personally I don't subscribe to any cult-of-personality about Murphy and his voice definitely has its limitations (painfully revealed in that live film) but man those records are really solid. DFA will forever get a pass from me for those and the Juan Maclean.
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― Οὖτις, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
Think we should give him a pass for the vocals in that live film considering it was the fifth night in a row he did a 3 hour gig.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
nobody made him do that, you get paid AND a pass
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
sorry - you don't get paid and a pass
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Well it wasn't originally planned to be that many is my point.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
ok i'm listening to "Losing My Edge" for the second time in my life
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
well filming the concert was planned, so maybe they should have planned better
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
They hastily adding gigs for a farewell concert that turned into a weeklong thing for fans who couldn't get tickets once all the concert/film wheels were in motion. Sacrificing posterity for the present day fans seems like a pretty sweet move imo.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
this song isn't as good as the nurse with wound bonus track where david tibet reads the nurse with wound list
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
dude they could have done shows after, far earlier etc etc - it could have been avoided. i was at one of the terminal 5 shows and loved it. but they made the choice to capture him romantically giving his last gasps of air rather than singing at his best.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah i remember excitedly torrenting the last msg show excitedly and then finally listening and being totally underwhelmed by it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― dark sorcerer wallenstein (Lamp), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Hurry Up We're Dreaming was a jump off a cliff in terms of quality imo
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
haven't heard a double album in a while that was more needlessly double
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
i think i like m83 but they give me major Pentacostal/Charismatic vibes (yes i know they're from France)
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
fuck-all-queers lists?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 August 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 August 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
also re:tracks Pitchfork really has its own brand of popism - no Avicii, no Pitbull?
― niels, Thursday, 21 August 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 21 August 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
I know. When they announced that policy, I was like, "Hold up there, guys--this is just wrong!"
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― niels, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
Imagine that I have a point and review the facts?
― faghetti (fgti), Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
― niels, Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:28 (nine years ago) link
ahahahahahaaaa
― imago, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
lux aeternissima
― imago, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
proposal submitted. awaiting grant money. will return with findings asap
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 August 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 23 August 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― faghetti (fgti), Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
not say there couldn't be LESS straight indie boyage, just that i don't know how it's worse
― da croupier, Saturday, 23 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
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"
― niels, Thursday, 28 August 2014 11:26 (nine years ago) link
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
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
pfork also used my favorite metal pr verb ("unleashed") in their headline for the grimes video
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far
― campreverb, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
grimes updates tumblr
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
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~
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
true he should also have referred to DJ Mustard as "Mr. Mustard" in that sentence
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
Col. Mustard
― Number None, Friday, 29 August 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
oh do you mean the emoji sentence?? pitchfork should post emoji
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
i do but clearly they cannot
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
― campreverb, Thursday, August 28, 2014 3:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
I clicked on this just so I could close the tab
― 龜, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
someone didn't get the joke
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link