pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Below you’ll find five recent metal releases that draw inspiration from the haunted, the gothic, and the grotesque.

huh

"Here are five metal albums I like, and literally the first thing I could think of to potentially tie them together into a column."

"In the underground, metal bands continue to indulge in the themes of horror in new, dynamic ways."

xp lol otm

that guy has a rad metal writer name and I fear he may be coasting as a result

Here are 5 recent Hip Hop releases that explore the selling and taking of drugs

lmao

lol

yeah shit is gettin p lazy over there

is there a way to see P4k reviews by day they published, by chance? for example, "show me the 5 reviews from July 16, 2007"?

sorry for the lack of lols

wayback machine, i think? maybe. or maybe there's a better resource.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/pitchfork.com

five albums with skulls on the cover

If I want to look through old reviews I just increase the page # at the end of this link:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/?page=1

currently goes up to around 1600 pages, but the years 1999-2002 seem to have been pared down a lot

^^^That's why it's best to use the Web Archive, as they have scrubbed a lot of reviews from the site.

Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassing stuff that was published early on on Pitchfork that got scrubbed long ago.

I did a blog about the whole issue several years back: http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2010/09/deleted-pitchork-reviews.html

No real broader point to be derived from this, but:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ben-frost-threshold-of-faith-ep/
"We hear exactly who Ben Frost wants us to think he is but get precious little view of the man behind the persona."
Ah, yes, because what's the value of sheets of electronic noise if there isn't something of the confessional to it.

It's not really important but I just kinda like the ending of this news story: http://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-everything-now-earn-third-straight-us-no-1-album/

“Everything Now” was one of Pitchfork’s “Best New Tracks of June 2017”

Yeah... That's not the review people are going to remember from this cycle...

lol

http://pitchfork.com/news/broad-city-are-selling-officially-licensed-sex-toys/

new band name

WUXTRA WUXTRA: broad city branded yas kween vibrators announced on pitchfork

lol they're all sold out already

grace and frankie > broad city

lol um no

Grace and Frankie is fine for what it is - a senior sitcom - but it's largely joke-free and some of the acting (primarily Waterston/Sheen) is legit painful

Broad City rules, psyched for the return. Ilana was v good in otherwise mediocre Rough Night - Abbi is in a new movie called Person to Person that just opened here, heard it's more "a look into the lives of quirky new yorkers!" sorta thing but w/e i'll still see it bc I love her and Michael Cera.

BC jumped the shark pretty definitively for me mid last season

broad city is annoyingly full of itself and has been since midway through season two

otm, sadly

eh i thought season 3 was mostly good, even the hillary episode was whatever, but the whole bleeping out Trump's name in season 4 thing is so dumb

Has any comedy been good past 2 (could stretch it to 3 maybe) seasons?

Lots! The most extreme example I can think of is Always Sunny.

yeah good call altho i havent seen it since like s5

Loads have!

like mad about you

the simpsons

the hogan family another prominent example

difficult people, so far

king of the hill

i wish review had a longer third season

oh and nathan for you's third season had "smokers allowed" and "the hero"

friends
Seinfeld
Cheers
MASH
The New Girl

like a zillion others

I think comedies tend to peak around season 3-5, first season sometimes you're figuring stuff out, second season gets better, 3-5 cast knows how to work w each other and writers, but things haven't gotten stale

Parks and Rec (big time late bloomer)
The Office (US)

I dunno like I could just keep listing like 80% of successful long running comedy shows

Yeah, lots of sitcoms might have sketchy first seasons, and many peter out towards the end, but there's usually a significant sweet spot in the middle of several seasons.

finally some people talking about tv shows on this board

BREAKING: FATHER JOHN MISTY'S COVER OF THE FAMILY TIES THEME SONG AT LOLLA IS EVERYTHING

just puked on you

fuck you pitchfork for spoiling twin peaks

yeah fuck you for spoiling a repurposed scene from the 1992 movie fire walk with me

especially on the morning after the episode aired, my god