pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrb5AGizjoY

the need to rage against the machine has been nullified by our internet overlords

They're the Banksy of music

well, once raged-against, the machine started giving us free music so we became bros with it

I caught a set yesterday by a dubstep dj/producer named Rezz and the highlight was her remix of "Killing in the Name", so clearly they are still relevant

Yeah, seriously, RATM were a joke from the moment I first heard them. "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me - I'm going to my room!"

― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:02 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how is this not a Turrican post

At a 1993 Lollapalooza appearance in Philadelphia, the band stood onstage naked for 15 minutes with duct tape on their mouths and the letters PMRC painted on their chests in protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center. Refusing to play, they stood in silence with the sound emitted being only audio feedback from Morello and Commerford's guitars. The band later played a free show for disappointed fans.

otm

RATM are one of these bands I dislike in theory but then when I hear them, they def got the head nodding beats and riff

they are completely ridiculous but also sort of amazing for how dumb and ludicrous and shameless the whole thing is

(full disclosure: i wore a parental advisory warning tshirt from like 1992 to 1996 until it fell apart)

Oh hell yeah, was gonna say that stunt will forever make rage CLASSIC

Xp Nevermind & Rage s/t we're recorded at the same studio lol

xp didn't see the previous posts, so i assumed the stunt you were talking about was when the bass player climbed the set of the VMAs and wouldn't come down.

hey, that stunt ended hunger

https://i.imgur.com/Tvt18aI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dHlmGRM.png

I wish any VMAs moment from this decade was half as interesting as that one.

“Black Mirror” Season 4 Out Now on Netflix: Watch

Journalism lives

haha, this is the end

finally a place where i can find netflix news

It's like an episode of Black Mirror, right

what if yer music site was part of a multimedia conglomerate

For like 1 full second I thought that was a joke post.

It’s a miracle Pitchfork managed to ascend to what it is now. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7618-come-pick-me-up/

Shit, cat

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-blue-nile-hats/

Oh my god this review is beautiful

that's a really great review, except the score is too low

i actually blurted out "what the fuck" when I first saw it but complaining about a pitchfork score just feels so trite

though a higher score could've gotten more people to check them out :(

Good review. Does seem a weirdly conservative score.

I blurted out "wtf" but only cause they didn't assign it to brad

Hmm. Never really thought of Nile Rodgers when I listen to the Blue Nile.

Who is responsible for the last few years of millennial interest in/knowledge of the Blue Nile?

Like I def lived through the Hats era of MTV and the first time I remember hearing their name was via J0rdan S.

the 1979 def helped

The Blue Nile are to Millenials what Talk Talk were to my generation

I don’t know how or why but it’s most jazz school grads around age 30 I know who listen to them, take cues from them

Who is going to be the aging No Doubt type band that scores a huge hit covering a Blue Nile song?

My sister (who has lived in Leeds for 15+ years) and her partner (who is a born and bred northern Brit), both big music nerds, claimed to have never heard of the Blue Nile the other week.

Louise Burns had a good, very loyal, cover of Downtown Lights on her 2017 album, wasn't a hit though

I came across the album at a record market, bought it on recommendation from a collector (who more or less only listens to 80s indie), ofc I fell in love with it as soon as I put it on

I feel like Destroyer's Kaputt had something to do with it.

I thought for sure Brad had reviewed it.

i discovered them due to a comparison to kaputt somewhere

Lol, yeah, the question made me immediately think of Kaputt.

Millennial here. I first heard of it from a Q Magazine "Greatest British Albums" list ca. 2000, liked the cover and description, found a used copy a few years later. That Q issue is a millennial touchstone, I think.

Kaputt? I thought we all agreed that Al Stewart was the touchpoint.

Al Stewart makes much more sense than Kaputt

Uncut, Q, Mojo, etc have been revisiting Hats regularly for the past 20 years

I'm 25 and never heard of The Blue Nile until so many posters put Hats on their top 5 favorite albums thread i made in ~September 2016. Still baffled, have NEVER encountered them anywhere other than ilx.

i'm 41 and had never heard of them until the 1975 thread here on ilm

Who is going to be the aging No Doubt type band that scores a huge hit covering a Blue Nile song?

― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 7, 2018 11:27 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We don’t have those anymore, right

I mean the closest analogue is probably *gulp* Maroon 5 and even they probably couldn’t/wouldn’t put a hip cover in the top40