reads like it's written by someone who's an actual fan of the band, too
― deeznults (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 March 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe the editors were like "calm down, fanboy" and knocked a couple points off the score
― some dude, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Prairie School Freakout only got 7.8, maybe they were scoring it relative to that?
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 11 March 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ha that would probably be fair in a sense but I have a love of that record utterly out of proportion to pretty much the rest of the world
(I also have to review the new one this weekend)
― deeznults (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 March 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i had to talk to some journalism students last week about Our Noble Career and they asked whether any publication had ever changed my star rating as though it was the worst thing they could think of
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
To be fair, maybe it was.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really not.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 11 March 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
most of the time i forget to give mine a score when i send them in
― deej, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
thought it was hilarious when ethan used to write track reviews and didn't notice for a while that there were star ratings next to them and just sent in reviews and editors slapped a # on them
― some dude, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
it's obv not the worst thing that can happen to a journalist but i still think it's fairly basic
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Once I accepted that star ratings and scores are about marketing rather than criticism, and that they have nothing to do with how sophisticated the review itself might be, I stopped worrying. Three stars, four… who really cares?
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 11 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's exactly what they did to "Barking"...I don't get these guys
― frogbs, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
only if u think those ratings 'matter' i guess xxp
― deej, Friday, 11 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
As a reader, I always assume that the rating is a quick, dirty summation of how much the reviewer liked whatever they're reviewing, so ratings being out of whack with the review itself is a little disorientating. I can see why an editor might have to calibrate the rating from time to time tho and split the difference between the reviewers personal tastes and the publication's general stance.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Saturday, 12 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
5 of the 27 topic sentences in Tom B's Odd Future wrap-up
This is where things get great.
More importantly, though, Bastard is just a straight-up great rap album, the first from the Odd Future camp.
Musically, it's a great, short distillation of the Odd Future aesthetic, with Tyler's murky synths and lurching drums only slightly obscuring a great ear for melody, like the hop-skipping piano line that makes "Luper" bounce so hypnotically.
Earl, it turns out, is a great rap storyteller, though his stories quickly become nightmares.
And the production here is borderline gorgeous; it's like the Odd Future production brain trust of Tyler, Left Brain, and Syd all got together and agreed that they finally wanted to make something that would sound great in a car.
Also worth noting is the topic sentence that appears between the first two above: Here's Bastard's basic appeal in one punchline: "Cruisin' in my go-kart at Walmart selling cupcakes/ Go 'head, admit it, faggot; this shit is tighter than butt-rape."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
What a great review
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"Earl, it turns out, is a great rap storyteller, though his stories quickly become nightmares."
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/um/um3/440.jpg
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
haha "great" is such a placeholder word, when i'm writing drafts i put it in caps though, to remind me to go back and think of a synonym
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ great call
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
u mean GREAT call?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
breihan is just the master of goonthusiasm
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it someone here who coined the phrase, "a Breihanian level of misunderstanding"? Because that's all I can think about when I read his stuff now.
― Parenthetical Grillz, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
only took tom two paragraphs to drop an "asthmatic rasp," which is right in line with his world record time
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you ever forgotten to remove one or a few, leaving some GREATs throughout?
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
all-caps great wouldn't stick out that much in some of the things lex has written tbh
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition""The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hold up what!??!
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
thats otm though for the most part. nb i dont know the context. u dance to dj sets you dont watch them
― D-40, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Well... no one actually goes to a DJ set to watch the DJ, right? Unless they also happen to be DJs?
xp: yeah D-40 OTM
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the sentence contains with it the assumption that people go to dj sets to watch them! which makes it doubly clueless.
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
*within it
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
it's not the idea that's the proposition... it's the watching. try this:
Watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition
boom, three words saved.
could even cut 'someone perform a'.
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe it's from a review of a concert DVD where the camera is pointed at the DJ the entire time
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
It's from the Thom Yorke thing, no?
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they're reviewing Creep's live show
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
The reason Deadmau5 is successful is because people like watching him perform a dj set
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This IS fun to watch...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcq7NTFHgOk
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Honestly almost every cut to the crowd is golden.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:37 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it might just be me but the verb 'perform' wrt a DJ set seems really odd and clunky to me, so yeah... other than that I don't see the issue w/ the serntiment given that it's talking about watching a film of a DJ set?
― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I realize that video isn't really a DJ set by the way.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
DJ sets would be much funner to watch if you were actually able to see what it is they were doing... from the standpoint of most shows, it looks like a lot of unskillful knob-turning and intermittent fist-pumping being all you need to be the next big thing.
dunno how this would be accomplished, tho, aside from video camera
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
er well you could go and see a bunch of DJs somewhere small w/ no barrier and have a peek maybe
then get told to leave the club when you spill a drink in their record bag
― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhxr8Muz5A
granted this was a long time ago, but this was not boring
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Deadmaufive is not a DJ
― lol kudso (sic), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
?
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 March 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I was hilariously mispelling Deadmau5
― lol kudso (sic), Saturday, 19 March 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that the Hensel twins at :06 in the Deadmau5 vid?
― Dare, Saturday, 19 March 2011 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i lol'd
― loser beam (electricsound), Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7947-you-were-there-the-complete-lcd-soundsystem/
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Monday, 28 March 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
why say the pre-album singles are "from" an album that came out years later and no longer even includes a bonus disc compiling them?
why list remixes and session versions for Daft Punk Is but not for Tribulations (or any of the other non-in-house remixes) (or session versions) (or live versions)?
why say 45:33 was originally a 2007 double LP when a) it first came out as a file the year before and b) the LP doesn't even play the entire song in full but the CD does?
did Throw not come out somewhere else years before the Planet E single? sessions comp maybe? pitchfork is dumb
looking forward to reading this in a day or two
― kris menace isn't even french (sic), Monday, 28 March 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link