pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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.

maybe Dirty Projections are what Dirty Projectors fans affectionately call their songs?

"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.

every bone has its thrown

welcome thrown-bone

amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4_1tSzN1w

yeah! who wants to bone?

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

Would love to throw a bone on the bone throne

play some chords

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_3XaaeRXI

maybe Dirty Projections are what Dirty Projectors fans affectionately call their songs?

― 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

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

i appreciate everyone refraining from posting the obvious Austin Powers youtube; thanks for being stars

not pertinent but pertinent
http://instagram.com/buttsofpitchfork

yes we know creepers photographing strangers at festivals is a popular pastime in this horrible world we live in

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.

we have a "butt positive" attitude

Ian Cohen's writing always makes me think he's really unpleasant to be around.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:03 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

nah he's a terrific guy; we've socialized many times. Judge not the man by the writing.

His writing's all I'm judging! No judgement on the guy.

his writing "always makes me think he's really unpleasant to be around" is a judgment!

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

C0hen IS Pitchfork as far as incarnating its principles, voice, and approach.

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.

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*

b-but i thought that was *you*

tbf the gaslight anthem review was pretty week jokes-wise but he's had some knee slappers in the past imo

the kicker of the gaslight anthem review is pretty awesome imo

agree

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, 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

lol at the handwringing over HOOS having said the first potentially mean thing of his life

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

pffft give me currin or truly any of our noted locals over this dude's stand up routines

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."

Top 200 tracks of the decade so far: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9466-the-top-200-tracks-of-2010-2014/1/

so so nagl how early they do these things

This is definitely the kind of thing you (should) wait until 2015 to do.

But fuck this list anyway.

they only ever describe the video when talking about Oblivion and I keep thinking perhaps they know song is not that good.

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.

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

Sticky.

lol "Shine Blockas" still getting shoved into the pantheon

Look I'm biased obv but some of these write-ups are really great.

and if they're not, everybody will have a chance to rewrite their blurbs in March 2019

Tame Impala aside, it's a perfectly presentable list of Pitchfork stuff.

^ 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

well, of course. what are they going to do, suddenly champion songs from 2010 and 2011 that weren't on their original year-end lists? do an "overlooked albums" list that actually includes some of the bazillions of good albums they didn't review when they were initially released? it'd be one thing if reiterating their canon over and over actually indicated significant changes in consensus but it's pretty much always just sticking with things that got the BNM hat tip when they were new, and rubber stamping that decision over and over as many times as possible. xp

it's very PForky for PF of 2014, which is to say it's pretty ilxy.

You can't complain about 3 paragraphs from tim on "Super Bass".

I was a little perplexed that "Call Your Girlfriend" was described as "the Robyn song that everybody knows", and then "Dancing On My Own" popped up about ~20 songs later and was given basically the same description.

Perhaps they haven't made their clicks quota through the first half of the year?

unless I missed a previous announcement, it seemed like an excellent opportunity to plug the new Pfork curated lists on Beats Music.