pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

This is like the most extreme fever swamp tip of the much broader malaise of people caring about the score number way more than the actual content of the review. All of these reviews were removed for being examples of awful writing. Unsurprisingly there's a high correlation between very high or very low scores and writing that tips over from uninspired to spectacularly, memorably bad.

Gonna be capn-save-a-fork and say I hope every single person on ILX understands that A) it's achingly obvious, completely understandable and even a little empathy-inducing why 100% of these reviews are changed and deleted. And I would HOPE that any human being making the transition from a college-aged minneapolis coltrane cosplayer and ska apologist to an adult new york media mogul multi-millionaire under the conde nast umbrella would have the common fucking sense to delete their shit too

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:47 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm

I mean, are there ILX posts you made five years ago you wouldn't mind seeing stricken from the record? Let s/he who answers 'no' cast the first stone

I think I repped for The Darkness once, for instance

try one day ago

oh, and pitchfork can do what they will. peace to all

difference is nobody is paying us to make these posts, nobody is calling us professionals, ILX isn't putting on massive festivals, partnering with media companies, etc.

the hollertronix guys made a decent b-more club mix. go buy that. You really don't need more than one cd of the stuff anyway

(whineyg), Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:12 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I spy the makings of a potentially great new thread

no

come on it'll be fun

it's already a thread on 77 anyway

"ILX isn't putting on massive festivals"

by the time ilx could come up with a festival line-up - after multiple months-long poll and voting threads - everyone would be SO over all the artists picked.

remember when Gnarls Barkley headlined the '07 ILM fest? jeez that was embarrassing.

I think it's probably wrong to lump each ilx poster's particular curiosity/amusement together into some kind of unified ilx hivemind that is as serious and concerned as a few pedantic redditors.

Junior Boys doing Last Exit from start to finish. what a time we had.

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scott otm
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I mean to say I agree with Whiney so back to my original question: it's not the deleting of reviews which bothers me (nothing is ever deleted in the internet if you care that much to find it) as it does make sense with the points that Whiney mentions... god knows I'd love an edit/remove option on ilxor, it's the changing of scores of the reviews they do leave. I know it's very uncommon but for those rare instances I'd love to have a footnote with the previous score and reason for change, it would put in better context to know the previous score when reading the original review. The review might be worth reading even if the album
is not as good as originally thought when making revisions.

all i can say is that it kind of pisses me off that kraftwerk won't acknowledge their first three albums... but that's mostly because they're great albums.

can we all just agree that reddit is a garbage fire

It depends on the subreddit. The r/music and r/indieheads subreddits are terrible. That's why I prefer hanging around here mildly annoying you guys.

Back in May, Redditors reported that Radiohead’s 2011 live video album, The King of Limbs: From the Basement, had disappeared from their iTunes after they bought it. Now, the group has announced that it’s back. You can also check it out on Apple Music here.

what a bunch of sell-outs.

Radiohead have a long and conflicted relationship with streaming services. In 2013, they pulled their music from Spotify, with Thom Yorke famously proclaiming the service “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.”

fart on!

how soon til we're down to 1 new review per day

Alvy Singer: [addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

January 2017 release schedule is p rough, fam

I was about to say: it's the first week of a new year, release schedule's slow, lots of people still on break/vacation

I think in years past they took a few weeks break from publishing reviews after the Year End list, but at the end of 2016 they kept publishing a couple of reviews per day.

haha tbc I am not asking for them to write more reviews, site could vanish now and I'd be okay with it. I was just wondering if this was another step in their slow progression to being a shitty news aggregator

xp

like last year there were no reviews between Dec. 11 2015 and Jan. 4 2016

Looks like Altered Zones had had a revive, if you're looking for something to read: http://www.alteredzones.com/

I am so happy I clicked on that link

You’ve probably learned a lot about trading over your goal period, too.

yeah, this is normal, when Beyonce's self-titled album came out even that was a January review

Even. Beyonce.

i like this. i think it's hilarious how the Fiona Apple album with the super long title is listed twice back to back, first abbreviated When the Pawn... and then in its full form http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1411-16-pitchfork-staffers-share-their-formative-teenage-albums/

Good to see the 9.5 worthy Save Ferris is on there.

I like this concept: http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/10007-risings-of-the-past-predict-risings-of-the-future

yeah i really dig that, too. people helping people

i like this. i think it's hilarious how the Fiona Apple album with the super long title is listed twice back to back, first abbreviated When the Pawn... and then in its full form http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1411-16-pitchfork-staffers-share-their-formative-teenage-albums/

― flappy bird, Friday, January 13, 2017 3:47 PM (one hour ago)

jeez matthew str@uss's taste is so bad-college-music-writer that if you made it up it'd be too on the nose

he must be a young dude huh

glad to see a lot of these writers ordered the same albums for a penny that i did from columbia house in the early '90s

if only someone had told these poor kids in high school that they should get into different music fast lest people make fun of them on an internet message board in 5-10 years

each of these writers should feel deep shame and should be widely ridiculed imo

otm

lol i love those type of pointless exercises but they are meant for facebook fodder

From today's review of X-Ray Spex' Germ Free Adolescents:

She naturally did punk-reggae better than the Clash or the Slits

Yes, Poly Styrene was just "naturally...better" at reggae, 'cause her dad was from...Somalia.

...

No Rush, no credibility.

0.0 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pitchfork

is this a joke

On “Open Letter to Forever” he sings, “Like, I remember standing out in front of the Northern, after another 15-paid gig, getting harassed by Olympia street punks (the worst!) for looking like a hipster. I wanted to be like, ‘Man I’m probably a couple years younger than your father. And I’ve traded any chance at stability for this community of people who, like, know what Black Flag is or whatever.’” His lyrics are so strong that the actual music can sometimes feel like an afterthought. When is this guy going to write a book?

what the fuck is that