pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I read "Shit, cat," as an imperative

Wow that sucks. Allmusic (or w/e its current name is) they're not trying to be xp

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

― flopson, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woah woah woah woah, let's be careful of the words we choose

#hardsonned4lyfe

Barleywine churned out a bunch of reviews, but I don't recall any this embarrassing

I read "Shit, cat," as an imperative

haha yeah, it's really a charles mingus reference:
http://mingusmingusmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program

i know we've been over the Cars review but can i just

these days, they're remembered more as predecessors to Weezer's brand of pop music

so much Say It Ain't So back in 1999.

some proto-blogging in the first two paragraphs of this, Schreiber's earliest review still on the site (Feb. 1999):

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6455-sam-prekop/

I'm psyched. Y'know why? Okay, okay, if you're gonna drag it out of me, I guess I'll tell you-- I'm moving from Minneapolis to Chicago in less than three weeks. And I'm taking Pitchfork with me. It's strange, really, to think about the dramatic changes that are gonna take place in my life in such a short period of time. I mean, for starters, I've sold my car. What a major shift, going from a reliable little Geo Metro to public transportation. And I can't wait.

The beautiful thing about Chicago is that, unlike Minnesota, people actually talk to each other. In Minneapolis, if you talk to someone in the line at the movie theater, they get all nervous and twitchy. It's also slightly warmer there than it is in Minneapolis (though they get more snow). And best of all, everyone's completely laidback. Now, maybe I'm just glamorizing the place 'cause I'm excited about going there, but I've got proof about the laidback thing.

Love that album.

don't his reviews stretch back to 95 or 96?

well yeah, in those years he was one of like 3 people writing most of the reviews. i think anonanon was saying all those pre-99 ones were deleted.

the walt mink thing (which i agree w/dan they had peaked by that album anyway) is a little more explainable given he was in mpls at that time and if you saw them live in a club they could really tear your head off...in no small part to having one of probably the best rock drummers in the world in a setting where he could really go off (as opposed to his stints with beck, REM, and elliot smith)...so i could see being a little more hyped on them than ppl from the outside would be

yeah they purged stuff earlier than 1999

xp

the purge was especially annoying when that "The People's List" pool of nominations/suggestions was drawn from albums reviewed in their archive and the 90s selections were ridiculously thin compared to the 2000s stuff

I just remember jjj playing Miss Happiness for me and me sitting there slack-jawed going "uh HOLY SHIT this is great" and him replying "you should see them live, it will DESTROY you"

I tried really hard to make Walt Mink into a thing during college but no one who wasn't from MN seemed to care ;_;

i never got to see them at the old 400 Bar before the took the wall out and made it twice as big, i guess those shows were supposed to be pretty nuts

the first time I saw them was... two years ago at T.T. the Bear's ;_; but they were still awesome ^_^

!!!

http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/21/pitchfork-to-launch-print-magazine-the-pitchfork-review/

???

Single copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding year

Single copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding yearSingle copies will be available for $19.96, in a nod to Pitchfork’s founding year

http://i.imgur.com/D8If35u.png

A very depressing picture to look at

the face of indie music

For an internet forum populated by pitchfork writers, ilx sure hates pitchfork

The first issue includes pieces about Van Morrison, Otis Redding, a career-spanning piece on Glenn Danzig, and a feature on the history of the jukebox. There is also a retrospective on the glory days of the U.K. weekly music press by veteran English critic Simon Reynolds.

haha ahhh uh?

ilx hates a lot of things

How many pitchfork writers post here

well let's see, there's l0u1s jagg3r

https://www.google.com/search?q=lj+picthfork&oq=lj+picthfork&aqs=chrome..69i57.3402j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Huh

Tbh a magazine about Glenn Danzig and Van Morrison sounds pretty awesome

I like P4k's logic which is "Man lots of people are buying vinyl these days let's publish something that isn't vinyl and cash in on those vinyl sales"

sounds like mojo tbh

yeah was going to say, they've obviously noticed that the only magazines still selling are Mojo/Classic Rock/etc

You can let silly facts get in the way of seeing Direct Hits as one of the most hotly anticipated records of the past 10 years.

maybe they should put out a vinyl record of their writers reading an article and include a free download of a magazine

Even more damning is that most of the songs on Direct Hits stopped becoming hits.

I think it could work, as long as they have reasonable expectations for circulation.

The price is a bit weird...

They can probably do a lot of "added value" bundling of site and mag ads too

Taking a look at the webpage for Monocle I don't see much content overlap

But I could see somebody who buys wallpaper or n+1 buying a p4k magazine

Tbf they'd probably take the $19.96 and buy the Arcade Fire on vinyl instead

wondering if this might be similar in execution to that longform 'journal' thing Loops from a few years back, which cost roughly the same (£13 in the UK iirc), also had SR writing stuff for it, and sold about five copies

Man that jukebox article that I could read on the preview is weak

Loops was wicked! Admittedly I only ever bought the issues when they were slashed to £3 in HMV etc but loads of great writing in 'em

this has to be someone's labor of love

probably Converse's sales team

j/k it looks very pretty!

lol u so catty

i don't really see this magazine thing working out in the long run

I see this magazine lasting as long as Altered Zones.

yeah, like isn't the thing with pitchfork that everybody reads it but nobody cops to reading it? how's that gonna square up with like, having it on your coffee table or reading it on the subway?

i like nice, printed magazines like the new arthur and yeti and the los angeles review of books ... i'm sure this will have some cool things in it. still, $20 is pretty pricey.