man, just hire some more editorial staff
use some of that late night whiskey money
― j., Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I'd actually rather read grammatically challenged, freshman-comp level writing like that than needlessly vicious takedowns of low-hanging fruit like Gaslight Anthem (see: lan C0hen's review today). I don't give a shit about Gaslight Anthem one way or another, but they seem relatively harmless and hardly deserving of such cruelty from a guy who probably writes Promise Ring fanfic
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
you haven't read any freshman compositions lately have you : /
― j., Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
The Rentals review also refers to "Dirty Projections-style vocal acrobatics." There is no band called Dirty Projections.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Cue some wiseass finding a shitty local band called "Dirty Projections" online, you know what I mean though.
Ian Cohen's writing always makes me think he's really unpleasant to be around.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
maybe Dirty Projections are what Dirty Projectors fans affectionately call their songs?
― some dude, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
"welcome thrown-bone" becomes even more hilarious when you realize that the word "underdog" is in the same sentence. I will throw a welcome bone to the underdog.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
every bone has its thrown
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
welcome thrown-bone
amazing
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4_1tSzN1w
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah! who wants to bone?
― famous instagram God (waterface), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.halloweenforum.com/attachments/halloween-props/106807d1325682826-bone-throne-bonethrone1.jpg
i heard they're booking Bone Throne for next year's Maryland Death Fest
― some dude, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Would love to throw a bone on the bone throne
― famous instagram God (waterface), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
play some chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_3XaaeRXI
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:07 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i have heard the lead singer refer to his songs this way in an interview no foolin
― een, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
During “Stay Vicious”, Fallon admits, “I still love rock'n'roll and I still call somebody ‘baby’.” Disregarding the rockism, sexism, mansplaining, and ageism that can be perceived in this lyric
this definitely seems like what the woman who coined the term mansplaining had in mind at its inception
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
i appreciate everyone refraining from posting the obvious Austin Powers youtube; thanks for being stars
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
not pertinent but pertinenthttp://instagram.com/buttsofpitchfork
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
yes we know creepers photographing strangers at festivals is a popular pastime in this horrible world we live in
― some dude, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
i didn't know! and i found it because a fellow pr type got asked to accredit them with the following comeon:
We are a new fashion blog called Butts of Pitchfork. We are currently in the process of posting pictures of Pitchfork Music Festival's patron's butts. We post 1-2 pictures per day and we have enough pictures to sustain the project for one year. That is, until the next festival. We started the project less than one week ago and we already have over 500 followers; we predict that very soon our followers will number in the thousands. This is not an ironic project; rather, we have a "butt positive" attitude oriented towards transcending negative conceptions of butts and butt fashion. Due to the unexpected success of this project in the very limited time that we have been pursuing it, we are interested in investigating other, similar festivals with the hopes to begin new blogs devoted to them. Overall, we are confident that these blogs will enhance the communal atmosphere in the festivals at which we have a presence.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
we have a "butt positive" attitude
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:03 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
nah he's a terrific guy; we've socialized many times. Judge not the man by the writing.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
His writing's all I'm judging! No judgement on the guy.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
his writing "always makes me think he's really unpleasant to be around" is a judgment!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
Cohen is like in the top 5 reviewers they've ever had, his shit is great even when i disagree with him or have little interest in the artist
― some dude, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
C0hen IS Pitchfork as far as incarnating its principles, voice, and approach.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
i don't think that's true. his taste is an outlier in a lot of ways and so is his hammy sense of humor, especially these days.
― some dude, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
not a fan of his writing at all, a lot of his reviews read like mosaics of unrelated and bad jokes, but he is literally the only dude covering pop-punk and emo in a relatively visible way so *thumbs up emoji*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
b-but i thought that was *you*
― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
tbf the gaslight anthem review was pretty week jokes-wise but he's had some knee slappers in the past imo
― some dude, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
the kicker of the gaslight anthem review is pretty awesome imo
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
agree
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i mean you're focusing on the wrong clause of that sentence imo?? ~his writing suggests to me~ that he's unpleasant ie i find his writing suggestive of obnoxiousness irl BUT HEY bet he's a nice dude and all
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
lol at the handwringing over HOOS having said the first potentially mean thing of his life
― een, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Cohen is like in the top 5 reviewers they've ever had, his shit is great even when i disagree with him or have little interest in the artist― some dude, Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pffft give me currin or truly any of our noted locals over this dude's stand up routines
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link
i don't have an opinion on ian cohen, but that gaslight review is unreadable garbage. making the attempt yesterday evening at work (before clocking in, of course), i'd said "shut the fuck up" out loud, twice, before i quit reading one sentence into paragraph two. no authorial predilection is more repellent than "watch me burn rubber while i smash this bug."
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 August 2014 08:12 (nine years ago) link
Top 200 tracks of the decade so far: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9466-the-top-200-tracks-of-2010-2014/1/
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 18 August 2014 05:32 (nine years ago) link
so so nagl how early they do these things
― een, Monday, 18 August 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
This is definitely the kind of thing you (should) wait until 2015 to do.
But fuck this list anyway.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 August 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
they only ever describe the video when talking about Oblivion and I keep thinking perhaps they know song is not that good.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 18 August 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
The list is fine, and could have been much worse - Grimes is certainly a more likeable #1 than "Midnight City". But it does seem silly to include songs from this calendar year in the list when we're months away from its conclusion. Stuff from this year mostly looks to have been added as an afterthought - the highest placing song is in the 60s I think, unless you count "Drunk In Love".
Nice to read writeups from Tim F, katherine, j0rdan, renato, Meghan Garvey et al though.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 18 August 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
It's Drake, in-house producers Nineteen85 and Noah "40" Shebib, and enigmatic guests Majid Jordan and that Canadian maple-syrup glide and those high-pitched "gooooin' home" backing vocals.
maple-syrup glide
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 18 August 2014 06:31 (nine years ago) link
Sticky.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 August 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
lol "Shine Blockas" still getting shoved into the pantheon
― some dude, Monday, 18 August 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
Look I'm biased obv but some of these write-ups are really great.
― Tim F, Monday, 18 August 2014 11:04 (nine years ago) link
and if they're not, everybody will have a chance to rewrite their blurbs in March 2019
― some dude, Monday, 18 August 2014 11:07 (nine years ago) link
Tame Impala aside, it's a perfectly presentable list of Pitchfork stuff.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Monday, 18 August 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
^ Yeah, P Fork will P Fork
Agree with JF that timing seems odd
We're still 6 months away from the official passing of five years since 2010
Perhaps they haven't made their clicks quota through the first half of the year?
I hope they are generating enough ad revenue and have enough unique IP's
I'll click on the link above a few more times just in case
― 龜, Monday, 18 August 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link