https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhKscqC3yY8
I think this was when Ethan was leaving Corbin and I at Taco Bell, so I threw a burrito at his windshield, and he just left it. It made it to my house though!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
gotta say p4k pretty much nailed it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Part of that is inevitable since any record that starts with "It's Time to Party" and "Party Hard" doesn't leave much room to build on an upward trajectory. But while "Party Til You Puke" is the culmination of I Get Wet's "Party" trilogy, it's also the tipping point where the thought of past, present, or future partying becomes unbearably oppressive. The sheer velocity of its call and response vocals renders it a monolithic yell of "CHUG," and immediately afterwards, "Fun Night" is that guy handing you a rally beer at the toilet when all you can say is "not now, bro." "Got to Do It" is "Girls Own Love" seen through the eye of a tiger, and though I've owned this record for nearly a decade, to this day I still can't remember what the title track sounds likehttp://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16836-i-get-wet/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16836-i-get-wet/
I'm sorry, but if you know this album well enough to be pretty OTM on "Party Til You Puke" and "Fun Night" then how on earth do you not know that "I Get Wet" is the greatest Andrew WK song ever.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 September 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
pitchfork doesn't get wet (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)
― IN REAL LIFE (some dude), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
yah title track is A++
― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Friday, 7 September 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
from first paragraph of menomena review
On 2010's Mines, not much was going right for Menomena-- Danny Seim and Brent Knopf had just gone through divorces, and Justin Harris had seen a therapist for the first time. The band was hardly talking, their inability to communicate in a civilized fashion meaning that the record took over three years to complete. But as everyone knows, suffering can make for great art, and although Mines sacrificed some of Menomena's trademark compositional weirdness for comparatively melodic rock songs, it contained some of their most moving material to date. Opener "Queen Black Acid", written by Harris, was among that year's most devastating songs: "You're five foot five, not a hundred pounds/ I'm scared to death of every single ounce," concluding, "You bring me down... So down."
from willamette week interview linked in the review
Listening to Mines, it’s clear the past few years have been rough on the band. Both Seim and Knopf struggled through divorces, and Harris says he saw a therapist for the first time. Mines opens with Harris’ “Queen Black Acid,” a leisurely paced slow-burner that’s the most devastating song in the band’s catalog. “You’re 5-foot-5, not 100 pounds,” Harris sings, pausing a measure to catch his breath. “I’m scared to death of every single ounce.” The song’s chorus is similarly heartbreaking: “You bring me down/ So down.”
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
rip pitchfork
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
when will the "institution" crumble?
― spazzmatazz, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
things like that make me glad i have a tendency to avoid reading other press about an album i'm reviewing
― some dude, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Wow I cannot believe they trashed "I Get Wet", that's the best track on the album!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
I think Snapes's review walks a dangerous line but doesn't veer far enough into plagiarism for me to seriously take issue with it. NAGL, tho.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
i just think it's funny that she linked to the source!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
If that was being assessed as school/college/university work, that person would not be getting awarded any marks. That is quite clearly plagiarism.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's obv plagiarism.
― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone compare it to the band's press package? My impression of most reviews is that 50-75% of the background information is lifted directly from materials provided by the bands.
― Moodles, Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
OK but even the hackiest lazybones reviewers tend to have the presence of mind not to use the exact same turns of phrase in the same order as the press release
― Did communist FB take down the awesome bacon quran picture? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
just checked; press release doesnt have that stuff in it
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to find the mines press kit (cause the article is from 2010) to see if it originally came from there but could not do so
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, frankly, that this bastion of music journalism has sunken so low.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, honestly, that this stalwart of music journalism has sunken so low.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe the dudes from Menomena got divorced.
― tylerw, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
rip divorces
― you lost me at "chill" (Matt P), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
They made a cute couple
― nabiscuits otm (Ówen P.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Damn yo
Does NOONE AT ALL read/like Killscreen articles? Lonely out there
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 21 September 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm appalled, frankly, that this bastion of music journalism has sunken so low.― Trip Maker, Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:16 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI'm appalled, honestly, that this stalwart of music journalism has sunken so low.― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― destroyers of the live music experience (bernard snowy), Friday, 21 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
haw that totally went over my head before
― some dude, Friday, 21 September 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
wut
― spazzmatazz, Friday, 21 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/ordinary-machines/8980-cold-facts/
a little much but also kinda feels inevitable. or maybe just a throwback to the brent dicrescenzo era.
killscreen is just so painful. my fav embarrassing killscreen moment were the awkward interviews with southern rappers in which the interviewer would typically seem confused they played madden instead of [insert indie game here].
― fennel cartwright, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
brent d. should really reunite, i think enough time has passed that he could headline coachella if he got back in the game today
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
just read three paragraphs about someone's facebook history and had to stop before i killed myself :/
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh! I'll read it later
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDA2NTg2NjE4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjYxMDg5._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I remember with stinging clarity the night I first made a Facebook profile.
nope!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7LNDLKfWY
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe that's the first sentence
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
the guy who tells time with a pocket watchoh that guy
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
While not as overt about siphoning prior goodwill as Cuban Linx Pt. II, Iron Fists does recall the last truly great Wu-Tang group project helmed by RZA, the Ghost Dog OST.
lol gtfo
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
I actually thought Zoladz's piece was nicely written, even as I'm not sure what its ultimate point is (other than "the Internet has changed everything!"). It also made me feel old.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
From their review of the Interpol reissue:
In retrospect, 2002 may have been the very year that we stopped talking about how music sounds, and started talking about what other music it sounds like.
So no one ever compared one band to another before Interpol?!?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it was never a thing ever before that.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
2002: The year smilie broke.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Smilie or simile?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
crap. 2012, the year my mental spellchecker broke.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
i would think pitchfork is responsible for a lot of that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of love that line for its ballsy, full-on wrongness.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com/original/14/eGtxZTNzMTI=_o_saturday-night-live-david-spades-hollywood-minute.jpg
“I saw Stone Temple Pilots this weekend. I liked them better the first time around…when they were called Pearl Jam.”
― is that my hand, dolphin? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
"we" is a bad idea in music reviews, period
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine if you're telling an anecdote about yourself and your friends
or if you are royalty
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
In retrospect, 2002 may have been the very year that I began listening to, and thinking about, music.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link