"fake" soul and r&b some of my all-time favorite 80's moments. Modern Romance are in my canon in a big way.
― scott seward, Monday, 31 August 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
genre tags for Modern Romance on wiki: Pop, salsa, dance, R&B, mambo, electronic, new wave, Afro-Cuban, blues, soul, disco
― scott seward, Monday, 31 August 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Dexies rule.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 31 August 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― billstevejim, Monday, 31 August 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Eileen may be "played" (lol is it just me or does "played" sound terribly nonchalant?) but it's a great song
― niels, Monday, 31 August 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
tell me when my light turns green rules
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 August 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i love "come on eileen"
― dyl, Monday, 31 August 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
count me in on the pro-Dexys faction
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 31 August 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
dexys are cool, they're like The Cure with trombones
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Then one May morning the unthinkable happened: Chinx was killed as shots were fired at his car outside of a venue he’d just performed.
in the context of the rest of the review, "unthinkable" seems a bit of a stretch
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
An asian-american reclaiming the epithet, I presume?
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
no not asian american
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
homie, matter fact...
― posts baloney - whine iverson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Would prefer an album declared a band's walk of shame.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
One for the h8ers... P4k's original review of Pet Sounds.
http://i.imgur.com/stbtNTV.png
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 11 September 2015 09:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad Failblog.org finally got a music vertical
― posts baloney - whine iverson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
you do have to give Pet Sounds credit for inspiring Weezer, thanks Pet Sounds
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
is that a real pitchfork review?
― scott seward, Friday, 11 September 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
yep
he rated the X-ecutioners slightly higher, lol http://web.archive.org/web/20011126210118/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/x/x-ecutioners/x-pressions.shtml
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
misread that as "few people have come close to penning sweater melodies".
― how's life, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
'dark side' > 'pet sounds' > 'ok computer' > 'loveless'
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
those are definitely four albums
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
failblog.edu
― hunangarage, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
i mean that was from schreiber himself not some dumb college freelancer
it just wasn't made for these times
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Ryan realized early on (thankfully) that he was no writer.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I almost wish ryan was prone to more "I'm still here" goddess-in-the-doorway moments
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/isley.jpg
individual scores for all the individual isleys reissues makes them look like crazies imo
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goddess-in-the-doorway-20011206
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
tbf, Wenner was a decent interviewer early on (by "early" I mean no later than 1968). Was always a shitty critic, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
That wasn't really Wenner. A ghostwriter wrote it and Wenner signed off on it.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
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).
― da croupier, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
xp the isley brothers thing is so wtf
― niels, Saturday, 12 September 2015 08:28 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I like the review though.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
me too. always happy to see Erlewine show up in unexpected places.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
my favorite isleys record changes every few months so I found the scoring interesting
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Morrissey, meanwhile, isn’t overly fussed with convincing the non-believers. When the lights dim, he marches up to the microphone and begins an acapella rendition of Willie Nelson’s "Always on My Mind".
*sigh* if we're just going to throw accuracy out the window why not The Pet Shop Boys "Always on My Mind"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Pitchfork is never gonna acknowledge professional songwriters when talking about country. Though to give them some credit, if you're gonna pick a version to cite, that's the one - Elvis's only hit #20 in the US, but Nelson's hit #5.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Elvis's was the bigger hit in Britain though (Elvis #9, Willie #49). PSB version went to number one.
― Ray Chard (NickB), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Apparently it was a single in the UK but a B-side over here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_My_Mind#Elvis_Presley_version
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Nelson's version is neither the original - since he didn't write it - nor is it the first. Calling it his song is weird.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
I mean sure it's the most famous but why is that relevant
I totally agree, btw. I hate when people (OK, marketing people) claim that an artist has recorded an album of "Elvis covers" or "Frank Sinatra covers." Elvis never wrote a song in his life. Frank Sinatra, either.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link