pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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For those of you nostalgic for odd tangents in a review lede, I recommend checking out today's Cat Power review. The critic's sister just had a baby!

That's not at all irrelevant to the review, though.

dude it was a pretty lame review

is it really that hard to just write "this Cat Power record, like all Cat Power records, was boring"

no, but they won't pay you for a review less than 20 words long unless there's an accompanying dog or monkey-related visual.

what about a picture of chan marshall's bush

or a lolcat power

"I can haz cumpleet silenz wile I restarts song fiev times?"

That "Blind" song they named song of the year is a piece of shit.

blind is awesome imo

HOMOPHOBE!!!

haha. anyone who hates hercules and love affair= homophobe. i think we established that over on the NME best of poll.

yeah I saw them on Sunday and all of a sudden regret not hanging out in the VIP all day in case Nomi came out for a cocktail

though Erlend Oye did come out and dance with me during H&LA

Three years passed between the Austrian electronicist's landmark Endless Summer and 2004's relatively underwhelming Venice.

Nuh Uh.

Venice was pretty good.

I'd say it's roughly on the same level as Endless Summer. Granted Endless Summer came out 3 years earlier.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/148213-pitchforktv-usa-for-affluence-ft-tim-harrington-moby-andrew-wk-will-sheff-fred-armisen-carl-newman-and-many-more-beardo-episode-5-cash-for-christmas-video-mp3

I had the misfortune of watching this. It doesn't work as a song. It doesn't work as an ironic anti-song. The level of wealth, complacency and self-satisfaction evident in that video is not as far from what you would get if you put a random selection of Chase employees in a room (a few wealthy ones like Moby, a few middle-management types like the relatively successful of that bunch, and a few mailroom types like the "struggling" of the musicians) as what the people in the video would have you believe. I think the movie The Distinguished Gentleman has a deeper political critique than this song. And that movie was actually funny.

NB I haven't eaten in the last 48 hours.

Ugh,that was excruciating. I've seen a lot of funny stuff about the recession and this is not it. Although, it probably is the best song Excepter's ever made.

^that didn't need a comma.

Someone explain this sentence pls:

One of the most dynamic singers ever to put his stamp on the pop charts, Redding consistently emphasized song over performance, which means each take is singular and unrepeatable.

Tried. Only way I could decode it was if the writer was making an error. If he emphasized performance over song, then each take would be singular and unrepeatable. If he emphasized song over performance, though, presumably each take would be exactly alike because he'd be executing the same platonic ideal of a song (and not paying attention to the particular moment/performance the song was occurring in). Of course, assuming it's not a mistake... it makes no sense.

Each take is always singular and unrepeatable no matter what. (A repetition is obviously a new take.) So the consequent of the proposition

(consistently emphasized song over performance) => (each take is singular and unrepeatable)

is true, and the basic theory of logic tells us that the entire proposition is then true whether the antecedent is true or not. QED.

gotta ask what the point of this is http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/149449-video-gucci-mane-stoopid

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet but it's the first time pfork has ever mentioned the dude and we get some condescending nonsense like

"Bolstered by snare taps and synth stabs, Mane declares the stoopid-ity of his chain. Then he runs for mayor, repping East Atlanta. "I'm not very articulate," Mane says"

what is this ''adding to the conversation''? the post is written like pfork readers have an intimate working knowledge of gucci's music, and by not explaining at all why anyone should care about gucci or what makes him great all this serves is to get pfork readers to laugh at this "dumb" rapper. well, i guess it says gucci's not stupid. that's something!!

gucci mane is stoopid (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

complaining about pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Drake sold you ringtone boys out.

i know right

autojudas

anyway stephen it's not dumb to complain about pfork, nor do i think it's dumb to demand that if they are going to cover things that they don't 'need' to cover that they do it well and not condescendingly or lazily

i wish there was a way of subscribing to the finney/ewing pfork pieces but NONE OF THE REST OF IT* - as it is i just end up missing their stuff b/c i refuse to take the chance of accidentally encountering bullsh like that :(

*dunno who else is writing for it these days. deej is, you say? ok his too

it would be nice to have author-specific rss feeds or something

it would be nice if their search function was as decent as it used to be

it would be nice if most of their authors were as good writers as tim and tom and david q. drake esq

"authors"

critics

i dont know how the forkcast blog works but there are actual rap writers working for the site who could've written this. if marc hogan proposed this i wonder why nothing was said about the song beyond that it has synths and drums and isn't a stupid song

it would be nice if their search function was as decent as it used to be

― go to club ban with me pls (some dude), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this

i dont know how the forkcast blog works but there are actual rap writers working for the site who could've written this. if marc hogan proposed this i wonder why nothing was said about the song beyond that it has synths and drums and isn't a stupid song

― Funky House, M.D. (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 6:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude it's a little blurb the accompany the video... i wouldnt get so worked up

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet

jordan have you heard 'shopaholic'? i love it so much

i suspect that you : gucci :: me : nicki minaj though

haha yeah - and "shopaholic" is great

kudos to nicki for the benzezez/yenzezez/lenzezez/sensitive/tentative rhymes (though possibly someone should...tell her that china isn't where they have yen) on that, also bobby v's plaintive vox even as he hands over his credit card

it would be nice if I could load their site without overloading my laptop's puny cpu

granted im kind of protective of gucci and concerned w/ how he is portrayed on the internet

― Funky House, M.D. (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 6:15 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is he your baby brother or something?

twin, actually

HE CALLED HIM MANE. THAT'S STOOPID.

Jordan S. Mane

rappers getting referred to by their fake 'surnames' is one of the best running gags in music writing/reporting