pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

yeah i remember excitedly torrenting the last msg show excitedly and then finally listening and being totally underwhelmed by it

excitedly

having looked at all 2 million of the albums on the best album list i keep thinking that the cumulative effect is much worse than any of the specific albums listed cuz i like a bunch of these havent heard more and indifferent to the rest. i can only spot like three albums i think are really bad although there are a few i kindof assume suck but have never bothered with. but as a whole it feels p culturally illiterate and out-of-touch like in my memory these lists tend to be pretty interesting as statements about 'what we think of music now' but i guess because its about 'music now' basically anyway its not that exciting. idk this is a list of records thats almost as someone-who-works-in-advertising as the user-generated list of a few years ago except it has beyoncé on it

also i really like that second M83 cd a lot and would put it pretty high on 00s list

did M83 make any of these lists? i was listening to them yesterday. would rather m83 than lcd.

Hurry Up We're Dreaming showed up at 22 as well.

That album was too yelpy and melodramatic for me. I liked the whisper-vocals against building crescendo dynamic of the early albums much better. Seemed more measured.

i really like their videos too. would buy an M83 video comp. i find if i listen to a few songs at a time they sound great. whole albums can be a bit much. too rich or something. i like their "vision" though.

Hurry Up We're Dreaming was a jump off a cliff in terms of quality imo

haven't heard a double album in a while that was more needlessly double

i think i like m83 but they give me major Pentacostal/Charismatic vibes (yes i know they're from France)

At some point (I can't remember which albums it happened between) M83 went from a 2+ person collaborative affair to an unchecked solo project.

Bittersweet pleasure that a story about two jilted 'mos live-tweeting The Little Mermaid got more pick-up than Pitchfork's fuck-all-queers lists

fuck-all-queers lists?

with the exception of the blockbusters most of this stuff is either out of my wheelhouse, tried and denied or universally beloved. I'm gonna try that spotify singles list and see what a straight listen does to me.

also re:tracks Pitchfork really has its own brand of popism - no Avicii, no Pitbull?

xxp I'm saying that it's bittersweet, to see a website that used to provide queer artists some agency, has now embraced a Weingarten-style "no girls, no queers" policy, to see how little people are interested in reading their 40 words on Clams Casino, in comparison to a series of innocuous tweets from Baths and Grizzly Bear.

I know. When they announced that policy, I was like, "Hold up there, guys--this is just wrong!"

that twitter article is the worst, what's up online journalism lol is it parody? http://pitchfork.com/news/56393-grizzly-bears-ed-droste-and-baths-live-tweet-the-little-mermaid-highlights/

but then again I never got why they post daily updates on what bands perform live on what talkshows/festivals - they might consider dedicating a site to that instead of flooding the newsfeed

Imagine that I have a point and review the facts?

also re:tracks Pitchfork really has its own brand of popism - no Avicii, no Pitbull?

― niels, Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

ahahahahahaaaa

lux aeternissima

Imagine that I have a point and review the facts?

proposal submitted. awaiting grant money. will return with findings asap

Really enjoyed reading yr My Decade in Music So Far, Katherine. Glad someone at pitchfork represented both Imagine It Was Us and Once I Was An Eagle.

goon tie I'm interested to hear about Pitchfork as a site that used to provide queer artists some agency - it's always seemed pretty straight indie boy to me, even after it became straight indie boy who also likes pop and rap

I've been trying to frame my observations reasonably and articulately but it's impossible for me to extract my own feeling of non-agency from anything I type.

Sorry I dissed Whiney upthread that guy is a force for good

don't really get the "no girls" bit when they've got more women contributing than ever

not say there couldn't be LESS straight indie boyage, just that i don't know how it's worse

I know how the free content business model "works" and how clicks are real important, but "news" like these still annoy me, especially the clickbait framing

http://pitchfork.com/news/56375-aphex-twin-reveals-amazing-syro-album-artwork-and-bio/

"Amazing SYRO Album Artwork"
"Here is the utterly amazing Aphex Twin bio that has been sent out in a press release"

David Lynch Nearly Directed the Video for Kanye West's "Blood on the Leaves"

Daft Punk almost went to Orange Leaf, but opted for TCBY instead

pfork also used my favorite metal pr verb ("unleashed") in their headline for the grimes video

this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far

grimes updates tumblr

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19709-dj-mustard-10-summers/

“Everybody say it’s so easy to make my beats,” Mustard Tweeted a few days ago. “[ Well ] take a swing at it you should be rich [ in ] no time cause I am.” The tweet was punctuated by two emojis that are crying while laughing.

this is like when the new york times alludes to vulgarities it refuses to print because ~classy~

true he should also have referred to DJ Mustard as "Mr. Mustard" in that sentence

Col. Mustard

i actually put those corrections in there in my original draft because it's clear reading that tweet that the misspellings were just dumb phone typos, and i think they made the intent of the tweet a bit harder to parse

oh do you mean the emoji sentence?? pitchfork should post emoji

i do but clearly they cannot

this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far

― campreverb, Thursday, August 28, 2014 3:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I clicked on this just so I could close the tab

someone didn't get the joke

Upon reclicking and not closing the tab immediately I see now that it was a joke

Good joke

One endearing moment of weirdness, however, is “Teach the Children,” a slowed down snippet of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Teach the Children Well.”

sigh

know they love you

idgi how could a sentence even be more innocuous

Me either. This happens a lot here to me. Maybe I'm dull, but often times I wait till more people chime so I can gather clues about what makes some excerpt or lyric bad or good in any given thread.

think the writer got the song title wrong, an error not exactly exclusive to pitchfork

why post the juan maclean review now when the release is in exactly two weeks

I have a $10 wager going with a friend: I say the new Interpol will score a 5.9 or lower, he says 7.0 or higher.

I'm on your side there.