pitchfork

Meanwhile, Idolator just posted a little story...

so much ugh

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22716-split-personalities

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay

Hey guys, did you hear Ryan wasn't a very good writer when he was 19?

meanwhile
http://idolator.com/tunes/more-songs-about-buildings-and-traffic/brooklyn-academy-of-music-to-new-york-city-no-sufjan-no-credibility-264802.php

Someone needs to give that High Strung guy a smack around the chops. Although I do like the idea of eschewing one's lips.

Hey guys, did you hear Ryan wasn't a very good writer when he was 19?

fixed

I'm looking forward to his eventual equivalent of Jann S. Wenner's Goddess In The Doorway review, though.

I thought that's what the 12 Rods review was.

293 Views

Yeah, maybe Idolator should hide evidence of the number of readers they're getting.

Paul Banks
Living In The Moment
(Interscope/Starbucks, 2029)
[9.6]

I think all Gawker sites do that. And if Idolator gets significantly less hits than the other ones, that at least reinforces whole "music is by far the lowest rung on the pop culture ladder" thesis they're always hammering home. (xpost)

Paul Banks
Living In The Moment
(Interscope/Starbucks, 2029)
[9.6]

by 2029 this will be the entirety of the review

"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on this website that this record's fucked up. Ah, he sings like a fag, and his shit's all retarded."

when was the last time the "most read reviews" section was updated? as is, it seems like ricardo villalobos and jose gonazales have been dominating the review readers' interest for about a year or more...

I've accidentally bought that Ricardo Villalobos album five times now because of this.

Pfork gets a lot of traffic off google searches for obscure foreign bands, like ~ (Portuguese grime), é (Geneva twee scene), č (Latvian punk underground), ö (Magyar trance), and ť (Czech psych).

ysi

(Magyar trance)

:-O

(hi dom! all our traffic stats are public, but thanks for your concern)

pwned

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

am i the only getting a 404/nginx/0.5.17 message ?

ok. a temp. blip. move along

close call

dude potch fork totally stole my line about that john maus record. do they read this site?

what was your line?

too lazy to look for it, too lazy to read the whole review. I closed my eyes and saw it, so trust me here

do they read this site?

lolol

wow - the maus review was filed on march 12, a few weeks before the maus/legend comment in the thread, but that is incredibly odd.

great minds think alike.

burt_stanton, too.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Ryan+Schreiber

Coz any Americans might not see this on its other thread....

Are you fucking listening, Pitchfork’s [nabisco] [.]?

lol at calling Beth Orton's Trailer Park "William Orbit-produced", which anyone with two ears and a copy of Ray of Light/13/etc. will tell you is clearly not. Props for ""She Cries Your Name" still sounds great, with Orbit's luxuriously gloomy string arrangement" -- Eric Harvey, do you even know who William Orbit is?

Uh, William Orbit did produce that particular song, but not anything else on the album.

He co-wrote the song, but the versions he produced appeared on her debut SuperPinkyMandy and his own Strange Cargo: Hinterland. I'm pretty sure the one on Trailer Park--which is radically different--was Andrew Weatherall

Okay, I may be wrong on that one. I don't have a copy of the album anymore, but I thought he was credited as producing that one.

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

oh shush, fucking up a producer credit is not a blooper.

it's a capital crime

it's an insult to nature
the case against god

anyone with two ears could tell this

cant believe you idiot bags even read pitchfork anymore

it's light morning reading

for idiotbags

so is the ny times

it's light morning reading

i'm a dork i can't help it

Why read when you can watch?

i check it every morning to make sure they are shaping the indie world's opinion of Gucci Mane in a positive way /sarge

^^^

yup

always

ilx inclusive

no comment

“It’s a crowd that doesn’t care. I don’t mean they don’t care in they don’t take issues of sexual violence seriously,” Neal said. “But that’s not their relationship with R. Kelly, opposed to black audiences who are conflicted about him but who have also been following him for 20 years. Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah is.”

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/21360770-421/r-kelly-believes-he-can-fly.html

Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah is.”

Them's fightin' words!

maybe younger kids but i was watching "are you that somebody" on mtv in 1998 or whenever that video was on.

i knew who she was before i knew what pitchfork was

same here

hipsters not knowing -- or caring -- who aaliyah was might have been true.... maybe 5 years ago

How about hipsters not knowing what Pitchfork is?

Why more then than now? Shouldn't it be opposite?

xp

DeRo is going nuts about this R. Kelly thing. Just check his blog, pretty much every recent entry is about it:

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis

aaliyah is total hipster canon.

Pitchfork’s audience is a bunch of hipsters who have no idea who Aaliyah iscan't name any deep Brandy album cuts.

off the top of my head, the only brandy song period i can name is "that boy is mind," a song i also experienced via mtv

boy is mine obv

they played the shit out of that

Why more then than now? Shouldn't it be opposite?

If the majority of festival attendees in any given year are in their 20s (a reasonable assumption, I think), the 20-something Pitchfork hipsters of 2013 are likelier to have experienced Aaliyah as a childhood radio staple than the 20-something Pitchfork hipsters of 2008, the older ones of which may have already abandoned top-40 radio for less-mainstream fare by the time Aaliyah became popular. (Raises hand.)

Also, Aaliyah seems to be trendier than she was 5 years ago, with various strains of "hipster R&B" citing her as an influence and last year's Katy B/Jessie Ware song "Aaliyah" getting Pitchfork props. (Not to mention her music recently being coopted by mainstream artists such as Drake and Chris Brown in obvious bids for coolness.)

Yeah, XX all up in that.

Oh yeah.