Noted Marxist-Leninist mouthpiece the FT on implications for the Eurozone: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e38a452e-26f2-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html#axzz3fm5E3Q9P
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
lol rong thread sorry guys
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
not really
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
Forknancial Times
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
what is "drum filtering"
he's just talking about the dj-esque part of the single where there's a low pass filter on the drums.
ian cohen also responsible for this infamously terrible review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17136-mumps-etc/
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
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― nose, Monday, 13 July 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
they're on the festival bill
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
copy and paste the url. ilx doesn't put the final "/" in the link and so it doesn't work
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
I don't really care about IC as a writer but he reviews so much nu-emo/pop-punk stuff that is reviving sounds I didn't care much about the first time around that I basically skip anything with his byline.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 13 July 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
It's a huge bummer that he got assigned to review the Tenement album, which didn't really say anything beyond "It's a double-LP; therefore, it's too long." Couldn't they have gotten literally anyone else?
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 July 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah just like when he reviewed the new mew record and mostly used it as an opportunity to make thousand-year-old prog jokes about rick wakeman's king arthur
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 13 July 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
IC is the most Pitchfork-y of Pitchfork writers though, a true objectivist, will always mention the album's relatability, hook count, and cross-reference with other Pitchfork-approved records positively. Music to him is something to affirm his own privileged position, not to challenge it. As long as he writes there regularly that site will never be a positive force for anything
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
Every site needs one of those, like David Fricke at RS. Or Anthony DeCurtis in his heyday.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
i would like to suggest: nah
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 13 July 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
speaking of pitchfork writers, this looks pretty cool:
"Rural Violence", curated by Brandon Stosuy, features the work of the artists Matthew Barney, Cindy Daignault, Lionel Maunz, and Prurient (with John Sharian). It is a meditation on the bucolic as sinister and the quiet violence of the pastoral, along with the various rituals attached to both natural and personal cycles.
"Rural Violence" opens on August 8, 2015, in the Family Chapel of the 150-year old Woodside Church in Troy, NY. Opening is 7pm. Performance is 8pm.
There will be a second movement on September 19, 2015.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 July 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
prurient in a church in troy. that's pretty damn poetic.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 July 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s/
TOP 10 SPOILER ALERT:
10. "How Soon Is Now?"9. "The Message"8. "Once in a Lifetime"7. "Love Will Tear Us Apart"6. "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)"5. "Fight the Power"4. "Blue Monday"3. "Straight Outta Compton"2. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"1. "Purple Rain"
Hardly visionary, but I'm sure there's a lot of cool stuff in the 200-50s
― niels, Monday, 24 August 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
here's a spotify playlist with 191 of its songs https://open.spotify.com/user/norwich5/playlist/5rYtPUau6Aewf3UrsM7r66
― maura, Monday, 24 August 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
great list!
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
nah but
― maura, Monday, 24 August 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
(shruggie)
― maura, Monday, 24 August 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
not to sound like all the idiot rockist/crypto-racist Slicing Up Eyeballs commenters who are complaining about this list, but no Human League was a lil surprising to me
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
a lot of great choices through 200-101 and then it hardens into an established, only lightly distorted version of canon, there are also a lot of inexplicable omissions and some u2 songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
...and Hall & Oates.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
...and Michael McDonald.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
no george michael, no 'perfect way,' no pointer sisters, no freestyle (unless you count shannon who to me was always on the cusp), no country, no 'higher love,' totally weak on all the weird left-field pop that bubbled up from secondary and tertiary markets to the charts and made top 40 radio an exciting place
also 'straight outta compton' being picked as the '80s best hip-hop track is just, i mean, what?
― maura, Monday, 24 August 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is such a mediocre song
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
the post-disco/electro-funk inclusions are the real highlight of the list and their blurbs are almost exclusively written by deej, tim, or meaghan garvey, thrilling me
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
and like... 'about a girl' but not 'touch me i'm sick'? come onnnnnnnnn
the selection/order/distribution of janet and madonna singles is baffling but
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Alan Parsons Project right between Frankie Knuckles and Madonna, where it belongs.
― how's life, Monday, 24 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
this is the main reason i think this list is great
no 'perfect way,' no pointer sisters, no freestyle (unless you count shannon who to me was always on the cusp), no country
agree that the list needs more of ^^^
i was just happy to see Egyptian Lover first thing
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say that i love nwa as much as anybody but calling straight outta compton the third best song of the decade isn't just revisionist, it reeks of au courant click prioritization
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
on the other hand, this is a fun mix to listen to because these are pretty much all very good and well remembered songsnumbering lists by priority and then having DEEP MEANINGFUL ISSUES with those priorities is pretty much always meh
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
xpostI felt the same way about Nirvana being on an 80s list.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
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― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 August 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
no country
George Clinton once called "Purple Rain" a country song in disguise, which is kind of true. But that's not even the best song on Purple Rain (the album), much less from the whole decade.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
alexinnyc will be asking where is: Killing Joke - Love like Blood
― djmartian, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Thanks crüt for the tip on the Slicing Up Eyeballs reactions. Hoo boy! I maybe have problems with this list, but when you're writing comments like "I can't take this serious because I never heard of a lot of trash here," you are a dope.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
i counted 137 songs that i like/love. i don't mind that this list is half random and half the usual. lots of great music. fugazi is ugh to me. their one good song is nowhere near as good as a good minor threat song. also, no B-52s no credibility.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
also, when i saw grace jones on there i couldn't help but think that you could replace ten of the songs on this list with ten grace jones songs and you would make your list better.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Can you imagine the "criminally excluded" list if they done this ten if not fifteen years ago
― da croupier, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
These lists are always a photograph of its authors current fascinations and canon, and man Ive seen worse
― da croupier, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Exactly. If they'd done this list in 2000, it would've been all Mission of Burma and R.E.M. and maybe one token rap single.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Without talking about exclusions - there will always be exclusions - I would swap "When Doves Cry" (11) with "Purple Rain" (1).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
I'm pretty sure 10 years ago the highest charting Kate Bush tune in the list would have been below 50, this is a turn of the tide I'm particularly fond of.
― cpl593H, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Purple Rain is one of the most 60s/70s-sounding songs of the entire 80s and When Doves Cry is futuristic even now. iow, I agree with you. xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
purple rain is really such a bore of a choice
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 24 August 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
*prince choice
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 24 August 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
seems like the UK in general and synth-pop in particular are underrepresented. No 'Tainted Love'?still, there's something kind of fun about the uber-indie rock site more or less snubbing a lot of college rock.
― campreverb, Monday, 24 August 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link