pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Contra and Daytona, two albums featuring cover photos against the will of the people (or their estate)/people's things photoed. Part of their impact? Discuss.

at least 75% of his fastball

could never get into that. Liked Late Registration though.

you clearly have a deep understanding of 'comedy'
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:14 PM

nonsense ≠ comedy

still think the first VW album is the best, and it is the only one of theirs that I really love

this is like that time JAY Z went to the GRIZZLY BEAR concert

peak ‘kanye, more like Kanye NOT?’ dad hours

Kanye? KanNAY more like.

LOVE Daytona

one good idea with all those albums is they were all short

didn't much help his own though. no idea why he gives himself the worst production

Kanye is terrible these days

And, even at his peak, he was at best a mediocre rapper

he never had much flow so if that's super-important to you then I can understand feeling that way, but in his early days a lot of his raps were funny and really memorable and that more than compensated for the fact that no one's ever going to mistake him for Rakim.

can't we just have those memories then

would someone kindly tl;dr this for me:

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/2010s-decade-how-indie-rock-went-pop-bon-iver-grimes-james-blake/

he's a rapper like Puffy or Dr. Dre, also I'm assuming a big change in the perception is changes in who is ghostwriting for him

I mean, Cyhi the Prince doesn't stick around GOOD music because he moves units

used to be Consequence and Rhymefest

yeah, consequence and rhymefest can actually write, and judging by the bars cyhi gives himself...he can't

would someone kindly tl;dr this for me:

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/2010s-decade-how-indie-rock-went-pop-bon-iver-grimes-james-blake/

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, October 17, 2019 11:23 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haven't read it yet but Jayson's a very good writer so I recommend you just read it yourself.

the thing i'm most annoyed by is that the design and illustration work around this decade-end package is just horrible

yeah what's the deal? it's supposed to look like iphone icons?

that's so this decade tho

go let them know
https://www.facebook.com/events/504028790391409/

None of these scenarios would have been thinkable for indie rock bands of previous generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ADAr9-Aqs

Shhh, don't talk about things that happened before Pitchfork existed. It upsets them.

I did a whole listicle about this in 2011 with 37 items on it

https://www.spin.com/2011/11/fear-slack-planet-hip-hops-indie-rock-crush/

lol perfect

would have appreciated including Kool G Rap's sampling of Feist but I am like that

nonE oF theSe scenArIoS WOuLD HAvE BEEn tHInKabLE FOr indIE RocK BANDS OF PrEViOUs GENerAtiOns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBYPwT912M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhYEqz2Hu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMN4zawNEw

this is what i'm here for.

it's easier for me to now whenever a millennial or younger makes some big statement about music or movies online I just add "....since 2005" to the statement

the quality of contemporary music has been on a steady decline since 2005.

....since 2005

i think of 2005 as a nadir of all culture actually

it was pretty rough. indie had yet to get all wohhhhhh'd out. but man it was in the mail.

2005 was a very good year for me but that's mostly when i stopped listening to indie so

it helped me branching out more. thank you 2005!

Gang Starr’s First New Album in 16 Years Announced, New Song Shared: Listen

?

it's a hologram

but what kind of IPA does Mr. Starr prefer

the hip hoppiest one out there, of course

show of hands, who thinks Pitchfork would've reviewed the new Muffs album if it came out 3 weeks ago?

They reviewed the 2014 album and, for a similar example, Veruca Salt's Ghost Notes. Those are both from 4+ years ago, of course.

Surprised they reviewed the 2014 album. (I should've checked.) Maybe I'm wrong! Fair enough.

show of hands, who thinks Pitchfork would've reviewed the new Muffs album if it came out 3 weeks ago?

Had the same thought briefly flash through my head, but then I saw they also reviewed the new Third Eye Blind so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 11:36 PM (yesterday)

Premier began work on the album in late 2017 while an urn with Guru’s ashes sat atop his production console.

Hard to Urn

i reviewed that dog too

Hard to Urn

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 12:58 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg

he's a rapper like Puffy or Dr. Dre, also I'm assuming a big change in the perception is changes in who is ghostwriting for him

He's much better than those 2. I'm basing this solely on his freestyle in that Ice T doc film.

lol @ Hard To Urn

surprised to not see something here about me being dumb (when reviewing my edit, I reviewed the final version from the google doc and not the CMS, because I was on mobile and have the app; the version in the google doc was fine, but the CMS version introduced a very obvious error that upset the artist, and that I feel awful about)

if it makes you feel better we could jeer at you a bit