On 9/11 most of ILX was at Best Buy.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 September 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
But were any of them buying copies of Mariah Carey's Glitter?
― MarkoP, Monday, 8 September 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
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, 9 September 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
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?
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Do they give any reissues higher than an 8? How many non-English language releases make their best album list?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
― 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?
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
That's generally how journalism works, yes.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
ariel pink seems like a dumb druggie mostly
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
ariel pink is a snooze. i just got the most terrifying e-mail message subject line:
"it's Mumford & Sons meets The Black Keys"
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
which has nothing to do with pitchfork...
ariel pink gives me the willies, i get charlie manson vibes
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
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...
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
pitchfork is a tattoo (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
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
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
just came here to post that line
― call all destroyer, Friday, 12 September 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
i said that bono was a bad'un all along
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
I said but, but IN THE FUTURE
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
"said that" ah well
I said butt
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Butt to the Future IV: the Secret of Bono's Grandchild
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
not sure why time travel would be necessary here
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 12 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Seriously, I know bands who sleep with their grandchildren all the time and they don't need to go to the future.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
bands with albums??
― Mordy, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Wait, we're talking about music?
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I love that line
― goon flambience (fgti), Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/56698-wiz-khalifa-talks-weed-sting-marriage-fatherhood-on-pitchforktvs-overunder/
URL says it all ... almost trolling on their part
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
except that's... exactly what happens in the video?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
he didn't really marry sting
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
they will walk in fields of WEED mirit
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
i think we as a people really need to pick our battles when it comes to declaring shit "dumb"
― een, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
"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
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 11:26 (nine years ago) link
wau @ Perfume Genius getting BNM; the last record was such a miserable experience that it felt like a joke on the audience
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
the last record was such a miserable experience that it felt like a joke on the audience
and it also got bnm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
New Miserable Experience
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
new perfume genius much better than old perfume genius imho
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Loved that last PG record! No opinion on the new one yet...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
At one that I saw in late 2012, he reminded me of a cat, drawing the audience in by pulling away, rolling over and showing his softer, playful side only to snap back into cool focus.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Oh yes I loved that tour
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
The show I saw, when his guitar player tried to rub his belly he scratched him hard enough to draw blood. Lots of gasps then applause.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
let's focus on the bizarre mixed metaphor there
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
one thing i love about cats is how they just snap back into cool focus like *that*
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
I like the phrasing of the headline "Kendrick Lamar freestyles for six minutes on Power 106, gets interviewed." As if the interview happened because he freestyled for six minutes. "WHO ARE YOU? WHAT JUST HAPPENED?"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
"tell. us. more."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 September 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
gotta say that's the first time I've seen U2 accused of the music crime equivalent of using a time machine for the purposes of incest
Laughed hard
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 29 September 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link