Before Chris Brown forced her into one of the most public celebrity domestic-abuse dramas since Ike and Tina, Rihanna's defining vocal trait was always how completely in control she sounded.
gratuitous and pointless lead-in alert!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
not if they're arguing that her "defining vocal trait" changed post-chris brown
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that is not what happens tho
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yes but just look at that s.e.o. bait
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate this kinda crap in the second sentence
The group's first full-length offering this year, Help, is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time. If the group rolled their joints on the sleeve of a first-edition copy of Black Monk Time, and took slugs of moonshine from the 13th Floor Elevators' electric jug (unplugged, of course), it wouldn't come as a surprise.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The group's first full-length offering this year, Help - not to be confused with the Beatles album put back into the limelight by the video game Rock Band, which vies with Singstar and Guitar Hero for domination of the crucial XBox 360, Playstation and Wii markets - is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time.
Fixed
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha, A+
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
do people actually read album reviews
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
just the bands, I think
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
pitchfork seems to have this knack for pairing up the style of the writer and the style of the music. i appreciate it. whenever i start reading a review and the writing is off on some tangent or stretching waaaaay too far to create a simile, the music seems to have indescribably similar problems. \
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
If Rock Critic Fatigue exists, the kind of music Best Coast make is what most tired us out in 2009. So insert your cleverest lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave amalgamation here because quite frankly, I'm exhausted.
this is a tad rich coming from the guy who penned just about ever lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave track review for pfork this summer
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
dope song tho
it's good but "the sun was high (so was i)" is a lot lot better
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahah this Animal Collective review, man
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
can't decide between the "dude, all their stuff sounds different, that makes them good"/totally off the mark AC vs. Grateful Dead == indie band vs. jam band thing/quoting Rakim for some reason even though the logic doesn't match
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ok it's Rakim
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
when a writer quotes a musician that has nothing to do with the song/album in the last line of a review i think it's pretty much a dead giveaway that they didn't know how to end the piece/spent a lot of time working on it and decided to give up at the end out of frustration
― Mr. Yah (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"Whoa, I walk" is deliberately misheard as "What would I want?" I mention it because it's what this band has always done for me: take a sound and turn it inside out to make something new, but something recognizable, even familiar. I'm reminded of the words of the ever-wise Rakim: "Spread the word, 'cause I'm in E-F-F-E-C-T A smooth operator operating correctly."
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought he was talking about being reminded of indie rock band The Words of the Ever-Wise Rakim
― I got gin but I'm not a ginger (bernard snowy), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"There's something here that reminds me of yoga, or of the 1990s, but I can't put my finger on it-- whatever it is, it's appropriate coming from a group that has, through no specific positioning of their own, become the jamband for people who profess to dislike jambands."
Do the 1990s and Yoga have some significance in relation to jambands?
― Evan, Monday, 23 November 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
seems like the rakim line got post-last minute cut out.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this song still isn't that good, but a lot of improvements from the bootlegs. a lot of nice parts and texturally it sounds really beautiful, but i can't help feel embarassed listening to that awkward verse.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I really liked MPP, but I'm def not feelin this EP so far
― Xasthur Roth (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 23 November 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
He's saying it sounds like the decade that brought you Rainforest Cafe.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
There's something here that reminds me of new age or yoga or the 1990s, but I can't put my finger on it-- whatever it is, it's appropriate comin- oh wait this shit sounds like moby
― rap band (schlump), Monday, 23 November 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahah
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 23 November 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
No but he says 1990s + Yoga = (vaguely) association to jambands. Thats what I get with the wording in that sentence.
― Evan, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure where to post Pfork gems, so I figured this thread was as good as any. Sure, Pfork has poor writing from time to time, but with hilarious zings such as this (from today's review of The Bravery), why complain?
Endicott's voice still alternates between operatic Ian Curtis croon (remember Elefant?) and adenoidal Robert Smith whine (remember Stellastarr*?). He still sings songs that manage to evoke greats from bygone eras without any of the greatness: "Baby, we were born to be adored," repeats glumly hooky synth-rock opener "Adored", neatly desecrating the most famous choruses from Bruce Springsteen and the Stone Roses in a single refrain.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
the front page blurb for that review is pretty weird in that it refers to the early part of The Bravery's career "at the start of the decade," when they released their first album in 2005 (and didn't even form until 2003)
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Any mention of Pfork's bad writing has to mention the "watching a stillborn baby frolicking in the afterworld on an IMAX screen" comment from the Kid A review.
― Daruton, Monday, 30 November 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure that would just make every post on this thread harder and more confusing to read
― I AGREE WITH THE COSMETIC SURGERY (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I c wat u did dere
― Daruton, Monday, 30 November 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
man would it kill them to review a song that they either love or hate?
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh, most songs that exist on earth are just OK
― mooncup journey to vaja (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the problem with "song reviews"
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Monday, 30 November 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
anytime I've written for an outlet that does number or letter grades I get really tired of slapping Bs and Cs or 6s and 7s on stuff all the time but honestly that's just how it is
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
nah song reviews are awesome, and I'm not saying the score's what matters but seeing 7 7 6 6 6 6 7 8 7 7 6 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 doesn't make me want to click on them. Whiney's (and xp some dude) right though, which is why I wish they'd review actual singles a little more often
― brutt fartve (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing about reducing everything to numbers is that it ultimately does feel pretty reductive
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a music writing truthbomb.
― I AGREE WITH THE COSMETIC SURGERY (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss SPIN's old red-yellow-green system
― da croupier, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
would be especially good for song reviews. worth your time, not worth your time, maybe if you've got a boner for this act
― da croupier, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The problem with PFM is that even when the blurbs say worth your time, the scores would say you've got a boner for this act.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to come up with a scoring system that tells you how to read my review through the prism of how big my boner is for the artist
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
youd just give out half-chubs all the time
― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hate to break it to you but Penthouse already used the "boner system" for their movie ratings back in the 70s
― Gimme That Christian Side-hug, that Christian Side-hug (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
youd just give out half-chubs all the time― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Monday, November 30, 2009 3:46 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― kool-aid dudes get drank up, totally (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
stop picturing my penis whiney
― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
so icy
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brrr
― throw some deej on that bitch (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
deej it saddens me that you think there's not a single contemporary artist that gets my fanboy dick fully erect
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Thread for Autumn 2009
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link