Katherine-I really liked those 'my year in music' pieces, thanks for posting. especially the 'An Old Album I Discovered/Rediscovered This Year' part.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
yw -- I'm not sure on this but I think the format was mostly lindsay's idea? (speaking of good pitchfork people, though technically she's not there anymore)
― katherine, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
i don't get taylor swift but i can easily see why people like her. i don't get lcd soundsytem and i have a hard time understanding why people like him
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
i mean people fucking love this dude
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
he basically lived out the ultimate dream of every schlumpy record collector dude
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
but he seems nice right? i've never seen anything bad abt him i guess
eh, he was seemed like a smug asshole. i have nothing to base that on except photos of him. i think it's singing style too, it's so obnoxious. it has that cocky swagger that associate with a lot of new york punk
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
actually i don't know if its new york punk because i really don't know much about new york punk it his voice is just really obnoxious
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think you probably don't
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
like i listen to "north american scum" and i get just can't past this dude's thick, insufferable voice
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
lol yea i don't
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
is new york punk all about how there are too many museums and stuff?
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
are there any good pitchfork people who aren't ilx ppeople? i never recognize any names. writing-wise.
mike powell! unless he's here and i've never noticed
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
like e's the type of dude that if i saw him at a party i would just need to get the fuck away from him
http://gatheringofthevibes.com/wp-content/uploads/james-murphy-03.jpg
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/3P/esq-james-murphy-040111-lg.jpg
http://publicsf.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/james_murphy.jpegp
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWUnbOohIMM/TvOFr_ipCOI/AAAAAAAAAz4/3-jPxOq5sE8/s1600/james-murphy-sunglasses.jpg
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
in the documentary he pretty much just seemed to walk around in bathrobe and drink coffee and walk his little dog
i like LCD soundsystem just fine, i don't feel strongly abt them...as far as popular rock bands go you could do a hell of a lot worse i guess
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
this rockist picked them for the best american band 04-07:http://grantland.com/features/the-american-band-championship-belt/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
seems like a normal dude in those pix tbh
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
i met him. he's cool. end of story.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ULAn24OSlhg/TnbIys61xnI/AAAAAAAAA90/n4sTr0auPNg/s1600/caterpillar%2Bwhite%2Bwhite%2Blashes1.jpghttp://cdn.pigeonsandplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/james-murphy1.jpg
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.susanleachsnyder.com/Conservancy%20Butterfly%20Garden/PhotographsForConservGarden/PussCaterpillar/PussCaterpillarDSC_0062.gifhttp://38.media.tumblr.com/44f65a2cb046badf593acfeaa09b2a25/tumblr_mr2x949f8h1qlvaako1_500.gif
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
"mike powell! unless he's here and i've never noticed"
yah, i know mike. and he used to post here occasionally.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
p4k's lists never have anything surprising in them whatsoever, it's always the same shit they called bnm at the time of premiere + some pazz & jop 'hits' that they missed the first time around b/c they somehow forgot ("call your girlfriend") or never deigned to cover that artist at the time ("teenage dream").
― dyl, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
are any of these blurbz worth reading, i shan't be sifting thru
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if James Murphy's beard line is going to keep rising and rising until it covers his eyes
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
imo tim's
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i don't get taylor swift but i can easily see why people like her. i don't get lcd soundsytem and i have a hard time understanding why people like him.
...eh, he was seemed like a smug asshole. i have nothing to base that on except photos of him. i think it's singing style too, it's so obnoxious. it has that cocky swagger that associate with a lot of new york punk
― marcos, Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:09 AM (2 hours ago)
this is just weird. people probably like LCD and TS for similar reasons: some combination of music, packaging, culture and personality. you don't like james murphy, fine whatever - doesn't make it so incredibly ~mysterious~ that other people do.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
those two artists both have pretty obvious appeals, though what i don't understand re: LCDS is how few people think there's a huge gap in quality between his dance singles and rock albums
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/lcdss634_zpsf7f9ba6d.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
though what i don't understand re: LCDS is how few people think there's a huge gap in quality between his dance singles and rock albums
Which of their songs are "dance," and which ones are "rock"? Or do you just mean the singles released before the first album?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
yes i mean those singles don't bother getting all "but what is genre anyway" on me
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
that's precisely one of the appeal.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
people like the word genre-bending
people like when you know the same David Bowie songs as them, and can make things that remind them of those Bowie songs without actually doing anything remotely as well as Bowie. that's Album Of The Year material right there.
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
At this point I mostly just pretend that 45:33 is the only LCD album.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
i like the DFA compilations of a decade ago, those were p cool
― dark sorcerer wallenstein (Lamp), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
also cool to see theres like a million new answers on this p4k thread and theyre about lcd soundsystem
― dark sorcerer wallenstein (Lamp), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
― dyl, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem were great when no singing was involved. DFA drums!!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem were great. Of all the pitchfork champions I'd feel this is the one that would have been spared.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
in my book every single and every album lcd ever did was beaut but now that murphy 'retired' i guess i could be nostalgic as happens when someone great is gone
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
"Someone Great" is great
he seems like a normal and friendly person in this interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380
― niels, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
btw wow if you thought the albums/tracks lists were slightly boring get ready for this http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9482-the-50-best-music-videos-of-the-decade-so-far/ boring 2 the xxxtreme
remember some of them, "Kaputt" and "Bad Girls, but would never care to revisit
― niels, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
lol, yea i am totally willing to admit that i am being unfair, especially w/r/t ragging on his style and his photoshoots. i am also willing to admit that there is always some bullshit behind me or anyone else claiming that they "cannot see how ANYBODY could like artist x". i think it's more just that for taylor swift, say, i don't relate to her music and i know it's not music that's made for me, but at the same time it doesn't repulse me and i have no specific aversion to it. it's just not for me and that's fine. i basically have the same feeling towards lcd soundsystem except that his specific vocal style i just find suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper fucking grating and i so strongly do not identify with it. in general i don't have to identify w/ music in order to like it, but in lcd's case i'm just so put off by that vocal style that it's a huge reach for me to easily just be like "eh, yea, it's not my thing," it's more like "yea i fucking haaate his singing"
― marcos, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
xp
Kim Kardashian WestVerified account@KimKardashianKanye is #1 album of the decade!!! http://m.pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/5/
― anonanon, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
xp hehe, when I saw Lambchop live I had to close my eyes bc the way the lead singer did vocals was so annoying to me, can relate to how you feel http://youtu.be/vf0OuJEWRo0
Eddie Vedder (sometimes) has a similar effect on me
― niels, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
yea it's the worst in, say, "daft punk is playing in my house", "disco infiltrator", "north american scum", all those affectations
― marcos, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link