pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

dude it's ok...i treated VV v nicely...no need to be jealous, it was mutual attraction

joke's still under construction

Remember the "shins will change your life" blog quite a few years ago?

the chins will shange your life

xp Wasn't Miccio behind that?

On record, Trae is a beast of a rapper, switching between a gravelly hangdog singsong

<3 u tom, plz never change

posting a picture of cooly g to accompany the ikonika piece yesterday was lol/sigh/rolleyes

and then clashmusic posted the same picture of cooly today to accompany their subeena piece! YES ALL FEMALE ELECTRONIC PRODUCERS LOOK THE SAME

love tom & always think he misuses words like 'gravelly' & 'gutteral' & etc

trae's voice is so soft & not gravelly! t.i. dosen't sound gutteral really, his voice is pretty smooth. etc

yeah trae's voice is wispy

i like 'ashen' & 'graphite' as words that describe trae's voice

What stripped Sigur Rós of their hype? When Agaetis Byrjun dropped like a catatonic bliss bomb at the turn of the millennium, it was hailed as an astonishing breakthrough, an instant classic that struck a perfect chord between pastoral purity and neo-futurism. A serene, old-world simplicity echoed in its glacial disposition, inadvertently playing to our glamorized perceptions of the Icelandic dreamworld that gave birth to it, while the album's epic grandeur, overripe with fervid emotional outpouring, spoke to our excitement for a new era of infinite possibility, the refresh of beginning anew, and the triumph of having prevailed over the prophesied cataclysm of Y2K. Plus, it was great to fuck to.

— Ryan Schreiber, March 10, 2003

Waaaaaayy more than I needed to know. Thanks a lot, Ryan.

lol that's almost a rewrite of the dicrescenzo wig-out

I think the thing that stripped Sigur Ros of their hype was only 3 ppl buying their album...?

doin' it while Sigur Ros was playing would be kinda like having this little dude watching you ... while you do it.
http://newmediafrenzy003.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/starchild.jpg

old sigur ros is the fuckin jam but it's not jams for fucking imo

Thanks a lot, Ryan

also I kind of don't want to bring up the video with all of the people with Down's Syndrome dancing around in it because I'm terrified of the commentary it will inspire but...

GenevieveKoski: Oh Pitchfork, you can try to scrub these hilariously bad old reviews from the site, but the Internet Archive tells all: http://bit.ly/b7L5Ul

real talk?

oh man, the old P4k layout

HAHA A 9.5!!!

somebody add it to their wikipedia page

Yes, a band in their perfect groove. I reached bedside to my DC City Paper and began to frantically search for them live. That's when their cover of "Come On Eileen" came on. I think I came. Great music that won't be soon forgotten by anyone who's heard them.

i assumed this had to be a joke, but looking at the other works of James P. Wisdom I'm almost willing to accept this is not an ironic slam.

the name "james p wisdom" just sounds too good to be true.

james w pissdom

(It's also a statement of allegiances: though Blake-- as Harmonimix-- has worked with Lil' Wayne's voice, he doesn't seem to be as interested in current American hip-hop and R&B as much as he is in picking up where Timbaland and the Neptunes left off at the end of the 1990s.)

this is a weird statement -- clearly neither timbaland nor the neptunes (who were barely even starting in the late 90s) "left off" at the end of 90s -- unless powell is insinuating that timbo & i guess the neptunes started going in different directions musically at the turn of the decade (and i wouldn't even agree with that), the timeline of this is obv pretty messed up

this is still puzzling me

what review?

n/m

This one was bugging me the other day:

Despite an absence of the band's best-known songs, the sweaty, grimy Exile on Main St. has grown into the Rolling Stones' most universally acclaimed record. Despite dozens of hits, putting together a cohesive album often seemed to be beyond the Stones, tripped up by either manager Allen Klein's publishing-rights parasitism or the band's 1970s hubris. That leaves a catalog in which only Exile is built not on hits but on vibe and: the album's singularly sleazy sound and making-of legend.

Bold mine.

Wait, no bold. Anyway, it's the repeated "despite" that bothered me.

Despite dozens of hits, putting together a cohesive album often seemed to be beyond the Stones, tripped up by either manager Allen Klein's publishing-rights parasitism or the band's 1970s hubris.

The Stones had recorded "cohesive" albums since 1966 at least, and I'm only including the entirely self-written ones.

how is sticky fingers not a cohesive album?

or yeah as alfred says, like most of them?

the stones always feel more cohesive to me than the beatles

How is that second despite bothersome (aside from the writer just needing a thesaurus)? The writer is emphasizing his thesis statement; the Rolling Stones were good at pumping out appealing, easy-to-acclaim singles but had problems focusing that energy into a cohesive, easy-to-acclaim album.

Whether that opinion makes any sense is better handled by the people already making fun of it.

Who wrote that Rolling Stones review? That's some incredible wrongness.

I think starting two sentences with Despite is the bothersome part.

I'm not sure he's constructing parallel structures, but even if he wasn't both uses of "despite" are correct.

How is that second despite bothersome

It just didn't flow like he was emphasizing it to me. The ideas that he expresses don't need that kind of build.

Despite an absence of the band's best-known songs, the sweaty, grimy Exile on Main St.

"Tumbling Dice" isn't one of their best-known songs? If he'd said "an absence of the band's biggest hits," he'd be correct; "Tumbling Dice" "only" hit #7.

That seems nit-picky. "Tumbling Dice" isn't as well known as their best known songs, yes.

ha, I was all ready to say "I have never heard this song before in my life" and then it got to the "baaaby" part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sh-fMOecSE

Are those Playboy dice?

I have never heard this song before in my life.

(I mean, maybe I have. The "baby" part does sound familiar, but I don't know if it's actually familiar or just familiar-sounding.)

I've never pegged you as a Stones fan.

i think it's true -- in all my days as a classic rock radio-listening pre-teen/teenager, Exile songs were *not* the Stones songs they played on the radio very often. to this day, i bet there are at least 15 Stones songs more likely to be played on the radio.

"Tumbling Dice" never got as much play as the sixties stuff, the Some Girls threesome, and "Start Me Up," but I heard it enough. Its chart position is exactly right: big enough.

Opening "ooooooh-oooooooh" of the background singers in Tumbling Dice always hits me like a greeting from a great old friend.

actually, the one I feel like I've heard the most is "Beast of Burden," which seems kind of weird. but this is just my experience ...