one thing it certainly does have is the worst music forum of all time
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:06 (four 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 (four years ago) link
clearly you've never been to /mu/ xp
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
it basically is /mu/ fwict
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:30 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
lolllllll
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 16:04 (four 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
Diary of a Madman
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Saturday, 22 June 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
1:30 p.m. Our video lead tells me that Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers are on their way to the office studios to shoot for our “Over/Under” series. Last week we ran into the “Queer Eye” cast in the cafe and taped them for the series, too. It’s one of my favorite franchises because of how genuinely funny and random it tends to be.
Funny and random. Can't wait for that one.
― Position Position, Saturday, 22 June 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-burial-became-a-meme/
Just funnin' around w/ some Burial memes
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
http://i63.tinypic.com/5frzna.jpg
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
The article really neither convinced me of this purported phenomena nor Burial's withstanding legacy (tho I am a fan)
― 57mg/20floz, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:27 (four years ago) link
OI MEMBA BURIAL WAS SOME BLOKE INNA HOODIE INNIT
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, October 4, 2016 5:27 PM (two years ago)
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Sherburne is a good writer, but this is a good example of my personal Pitchfork bugbear — analysis/praise that focuses almost entirely on lyrical content, with just a few words about music and performance: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/rosalia-fucking-money-man/
Surely the “yin/yang” thematics of this “two-tracker” (theatrically flexing about wealth, then lamenting its evils) aren’t enough, in itself, to make it a Best New Track? But that’s largely what the review rests on.
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 5 July 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
(Further to my point, I guess, is the fact that you apparently need to understand Catalan — or read a translation — to even appreciate the lyrical content.)
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 5 July 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
lol as if 'best new' has anything to do with anything except pitchfork exercising its clout to magnify trends in its target markets for its own benefit
― j., Friday, 5 July 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
Buy: Rough Trade
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how long has pitchfork been earning commissions?
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Since they’ve been telling you where to buy the albums in the footnotes of their reviews, which is afaik also a fairly recent development?
― You can’t see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
reminds me of when pfork would link to insound
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Impressive Sunday review, beautifully written, well-informed, etc.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/koji-kondo-the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time/
― ilxor, Sunday, 7 July 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link