This seems more about "brand management" than about making money. Plus $1.996 would be too cheap.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Solidifying Pitchfork as "serious music journalism" basically.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
so let's cut to the chase here, is it cool to pay 45/yr for a subscription to pfmag, like does it make you cool to do that.
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
If you want to be cool, I recommend constantly referring to "brand management" in scare quotes.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
i do want to be cool particularly because it's important to my personal brand, which is why i have to carefully negotiate the value of brands before deciding to affix my brand to their brand
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Can't wait to masturbate using this
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
would totally read this tbh
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
went to the pitchfork review site and also saw they have an except from a new book about the birth of delicious vinyl and LA hip hop! i'm kinda excited about this actually
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
never forgethttp://www.abebooks.com/Thesaurus-Musicarum-Pitchfork-Year-Music-2003/4054820856/bd
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
i did, in fact, forget about that, but someone just reminded me of it
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I've got one on my shelf... is it collectible yet???
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
"5 Used from US $ 9.00"sooooo.... yes it is collectible
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
I tried to find my copy but gave up after 30 seconds. It's around somewhere, evidence of my lost innocence.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
I read they are asking everyone who buys it to wear costumes or formal dress.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
Wax your handlebar mustaches boys! We're gonna buy a pitchfork magazine.
― Statham. Versus. Franco. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Please wear your best old western saloon keeper's outfit to checkout
― Statham. Versus. Franco. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
"the pitchfork review" sounds like what it would be called in a new yorker cartoon or something
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
They should publish a print version of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews called the Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Review.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
hey dawg we heard you liked
― some dude, Thursday, 21 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
pretty sure that was the zine
― katherine, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
otm
― intheblanks, Friday, 22 November 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
Maybe 3 years ago I looked at ILM every day when I woke up and I used to say to myself that any day when this thread was not bumped + I did not have blood in my urine was a good day.
― Mark, Friday, 22 November 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
the entire thread would read differently if the subject line was just changed to "pitchfork wisdom (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)"
― some dude, Friday, 22 November 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
yes, and I would probably live about four months longer
― Mark, Friday, 22 November 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
It begins with Push the Sky Away’s hazy-headed pocket history of modern civilization, “Higgs Boson Blues”, whose Miley Cyrus name-drops elicit audible giggles from the studio attendees. Its appearance here underscores just how perfectly Cave predicted her year, with the line “Hannah Montana/ Does the African Savannah” standing as an almost biblical prophecy of twerk-gate.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nah
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
almost biblical, you say
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
the twerking is like the twerking of Miley the daughter of Billy; for she twerketh furiously
― i have sounded the very dub step of humility (anonanon), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
People who miss the point on this cover by designer Jonathan Barnbrook are likely reading into it too much. If slapping a boring square on the iconic Heroes cover seems lazy, think about our age of appropriation on Tumblr as well as where every image came from first. Then think about how many cultural icons are left that have been able to make meaningful art in both of those eras.
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
our age of appropriation : where every image came from = 2013 : the 70s
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 6 December 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
So Pitchfork is having their Reader's Choice Poll, and once again they have it that when you start typing in letters it'll give you suggestions for albums/tracks that were covered by Pitchfork within the past year.
Except for the "Best New Artist" category which seems to list every single band reviewed by the site in its history, regardless of the artist being new to 2013.
So of course I voted for Paul McCartney on that one.
― MarkoP, Friday, 6 December 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
i mean...it's just an autocomplete suggestion thing, it's not like they actually put Paul McCartney in the "best new artist" category. but hey, WHAT A GAFFE!
― deez the season (some dude), Friday, 6 December 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
That should show them for not optimizing your experience when voting in the PITCHFORK READERS POLL
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
I just found the auto complete for that section amusing. Plus I was actually hoping that it would only have 2013 artists, then it would make choosing less difficult. And it also annoyed me a bit that there was no auto complete for best music video cause my mind was drawing blanks for that.
― MarkoP, Friday, 6 December 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
Also I like terrible puns.
I hate filling out the second part with all the personal info. I just realized I'm an alcoholic who never leaves the house.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 December 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
auto-complete for Best New Artist should draw from artists created in our database since Nov. 2012 (which won't be perfect since some older artists were created since then).
― Mark, Friday, 6 December 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
not just spit, but "hooker spit," which should give you a window into the tension, claustrophobia, and foulness that infect Morelli's music.
― franklin, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
Jamie Stewart is angry https://twitter.com/XiuXiuforLife/status/410659620605001728
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
daffy cunt prob my favorite disney character, but there really are so many
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:50 (ten years ago) link
jfc daffy duck is not even disney, i should go to sleep
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link
I like the idea of a pissed-off tweet by Jamie Stewart about a review leading you down a Daffy Duck Wikipedia hole.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
he would find ways to circumvent twitter's limitations and find modes of expression to suit his tweet, no doubt
― Santana featuring (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
The Lucksmiths -- Cartography for Beginners: A Best of the Lucksmiths
...wry lyrics about various shades of emotional ache, featuring the kind of wordplay that tends to come from people who can both define "zeugma" and provide an example
Yes! Spot on. I love it.
("I can't see the florist for the flowers/ And I can't see the point in hanging 'round.")
What? No, terrible example. You've ruined it. Totally ruined. Now this is some motherfucking zeugma:
Though you kept me guessing and your distanceWere it not for my persistenceWe would never have been loversYou kept your distance and me guessingFinally acquiescing only after I’d discoveredYou kept the things I sent youThe lengths I went to
― L'Haim, to life (St3ve Go1db3rg), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Cool I didn't know there was a collection out
Idk what zeugma is
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
farmville
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9307-most-anticipated-releases-of-2014
I guess the black metal honeymoon is over?
(ps new Wolves in the Throne Room album this year)
list makes Rolling Stone look like Bananafish
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
wow that feature is terrible. 50% of the "anticipated releases" are basically like "no details have been announced yet, but it's not unlikely that there could be an album from this esteemed artist!"
― marcos, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
"this artist released a remix and a single in 2013. who knows, they could drop an album in 2014!"
― marcos, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
also, Glass Candy on there proving the old 'go away long enough and return a big star with a long-awaited new album' axiom still the law of the land. Should we call that Magnum's Law or Shields' Law?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link