levels is running out of ideas quick eh
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 August 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
in the "reviews that are incredibly o_O from long ago" department, I ran across this one the other day and was cracking up. this album... was just too horny for the reviewer
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/571-rooty/
― mh, Friday, 17 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
10 Great Rap Songs About Money
― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a new low
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, August 16, 2018 9:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
again i thought this was parody lol
― marcos, Friday, 17 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
pitchfork just handed out 8.8 to mitski so it's been a good day for pitchfork tbh
― imago, Friday, 17 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Rooty rules, whatever nerd
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 17 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
lol yeah, I get where the review is coming from (heh) but there is a paragraph in there that made me cringe and giggle at the same time. could picture the reviewer blushing and averting his ears
― mh, Friday, 17 August 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
looking forward to
10 Great Rap Songs About Sex10 Great Rap Songs About Drugs10 Great Rap Songs About Rapping10 Great Rap Songs About Food
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
10 Great Rap Songs About Rapping
kudos
― mh, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
oops forgot
10 Great Rap Songs About Being Great
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
Have they done one about beer yet? Could be an important lateral crossover promo with October
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
For the old school pitchfork type sex in music was really considered 'selling sex' and that's was a bad signifier in the indie world all the way until ... Kanye West became a household name?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
10 Great Microbrews Named After Rap Songs
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-st-vincent-play-nirvana-hendrix-led-zeppelin-riffs-more/?mbid=social_twitter
It's Jethro Tull
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
Best Pale Ale to Drink While Mourning Aretha Franklin
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
10 Great Rap Songs About Beer (Not By Tha Alkaholiks)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.complex.com/music/2010/03/say-aah-hip-hops-25-greatest-drinking-songs
https://www.complex.com/music/2014/03/drink-drank-drunk-25-hip-hop-drinking-songs-st-patricks-day/
Complex has that covered...and covered
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, August 17, 2018 10:41 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
honestly i couldn't pick just 10
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 August 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
smdh @ complex thinking "drinking songs" strictly means "songs about drinking"
― mh, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
there are actually only 10 rap songs, so you can't pick any more than that.
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
10 Great Rap Songs About Nerd Culture
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
10 Great Rap Songs About Ethics in Gaming Journalism
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/kabuto-el-pit-n/gamergate
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 August 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-prodigy-the-fat-of-the-land/
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 August 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
smack my pitch up
― imago, Sunday, 19 August 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
90stalgia is on its way out, shall we invest in early 00stalgia?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 August 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
Soon, we're still in the middle stages of Nu metal revisionism.
― triggercut, Sunday, 19 August 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
prodigy is pretty bad though right?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 August 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Rating these legacy releases seems kinda... pointless.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 19 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
yeah they must get a lot of traffic, the whole endeavor seems kinda weird
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 August 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
the writing on Sunday review has been great
― flopson, Sunday, 19 August 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
Gloria Steinman
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 19 August 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
I like The Fat of the Land more now than I ever did at the time, tbh.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 19 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
For instance, the synthetic plaid pants that make your grandfather the butt of snide jokes at family reunions might actually look pretty smart hugging the hips of that cute sales clerk at the record store.
coming in late, but o_0 at the anti-horny Rooty review opening with this.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Sunday, 19 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Jesus that Fat of the Land review is terrible. Are we just gonna revisit every canon album out there and re-evaluate it using a woke-o-meter?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
what if many of us thought the album had terrible politics at the time?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sublime-40oz-to-freedom/
this 40 oz to freedom review insightfully explains why it resonated with such a wide audience while not shying away from its bad politics, that prodigy one is just the worst kind of smug, self-congratulatory garbage.
― oiocha, Monday, 20 August 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
is going from that ridiculous Rooty review to deservingly giving Kish Kash a 9.1 the biggest positive turnaround they've ever done on an artist
― ufo, Monday, 20 August 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
they gave Zaireeka a 0.0 and then gave The Soft Bulletin a 10.0. Not sure if it was the same writer though.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 August 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
The Fat of the Land is a solid album fwiw
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
40 oz to freedom review is way way way too harsh
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
I think we bitched about that Rooty review here at the time as well.
When did the 'We Are The World' singles column start? Pretty sure it would have been at the time of or a bit before Kish Kash. So in between 2001 and 2003 there was probably the biggest and fastest shift in Pitchfork's orientation that it ever went through (I feel like everything since then has been more incremental) and Basement Jaxx were the kind of artist best placed to benefit from it.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
The funniest part of the Fat of the Land review is that the author — who showily uses Britishisms like "naff" and "necked" — doesn't seem to know "Charly" is slang for cocaine
― Freeze Instr., Monday, 20 August 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
Are we just gonna revisit every canon album out there and re-evaluate it using a woke-o-meter?
Most depressing (because true) explanation for why I can no longer read (retrospective) music criticism
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 20 August 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
otm
― the late great, Monday, 20 August 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
I get the feeling that the writer was no older than 5 when that album came out.
― triggercut, Monday, 20 August 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah the Zaireeka and Soft Bulletin reviews were both written by the same guy. From what I remember, he only gave it a 0 because he didn't have five stereos to play the thing
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 20 August 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
it was a classic goof
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 August 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
endearing in the same way that we all feel for the kid puking in the lawn
i'm sorry that i arrived to this place tonight, but
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2231-forbidden-love-ep/
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yAA37ld6ydk/SPilcsCa-hI/AAAAAAAABU0/B9OTU3vYbJ8/s1600/Picture+3.png
Yes, they obviously know what they're doing. But they've still got to change that name. I suppose it's working for them, though, what with the Seventeen interviews and all. For now, just hold your breath and hope they don't get huge and make the jump to the "adult" market. You'd have to knock them substantial cutie points if they appeared in Cosmo as delegates from the Land of Sensitive Guys, or to weigh in on blowjob technique, or worse still, to appear photographed hanging out with Courtney Love. Or god forbid, Drew Barrymore. Come to think of it, maybe they ought to just add five members and change that name of theirs to God Forbid Drew Barrymore. Yeah!
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/news/a13864/zooey-deschanel-separates-from-ben-gibbard-5/
https://i.imgur.com/lSBHKrq.jpg
shit, i was the kid puking in the lawn the entire time
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 August 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
I'm not against looking at albums in hindsight, and I thought the one for 'Bell Biv Devoe' was very good: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bell-biv-devoe-poison/ The problem with the one for The Prodigy is that it's kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, and it's sloppy to not explicitly point out that the chorus to 'Smack My Bitch Up' is sampled from Ultramagnetic MCs.
― Frederik B, Monday, 20 August 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link