pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

oh right. "Newports, not just blunts" -- how could i forget

it doesn't think through as much as it could because all of the participants had less than 24 hours to churn their opinions out

I was gonna say the elephant in the room was that the roundtables that made it to this thread (they've done others) were the ones that dealt with race, but given that someone's dropped blackface into the discussion I don't think that is really applicable anymore

No I'm not having that. It might be about race but it caught my eye because everybody agrees as loudly as possible. Maybe that's the norm for P4k round tables, idk, but if it is then they should rethink the whole format.

Can mods just change the name of this thread to "I@n C0hen is dumb?"

There's more care and nuance put into the drum filtering on "Let It Happen" than most bands manage in an entire career of recording

Right, because you know

Parker is...somehow the best and most underrated rock bassist of the 21st century, and it’s not even close on either front

srsly?

I feel like for some people audible bass playing = good bass playing.

otm

what is "drum filtering"

It's when you use the snare strainer to make coffee.

http://i.imgur.com/0HZMqzm.gif

I feel like for some people audible bass playing = good bass playing.

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^^^^^

crut I lol'd really hard, ty

Currents could be called a "transitional album," but what Parker seems to realize is that all albums should be so named, because life is transitional.

jesus christ

Noted Marxist-Leninist mouthpiece the FT on implications for the Eurozone: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e38a452e-26f2-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html#axzz3fm5E3Q9P

lol rong thread sorry guys

not really

Forknancial Times

what is "drum filtering"

he's just talking about the dj-esque part of the single where there's a low pass filter on the drums.

ian cohen also responsible for this infamously terrible review:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17136-mumps-etc/

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they're on the festival bill

copy and paste the url. ilx doesn't put the final "/" in the link and so it doesn't work

I don't really care about IC as a writer but he reviews so much nu-emo/pop-punk stuff that is reviving sounds I didn't care much about the first time around that I basically skip anything with his byline.

It's a huge bummer that he got assigned to review the Tenement album, which didn't really say anything beyond "It's a double-LP; therefore, it's too long." Couldn't they have gotten literally anyone else?

oh yeah just like when he reviewed the new mew record and mostly used it as an opportunity to make thousand-year-old prog jokes about rick wakeman's king arthur

IC is the most Pitchfork-y of Pitchfork writers though, a true objectivist, will always mention the album's relatability, hook count, and cross-reference with other Pitchfork-approved records positively. Music to him is something to affirm his own privileged position, not to challenge it. As long as he writes there regularly that site will never be a positive force for anything

Every site needs one of those, like David Fricke at RS. Or Anthony DeCurtis in his heyday.

i would like to suggest: nah

speaking of pitchfork writers, this looks pretty cool:

"Rural Violence", curated by Brandon Stosuy, features the work of the artists Matthew Barney, Cindy Daignault, Lionel Maunz, and Prurient (with John Sharian). It is a meditation on the bucolic as sinister and the quiet violence of the pastoral, along with the various rituals attached to both natural and personal cycles.

"Rural Violence" opens on August 8, 2015, in the Family Chapel of the 150-year old Woodside Church in Troy, NY. Opening is 7pm. Performance is 8pm.

There will be a second movement on September 19, 2015.

prurient in a church in troy. that's pretty damn poetic.

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s/

TOP 10 SPOILER ALERT:

10. "How Soon Is Now?"
9. "The Message"
8. "Once in a Lifetime"
7. "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
6. "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)"
5. "Fight the Power"
4. "Blue Monday"
3. "Straight Outta Compton"
2. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"
1. "Purple Rain"

Hardly visionary, but I'm sure there's a lot of cool stuff in the 200-50s

here's a spotify playlist with 191 of its songs https://open.spotify.com/user/norwich5/playlist/5rYtPUau6Aewf3UrsM7r66

great list!

nah but

(shruggie)

not to sound like all the idiot rockist/crypto-racist Slicing Up Eyeballs commenters who are complaining about this list, but no Human League was a lil surprising to me

a lot of great choices through 200-101 and then it hardens into an established, only lightly distorted version of canon, there are also a lot of inexplicable omissions and some u2 songs

...and Hall & Oates.

...and Michael McDonald.

no george michael, no 'perfect way,' no pointer sisters, no freestyle (unless you count shannon who to me was always on the cusp), no country, no 'higher love,' totally weak on all the weird left-field pop that bubbled up from secondary and tertiary markets to the charts and made top 40 radio an exciting place

also 'straight outta compton' being picked as the '80s best hip-hop track is just, i mean, what?

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is such a mediocre song

the post-disco/electro-funk inclusions are the real highlight of the list and their blurbs are almost exclusively written by deej, tim, or meaghan garvey, thrilling me

and like... 'about a girl' but not 'touch me i'm sick'? come onnnnnnnnn

the selection/order/distribution of janet and madonna singles is baffling but

Alan Parsons Project right between Frankie Knuckles and Madonna, where it belongs.

the post-disco/electro-funk inclusions are the real highlight of the list and their blurbs are almost exclusively written by deej, tim, or meaghan garvey, thrilling me

this is the main reason i think this list is great

no 'perfect way,' no pointer sisters, no freestyle (unless you count shannon who to me was always on the cusp), no country

agree that the list needs more of ^^^

i was just happy to see Egyptian Lover first thing

yeah i was gonna say that i love nwa as much as anybody but calling straight outta compton the third best song of the decade isn't just revisionist, it reeks of au courant click prioritization

on the other hand, this is a fun mix to listen to because these are pretty much all very good and well remembered songs
numbering lists by priority and then having DEEP MEANINGFUL ISSUES with those priorities is pretty much always meh

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I felt the same way about Nirvana being on an 80s list.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is such a mediocre song

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