pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

it's weird how consensus shifts around here, my memory is that vast swathes of ILM went absolutely apeshit for LCD from "I'm Losing My Edge" on

well there are younger music nerds here now, still clinging to their edge

personally I don't subscribe to any cult-of-personality about Murphy and his voice definitely has its limitations (painfully revealed in that live film) but man those records are really solid. DFA will forever get a pass from me for those and the Juan Maclean.

xp

it doesn't seem crazy to me to suggest that LCD were a key act of the 00s, "Losing My Edge" seems to encapsulate a whole bunch of stuff about that decade and its music, I would def place it pretty highly on best-of decades lists

listened to sound of silver the other day, whether people have overrated an eno-rock party band out of self-identification is not my problem but they were a great eno-rock party band

like, let me have my danceable songs about getting old and lame, if i want those clearly i don't think i deserve much

did M83 make any of these lists? i was listening to them yesterday. would rather m83 than lcd.

that midnight city song

personally I don't subscribe to any cult-of-personality about Murphy and his voice definitely has its limitations (painfully revealed in that live film) but man those records are really solid. DFA will forever get a pass from me for those and the Juan Maclean.

xp

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Think we should give him a pass for the vocals in that live film considering it was the fifth night in a row he did a 3 hour gig.

nobody made him do that, you get paid AND a pass

sorry - you don't get paid and a pass

Well it wasn't originally planned to be that many is my point.

ok i'm listening to "Losing My Edge" for the second time in my life

well filming the concert was planned, so maybe they should have planned better

They hastily adding gigs for a farewell concert that turned into a weeklong thing for fans who couldn't get tickets once all the concert/film wheels were in motion. Sacrificing posterity for the present day fans seems like a pretty sweet move imo.

this song isn't as good as the nurse with wound bonus track where david tibet reads the nurse with wound list

They hastily adding gigs for a farewell concert that turned into a weeklong thing for fans who couldn't get tickets once all the concert/film wheels were in motion. Sacrificing posterity for the present day fans seems like a pretty sweet move imo.

dude they could have done shows after, far earlier etc etc - it could have been avoided. i was at one of the terminal 5 shows and loved it. but they made the choice to capture him romantically giving his last gasps of air rather than singing at his best.

yeah i remember excitedly torrenting the last msg show excitedly and then finally listening and being totally underwhelmed by it

excitedly

having looked at all 2 million of the albums on the best album list i keep thinking that the cumulative effect is much worse than any of the specific albums listed cuz i like a bunch of these havent heard more and indifferent to the rest. i can only spot like three albums i think are really bad although there are a few i kindof assume suck but have never bothered with. but as a whole it feels p culturally illiterate and out-of-touch like in my memory these lists tend to be pretty interesting as statements about 'what we think of music now' but i guess because its about 'music now' basically anyway its not that exciting. idk this is a list of records thats almost as someone-who-works-in-advertising as the user-generated list of a few years ago except it has beyoncé on it

also i really like that second M83 cd a lot and would put it pretty high on 00s list

did M83 make any of these lists? i was listening to them yesterday. would rather m83 than lcd.

Hurry Up We're Dreaming showed up at 22 as well.

That album was too yelpy and melodramatic for me. I liked the whisper-vocals against building crescendo dynamic of the early albums much better. Seemed more measured.

i really like their videos too. would buy an M83 video comp. i find if i listen to a few songs at a time they sound great. whole albums can be a bit much. too rich or something. i like their "vision" though.

Hurry Up We're Dreaming was a jump off a cliff in terms of quality imo

haven't heard a double album in a while that was more needlessly double

i think i like m83 but they give me major Pentacostal/Charismatic vibes (yes i know they're from France)

At some point (I can't remember which albums it happened between) M83 went from a 2+ person collaborative affair to an unchecked solo project.

Bittersweet pleasure that a story about two jilted 'mos live-tweeting The Little Mermaid got more pick-up than Pitchfork's fuck-all-queers lists

fuck-all-queers lists?

with the exception of the blockbusters most of this stuff is either out of my wheelhouse, tried and denied or universally beloved. I'm gonna try that spotify singles list and see what a straight listen does to me.

also re:tracks Pitchfork really has its own brand of popism - no Avicii, no Pitbull?

xxp I'm saying that it's bittersweet, to see a website that used to provide queer artists some agency, has now embraced a Weingarten-style "no girls, no queers" policy, to see how little people are interested in reading their 40 words on Clams Casino, in comparison to a series of innocuous tweets from Baths and Grizzly Bear.

I know. When they announced that policy, I was like, "Hold up there, guys--this is just wrong!"

that twitter article is the worst, what's up online journalism lol is it parody? http://pitchfork.com/news/56393-grizzly-bears-ed-droste-and-baths-live-tweet-the-little-mermaid-highlights/

but then again I never got why they post daily updates on what bands perform live on what talkshows/festivals - they might consider dedicating a site to that instead of flooding the newsfeed

Imagine that I have a point and review the facts?

also re:tracks Pitchfork really has its own brand of popism - no Avicii, no Pitbull?

― niels, Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

ahahahahahaaaa

lux aeternissima

Imagine that I have a point and review the facts?

proposal submitted. awaiting grant money. will return with findings asap

Really enjoyed reading yr My Decade in Music So Far, Katherine. Glad someone at pitchfork represented both Imagine It Was Us and Once I Was An Eagle.

goon tie I'm interested to hear about Pitchfork as a site that used to provide queer artists some agency - it's always seemed pretty straight indie boy to me, even after it became straight indie boy who also likes pop and rap

I've been trying to frame my observations reasonably and articulately but it's impossible for me to extract my own feeling of non-agency from anything I type.

Sorry I dissed Whiney upthread that guy is a force for good

don't really get the "no girls" bit when they've got more women contributing than ever

not say there couldn't be LESS straight indie boyage, just that i don't know how it's worse

I know how the free content business model "works" and how clicks are real important, but "news" like these still annoy me, especially the clickbait framing

http://pitchfork.com/news/56375-aphex-twin-reveals-amazing-syro-album-artwork-and-bio/

"Amazing SYRO Album Artwork"
"Here is the utterly amazing Aphex Twin bio that has been sent out in a press release"

David Lynch Nearly Directed the Video for Kanye West's "Blood on the Leaves"

Daft Punk almost went to Orange Leaf, but opted for TCBY instead

pfork also used my favorite metal pr verb ("unleashed") in their headline for the grimes video

this is pretty great: http://zzzzaaaacccchhh.tumblr.com/post/95392568578/the-200-best-pitchfork-articles-of-the-decade-so-far

grimes updates tumblr