pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i only talk about music now - for the most part - in a facebook group i'm in but nobody talks about rap there.

a group started by a Pitchfork writer! to bring things 'round the bend...

surprised no one here wants to push the DJ Quik out as best of the year rap album as well; i thought i was on ilx

this has surprisingly not stuck with me, i did love it on first listen but...

went through my krazy life in full again. "me & my bitch" is better than i initially gave it credit for though i stand by its interruption of the album.

"do it to ya" still sucks. its terrible. strangely, the skit part isn't what ruins it - wouldn't be that bad if not for the "bed" sound effects sounding more like a squeaky dog toy than a bed. tee flii simply can't fuckin sing and YG doesn't sell the loverman thing that well. he's no gates.

from today's Smashing Pumpkins review:

Drummer Mike Byrne has been replaced by someone nearly 30 years his senior in Tommy Lee, best known as the frontman for the rap-metal latecomers Methods of Mayhem and skinsman for a popular hair metal concern.

I mean, I'm all for clowning on Tommy Lee's embarrassing career turns and all, but lol @ this sentence.

Tommy Lee is a whopping two years older than Jimmy Chamberlin.

xpost I WAS GONNA POST THAT EXACT SENTENCE AFTER READING THAT THIS MORNING! weird.

"Johnny Marr, best known as a touring guitarist for Modest Mouse from 2006-2009 and playing with a well regarded 80s indie rock band."

a popular hair metal concern of no conceivable significance who have sold over 100 million albums

gonna take a wild guess that sentence was intended as 'a joke'

pretty sure I can confirm that this 'joke', 'fell flat', as they say

seeing as it was written by ian cohen, this is unsurprising, yet still highly zing-worthy

definitely was a joke, this revive is so stupid

some dude otm. the fact that they achieved worldwide fame and massive success IS THE JOKE.

a joke that happens 20 times on the internet every day, probably, but this is p4k, so...

fwiw, I got the "joke", it was an incredibly awkwardly constructed joke. but it's been awhile since I've specifically had one of my posts called out as "stupid", so thanks for that, I guess.

i thought that dude from rage was the new pumpkins drummer. guess not.

just for a couple of shows, with the bassist from the killers. Corgan's really into bringing in random alt-rocker weirdos now.

Yeah, well remember Zwan?

I wish he'd go back to those weirdos! I'd take Paz, Pajo or Sweeney over any of these dudes.

zwan might was well have been a pumpkins album at this point.

DON: Well, yeah.

zwan weirdos a.k.a. dudes from bands way better than smashing pumpkins

for sure

xp just to be clear we're saying a perfect circle (paz lechantin) was better than the smashing pumpkins? bc in some ways i do think that...

(assessment is otm regardless due to those other folks)

sloth do you listen to Chavez?

you showed me them IRL and i have listened here and there & liked what i heard, they are not currently in my regular rotation

its a funny troll joke and u all fell for it lol

i wld listen to some rn but just about to give this owen pallett the old college (re)try after not loving it the first time around (except the riverbed IIRC, liked that one immediately)

whose, cohen's in the original review?

...ian is that you?

(xp)

Paz not a "dude" iirc

I'm having trouble discerning who is at fault for implying Paz is a dude here...

i too have a distinct recollection of paz lechantin being a woman

so that's settled

(not sure if shake is saying anyone is, prob just having a laugh, all i know is i didnt)

HAT GAME ON 100 IMO
http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style820_546/public/131209-pixies-bass-a-perfect-circle-paz-lenchantin.jpg

http://www.samviral.com/beck/beckmorningphase.png

whoa whoa whoa thats just hateful hers is way better

yelawolf wears a hat now

http://assets.audiomack.com/rapxclusive/0b0e307c41054160ea878eff4a73a99f.jpg

he wears quite a few. (sidebar: man he used to be sorta good, what happened)

I like 'till it's gone' but i am not a music or hat critic

what a horribly formed "skinsman"

skinsman is what i imagine variety calls drummers

Creepy-looking finger-sniffing guy takes out own Nice Guy psychodrama on Ed Sheeran, overreacts, calls bog-standard "why don't you fancy me?" lyrics "morally toxic", ends on predictable lecture about entitlement. And for why?

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/624-the-problem-with-ed-sheeran-and-nice-guys-like-him/

finger sniffer in the header is lou barlow

i dont think lou barlow wrote that (lol xps)

idk i read like 30 words of that, seemed ok

That's completely wrong, he is sucking his thumb.

it was kinda weird when he acknowledges the dino jr. song he drug into his whole thesis was probably lou writing to mascis and not a girl

i really dug the philip sherburne panda bear piece, just kind of cool to see interesting media and video content integrated into the writing.