pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I have to backpedal; I search-functioned the word 'amazing' & then 'awesome' just to see how many times they've been used on this board in the last week; came out roughly the same.

"my friend's band is playing tonight, you should come .... they're AMAZING"

"my friend just got done playing bass in this AWESOME metal show..."

hahahaha

"pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews

"professional reviews" shouldn't exist

that statement unto itself is against everything this site stands for
everything we believe in
everything we fight for

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE/TJkZsJELyhI/AAAAAAAAl4s/j2AdfxmEmek/s400/statue+of+liberty+crying.jpg

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15391-gunz-n-butta/

why Tom B is published anywhere outside of his personal blog is beyond me

It's a one-dimensional affair, but that one dimension is pretty awesome.

... i dont get what is wrong w/ that, but it seems like i say that abt most of the pitchfork complaints

"pretty awesome" gah use better words

i know that p4kian purple prose is unbearable but make some effort at least

i cannot imagine ever filing copy with the words "pretty awesome" in it

tom's style is conversational

it's a decent piece, nothing great, but hardly embarrassing. don't mind the casual language.

fwiw, i can't imagine you ever filing copy with the words "pretty awesome" in it either, lex

he would probably write "pretty swag"

p4k should hire realniggatumblr dude

pfork needs a mobile site

markers posts very much in character

http://i54.tinypic.com/scb0wi.gif

my only real disagreements with tom is that i think he overrated that record somewhat, really more of taste than style

nitsuh summed this lp up nicely i thought here: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/dj_quik.html

I get the conversational thing, but not understanding why Tom was hired in the first place. Dude reads like so many other blogs.

i left a comment on status aint hood when it closed down ;_;

nitsuh summed this lp up nicely i thought here: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/dj_quik.html

yup, good piece

but hey, nitsuh sums up everything nicely, sooo ¯\(°_o)/¯

^ yeah, just love to read the words...

why is the video content so juvenile

What's with this musicless "Twin Shadow frontman makes out for 60 seconds" thing?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/60-seconds-left/1722-twin-shadow/2767-60-seconds-left/

dude

i don't see anyone questioning YR art

I'll ponder it deeper next run-through.

Crank it, fullscreen, etc.

hold on
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15587-me-doing-standup/
what

they've been reviewing comedy records for at least 9 years fyi

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1675-shut-up-you-fucking-baby/

wow, and on sub pop. weird.

i think what you meant to say, kelpolaris, is: what the H!?

Surprised that I was the only one who thought the Twin Shadow kissing thing was out there.

it's not out there, just odd and boring. warhol trubite?

regarding the comedy review - it raised an eyebrow (just putting it out there: this is something i have never, and will never, physically do in real life) as to why pitchfork writers thought themselves qualified to grade comedy. but then it made me realize how weird it is to assign numerical ratings to music in the first place, so i kinda gave them a pass thusly...still it reads more like a term paper than a review. i really how this doesn't imply a desire by pitchfork to start assigning 6.8's to all mediums.. especially considering that whole videogame thing they've been experimenting with.

*i really hope

i think what you meant to say, kelpolaris, is: what the H!?

― some dude, Friday, July 1, 2011 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

:D

"that whole videogame thing" is an entirely different publication that Pitchfork occasionally reprints on their site. Kill Screen Magazine is a quarterly print journal and regularly updated website co-founded by longstanding Pitchfork contributor and professional video game critic Chris Dahlen. The two parties have a deal where select Kill Screen content is republished on Pitchfork's site. It's not like Schreiber and Co. one day said "hey let's all of us review video games!"

i thought it was funny how one of their stock questions they did when interviewing artists used to be "what video games do you play" and every response was "i don't play video games"

ian cohen is v familiar with comedy fwiw

the comedy world etc

But while free mixtapes can boost the profile of a rapper at any level without earning a legit dime, comedy records are at best peripheral income streams for their headliners and useless for most everyone else.

is only live comedy cool now or what is the deal

He probably means as opposed to DVDs

oh ok.

Electronic Dream is pretty, but it's pretty like the morning sun twinkling off of a dangling machete blade-- you don't want to fuck with it.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15566-electronic-dream/

classic breihan