https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkUxFB6jbDc
― Detective Picacho (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
those quotes that unperson pulled do the opposite of making the music sound cool and worthy of my time.
rym is a site where white people make themselves feel better by giving black musicians free promotion. it's alright.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
hmmm, rethink that take
― Detective Picacho (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Sounds like RYM has changed. I was on there a lot in like 2004 and it was pretty quaint -- Mull Historical Society CD-R swaps, "does anyone else like Around the Sun?" etc. A user I admired was really into Kitchens of Distinction...
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 June 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
It's a good place to discover new metal and prog, and enjoy some psychotic writing, and that's about it
― Simon H., Friday, 7 June 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
You’re thinking of ILM
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 7 June 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
That's not fair. I never find out about cool new prog via ILM.
― Simon H., Friday, 7 June 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
lol spock's beard
― j., Friday, 7 June 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
It depends where you’re lookingThere are some users who do hugely deep dives into genres Reminiscent of the mp3 blog days
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
it is an excellent place to keep track of one's own listening and discover new things, and generally stay on top of being a music nerd. all the unsavoury window-dressing is kind of beside the point and avoidable
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
IOW, it's reddit for music nerds
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
It's like ILM if we still listened to music instead of podcasts
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
yea I think the reddit analogy works, it's a huge place with a lot of cool niche stuff and it's quite easy to ignore the community at large
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
one thing it certainly does have is the worst music forum of all time
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
I use it just for figuring out which album to start with for an artist, does a pretty good job for that
― Vinnie, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
clearly you've never been to /mu/ xp
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
it basically is /mu/ fwict
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah I find RYM v. useful for keeping track of things I've heard and browsing other peoples' lists can be a lot of fun but I avoid the forums/comment boxes like the plague.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/FzrhVoNiFn— Best of RateYourMusic (@Rateyrmusic) June 7, 2019
proud of you imago
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
lolllllll
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/taylor-swift-you-need-to-calm-down/
This track review deserves a shoutout for focusing entirely on lyrical content (save for a reference to "a hook that’s mostly vowels"); and ending with this thought:
“You Need to Calm Down” is like one of those fancy unicorn cupcakes, an impossibly cute confection designed to distract you from the fact that it’s a mediocre dessert. I cannot think of something I would rather buy into less.
Really -- you can't think of anything worse to "buy into" than a "mediocre," "well-intentioned" "confection" of a track? And is music really for "buying into" in the first place? (Hey -- what about the music, anyway?)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
And is music really for "buying into" in the first place?
This is a strange question. Of course music is for buying into, otherwise no one would try to share it with anyone else.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
AND no one would try to make a living as a professional musician if they weren't trying to get people to buy into the music they are creating/performing.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
I think of an ideology or idea as something you "buy into"; and music as something you listen to / enjoy.
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
(or, literally, "buy" -- if you purchase it)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
I cannot think of something I would rather buy into less.
I can think some music website that should rather buy into a copy editor more.
― punning display, Friday, 14 June 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
“Sure I like it, but I don’t, like, buy into it or anything!”
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
omg i didn't see, i'm famous now lol
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
This track review deserves a shoutout for focusing entirely on lyrical content
(Hey -- what about the music, anyway?)
Can’t imagine why Pitchfork isn’t parsing the chord changes on a song where Taylor thematically links her social-media haters to the Westboro Baptist Church
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
(Also the point of the “buy into” line - however awkwardly-phrased - is clearly that this song reads to the author more as an act of lateral career positioning than a piece of music, and they regard it as a failure both in terms of that being an aspiration to begin with and in its ability to succeed at that aspiration)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in “Career Positioning”
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Saturday, 15 June 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link
I’m rolling my eyes but also you’re not wrong
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
Crumb and 2017 follow-up Locket, both misty and meandering, cast the four-part group as the new kid on today’s jazz-influenced psych block, among bands like Tame Impala and King Krule.
did Tame Impala cover a Kamasi Washington song or something
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
haha "jazzy" and "jazz influenced" are two classic overused rock crit phrases
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 June 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
the only two King Krule songs I ever subjected myself to sounded like annoying post-punk singer songwriter shit
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
so I'll defer to others on that point - but of the three Tame Impala songs I own I'd be hard-pressed to point to a "jazz influence"
King krules is p great
― flopson, Monday, 17 June 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
lol meant "three Tame Impala ALBUMS" there
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
4.8 for Madonna.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/madonna-madame-x/
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
If I wanted someone to write a witty pan, I'd hire Rich.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
par for the course
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
4.8 is way too generous. I bet the editor bumped that score up a couple points after the review was turned in.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
it is hilarious to me the way they are still trying against all odds to push frankie cosmos
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
RichJuz madonna review is so well-written damn
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
I stopped reading at "grotesque wealth"...
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
that's the second sentence
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
she's more than halfway to a billion. only like 300 bernies
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
Their 2001 song “Everybody Got Their Something” sampled a guitar hook from George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass while also bringing to mind a then-current Faith Evans hit.
anyone care to point out where this reputed sample (it links to "I Dig Love") is? cuz I sure don't hear it.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 June 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/business/puja-patel-pitchfork-work-diary.html
3:30 p.m. One of two weekly reviews meetings, where we go over our album review schedule, scoring, Best New Music designations and assignments. This is usually the easiest or knottiest meeting of the week, depending on the releases and how strongly the editors in the room feel about them. We try to have at least four people on staff listen to every album reviewed before landing on a precise score. Today, two editors have differing opinions on the score of a smaller album, and we talk about some existential issues with scoring against the legacy opinions of Pitchfork past.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 June 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Next day:
1:30 p.m. My weekly meeting with Anna Wintour, the creative director of Condé Nast. Anna is a sounding board on anything big or small. We talk about everything: new developments on major editorial plans for the site, design updates, artists who are releasing new music, ideas around covers, the staff, navigating every kind of business change or hurdle while being true to the site’s spirit and point of view.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 June 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link