Radiohead fans might just have to seek refuge in Au Bon Pain.
― waterface, Friday, 12 July 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
I think that's kind of interesting.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Like it's neat that there's someone whose job it is to figure out what music will sound good in the acoustic environment of a particular restaurant.
Prep cooks usually get precedence over wait staff iirc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
i was in a giant chipoltes downtown last week and they were playing the slits cover of 'heard it through the grapevine' which i thought was really funny because this dirtbag coffee shop/bar place that my friend works at, the owner asked her to take the slits off her work playlist because it alienated the customers
― google glasses (Lamp), Friday, 12 July 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
That sounds like best chipoltles ever
― waterface, Friday, 12 July 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
heard todd terje - inspector norse in a chipotle once and couldn't believe it
― diamonddave85, Friday, 12 July 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
the chipotle in manhattan on 23rd and park plays better music than what i've heard at 80% of parties in my lifetime
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 July 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
What's up with Chipotle playing crazy good music? It seems at least somewhat consistent. I eat at Chipotle a lot and go to various locations around Los Angeles. They play from decent to really good music--of course, it's subjective, but I'm still pretty surprised. Who is selecting their music?
I almost made a thread on this but didn't. Don't know why.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 12 July 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
you may want to read the article that literally everyone else posting on this thread right now is talking about
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 12 July 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
not me
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Friday, 12 July 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
― waterface, Friday, July 12, 2013 10:48 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love it when people add an "s" to this name. I have a friend who insists on calling it "Chi-POLE-tees", as though it were the restaurant of a proprietor named Chipoltee -- no irony, he's just really bad at pronouncing things.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
you may want to read the article that literally everyone else posting on this thread right now is talking about― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 12, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 12, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Argh! Thank you. Totally missed it. I have my CSS for this site off, so it reverts to the classic one, which I find difficult to parse various types of info on.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Christopher Golub, to answer my own question. Heehee! XD
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Jesus. World's shortest 'article'.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Thats
what I', saying
― waterface, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Pitchfork s dumb
Funny, I specifically remember geeking out to hearing "I Might Be Wrong" at a Chipotle in Jefferson City.
― The Lumpy Proletariat, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
chipoletees
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
At a gas pump the other day, I heard the Smiths "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." It was followed by Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
is that a gas prices joke
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
I think it was just a coincidence!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
Mirror to the Soul, a compilatoin that pairs a 2xCD set with a tw0-hour documentary made up entirely of clips from the archive of British Pathé, brings together music, film, and writing to provide a perspective on the Caribbean that encourages cultural links and connections.
been noticing lots of typos lately. free site lol i know but kind of undercuts the superiority complex of the place
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
me too. This sentence occurs in today's Big Star review:
They don't shine like the original album versions, but still, "When My Baby's Beside Me" is just as compelling even if this mix has more pish in the symbols. You would have to be at least a six-out-of-10 on the Big Star nerd scale to hear specific differences without cuing up a Big Star album proper to check.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
paragraph even!
Fest is this weekend, likely distractions afoot.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
i've been noticing it a lot lately. i mean really who cares it's a free site but it's sort of funny coming from a bunch of stuck-up know it alls
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
All of these typos you guys are finding get fixed pretty quickly.
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
why don't they just spellcheck in the first place? are they too good for spellcheck?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Well, "symbols" seems like the exact sort of mistake you get with spell check. Like, if someone wrote "cymbols" instead of "cymbals," I'd bet it might autocorrect to "symbols."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
SpellcheckSpellcheck
5.7
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
guess they don't think they NEED spellcheck up there in their IVORY TOWER
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
the hoity-toity, toffee nosed bastards
compilatoin ain't just a village in france
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
As the legacy of Hüsker Dü has shown, equal songwriting partnerships do not necessary translate to equal statures.
I mean, come on.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
I hardly ever look at the site tbh but their writing must be pretty top drawer at the moment given that this thread is now solely an outlet for pointing out typos
― I was wearing a liturgy t shit and i noticed your liturgy tattoo (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
It has been pretty good lately, fwiw. That's just such an egregious error for the opening sentence in a review.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
kinda dying at the phrase "pish in the symbols"
― Some-D (some dude), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
haha, yeah, it is kind of a beautiful turn of phrase.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.words-chinese.com/symbols/_pish.htm
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
it's true grant is much shorter than bob mould
― hello :) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i don't read the reviews. the typos i see are on the front page summaries of the reviews. i'm sure the superior musical taste of their editors makes up for or is even part and parcel of the lackadaisical editing
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
is this "superior taste" thing a running joke you're desperately trying to jumpstart or are you just really insecure
― I was wearing a liturgy t shit and i noticed your liturgy tattoo (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure i've said this before (prob in this thread!) but the front page summaries are kind of annoying, because they always paraphrase a sentence or two from the review but often losing some essential context or putting undue focus on something not really that important to the album and/or review.
― Some-D (some dude), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
i'm just really insecure
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
i'm not a huge metal listener at all and i don't really know grayson currin's writing, but dude is reviewing like 10 metal albums a week there -- is p4k's demographic that interested in metal?
― marcos, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
notice all the other metal content on the site, show no mercy, etc. i know they've been covering metal for a while now, 7-8 years, but it seems like a good %30 of the coverage on the site is metal-related?
― marcos, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
seems like metal is something it's not really worth covering in a half-assed way, so it's probably a good thing that they're going all in (at least objectively, i don't know what the quality of their coverage is)
― some dude, Thursday, 1 August 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/29-vinyl-records-and-digital-audio/
One thing that was not in question, especially in the early days, is that CDs sounded better than LPs. Hi-fi magazines, especially then, were notorious for their number-crunching. Reviews of gear would include graphs that showed the frequency range of the sounds produced, measurements of things like channel separation (how much the information from the two stereo channels could be kept isolated from each other), signal-to-noise ratio, and dynamic range (the difference between the softest and loudest sounds the source was capable of reproducing). And every possible measurement of the sounds-- which are, after all, vibrations in the air that are quantifiable-- suggested that CDs were superior to LPs. There were still some holdouts, especially among those who had spent thousands of dollars on turntables, but the consensus was that CDs had gone a long way toward "solving" sound.
Yeah, idiot, of course Stereophile thinks a CD sounds better than an LP. Idiot.
― waterface, Thursday, 1 August 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
There's nothing idiotic about that quote.
― wk, Thursday, 1 August 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link