pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Notable? Oh I just thought it was quite funny

why

lol wolves circling

@ campreverb, I love ratings, but when they're fun and at the service of a good reading and listening experience, not "look at us scale the entire world of music and music writing on this metric of objectivity". My ideal rating system has always been Vice's music section tbh

my ideal rating system has always been dos and don'ts

xxp agreed, there just seemed to be a case being made earlier that ratings/listicles/best of's serve no purpose, and I while I think that point could be made for the latter 2, throwing ratings out with them is throwing the baby with the bathwater to me.

ideal system: CMJ's old RIYL.

finger paintings tweet otm

Kimmy Schmidt was great! I'm white btw

i don't see how she ever expects to get cast in a belle and sebastian movie with tweets like those

Yeah so Jenny Death gets 8.1 but not BNM... perfect example of PF walking their top-down branding tightrope. Gotta appease the kids who align their indie identity with DG image marketing, but not unnerve the Pomplamoose set.

http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg

unnerve the pomplamoose and pomplamoose the unnerved

is what they should be doing

I just want to post a comment below the review, goddammit!

open commenting on pitchfork is not a great idea.

well ok, but i just have one really important comment

for one review in particular

it's about how i make a living while working from the comfort of my home

post it here

wtf i can't c+p my home

just post everything here

thank you all for this thread it keeps giving

I just want to post a comment below the review, goddammit!

*indicates the total fucking nightmare that is the pfork facebook*

your boy chris paul flopping like someone whacked his leg with a club

lol whoops

nonetheless my point stands

otm

7.8 - Captures the end of the season

A WOC - and an electronic musician, no less (is this a first?) - gets a BNM today. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20450-dark-energy/

no capt-save-a-fork here but just flipping idly through the BNM reviews it seems like females, electronic musicians and female electronic musicians are pretty well-represented in BNM. women of color who are electronic musicians less so, last one i saw was FKA twigs back in august. but they only bestow BNM like every other week or something?

I still want to know why the Vampire Weekend guy was cut out of the piece.

I assume because Batmanglij is of Iranian heritage and the others are South Asian?

oh cool I've basically spent the last week raving about that album to anyone who will listen

I assume because Batmanglij is of Iranian heritage and the others are South Asian?

That will have been known by the author. The line was too easily misinterpreted as throwing shade at Batmanglij and Khan, i think.

not necessarily, it's sort of an unusual name

actually i retract that, i guess i probably don't have the best ear for that stuff

just realized his mom wrote a cookbook i own

and he recorded a couple albums I own

it's a really good cookbook!

dear god.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/727-pitchfork-at-the-plate/

good choices from the phillies fans (andrew w.k. and deftones). dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responses

really like the idea of walking up to that Pan Sonic song tbh

soaring skrrrtpeggios

Yeah any indie track there is a dud; you've gotta go for something the crowd can sing along to. It's sports, a time for us to drop pretensions and share collective emotions. If you feel the need to be standoffish in that context you're beyond repair. Might as well give up and write for Pitchfork.

I'd go for "Friday" myself.

lol at Br@ndon St0usy sticking to his shtick.

dud: predictable "i know nothing about sports here's some artsy indie track i like" responses

the people that said they knew nothing about baseball picked songs by Future, Amerie, and ACDC

how dare you go against the narrative

There's 2 "indie" bands on there, Led Savy Fav and Oh Sees which both rock and are catchy as hell

Lol at ilx no nothings acting like every band they haven't heard is like The Decemberists

I would like to know what Led Savy Fav sound like. Sort of an indie rock take on Dread Zeppelin maybe?

doofheaven are indie.