pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

wow great post

ya

depressing, tho

im an optimist bc, really, what's the worst that can happen. i die? its happening one day anyway

i don't identify w/ that post at all, ha

whereas in the UK we are irreverent nihilists.

if by this you mean "whereas in the UK we are credulous, as proved by our six stars out of five reviews of early Oasis albums," sure you're nihilists.

This isn't an new move; although their last record had a handful of great keyboard moments—

The Weeknd's House of Balloons is one of the more influential records of this decade, but thanks to Solange Knowles, “alt-R&B” would have happened without it.

i like solange ok and like what she stands for or whatever, yay integration yay gene flow, but i swear the way some talk about her you'd think she was herman cain sometimes

Solange would do a cool version of "Imagine There's No Pizza"

there's yr next benoit & sergio single

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18683-future-of-the-left-how-to-stop-your-brain-in-an-accident/

i guess this band's frontman's nickname is "Falco," but the review only refers to him by that, never his full name or any other exposition/description, so it's very easy to read it like "the 'Rock Me Amadeus' guy? i thought he was dead."

That is his surname.

his name is Falkous and 'Falco' is a nickname -- but even so just referring to a band member by their surname and only that in a review would be a lil weird

Oh yeah.

in the UK we are irreverent nihilists.

this really is hilarious

i mean, i wish!

"you will never have another boss like me. Someone who's basically a chilled-out entertainer."

http://i.imgur.com/6UcORa7.png

two separate people give an album a different score 11 years apart?!?!

Crazy shit I know. Were you sitting down when you opened this thread

i am now

well sure. but there's been a lot of talk about how ratings are discussed/decided from the top down, and the author of the first review still owns the site and presumably wouldn't have run the second one if he wasn't okay with the implicit rebuke of his old opinion. which i think is more a good thing than a dumb thing overall but w/e. xp

ya whats wrong with changing your mind, how obnoksh would it be if they insisted on holding and defending all their old dumb opinions

if it got changed like, a week later, that would be a bad look

Man an ILX where it's not ok to laugh at the Schreibs is an ILX I am a stranger to

I think we're supposed to focus on the fact that Century Media put out the reissue, you guys.

yeah the difference in score is not what's silly, it just shows up their top-down hivebrand strategy as silly

also, they got it right first time

if it got changed like, a week later, that would be a bad look

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They actually did that for Sufjan Stevens' Michigan album. Original review gave it an OK score and they came back a couple weeks later and ran an all-new review after the album caught on with the rest of the editorial team.

'90s Pitchfork may not be a fair target, but really... http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1319-the-cars-deluxe-edition/

"And listening to The Cars: Deluxe Edition, you can see why interest feigned."

And listened they did

I'm glad some of those classic early reviews are still archived here and there even if they've been expunged from pitchfork itself

Other tracks show the band getting overly playful-- when the drumbeat changes toward the end of the classic single "Just What I Needed," it throws the song off course and steals some of the glory from its anthemic feel.

See, the Cars were great in their time. The scene needed them. They bridged the gap between the Ramones and Elvis Costello.

O RLY?

never forget: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/

xp see I started trying to construct a devil's advocate defence there based on the possibility of maybe only knowing very select EC songs and then I thought wtf am I doing

xp masterpiece. it's almost like a luriqua post or something

white pearls of arena light swam over their faces!

I need to take a cold shower after reading 50 shades of Kid A

There are rarely traditional arrangements in the ambiguous origin.

I do like how the how the pearls swam. It acknowledges wave-particle duality.

But arena light isn't very coherent, so Brent shouldn't notice.

This is probably my favorite sentence in the English language, no lie: --> The butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky, which seemed as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap.

Fantasia refs are pretty good

My boiling brain oozed out of my appalled honeydew ears.

babelfork

bands like the Talking Heads, Blondie and Devo started springing up out of the woodwork and the losers ate it up like Toffee bars.

love it when schreibs goes all hardboiled gravelly-voiced "i was there", it's like a 22 yr old playing a tough gangster in a student film.

well sure. but there's been a lot of talk about how ratings are discussed/decided from the top down, and the author of the first review still owns the site and presumably wouldn't have run the second one if he wasn't okay with the implicit rebuke of his old opinion. which i think is more a good thing than a dumb thing overall but w/e. xp

― some dude, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah for sure and sorry to get all serious but it's also kind of interesting to see the kinds of stuff that P4k is willing to walk back 10 years later when they have an opportunity and the kind of stuff that they'll outright delete and pretend never existed (i.e. walt mink, save ferris)

But I posted more for 1) lol schreibs and 2) feelings personal vindication since I've been an AWK stan since I GET WET

wait what did they say about Walt Mink