pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Of all the shit I hate Pitchfork —the archive scrubbing, the attention-whoring bad reviews, the attention-whoring coverage for certain bands and non-coverage for other bands— I was never really genuinely moved to a feeling of actual anger about something they did until just a few months ago when they reviewed the Poor Moon Illusion EP.

(fyi: Poor Moon is a band fronted by Christian Wargo, former {?} bass player of Fleet Foxes)

Despite loving everything I've heard from the band so far, I will be the first to admit that the EP is very similar in sound to Fleet Foxes (nothing else they've leaked out or played live sounds remotely like it, but I digress).

The review on Pitchfork for Illusion (which is not very favorable) states Robin Pecknold's name more times than it does all of the members of Poor Moon combined.

Robin Pecknold is not in the band.

Robin Pecknold is not on the EP.

Robin Pecknold had nothing to do with it.

(Josh Tillman —not an official member of the band— actually plays on a couple songs and does not even receive a mention)

Following the Poor Moon Twitter, I noticed that they had a lot more free tickets to give away after Pitchfork ran the review.

To Christian Wargo's credit, he responded by playing more shows.

jvc this morning when his browser loads pitchfork front page and he sees new album reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU

dying

so glad i'm just a punchline around here.

most of the other people posting in this thread are punchlines too. dont take it personally.

jon you'd be treated differently if we DIDN'T joke around when we found unintentional humor in your posts. i mean if you want to be seen as worthy of or in need of special treatment because you're too sensitive for it or just too good to ever be the butt of a joke, ok. but if people think "I want to make a harmless joke, but I should hold my tongue because there's not talking to that guy about anything," THAT is what would make you an outcast, not the joke itself.

yeah, but there's a difference between occasionally being the butt of a joke and being the butt of a joke about 90% of the times i post.

http://khonsa02.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/funny_cat_pictures_pc_3.jpg

yeah, but there's a difference between occasionally being the butt of a joke and being the butt of a joke about 90% of the times i post.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:56 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh, dude

Butt may refer to:

Butt (volume), a unit of wine
Butt (archery), a target for practicing archery
Butt (sailing), a joint between planks of wood on a ship
Butt (name)
Bhat (Kashmir), Kashmiri surname sometimes spelled "Butt"
Butt (magazine)
Buttocks, often known as "Butt"
Butt joint, a woodworking joinery technique
Headbutt or butt, a blow administered with the head
Buttstock or butt, a part of a rifle or other firearm
The Butt, a 2008 novel by Will Self
Boston butt or pork butt, a pork shoulder
Part of a cigarette
Butt-head, a character from Beavis and Butt-head
"What What (In the Butt)," a song by Samwell
"Butt Butt", a song by Monrose from Temptation
Water butt

i don't know, like this thread is a p good example of why i find it frustrating. like people shit on pfork all the time around here, but i do and suddenly its like people become captain save a site so they can toss some shit my way.

they stopped running reviews for two days, and you complained both days. ANYONE would've taken some shit for that, man, i'm sorry if you don't believe me but it's true.

probably, but i don't think anyone else would have been accused of not being able to think for themselves. and as i said, this thread was just one example.

Just enjoy some music, Jon, it's all good. That new Pumpkins reissue is killer, for instance.

whiney made a joke, and when you took it badly he said "sorry, easy basket," but you're still characterizing it as an accusation. do you even understand how much effort you're expending on making things more serious than they are?

ned otm

this butt was made for hurtin' and that's just what it do

jon i'd recommend taking the whiney/morbs obliviously thick-skinned approach here

avoid the rest of their respective schticks however

whiney made a joke, and when you took it badly

this is what i don't like about some of the people on this board. like whiney accuses me of not thinking for myself and its my fault for "taking in badly" and not his for being kind of an asshole.

taking IT badly

if you repeatedly use the word "accuse" to characterize his silly zing then yes, you're taking it badly.

there's a real irony to implying whiney walks away scott free from douchebaggery when he's been s-banned a ton of times and consistently mocked for being an obnoxious hypocritical troll

j if it makes you feel any better i complained the last two days over the lack of new reviews too but more because i'm plotting out my august bill payments

this is what i don't like about some of the people on this board. like whiney accuses me of not thinking for myself and its my fault for "taking in badly" and not his for being kind of an asshole.

But he can't stop being an asshole and you can stop taking it badly.

You're at the same point I was at about six years ago. I got thoroughly reamed out for some ill-considered posts, had a good cry about people being mean to me, took 2 weeks off from ILX, molted, grew a harder shell, and came back to be at least a 4% better poster than I was previously. Maybe even 6%. I also type out a lot of stuff and delete 75% of it without hitting the 'submit' button.

back to the thread subject at hand, does anyone find this sentence a bit... distasteful:

"Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him back in 1967."

if huntington's disease hadnt TOTALLED him back in 67

hadn't kicked his bucket

that is a sentence crying out for editing

definitely falls under very dumb #43025984305345

Millie Gorman, 87, was wasted at St. Anne's Medical Center on July 6th, by complications of diabetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qql0Yi4DxU

the whole review is full of clunkers

His odd non-absence has been especially felt in this year.

Not long after he made the recording, Cathy was killed in a freak house fire (stunningly, Guthrie's sister was killed, and his father badly wounded, in two unrelated fires when he was a kid).

Woody at 100 may be the most successful attempt to capture Guthrie's sprawling essence, but it's hardly the first.

HARDLY

Woody at 100 may be the most successful attempt to capture Guthrie's sprawling essence, but it's hardly the first.

this probably says more about me than the writer but that last sentence gave me a mental image of a crack team attempting to hunt down a massive blob of cum

lol.

that sentence should be reversed.

unless the article is about other attempts to capture his sprawling essence and not about woody at 100

While I wouldn't assume everybody knows about it, the last "omg" about the "property" line in "This Land Is Your Land" is kinda funny to me since I heard it on a Mojo Nixon album when I was 10 and I'm sure it's come up a few other places in my experience since. Also I thought the idea of Woody being a fleshed-out human being in Pitchforkia had been taken care of by Mermaid Avenue, which isn't mentioned at all.

i think maybe "wasted" in that instance is being used to say that his life was wasted, instead of the way a teenager would when playing modern warfare

or maybe that the rest of his life was wasted. idk.

I took it to be an attempt to make the phrase "wasted away" hip and new for an edgy young audience

right

ya

"Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him like some odd proto-AIDS patient back in the year the first Velvet Underground album was released."

quietly composing a thank-you email to Rachael Maddux over here

lol

You know I considered posting that use of wasted here, too! I initially read it in that "we wasted those scumbags!" way. Pretty awkward. They could have said "taken."

Not long after he made the recording, Cathy was killed in a freak house fire (stunningly, Guthrie's sister was killed, and his father badly wounded, in two unrelated fires when he was a kid).

this makes Woody Guthrie sound like Firestarter

ack!!

haha yeah the "stunningly unrelated fires" thing cracked me up, like is he an arsonist, or perhaps being followed by a fire monster like that guy on True Blood?

So were there three unrelated fires that wasted Woody's family? Cuz that is pretty stunning if you think about it. Just two is less stunning.

His odd non-absence has been especially felt in this year.

ARE YOU THAT SCARED OF THE WORDS "INFLUENCE" AND "PRESENCE"