pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

this is the international police we are talking about here you guys

Not the guillemots

the number of p4k 9/11 references is absurd

― marcos, Monday, September 8, 2014 1:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#neverforget

On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. All 228 people aboard died. It's difficult to ignore that tragic fact now when reflecting on-- or, honestly, Googling-- an Air France record called No Way Down, and I know I can't possibly begin to feel the pain of those victims' families.

wait is that real?

J0rdan made the most hilarious string of posts in ILX history after that blurb

Wait, what happened on 9/11?

Jay Z released the Blueprint.

I went to Best Buy to buy "Love and Theft"

I seem to recall something about the Coup blowing up the World Trade Center.

Holy shit, DO NOT google "9/11" and "World Trade Center"!!!!!

I went to Best Buy and bought the Moldy Peaches album. Remember feeling a bit strange listening to "NYC is a like a Graveyard" on the way home but I can't recall precisely why.

Holy shit, do not google "moldy peaches"! Yuck.

On 9/11 most of ILX was at Best Buy.

But were any of them buying copies of Mariah Carey's Glitter?

Wait, so the silly Ariel Pink thing, he's interviewed at length, and the interviewer says he is smart and thoughtful, until the end of the interview, when he snaps and gets confrontational and ignorant. So after the 800 word feature, it's the ignorant, confrontational stuff from the end of the interview that gets prime Q&A placement?

just reading the aby ngana diop "liital" review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19726-aby-ngana-diop-liital/

i feel like it is a pitchfork thing to only grant international/world music albums, no matter how good, something in the 8.0 range. i know, i know, griping about scores, etc., but has anyone else noticed this?

Well, it could be that since those albums are so rarely reviewed, they wouldn't even cover something unless it was worthy of a high score, no?

yea i was more thinking that it caps out at the 8.0 range. most of that stuff is reissued yea so it's generally well-selected and curated so i'd figure it would score highly, but never seems to score higher than 8-ish. god i feel like such a twerp even just typing this.

Do they give any reissues higher than an 8? How many non-English language releases make their best album list?

Wait, so the silly Ariel Pink thing, he's interviewed at length, and the interviewer says he is smart and thoughtful, until the end of the interview, when he snaps and gets confrontational and ignorant. So after the 800 word feature, it's the ignorant, confrontational stuff from the end of the interview that gets prime Q&A placement?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so you're saying they focused on the interesting part?

Wait, so the silly Ariel Pink thing, he's interviewed at length, and the interviewer says he is smart and thoughtful, until the end of the interview, when he snaps and gets confrontational and ignorant. So after the 800 word feature, it's the ignorant, confrontational stuff from the end of the interview that gets prime Q&A placement?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's generally how journalism works, yes.

I didn't think any of it was interesting tbh. But if you say that most of what he says is smart and then suddenly he gets ignorant, then not sure the dumb stuff is necessarily newsworthy, let alone worth highlighting, just clickbaity. Esp given the dumb stuff prone subject

can't believe Ariel "I GOT MACED BY A FEMINIST SHE TALKED ABOUT HER DAD ALL NIGHT AND I LISTENED WHATEVER” Pink said something dumb

ariel pink seems like a dumb druggie mostly

ariel pink is a snooze. i just got the most terrifying e-mail message subject line:

"it's Mumford & Sons meets The Black Keys"

which has nothing to do with pitchfork...

ariel pink gives me the willies, i get charlie manson vibes

i just finished my 3rd dollar bin column for the pitchfork magazine and i gotta say it's kinda my dream column. don't even wanna do anything else. and i had sorta given up on anyone asking me to do anything like that. i asked a few other people not that long ago about doing something like that and they had zero interest. gonna go get a pitchfork tattoo...

pitchfork is a tattoo (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

looooooool:

Songs of Innocence is perhaps the album where U2 most self-consciously plays itself—or more distressingly, risk causing a temporal paradox by swiping moves from mantle-carriers Arcade Fire and Coldplay, akin to time traveling to the future and sleeping with your own grandchild.

gotta say that's the first time I'm seen U2 accused of the music crime equivalent of using a time machine for the purposes of incest

just came here to post that line

i said that bono was a bad'un all along

I said but, but IN THE FUTURE

"said that" ah well

I said butt

Butt to the Future IV: the Secret of Bono's Grandchild

not sure why time travel would be necessary here

Seriously, I know bands who sleep with their grandchildren all the time and they don't need to go to the future.

bands with albums??

Wait, we're talking about music?

I love that line

http://pitchfork.com/news/56698-wiz-khalifa-talks-weed-sting-marriage-fatherhood-on-pitchforktvs-overunder/

URL says it all ... almost trolling on their part

except that's... exactly what happens in the video?

he didn't really marry sting

they will walk in fields of WEED mirit

i think we as a people really need to pick our battles when it comes to declaring shit "dumb"

"The failings of Alt-J's sophomore effort has" . . . i have never seen so many typos on a website but IT'S MY FAULT FOR NOTICING

wau @ Perfume Genius getting BNM; the last record was such a miserable experience that it felt like a joke on the audience

"The failings of Alt-J's sophomore effort has" . . . i have never seen so many typos on a website but IT'S MY FAULT FOR NOTICING

aw, i actually really enjoyed the bluntness of that summary:

The failings of Alt-J's sophomore effort have little to do with hype or unfair standards and everything to do with the album in question being really dull and tuneless