pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I'm a huge fan of LCD Soundsystem so it kind of pains me to say that I don't know if I can even get through this

Murphy's first out-and-out ode to New York City aims to revive seedier times. "Yr city's a sucker, my city's a creep," he taunts, with the perfect combination of fuck-you and what-the-fuck-do-I-care that may have been born on the downtown F line somewhere around 1976. LCD's fascination with its hometown would peak with Sound of Silver's gloriously ambiguous "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down", but "Sucker" is more of a cocksure strut. They city isn't bringing Murphy down just yet.

**vomits on keyboard, publishes it on Pitchfork**

trying really hard w/ a band 99% of their readers already know/like

this thing is a lot of words!

John Cage's "4:33" is all about a void of composition and performance creating space for random, ambient sounds. James Murphy's "45:33" is the exact opposite: a micro-managed, dense, building-size mural of music that leaves nothing to chance.

Pitchfork writers get paid by the word : CONFIRMED

This thing like one thing, but this other thing that has not connection to it whatsoever is shockingly not like it at all

Like I love LCD Soundsystem and love a lot of these writers. But couldn't imagine reading any of this for any reason. Am I alone in that?

how dare you not have time for a sprawling retrospective overview of an epic THREE ALBUM CAREER

yeah i'm kind of on yr side there, i mean lcd soundsystem are one of those bands that have never been short of rock crit love, so they've had a loooot of stuff written abt them already

LOL U GUYS READ PITCHFORK

I mean, no offense to LCD and no offense to writers who's stuff is genuinely and consistently good, but I really can't muster any reason to tackle any of this.

I'm trawling through it and barf

it's no surprise that "Us v. Them" became a live staple for the group (it's their tenth most-played song according to setlist.fm)

They only have 3 albums with 9 songs each

oh man wtf. i aint even gonna open that LCD piece from the sound of it. at least grays0n curr1n's mtn g0ats review is good, i guess? read this one instead plz

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15259-all-eternals-deck

(it's their tenth most-played song according to setlist.fm)

~headdesk~

Maybe Nathan Rabin will take this as a challenge and we 'll have some Pet Sounds/Sgt. Pepper's action in the TL;DR genre

but I really can't muster any reason to tackle any of this.

i like reading james murphy on about his own (or any) music, and this at least collects a lot of good quotes

tbf you could argue that Pitchfork would not have the cachet they have if they hadn't come up along with LCD Soundsystem, so it kind of makes sense in terms of acknowledging a debt

not that that makes me want to read it

if they hadn't insisted on making this an exhaustive song-by-song examination and actually edited it down, it could have been good or at least readable. i'm not a pile on pitchfork kinda guy but i skimmed this whole thing and it's really redundant and long and boring.

i just skimmed for "s

lol okay I just looked at this and clearly the point is to cherrypick the songs you really care about and just read those sections

reading the whole thing is madness

tbf you could argue that Pitchfork would not have the cachet they have if they hadn't come up along with LCD Soundsystem, so it kind of makes sense in terms of acknowledging a debt

not that that makes me want to read it

― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Monday, March 28, 2011 11:59 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait what

Was that confusing or do you just disagree?

i like reading james murphy on about his own (or any) music, and this at least collects a lot of good quotes

― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, March 28, 2011 4:31 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

all from the guardian

i found it sort of interesting, the couple of entries i power-skimmed, mainly the idea that circa 2001 the idea of indie people liking dance or trying to make dance music was seen as unusual in the US

well if pitchfork's readers don't get a posthumous thirty-million-word exegesis on some guy's five-year career how are they going to know they were paying attention to the right things

like, it's like one of those beatles coffee table books

except about lcd soundsystem

and unreadable

(it's not a line of argument I'm particularly invested in defending but kind of how I view Pitchfork and its rise to critical prominence; a large part of it was that they were in the right place at the right time covering the right people, some of whom were established artists going in odd directions a la Radiohead, while others were in niche scenes about to gain national exposure a la LCD)

(also ppl wanted to know what insane thing Brent DiC was going to write next)

what is this Chillwave Wonder Shozen they just started playing?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/sunset-television/1613-sunset-television/2557-night-runner-classic-swedish-movie-and-cops-for-kids/

Was that confusing or do you just disagree?

― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Monday, March 28, 2011 12:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

bit of both i guess

how lucky we are to live in this time
the first moment in human history when we are
in fact
listening to lcd soundsystem

http://www.isepp.org/Media/Speaker%20Images/94-95%20Images/Carl%20Sagan.jpg

bit of both i guess

well like I said, I'm not super-invested in the argument *shrug*

i'll take "things deej never says" for $500

:D

i'll take "things whiney says when deej hasn't even been posting on the thread" for $800

still can't get over the john cage bit...I don't think p4k's editors read this either

whoa ship i think you just jumped to the second round

and the shark

yeah, i jumped TO the shark. good one.

No results found for "man standing on shark".

that just seems dangerous

Closest match:

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1491/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1491R-1129460.jpg

The three-chord refrain that closes "No Fly List" gets Froberg whelping at his sandpapery best

guyssss use a fuckin dictionary

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0c97819ed9434911671e389c5fe6103c/89597.jpg

whelp (hwlp, wlp)
n.
1. A young offspring of a mammal, such as a dog or wolf.
2.
a. A child; a youth.
b. An impudent young fellow.
3.
a. A tooth of a sprocket wheel.
b. Nautical Any of the ridges on the barrel of a windlass or capstan.
v. whelped, whelp·ing, whelps
v.intr.
To give birth to whelps or a whelp.
v.tr.
To give birth to (whelps or a whelp).

loooooooooool

okay lol at that one

whelpless whelpless whelpless wheeeeeeelpless

hahaha

It whelped a camel's ass

another acoustic guitar-based record, another Fahey reference...

Frontman Josh T. Pearson disappeared for several years, then emerged in Germany playing intimate, barely scripted shows that blended American Primitive guitar playing (think John Fahey) with quasi-Biblical lyrics (think Wovenhand).

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15222-last-of-the-country-gentlemen

i think that's for people who like john fahey but don't know what 'american primitive' means. there are actually people out there who read pitchfork and don't really care about learning genre names and stuff.