I like how Pitchfork's redesign has made it really easy to photoshop fake scores.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Monday, 22 November 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't heard the new album yet, so i'll pretend the 10.0 is retroactively making amends for whatever too-low rating pfork gave to 808s and heartbreak
― ilxor, Monday, 22 November 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha this greatly improves a monday where i had to get to work early, feel like shit, and haven't had time to eat/drink anything other than terrible black coffee
― questeon the answers (call all destroyer), Monday, 22 November 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Takes a genius to come up with the idea of sampling Mike Oldfield.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
...and you will know us by the Trail of Backlash
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Do u think p4k reviews have been losing relevancy/traffic, and they sort of wanted to remind ppl 'hey. we are relevant, controversial, and get ppl talking. Please feel free to re-blog, FB share, and tweet this link'?
― markers, Monday, 22 November 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the dialectic of taste — if u hand out 10.0's to any buzzyband with a cute singer u'll look like an entry-level blog — better to play it cool — 'drive slowly and carry a big stick' — 10.0 is the p4k 'big stick' and they just pulled it out for kanye
― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
BEST COAST WAS ROBBED
― markers, Monday, 22 November 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
best coast -- the new tapes n tapes?
― ilxor, Monday, 22 November 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
she wishes
― markers, Monday, 22 November 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Earl" is better than almost every video in "the top music videos of 2010"
huge oversight IMO
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
truth
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
right?
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
With Blake, it's like I'd walked into the kitchen and saw a big prickly triangular fruit in the fruit bowl. Didn't recognize it. Didn't know what to do with it. Sniffed at it. Poked at it. Tried it. Liked it. Couldn't stop eating it, and couldn't get the taste anywhere else.
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Friday, 17 December 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"triangular" makes it
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 17 December 2010 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
can pitchfork survive after 2010
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 December 2010 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think solater, website
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 December 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked that
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that excerpt has a nice cadence to it
― return of the nakh (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 December 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess their new years resolution was to put tons of links in the text of the reviews?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
actually very helpful if the links go to music videos.
― skip, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
also, that's every website tho
― Dan Watagatapitusperry (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I was going to say, this is just Pitchfork catching up with everyone else. I'm fine with it, as long as they don't start doing those embedded Google Ads things with the linked text.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
hypertext in the tennis review OTM. fuck yeah, link to all possible youtubes alwass, and also to explanatory text when you reference weird nerd shit. this is an entirely new decade of the century.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
alwass = swass conception of always
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Husband/wife indie pop duo follow a string of well-liked blog mp3s with their nostalgia-soaked, Brill Building-referencing LP
― Nigie Dempstah (nakhchivan), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it seems like a good thing--i've enjoyed reading reviews there less since the lala player got killed
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/columns/7932-out-the-trunk-1/
^cool
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
why in the "pitchfork is dumb" thread if it's cool?
― Whiney G. Wudangquan (some dude), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
idk, is there a "pitchfork is cool" thread
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, i haven't read it yet so maybe it IS a dumb column, i just think it's a cool platform is all -- these types of columns are often the best thing pfork does
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
otm re: pfork columns -- t0m ew1ng, nabisco and m4rk r.'s columns should be required reading for anyone looking for smart thoughts abt music. i also usually find something of interest in The Out Door.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I like "Resonant Frequency" a lot
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
so what you guys are saying is that pitchfork...isn't dumb?
― Whiney G. Wudangquan (some dude), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it's plenty dumb but it has its smart moments too
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Getting rid of the reggae dancehall column was dumb
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc the dude who wrote that posts here in the rolling thread
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Dave Stelfox, who wrote the Pitchfork reggae/dancehall column for awhile used to post here a long time ago. After he stopped writing for Pitchfork (he took a non-music journalism job in the Mideast), Erin MacLeod wrote a few columns. She posted here a few times. But Pitchfork stopped asking her for columns.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
best pfork review i've read in some time:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15122-space-is-only-noise
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh, my least favorite misuse of "time signatures": In this more rhythmic first half of the album, electronic percussion figures in heavily as usual, but also with heightened emphasis on drummer Phil Selway's uneven time signatures
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol jesus
― some dude, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder what the writer thinks time signatures are...?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
once saw some review mention the "opening coda" of a song and just sighed so deeply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcaYhGEzKD8
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
omg hearty lol @ "opening coda"
also maybe the phrase wasn't meant this way, but "uneven time signatures" could be acceptable if it's referring to stuff like 5/8, 7/8, 11/8, etc. where the subdivision of the macro beat isn't equal for every macro beat
― DJP, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(I should really get TKOL since, you know, I actually like Radiohead)
― DJP, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
but the reviewer makes it sound like time signatures are something the drummer can do apart from the rest of the band. you know he really means "syncopated rhythms" or whatever.
btw everything on the radiohead record is in 4/4.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
also thought it was weird they referred to "Neil Young-inspired guitar work" on "Seperator." I associate Neil Young with either strummy acoustic guitar or loud fuzzy solos, neither of which appear prominently in that song.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Guitar on Separator sounds Balearic to me. Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ZJy-yQTtI
― DL, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link