pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

good review btw

^^ (xp)

they've def edited it in the past hour, though. not a big deal really tho imo, and it was a pretty good review

yeah not a big deal at all, just wanted to clown jess in his own thread for old times sake

I'm sure it was written with good intentions, but using your friend's tragic story as a framing device to write about the new Kanye West album seems inappropriate
Yeah, and claiming that listening to a record could have saved this poor guy's life is just boneheaded and minimizes the tragedy.

PB is usually my favorite read on pitchfork but the last couple have been questionable.

that article is terrible

How to let K----‘s death be about K----, and avoid letting it serve as an excuse to lube up the gorge of self-trivia? I mean, pop's escape has nothing to offer if one can't weather the phrase "I just died in your arms tonight"! I feel suddenly mean about an unsympathetic post-mortem review of an Elliott Smith disc that I typed for (cheap irony alert) No Depression.

http://pitchfork.com/news/35087-lil-waynes-latest-amazing-mixtape-cover/

if lil wayne bootleg mixtape covers are "news" then 77 is like the new york times

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=66238

Album-covers-as-"news" is a part of EVERY successful music site tho. As pretty much the first sign that an album is ready, you instantly become one the first google hits as it nears release date. These days, music writing is all internet math, and that's true for every website, not just pfork

even the jaded snarkballs at idolator do it

well imo "reporting" on the "release" of the decemberists' new album cover is one thing, but doing the same for a bootleg mixtape as if there aren't 495898 hilarious photoshopped mixtape covers every day is another

i kno im getting pedantic but it's not like its a "lil wayne mixtape" -- if in 10 mins i rounded up leaked cam'ron tracks and made a zip and then photoshopped his face over billy mays's body and put jim jones' face in a juicer, i wouldn't expect pfork to "report" on it

as if cam'ron was releasing a new mixtape with a hilarious cam'ron sanctioned cover

slow news day i guess \o_O/ + it is a funny cover

that cover is sick!

dude, yahoo and cnn fill their quotas with a stable of wacky "news," why would a music website be any different?

They could just hype up a worthless band or two and use their "output" as filler quota material and then dump them a year later when there's actually news on bands people like to report.

Just sayin'.

"Do purple pontiffs leave paisley piles in the Minnesota woods?"

i miss jess being around

no sarge you do have a point, wtf is the point in putting up a bulletin about an "amazing" garden variety mixtape cover that has nothing to do w/ the artist's official output

i know they throw 10s at reissues all the time but putting them in "best new music" is a little nutty. been thinking for a long time they should just create a special reissues section apart from the new album reviews.

yeah it's not included in the BNM section though, it's just given the tag next to the review. which is a little confusing

btw starting threads about batshit pitchfork reviews is so 2002

ok pitchfork is dumb: none of your old links work anymore

lol @ JT Ramsay

Let's just admit it: "JT Ramsay" was a pseudonym Jaymc wrote under

If you don't believe me, note that JT RAMSAY is an easy anagram for "SMART JAY"

in the tradition of Pfork anagrams: I always thought Sam Ubl was a fake name because it's an anagram of "Albums."

Nice dude, tho.

JT too fwiw

Mullah Omar, though, that was real.

llama humor

whatever, Neat Hubbies

says a cheerer throwing pints like you

a hip screenwriter thong

:o

You forgot Cheetahs Rewriting Porn.

whatever happened to pitchfork mail? trying to remember the girl's name

Catherine Lewis?

could be her. all trace of the pitchfork mailbag has been wiped from the interwebss, so not sure for sure. this is all i know
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Pitchfork review in not getting it SHOCKAH

track reviews have been the source of some epic bs lately

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11319-im-good/

Surrounded by such Euro-cheese, Pusha and Mal sound utterly lost-- blank, tired, and detached, and not at all compellingly so, as they were on "Emotionless". Over three verses, the sharpest shit either of them manage is "today was a good day, ice cubes on my chest" and "swimmin through the streets, lookin like I'm Shamu." After years of weathering bullshit and coming out stronger and more determined, it seems the Thornton Brothers are starting to sag inwardly, and at this point, who could blame them?

so pfork finally gets around to criticizing the clipse and then the review ends by saying "but who could blame them for making a shitty song!?"

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11302-birthday-sex-remix-ft-r-kelly/

the pop revolution pitchfork of 04-05 never would've let "birthday sex" slip under the radar but finally getting around to reviewing the washed-up r. kelly version of the song and then saying that his autotuned nonsense is better than the original version is some serious lapdog bs

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11317-olympus/

this guy is kinda the king of writing a bunch of words but not saying a damn thing

That Clipse thing is a shame, I usually like dude.

at first i thought it said "swag inwardly" and i was soooo puzzled

a little mini soulja boy living inside us all, turning his swag on

turn my swag inward

i liked the mingus reissue review: "I'm sure I'm not versed enough in jazz to assess what it is that makes Mingus Mingus": great, why are u reviewing album then loser

^^^ lol

haha i noticed that one too

"I've never really listened to music before, but"

There are plenty of times when I value good writing and insight over expertise. Certainly expertise is frequently a prerequisite for insight, but too much demand is placed on critics to be authoritative, IMO.

Great reviews can come from people who are relative outsiders to the topic and can bring a fresh perspective. Noone really needs more jazz reviews from rock fans who are out of their element, though.

The jawdropping part of that Mingus review is when he reveals that the bonus material on the CD is in PDF format. What the?

the worst part of that review is the lede.