! $20 is a ridiculous price, but I don't know, they do a good job. hope you keep doing columns, scott!

tylerw, Friday, 29 January 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link

Pitchfork: Some of your songs, like “Fireworks,” also contain surreal narratives—how has the idea of making a story, or having a point, been something that's become important to you?

did the interviewer just ask why having a point is something that is important

Karl Malone, Monday, 8 February 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link

a week later but I'm seconding the new Review. I read it in one sitting.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link

On the front page of p4k.com there are summaries of the dailly record reviews - anyone know how to find summaries for older reviews?

http://i.imgur.com/LPCOwhf.png

niels, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link

Wayback Machine

♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link

kind of a weird request. if i were pitchfork i would be like "why are you so obsessed with me?"

een, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link

I'd be like "hey good point we should probably include those summaries in the actual reviews as introductory paragraphs in boldface or smth like they do in the papers"

niels, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link

can't argue with that

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link

waybackmachine works for finding them, was looking for the Rihanna/Anti blurb:

Anyone hoping that ANTI might be Rihanna’s opus, some grand declaration of intent, is likely to be underwhelmed. ANTI is a fun and conflicted pop record, at its most interesting when it’s at its smallest and most idiosyncratic. If the album has a narrative arc, it’s about disappointment: the ways in which the people you trust can still come up short in the end, and how lonesome that can feel.

niels, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link

they're usually just an amalgamation of sentences from the review?

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link

but maybe the separate fragments of the summary could be highlighted in bold in the review? i dunno could be a fun time and not confusing

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link

they contain clues about the content of the full reviews and should have Spoiler alerts

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link

it's the abstract

a (waterface), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link

that's the word, thanks

niels, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link


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