pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

Schreibs was a huge fan and gave at least one of their albums a 10/10

http://i.imgur.com/ZhPm1se.png

I have stumbled, quite absentmindedly, upon one of the best albums I've ever heard. Walt Mink's El Producto takes some growing on you, but grow it does, and in the largest way ever.

The album's opener, "Stood Up," fades in with the unmatched skill of John Kimbrough's fingers picking away at those old steel strings, and then shoves its seven inches of pop square up your ass. "Overgrown" steps around the corner with its unbelievable catchiness and intricate guitar riffs, and Orestes Morfin's intense drumbeatings. Who knew that when it was written (and rejected) for that hip, Gen-X slacker film, "P.C.U.," it would be such an irresistible chunk of beautiful noise? "Love in the Dakota" is the record's beautiful ballad, a sweetly- strummed storytelling of the plot to Roman Polanski's classic film, "Rosemary's Baby." Guitar, strings, and John Kimbrough's boyish voice blend together in what sounds like a serious case of good music.

Minneapolis has spawned more than its share of great music, but Walt Mink is the best band I've heard leave the city for the big time in over five years. We're trying to get in good with local politicians right now in hopes to pass a law that makes not owning a copy of El Producto a misdemeanor. Um, yeah.

-Ryan Schreiber

okay the hilarious thing about that is both Miss Happiness and Bareback Ride are way, way, WAY better than El Producto

12 rods was the future of music iirc

("Croton-Harmon(Local)" 4 lyfe)

today an article used "But Eva Gabor couldn’t touch Eric Wright" as a segue.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080924062007/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16264-live-at-the-village-vanguard-the-master-takes

I think it's understandable, I think everybody had a band or artist they rode for in college that they would have given a 10/10 or 5/5 mics or w/e if they had been EiC of a music rag

I probably would have given wolf parade a 10/10 if I had been in charge of p4k at the time

Thankfully I wasn't

Still, lol @ schriebs

Love that that review gets brought up every time we reminisce

http://i.imgur.com/8qJ7vcH.png

Needed to make a screencap this time. So good

funny thing is I bet zines are FULL of that shit, most zines just don't grow up to be the internet rolling stone

Shit cat is right

Walt Mink's bass player is a professor at Boston University now, I keep wanting to call her and say "hey, you rock" but I think that would be a fast track towards a restraining order

Keeping in mind Pitchfork's audience at the time of the Coltrane review, I'm now wondering if a single person bought the album off the review.