pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

http://i.imgur.com/o5qn21X.jpg

that paragraph DOES clearly appear in a list of things mentioned in the lyrics and it almost seems like you'd have to be willfully taking it out of context to make it look "weird." and it's an excerpt from an already published book so any critique of it doesn't really need to be laid at pitchfork's feet itt anyway.

true, maybe this is the wrong thread - saw the book recommended but was a bit disappointed after reading this excerpt, quoted part sounds like a faux naive rapgenius annotation to me, but probably I just don't share the author's humour

still, what's with the 1-13 list at the end?

i'm disproportionately annoyed that this post about covering D'Angelo doesn't mention that "She's Always in My Hair" is a Prince song, making it a cover of a cover.
http://pitchfork.com/news/62716-bj-the-chicago-kid-shares-dangelo-covers-ep/

Animal Collective
Painting With
Domino

WHAT WE KNOW: Painting With is AnCo’s first record since 2012’s Centipede Hz, and their first that wasn’t worked out in concert. It was recorded without Josh "Deakin" Gibbs, and is heavily influenced by early Beatles, early Ramones, and dinosaurs.

WHEN IT’S OUT: February 19

WHY WE’RE PSYCHED: What site are you on right now? The Economist? Nah, bro: Pitchfork. Of course we’re psyched about new AnCo.

did Deakin go back to Mali or something

If not, we should Kickstarter that and make it happen ASAP. Think about the children!

But apparently they're not psyched about Radiohead anymore.

the idea of AnCo being able to play early Ramones or Beatles songs is hilarious imo

I mean do they even know how a rhythm section works

dvsn

WHAT WE KNOW: We know the producer Nineteen85, who worked with Drake on "Too Much," "Hold On, We’re Coming Home," and "Hotline Bling," is behind boards. We know they are based in Toronto. We know that the as-yet-unnamed lead vocalist has one hell of a heartbreaking voice.

WHEN IT’S OUT: We dunno!

WHY WE’RE PSYCHED: Look, there are a lot of new R&B acts right now, and every year brings more promising ones, but songs as devastating as "The Line"? Those are hard to write, and even harder to perform. There’s a reason we don’t hear those that often.

in concert

millennnial males

“By changing their name, fka VC have removed the primary distraction preventing fans and potential audiences from enjoying their excellent post-punk jams. Now we can shut up and get on with the music.”

okay

finally i can shut up and get on with the music

Today on Pitchfork, we're shutting up and getting on with the music. No articles today.

Finally we can stop talking about these racist idiots and get on listening to their awful, derivative music

Free downloads threatened to take away yachts.

guys

don't read it

trust me

His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne
His music is sparkly and pretty and feels good, like a digitized glass of champagne

http://finedininglovers.cdn.crosscast-system.com/BlogPost/xl_3570_champagne-bottles-tp.jpg

Pitchfork 2016:

omg, Bowie was, like, such an innovator, right? I can't even

I wonder if Khloe Kardashian has a verse on Swish, that shit would be off the hook

is 'racist idiots' just that they named their band viet cong or is there more to this

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

uh hello obvious the notable carlos d thread was a motivator

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/8203not_yours_to_play_with_why_viet_congs_name_offends-hooded_fangs_april_aliermo_on_community_racism_appropriation_of_neighbours_culture

In a Guardian piece, they explained that their name came from a moment when their bass player was holding his instrument like a weapon. One of them remarked, "All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong." The band have claimed "There are zero political connotations… we just honestly thought it sounded good and that it gives some imagery that matches our music in terms of it being explosive and dark." In an interview with Impose Magazine, the band talk about how, in old movies, the Viet Cong were so "bad ass."

"All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong."
"There are zero political connotations… "

does not compute

When I was a 10-year-old boy, surviving the cultural wilderness of inland Queens

cultural wilderness of large NYC borough

everyone should read the carlos d thing, it is full of gems

they should change their name to the Nazis next. and after that they could change it to the Khmer Rouge.

I’d done it again, only this would be the last time: I’d toyed with a fragile nervous system, dousing it with chemicals and warm bodies well past the hour when most mortals had already made it to the office somehow.

misread that as "full of germs" xxp

admittedly i haven't read it, but

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/999-carlos-dengler-on-how-david-bowie-gave-him-the-freedom-to-quit-interpol-and-find-himself/

what the world needed this week was a good ol' comparison of the guy from interpol to david bowie, written by the guy from interpol

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:04 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc

haha thanks forks. that's a shame i half like the record i wish they weren't dumb

hey, back to that 80s list:

114) Talk Talk - “Life's What You Make It”

whaaaaa "RAINBOW" TOP 10 PLZ

the '80s list was 2015? seems like years ago.

The decadence of the '00s was at an end. It was a time of conservation, of the profit principle, of high anxiety, of major label betrayals, of group therapy and raised voices, of cold, stony pursed lips on poker faces disguising a contagious terror that trickled down from managers and executives quivering in their boots. Free downloads threatened to take away yachts. The end of art was nigh, I could feel it.

I didn't even make it that far

To top it off, I was sick of being in a band where my nickname was "Shamu."

I didn't even make it that far

― Οὖτις,

The end of art was nigh.

man, that guy is a total buffoon.

i think everyone kinda knew they were wrong about "GOOD Fridays is back" even though they kept writing those completely unconfirmed words so many times throughout the past week as if it they could just make it true by writing them over and over again.

it's music internet SOP now considering the ridiculous way people have acted about the Frank Ocean album

Kanye Didn't Release A Track Last Friday, And That's OK

Fucked up thing is I can no longer tell if that headline is for real or parody

Of course, there’s a long tradition of rock musicians using heroin to inspire their best music—think Lou Reed, Neil Young, Keith Richards—but Smith found no truth in such myths. “You can’t write music when you’re high,” he says plainly. “You can’t do much of anything productive.”

I suppose the generous reading here is that Neil Young used *the subject* of heroin but still wtf editors

could've substituted any number of less ambiguous figures (Cobain as already mentioned in the article, Sonic Boom etc)