pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Parks and Rec (big time late bloomer)
The Office (US)

I dunno like I could just keep listing like 80% of successful long running comedy shows

Yeah, lots of sitcoms might have sketchy first seasons, and many peter out towards the end, but there's usually a significant sweet spot in the middle of several seasons.

finally some people talking about tv shows on this board

BREAKING: FATHER JOHN MISTY'S COVER OF THE FAMILY TIES THEME SONG AT LOLLA IS EVERYTHING

just puked on you

fuck you pitchfork for spoiling twin peaks

yeah fuck you for spoiling a repurposed scene from the 1992 movie fire walk with me

especially on the morning after the episode aired, my god

confirmed: FWWM existed

Uh it's a spoiler.

Anytime I see headlines about some band appearing in a Twin Peaks episode it's a spoiler. Stereogum's been doing this for every cameo since the season started.

It's def a spoiler. People who've already seen it know it happened already, so for them it's a useless article.

yeah fuck you for spoiling a repurposed scene from the 1992 movie fire walk with me

thanks for describing it. i didn't click on the article in hopes that at least i would be in the dark about if it was new footage or old. so thank you for spoiling it in greater detail!

you're welcome adam!!!!

btw welcome to the internet!!!!

that's a shitty attitude brad, for one thing the story went up last night right after the episode aired, and not everyone is able to watch it the night of. Bowie's appearance wasn't publicized, unlike other cameos they've mentioned (Sky Ferreira, Moby, Hudson Mohawke). also spoiling who's going to be in the nightclub credits sequence is not as bad as spoiling a pseudo-Bowie cameo.

and yeah, who is the story for? La Bateau Ivre otm, it's a useless story

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it's weird bc i spoiled that particular scene for myself by accidentally reading a synopsis of episode 14 when it leaked last week

anyway i know my extremely spoiler-neutral stance is super unpopular so i'll back down

imo "spoiler" means revealing some sort of plot revelation before people may have seen it, but I guess if you want to be pedantic it could mean revealing anything at all

also i feel bad about describing the context and spoiling it further so i'm sorry adam (but regardless there's more to it than i described and you will still be surprised imo!)

way to spoil that there's more to it!!!

(j/k)

that Bowie/TP thing is some pretty gutsy clickbait. total non-story. 25 year old movie footage of dead pop star shows up in new TV show for a few seconds, whoooaaa.

Did they do a story back when that character on Veronica Mars got a Pitchfork internship?

There is at least one Pitchfork review from the mid-2000s with the Veronica Mars' characters' name as the writer.

lol

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10183-sakert/

every day leor galil's little chicago reader piece on pitchfork and tv from earlier this summer feels like it gets more and more prescient (and seems like it ought to get expanded on/investigated further)

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/pitchfork-festival-survive-stranger-things-tv/Content?oid=27726123

also i feel bad about describing the context and spoiling it further so i'm sorry adam

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, August 14, 2017 1:27 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no prob! to be honest i was just kind of joshing cos i was so pissed at pitchfork. i went on the site sunday night and it was right there on the front page.

(but regardless there's more to it than i described and you will still be surprised imo!)

holy shit all episode was like this! i really loved the callback it was both literally "in memory" of Bowie and giving him props for being (in this case) 25 years ahead of his time =)

I'm pissed that p4k spoiled Trump's press conference. Guess I'll delete it from my DVR now

Watch Trump's controversial remarks at the latest press conference. Click it!

...

Hmm? Oh right, um... some people that are musicians probably watched it too.

their review of the new Cars reissue prompted me to see what they said about their debut. didn't even need the wayback machine for this one:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1319-the-cars-deluxe-edition/

Songs like "I'm in Touch With Your World" and "Don't Cha Stop" are, to the say the least, not some of the best songs rock music has produced

As we all know, the world's population of geeks had their two hours of glory last night when theaters everywhere opened their doors at midnight, letting millions of rabid fans in for the first full showings of "Star Wars, Episode One: The Phantom Menace."

this should be read in an old-timey newsreel voice.

in the kind of voice that describes some idyllic scene, right before a great atrocity takes place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQTKs2YDPc

Let's face it-- the Cars had their moment in the sun. Sure, there a couple of die- hard fans still roaming the planet, making their own rock music and camping out for movie tickets, but it's a rare person that's willing to drop a Jefferson on a nicely remastered, beautifully repackaged, two- disc reissue of The Cars.

"Schreiber out."

lol p4k couldn't give a shit cos selling music is such an afterthought at this point.

who care about The Cars? but read this book by an ex-Pepsi asshole on marketing

"a Jefferson" means 2 dollars? Or a nickel?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drop%20a%20Jefferson

cars fans hear them on classic rock radio, why would they even need to buy cds

Cars don't even come with CD players anymore

It’s like some of these prestige television shows, with their slate-blue filters, expensive set pieces, and crisp dialogue. Such series are supremely well constructed, made by creators of great skill and taste, but there’s something lacking in the heart department, something a bit hollow. Painted Ruins, cursorily an album about battling demons, can feel a little like prestige music.

Burn. Funny that this year has seen music by Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear, pretty much all the 'prestige music' that p4k promoted about ten years ago, and only Fleet Foxes has gotten bnm'ed. And that album is AWFUL.

well I think it hurts more for p4k & many of their readers because 10 years ago all of those bands (fleet foxes aside, i never fucked w them) were making better records.

"Hey brochacho! Where you going?"

"It's taco Tuesday man, I gottsta drop a Jefferson!

authentic urban repartee

on mister show in 1997

Fleet Foxes album isn't awful, lol

And also the '07/'08 albums from those 5 bands weren't good.

jk Strawberry Jam is good.