pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i am a fan of "jackie wilson said" anyway. by van. the man.

Love the Pogues, but a good example of a band that released several great records in the '80s but prolly didn't need a song on the list, save maybe "Fairytale," and even then, I'd put lots of second or third songs from represented bands on the list before that one. I assume no one under 30 listens to the Pogues.

Have the Arcade Fire covered Come on Eileen? Because even if they didn't they probably did.

Dexys Midnight Runners are one of my favourite groups ever. I'm British but I now live in Minnesota. A few years back I put Searching For The Young Soul Rebels on at a party here it not go down well with a bunch of bluegrass fans. It got turned off so people could have a jam instead with several people saying "Let's turn this shit off and get some real music on"

If there are people that have only heard Come On Eileen by them I'd imagine songs like Let's Make This Precious or This Is What She's Like (The full 13 minute version) might comes as a bit of a surprise. They certainly were for me when I first heard them.

i still think it's a good new wave soul record, not everything has to be authentic

I don't know what soul records "Come on Eileen" even barely resembles. I think DMR were innovative, although I guess you could put it in a genre category with "Our House" and "Just Got Lucky" and maybe some other things of that time.

Eh, Madness was much more than "Our House." In many ways they were essentially the (a) blueprint for stuff like Blur.

"come on eileen" is a slammer

i love just got lucky! hey, i was a roman holiday fan in the 80's. authenticity not big on my list of essentials.

"fake" soul and r&b some of my all-time favorite 80's moments. Modern Romance are in my canon in a big way.

genre tags for Modern Romance on wiki: Pop, salsa, dance, R&B, mambo, electronic, new wave, Afro-Cuban, blues, soul, disco

Dexies rule.

"Come On Eileen" is an ok song, as are the other 3 I noted earlier. But a few of you are misunderstanding that I'm happy the list doesn't include these, which IMO were all kinda oddly canonized throughout the '90s and '00s.

Eileen may be "played" (lol is it just me or does "played" sound terribly nonchalant?) but it's a great song

tell me when my light turns green rules

i love "come on eileen"

count me in on the pro-Dexys faction

dexys are cool, they're like The Cure with trombones

Then one May morning the unthinkable happened: Chinx was killed as shots were fired at his car outside of a venue he’d just performed.

in the context of the rest of the review, "unthinkable" seems a bit of a stretch

An asian-american reclaiming the epithet, I presume?

no not asian american

homie, matter fact...

I don't know exactly why it bugs me so much but I could do without ever seeing another album described as a victory lap.

Would prefer an album declared a band's walk of shame.

One for the h8ers... P4k's original review of Pet Sounds.

http://i.imgur.com/stbtNTV.png

I'm glad Failblog.org finally got a music vertical

you do have to give Pet Sounds credit for inspiring Weezer, thanks Pet Sounds

is that a real pitchfork review?

yep

he rated the X-ecutioners slightly higher, lol http://web.archive.org/web/20011126210118/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/x/x-ecutioners/x-pressions.shtml

misread that as "few people have come close to penning sweater melodies".

'dark side' > 'pet sounds' > 'ok computer' > 'loveless'

those are definitely four albums

failblog.edu

still kind of astonishing that pitchfork is what it is today despite shit like that, like how did they do it, how did they become respectable

i mean that was from schreiber himself not some dumb college freelancer

it just wasn't made for these times

i mean that was from schreiber himself not some dumb college freelancer

Ryan realized early on (thankfully) that he was no writer.

Pitchfork succeeding despite its founder's biases and deficiencies as a writer is less surprising if you've ever read the work of Jann s wenner or bob guccione jr

I almost wish ryan was prone to more "I'm still here" goddess-in-the-doorway moments

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/isley.jpg

individual scores for all the individual isleys reissues makes them look like crazies imo

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goddess-in-the-doorway-20011206

when was the last schreiber review? Last thing that comes to mind was him scoffing at cleavage and bad photoshop in a worst covers of the year list and that coulda been in the 00s

tbf, Wenner was a decent interviewer early on (by "early" I mean no later than 1968). Was always a shitty critic, though.

That wasn't really Wenner. A ghostwriter wrote it and Wenner signed off on it.

def can't rep for schreiber as an interviewer as all i remember is him making an affirmative action joke at interpol in like 02

his last album review appears to be a best new music for a grizzly bear EP in 2007. That shows amazing restraint, really. he's done some news blurbs since, though

So A$AP Rocky just posted a video for his Buddy Holly-referencing new track "Purple Kisses", which might actually qualify as SFW if you happen to work in a porn studio. (Or, at Pitchfork.)

that last bit is pretty lol if you remember how hot-n-heavy fork reviews could get in the early days

that's from 2012 - which is when he did his last track review and only video interview, as well. (fyi this is all on his contributor page, i'm not deep google-digging here).

xp the isley brothers thing is so wtf

the average of the individual Isleys scores is 7.4, not 8.5. the median is even a bit lower. why not just a score for the whole package when there's clearly no correlation?

I like the review though.

me too. always happy to see Erlewine show up in unexpected places.

my favorite isleys record changes every few months so I found the scoring interesting