pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

That sounds like best chipoltles ever

― 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.

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

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.

Christopher Golub, to answer my own question. Heehee! XD

Jesus. World's shortest 'article'.

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Funny, I specifically remember geeking out to hearing "I Might Be Wrong" at a Chipotle in Jefferson City.

chipoletees

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."

is that a gas prices joke

I think it was just a coincidence!

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

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.

paragraph even!

Fest is this weekend, likely distractions afoot.

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

All of these typos you guys are finding get fixed pretty quickly.

why don't they just spellcheck in the first place? are they too good for spellcheck?

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."

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guess they don't think they NEED spellcheck up there in their IVORY TOWER

the hoity-toity, toffee nosed bastards

compilatoin ain't just a village in france

As the legacy of Hüsker Dü has shown, equal songwriting partnerships do not necessary translate to equal statures.

I mean, come on.

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

It has been pretty good lately, fwiw. That's just such an egregious error for the opening sentence in a review.

kinda dying at the phrase "pish in the symbols"

haha, yeah, it is kind of a beautiful turn of phrase.

http://www.words-chinese.com/symbols/_pish.htm

it's true grant is much shorter than bob mould

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

is this "superior taste" thing a running joke you're desperately trying to jumpstart or are you just really insecure

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.

i'm just really insecure

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?

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?

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)

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.

There's nothing idiotic about that quote.

vinyl sounds warmer

vinyl sounds way way way better

i enjoyd that vinyl post, mark richardson is righteous, i love that guy's writing, both for pfk and his tumblr. one of my favorite music writers.

Maybe you should write for pitchfork

that quote is an accurate summary of a certain set of views at the dawn of the CD era.

There's nothing idiotic about that quote.

― wk, Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am a total hoser

― wk, Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Thursday, August 1, 2013 4:35 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why dont you explain whats so dumb about that quote

I already did check out my explanation below the blue box

Basically if you get a bunch of nerdy number crunchers in a room they will "decide" that CD's sound better than LPs

There's nothing idiotic about that quote.

― wk, Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Thursday, August 1, 2013 10:35 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink