hmm
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1188-what-the-hell-is-simpsonwave/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
I saved the frontpage with it on the Wayback Machine in case you ever want to gaze longingly back at the moment:http://web.archive.org/web/20160614174547/http://pitchfork.com
― Champiness, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, I just watched the two "explanation" videos contained within the Simpsonwave piece and I'm on irony overload. Do people actually live their lives like that? In that constant state of hyper-awareness and super smug jokiness?
― Austin, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
i am pro simpsonwave btw. bought the blank banshee album after seeing this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Site is desperately short on ideas at this point IMO.
http://pitchfork.com/news/66111-watch-pitchforktvs-brief-history-of-dad-rock/
― Position Position, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
idk if it is the redesign, quite possibly it is, but it seems like there has been a dramatic drop-off in quality across the site, it seems worthless to me now and i used to visit it everyday
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
I would say the Conde Nast acquisition has more to do with the direction of content on the site.
― BrianEmo, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
yea
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
is pitchfork changing? or ... are you?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
good q
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
there's been a dramatic drop-off in quality in the stuff I've written but that is largely due to pulling my life in 500 different directions, 200 of which are outside the solar system and 250 of which are in hell
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
^^^^
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
also I think, for one thing, the pitch is much better than it used to be
FWIW, I haven't noticed a drop-off in the quality of the work of writers I already admire. The main qualm for me is probably less prominence on the homepage for track reviews. Tracks now only seem to appear as news items which I think makes it a little harder to keep up with newer stuff.
― art baengels (monotony), Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
when will this place that just sold for millions of dollars learn how to run a company!
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
How much you can get someone to pay for something = always a mark of its quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 16 June 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
That dad rock cartoon is the single most smug and terrible thing they've ever done. It has nothing redeeming about it
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
I keep thinking the redesign is optimized for some specific platform or medium that I just don't use. Like, Oculus Rift or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
i don't know how it works at pitchfork but if you see a video on a website that you don't like it's safe to assume that it was made by an entirely separate staff of people from the one that makes the website you enjoy reading
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:59 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
do you use your cell phone?
Not for perusing websites, no. But I do use it to text, email and make phone calls!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
is it really pronounced "Bone Eee-vere"? i just watched that dad rock video and that's how he says it. i always pronounced it "Bonn Eye-ver".
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
that dad rock video isn't that bad. pointless and not really worth watching but pretty accurate.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah i didn't find it terrible. kinda funny.
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
i looked at something yesterday on there and it was all about someone who may or may not have ripped some guy's song off for an apple ad and then it turned out that the guy who may have been ripped off had done apple ads and they had these pictures of apple billboards and videos of apple commercials and and all of a sudden i went heeeeeeeeyyyyyyy wait a minute did apple pay for this? it was a pretty non-news story that said the word Apple 5 million times.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bonny bear
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Thursday, 16 June 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 3:25 PM (Yesterday
same - i feel like they don't actually care if you read the reviews now and it feels like a bother to try
― j., Thursday, 16 June 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
yeah i remember i never heard anyone pronounce Bon Iver until he was on The Grammys and everyone on twitter was like "who's Bonnie Bear?"
― Dierks Bentley's Holistic Detective Agency (some dude), Thursday, 16 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
yeah i used to check it every day, even after i stopped writing for the site, but now it just feels like navigating a maze of shit i don't really care about to get to anything i might care about.
(also kind of weirded out to be posting in this thread 14 fucking years after i started it.)
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 16 June 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
pretty funny ... imagine the changes for, say, rolling stone between 1967 and 1981
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luei18753f1qdh92x.jpghttp://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2004/galleries/1981-rolling-stone-covers/rs335-john-lennon-yoko-ono-369/22787_lg.jpg
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 June 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a very uncharitable interpretation of a story (with actual reporting! it's sad that this is not common) that doesn't reflect well on apple. it mentions Shamir just as often -- did Shamir pay for the story too? your post mentions apple a lot -- did apple pay for that too?
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 16 June 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
as a general rule of thumb, major corporations do not sponsor stories that elucidate industry bullshit
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 16 June 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
i dunno, publicity is publicity these days. i read the whole thing and i just thought of appleappleapple.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
i'm kinda dumb though.
How an Azealia Banks Soundalike Ended Up a Hit for Shamir, Who's Ostensible Soundalike Ended Up in Apple's New Commercial
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 June 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
Toward the close of 2014, Nick Jonas was thrusted pelvis-first back into the pop stratosphere.
jesus christ there's a grammatical error in the FIRST SENTENCE of the goddamn review
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
I barely look at pfork anymore it's so aggressively ugly and stupid but man that's sad
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
it's catchy
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
the richest corporation in the world is definitely spending its money planting stories about shamir on pitchfork
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 June 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
guess i'll be that guy but
conde nast's acquisition obviously
didn't keep it punk rock
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0IzyQmDkJE
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 June 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz6jFdvn2Q
― geoffreyess, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
p4k discovered archive.org
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1194-10-great-old-concerts-you-can-legally-stream-in-high-quality/
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 June 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Tyler's run the best classic rock/psych/American primitive Bootleg blog on the web for a few years p sure he knew about archive but you could ask him yrself
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 June 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
lol, i know that plenty of people know about archive.org, the article was just a "hey check out some of this neat stuff" kind of thing. i always assume everyone has already heard about what i'm writing about, but it usually turns out that a lot of people don't! there are a lot of people out there.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
"usually turns out that a lot of people haven't" is what i meant. not only is pitchfork dumb, i am dumb too!
― tylerw, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
True. Actually sorta surprised that more people don't know about the archive or how much stuff is on there. I saw the headline and i thought "Oh! new Elliott Smith show discovered..." and it was something I'd already heard. Didn't mean to be salty.
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
ha, no problem, i would probably be salty if i hadn't written it, heh heh.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
It will only be a matter of time till Pitchfork discovers that its old pre-2000 reviews that it took down can be found on archive.org too.
― MarkoP, Monday, 20 June 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link