pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I'm still mad that "Ventolin" was vetoed from my wedding playlist

man, do i hate the idea of a wedding suggestive in any way of indie websites *writes article about wedding playlist for pitchfork dot com*

aphex twin xp?

Is there another "Ventolin" out there?

there's glycerin out there

if you want to hit a broad range of people and have everyone from hipsters to grandmas have fun, i feel like leaning heavily on motown/stax/60s soul & R&B is a good call

― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:12 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I gave my DJ some Numero comps too for extra hipster points

xp not sure, i have asthma so "ventolin" has always existed as this whole other thing for me. had it in my mind though that it was also an aphex twin song

I just think of the Garbage song "don't forget your ventolin"

"Stigmata" was also vetoed but I didn't feel as strongly about that one.

I just think of the Garbage song "don't forget your ventolin"

― 龜, Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:39 AM

i kinda hated picking the music to my wedding. i've always felt self conscious about liking music as much as i do, it feels like a character flaw and frankly i hate the idea of using it to "show off "to people, makes me nauseous...so we did a few things, like she walked in to this old roger miller song her and her dad listened to and we danced to "this will be our year" by the zombies

but we kept it pretty lite like soul/r&b stuff...some talking heads shit like that

i dunno

people seemed to have fun, was a good nite, lot of that stuff people fuss over on weddings is kind of whogivesashit.jpg

i would hate to like make my nice aunt uncomfortable by playing some song w/swearing in it or something, she's a nice lady...

haha our recessional was 'this will be our year'

oh yeah and not the country roger miller it was mission of burma roger miller, deep birdsongs of the mesozoic jam FUCKERS and then my vows were lecturing everyone about how eno left some really crucial no wave bands off No New York

Dudes my sister and her significant other played "This Will Be Our Year" at my wedding. By trying to avoid cliche we become cliche.

i fuckin played metal machine music on 8 track and everyone fuckin appluaded when i got married

j/k i'm unloavable no one will marry me

damn, i was hoping you and Treeship finally made it official

if only he would have me!

Maybe my experience is just different, but I feel like tons of music nerds are more than happy to dance to "Livin' on a Prayer" or "Brick House" or whatever at a wedding. I'm not putting on my critical thinking hat when I'm at a friend's wedding; the whole "will the people who mocked my road trip playlists judge me?" seemed like a comic level of over-thinking.

The main thing that's cleared dance floors at weddings I've attended is music people aren't familiar with.

bingo

outside of the 'special' songs, it's probably best to just let the DJ do her job, which in the case of a wedding is not really being a tastemaker. it's probably more just doing whatever's been successful lately.

just put on hot 97... and RIP THE KNOB OFF

The reviews for the Butterz Fabriclive CD and to a lesser degree the Hyperdub 10 year anniversary comp are pretty bad.

From the former:

"[Elijah & Skilliam] peddle a distinctly UK sound" as opposed to what, a distinctly American grime sound?

"It's difficult to imagine dancing to much of Fabriclive 75, but it is party music, better suited for having some beers and bouncing around than getting stoned in your living room." huh?

"In retrospect, it's obvious why grime MCs never made good hip-hop records: these guys are inveterate shit-talkers, not storytellers."

Why get a writer who appears to not know much about a certain type of music, why have them review it?

p4k is always so terrible on uk dance, lmao @ kicking it off with a reynolds nod. useless

the universally acknowledged dearth of shit-talking in american rap

That Reynolds quote is actually v. interesting. "Instrumental music goes international so much easier" - true? I thought the Streets drew a decent crowd in the US mainly because of how blimey-guv it all was, but I could be totally wrong about that.

IIRC no one outside of ILX/Brooklyn actually knows anything about The Streets

he had a number one single over here, guv

when was the last time the streets did a us tour? 2009?

it's kinda like novelty music for yanks. like dizzee rascal. or the sleaford mods. people are amused by it for a while but i don't think they listen to it beyond its sell by date. it's a fresh new thing that people forget about. (too early to tell about sleaford mods obviously.)

(speaking of which, it's criminal that The Streets charted higher in the US than Dizzee Rascal)

"Instrumental music goes international so much easier" - true?

within a specific niche maybe, but it's a niche which is defined by its localism in the first place. right now british pop acts are breaking america surprisingly regularly

an autechre reissue series would do REALLY well in the united states. if anyone from Warp is reading this thread.

From today's review of the new Roots album:

Their last album started with a neck-kicking snare and closed with a 40-minute, four-movement wordless jazz suite; it sold about 35k in its first week.

Uh, it ended with a 4-minute jazz suite. The entire album was 38-minutes. A small typo, but a pretty crucial one that really misrepresents the previous album.

how does a snare drum kick someone's neck

when it's like a whip lash

copyright 1987 laffy taffy inc

Genie: "Oi! Ten thousand snares will give you such a kick in the neck."

Their last album started with a neck-kicking snare and closed with a four-movement wordless jazz suite; it sold about 35k in its first week. Around the same time, the Roots backed Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, who played their Bruno Mars-assisted single "Young Wild & Free", from the execrable 2012 stoner movie Mac and Devin. The soundtrack debuted in the Top 10.

not only is this kind of a hollow false binary but it's also incorrect. Undun did 48k the first week and charted higher than the Mac & Devin soundtrack, which sold 38k the first week.

Also, they backed Snoop and Wiz as part of their job on Late Night, right? Nothing I've seen indicates that they are on the studio track.

I guess they should have realized that movie was execrable and refused to back the show's musical goest on principle.

Obviously still a hollow false binary, even if they were on the track, but just more evidence of what a stretch that passage is.

What is up with them referring to "Jon Richman" in the Priests review today?

"punk progenitor Jon Richman" https://www.google.com/search?q=%22jon+richman#q=%22jon+richman%22

partial Jon Richman discography:
Jon Sings!
Jon Goes Country
I, Jon
Surrender To Jon

After 28 years of being held by many as the gold standard for indie-pop, 1986's C86 compilation is getting a lavish reissue with two bonus discs have been assembled by one of its original curators, former NME writer Neil Taylor, who also supplies copious liner notes.

officially canonized in the compilation's canon

The Guardian recently [published? presented? wrote?] a piece titled “C86: The myths about the NME’s indie cassette debunked”

if you go through for typos you're basically one of those cranks who reads the New York Times front-to-back every day and writes a strongly worded letter about every spelling mistake

i don't go through for typos. i notice the ones i can't help noticing, and sometimes find it funny, since it's a pretty stuck up, self-important place

I write letters to PF every day about putting commas and periods after endquotes.