pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

that oral history was really good actually

― flappy bird, Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:14 PM (yesterday)

i tried to read it but got bugged early on by the author's claim that the video starts "in media res". it starts with a frigging still shot of the (motionless) car's (empty) back seat.

How Does the First-Grader on ‘Big Little Lies’ Have Such Killer Music Taste?

And how did that Doogie Howser blaze through medical school so fast??!

all this ok computer 20 year trash .... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Gettin tired really fast with all the 'x-year anniversary' stuff. Now Person Pitch 10th bday is enough for a whole retrospective?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIk_yUkisPU

(Apols, that doesn't seem to be a piece on p4k actually..)

There's stuff from 2007 that I downloaded upon release and haven't gotten around to listening to yet.

There better be a 10 year anniversary piece on The Wizard of Ahhs when the time comes.

"Pug Owners Interpret the 4 Songs on Black Kid's The Wizard of Ahhhs"

There better be a 10 year anniversary piece on The Wizard of Ahhs when the time comes.

P4K sort of ruined Black Kids' career, didn't they? I still listen to "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" regularly.

P4K sort of ruined Black Kids' career, didn't they?

Well, they *did* get Chief Keef thrown in jail...

i want a retrospective on Da Wizzard of Odds

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K9EFFHbKDeY/hqdefault.jpg

Gettin tired really fast with all the 'x-year anniversary' stuff. Now Person Pitch 10th bday is enough for a whole retrospective?

narcissistic attention-grab metrics: they need stories readers will click and share because they say what they already think/care about

fucking pissed abt the pallbearer review :[

as a mild-to-moderate pallbearer fan i'm listening to this and it seems like a good pallbearer album and i don't see why this one would be singled out for a pan when the other two were best new music

though i feel like p-fork does this a lot like we'll build u up we'll tear u down thing

I hated the first two and like this one a lot. Review seems boneheaded to me, not a pfork thing so much as Real Metal Dudez getting the knives out for a band that got too big too fast.

though i feel like p-fork does this a lot like we'll build u up we'll tear u down thing

they are going to pan the new FJM album

One would hope

i hate that i knew that acronym despite never seeing it before and never (knowingly) hearing FJM's music

I was surprised by knowing it myself, though I do hate the guys music with a passion.

i worked in a coffee shop in 2012 so i feel like patient zero of the FJM plague

though i feel like p-fork does this a lot like we'll build u up we'll tear u down thing

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 24, 2017 1:47 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah yes, the "British Press" model:

1st album: saviours of rock and roll, best since the Beatles!
2nd album: These tossers are still around?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/56-liner-notes/1957-kraftwerks-trans-europe-express-in-4-minutes/

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okay, i get the idea, next...

Endless Endless i don't have time for this just give me the highlights

i'm interested in kraftwerk but i don't have time to listen to a full song, what are the essential things i should know to be a huge fan without listening to them?

Please don't tell me all Muricans pronounce kosmische as kosMEESHe like in that vid. Spilled coffee over my keyboard hearing that.

Lol Zach

Please don't tell me all Muricans pronounce kosmische as kosMEESHe like in that vid. Spilled coffee over my keyboard hearing that.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 12:22 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please enlighten us (seriously)

KOSmische. (Click the play button here

It is also the rarest of things: a McCartney record where you can sense his need to be loved.

lol

http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10045-the-50-best-britpop-albums/?page=4

The definitive list, folks. Space and Catatonia are here to stay.

That top four is magnificently dull and predictable

p.s. different class is more overrated than any other britpop album

pfork writing about hefner in 2017 but in the context of britpop is some monkey's paw shit. also granted i was a kid but placebo being britpop? o_O

Hmm. Somehow I don't think I'm interested in what an American web-based publication has to say about '90s guitar music from the UK, particularly if that web-based publication is Pitchfork.

Placebo were a guitar band in the '90s that people liked alongside some other guitar bands in the '90s.

Are Hefner any good? I like the frontman's album about lidos.

And the one about the villages. That's nice, too.

idk if it's for everybody but I love hefner and the fidelity wars especially. definitely a different tone to his solo stuff though.

Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews made headlines for boasting that International Velvet’s lead single, “Mulder and Scully,” was better than Oasis’ single “All Around the World.”

kind of lol but mostly sad

Over the past few years, there have been a handful of albums similar to Crow, or at least with a similarly autobiographical premise: Sun Kil Moon’s Benji, Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell, Nick Cave’s Skeleton Tree, stark, diaristic albums haunted by literal death, grief on record. Indie culture tends to prize this kind of undecorated directness as a stand-in for truth, as though nobody has ever spoken clearly and lied.

I know it feels good to have 3 examples of your proposed trend, but Skeleton Tree is a different beast than these other albums

I'm just amused by the fact that Shampoo is #17.

And disappointed in the lack of Menswe@r.

They almost made the Space album sound good. And I've heard the Space album.

No Dodgy :(

I'm amused I wasn't asked to join in this one!

Ian Cohen writing about Placebo is a hate crime

"Britpop's rigid heteronormativity" effectively erases Brett and Jarvis' gender/sexual fluidity, which was prob much more subversive than Molko, but w/e, pretty sure a dead battery could write circles around that guy

I realize my opinions on britpop are Wrong and I am a terrible person for them but I really like catatonia

Urban Hymns has sooooo much filler on it. A Northern Soul is way better. Dull list, and Everything Must Go at 32!!!

Went on a big Britpop binge last Oct/Nov and I couldn't help but noticing how lame the drumming is on so much of it.

Also if they are including things that "aren't Britpop" or by acts who "aren't a Britpop band" (but are by '90s UK guitar-rock acts) the omission of The Holy Bible is a head-scratcher.