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Burger/Ink's Las Vegas (also licensed by Matador in the USA) is much much more relevant to Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks than Music Has The Right To Children.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Reviewer apparently doesn't like soul music precedents in dance music. It's gotta be punk.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 7 May 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

rockist rockist rockist

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

what's wrong with not liking dance music? Pitchfork doesn't have to speak for you.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Dominique Leone likes dance music a lot, fwiw. It looks to me like he was addressing what he perceives re the attitude of the indie rock massive to dance music.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"post-grammatological"

this actually made laugh out loud. I'd like to thank whoever wrote that for my first good chuckle of the day.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I bet the chick who wrote that review is pretty hott. I wonder if she likes the boredoms?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

(fwiw, I like dance music, too - and so does Nick, the guy who wrote that review.) (and so do you, Mark!) (disco, for one)

Like Mark says, I think it's meant to be tongue in cheek.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I really didn't post this to make fun of rockists or anything. I just wanted to point out how BoC have become this touchstone electronic act for indie rockers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

(My mistake, for some reason I thought Dom wrote it. But yes, the above applies to Nick too.)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

but can you dance to boards of canada? maybe on whippets?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Re. oops' post: He doesn't have to like dance music! But is he REALLY saying that he doesn't like any dance music that has soul music precedents and no punk precedents or is he just making a non-funny, blanket statement "joke," thinking that he's really tellin' the truth and being provocative?

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 7 May 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

this seems to completely not acknowledge that most of BOC's music is rooted in hip-hop beats.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean it's a semi-charming thesis that electronic dance music comes solely from disco (and maybe one cribbed from ILM?) but it's pretty patently stupid on its face.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

cutty, he doesn't say BoC is dance music!

anyway, if ppl want a PFM dance music-related abomination, it's elsewhere on the page...I'm off to stick my head into a hole in the ground.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i know, i was just throwing that idea out there for a larf.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

OTM re: Boreds of Canada / Black Dog dig esp. "Raxmus" formative Artifical Intelligence experience all Warp records aging poorly electronica failed etc.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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THE LATEST PITCHFORK WRITERS!!!

― GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to write that review, but Ryan didn't like my "beatmatching is gay" lead off.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Chris, you spelled "Boards" wrong

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

So what do you guys think of the new Modest Mouse?!

― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 7 May 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, who decided to call Bobbie Gentry "alt-country"?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, that is regrettable (see also: the ex-assertion that is c. dodd was a 'dub pioneer') - I guess ya gotta ignore the facts and work to connect the old-timey stuff to contemporary things the indie kids like and understand in order to justify writing about them on the site. ;)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, isn't that your news story?!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, the former headline said 'dub pioneer' and then the squeaky wheel got some grease.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

situation downgraded from "stab" to "throw wadded-up paper"

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

That p-fork review quoted above is so obviously poking fun at BoC's status as being safe for indie kids. I love MHTRTC, and I think it's 10.0 is definitely deserved. I also hope that Geogaddi will eventually be regarded as highly -- I feel like it's been shortchanged in a way, although I know of a lot of people who like it a great deal. It just doesn't feel like there's as much of a consensus about it.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone please rate the following:

www.marykateandashley.com/music/audio/pinata_party.mp3

Thanks in advance.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Saturday, 8 May 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

due to their um storied past, pfork's never been entirely successful in coming across with their recent attempts to pinata ye olde rockist cliches via irony.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

My gateway from indie into dance music was Underworld. Does this mean I am a latent homosexual?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 8 May 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

well let me ask you this: what are your feelings on the microphones?

― Nick Sylvester, Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Microphones the band or microphones the phallic object?

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

interesting first response their herr doktor

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

sylvester in a they're the same thing shockah

― Nick Sylvester, Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I honestly had no idea that article was supposed to be ironic. I took the "gay" thing at face value. I guess that's pitchfork's cross to bear.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Irony + print = danger. Irony + Americans = cliché. Irony + Pitchfork = dangerous cliché.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

more british wit!

― Nick Sylvester, Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

southall, when you rock out to the coral, do you read old issues of punch?

― Nick Sylvester, Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

(i'm ashamed to "get" that.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

The utterly bizarre thing is that yesterday I was reading an old issue of Punch. Which doesn't happen everyday.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it was 200 years old. We've got quite a collection at the university library.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

126 years old.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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