“Creature Comfort”Arcade Fire’s “Creature Comfort” Knows Its Own Importance
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
That whole track review is based on a misreading of the lyrics:
The lyrical arena is where Arcade Fire have out-Arcade-Fired themselves, with the song humble-bragging at one point about Funeral preventing a fan’s suicide. There are specific moments of empathy here that ring true to how music can be the salve, like the line, “Some girls hate their bodies, stand in the mirror and wait for the feedback.” And their overflowing hearts are in the right places, amplifying the unspoken struggle over whether to go through with it in the chorus before Win Butler reasons, “Well if you’re not sure, better safe than sorry.” Inevitably, this song will stop someone from doing something rash. The problem is that Arcade Fire are pompous about knowing that, throwing their arms wide around the problem and presenting their own music as the solution. Bono on line one for you, Win.
That sounds horrible, but the verse in question is pretty clear that Funeral was going to help her kill herself, not prevent it:
Assisted suicideShe dreams about dying all the timeShe told me she came so closeFilled up the bathtub and put on our first record
Not the worlds best lyrics but... That's a pretty weird reading of it.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 18 June 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Last night a BNM saved my life
― President Keyes, Sunday, 18 June 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
wait 'til she hears Reflektor!
― fits, Monday, 19 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
my least favorite band
― nomar, Monday, 19 June 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Are Pitchfork no longer updating their rss feeds?
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
FWIW, 30 album reviews landed in my feed this morning.
― Vernon Locke, Thursday, 22 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
i liked this piece on PSY and "Gangnam Style" http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/psys-gangnam-style-changed-pop-music-whether-you-like-it-or-not/
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
I liked a couple recent features also. Looks like things are turning around.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 15 July 2017 05:34 (six years ago) link
oh http://pitchfork.com/features/sponsor-content/rough-and-polished-a-diamond-playlist/
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
*goes to spotify and types in "diamond"*
gold in them thar hills!
― mh, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
#1 Diamonds and Pearls lol
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
In the intervening decades of empowered female pop stars—from Millie Jackson to Madonna, Lil’ Kim to Rihanna—has any one of them baldly put their bikini-clad camel toe front and center on an album as Costa did back in 1973?
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_COPk7dnIPKU%2FSXhYo7-3nOI%2FAAAAAAAAAJs%2FafGSaw5yTzo%2Fs320%2Fkim.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
I don't know, I don't think that invalidates the point at all? For reference:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KBHS4ANQL.jpg
Though really going into detail in this discussion would get very awkward very rapidly.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
itt dudes discuss the history of the musical coochshot
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
that's not the album cover
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Lil_Kim_-_Hard_Core.png
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
they're doing film reviews now? http://www.pitchfork.com/thepitch/person-to-person-is-an-indie-comedy-for-music-nerds-like-you/
or is this an ad, I can't tell anymore
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
i don't know but the pitchfork radio overlay which can't be hidden in the corner of the screen is a fantastic new UI feature
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
Who knows. Pitchfork told me that Nathan For You is coming back for a new season.
― Evan, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/5-new-releases-that-continue-metals-horror-obsession/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video
5 New Releases That Continue Metal’s Horror Obsession
― marcos, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
Below you’ll find five recent metal releases that draw inspiration from the haunted, the gothic, and the grotesque.
― marcos, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
huh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
"Here are five metal albums I like, and literally the first thing I could think of to potentially tie them together into a column."
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
"In the underground, metal bands continue to indulge in the themes of horror in new, dynamic ways."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
xp lol otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
that guy has a rad metal writer name and I fear he may be coasting as a result
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Here are 5 recent Hip Hop releases that explore the selling and taking of drugs
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 August 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
lmao
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 August 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
lol
yeah shit is gettin p lazy over there
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 August 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
is there a way to see P4k reviews by day they published, by chance? for example, "show me the 5 reviews from July 16, 2007"?
sorry for the lack of lols
― alpine static, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
wayback machine, i think? maybe. or maybe there's a better resource.
― nomar, Friday, 4 August 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/*/pitchfork.com
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
five albums with skulls on the cover
― j., Friday, 4 August 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
If I want to look through old reviews I just increase the page # at the end of this link:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/?page=1
currently goes up to around 1600 pages, but the years 1999-2002 seem to have been pared down a lot
― President Keyes, Friday, 4 August 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
^^^That's why it's best to use the Web Archive, as they have scrubbed a lot of reviews from the site.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassing stuff that was published early on on Pitchfork that got scrubbed long ago.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I did a blog about the whole issue several years back: http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2010/09/deleted-pitchork-reviews.html
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 4 August 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
No real broader point to be derived from this, but:http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ben-frost-threshold-of-faith-ep/"We hear exactly who Ben Frost wants us to think he is but get precious little view of the man behind the persona."Ah, yes, because what's the value of sheets of electronic noise if there isn't something of the confessional to it.
― Champiness, Saturday, 5 August 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
It's not really important but I just kinda like the ending of this news story: http://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-everything-now-earn-third-straight-us-no-1-album/
“Everything Now” was one of Pitchfork’s “Best New Tracks of June 2017”
Yeah... That's not the review people are going to remember from this cycle...
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 August 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/broad-city-are-selling-officially-licensed-sex-toys/
new band name
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
WUXTRA WUXTRA: broad city branded yas kween vibrators announced on pitchfork
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
lol they're all sold out already
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
grace and frankie > broad city
― maura, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
lol um no
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Grace and Frankie is fine for what it is - a senior sitcom - but it's largely joke-free and some of the acting (primarily Waterston/Sheen) is legit painful
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Broad City rules, psyched for the return. Ilana was v good in otherwise mediocre Rough Night - Abbi is in a new movie called Person to Person that just opened here, heard it's more "a look into the lives of quirky new yorkers!" sorta thing but w/e i'll still see it bc I love her and Michael Cera.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
BC jumped the shark pretty definitively for me mid last season
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
broad city is annoyingly full of itself and has been since midway through season two
― maura, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
otm, sadly
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link