pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Is that readers poll just market research for them?

Speaking as a former magazine editor, yes. All readers' polls are market research.

2019 Pitchfork just constantly dunking on the RYM/Fantano/mu/imago axis of angry boy music (Clipping, Tool, Tropical Fuck Storm, docking Run the Jewels/Swans/Kozelek) might be a fantastic act of passive-aggression

Incelcore

all this time, poptimism was a cover for optimism

Incelcore

I had no idea my wife was an incel.

ffs

The clipping. review tracks with my impression of it. I don't like the timbre of Diggs' voice, and "the charisma of a metronome and the expressive range of a sock puppet" captures his style pretty well.

Tropical Fuck Storm: the angry boy band that's 2/3rds women!

Topical Cuck Storm

3/4s in fact xp

oops my math is....not good

2019 Pitchfork just constantly dunking on the RYM/Fantano/mu/imago axis of angry boy music (Clipping, Tool, Tropical Fuck Storm, docking Run the Jewels/Swans/Kozelek) might be a fantastic act of passive-aggression

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, October 21, 2019 11:48 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Incelcore

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, October 21, 2019 11:48 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol otm

most of those bands have entirely distinct fanbases, swans/kozelek aside

well not entirely but they're no more groupable than any other noise-rock/alt-rap/idk

Topical Cuck Storm

I will always pretend Kozelek quit music in 2013-ish

whiney g forever the king for savagely destroying his own taste in music better than anyone else could <3

own thyself to know thyself

pwn iirc.

Bernie Sanders Played Sheer Mag’s “Expect the Bayonet” at New York Rally

Good song!

t minus whatever till Fox gets wind of that title

To thy pwn self be true

in the past 24 hours:

Here’s Everything That Happened at Kanye’s L.A. Jesus Is King Event
Listen to Kanye West’s New Interview With Zane Lowe
Kanye West Shares Official Jesus Is King Tracklist
Kanye Doesn’t Release Album, Makes Surprise Appearance on Kimmel

you don't need turn every press release into an article ffs

West's PR machine clearly has them by the balls.

This is why:

kanye
kendrick
frank
kendrick
frank
kanye

hmm today a Sufjan project can't even make lead review up against some guy called Rex Orange County. Times changin'

it's a ballet score so not exactly a major sufjan project in terms of popular appeal

xp - for the better

Was struck by the contrast btw this observation in today’s Go-Gos review:

As the Los Angeles punk scene emerged in the late 1970s, it was inclusive, diverse, and pioneered by marginalized voices.

...and the conclusion of the recent review of X’s Los Angeles:

The song is a reminder, in a culture that rhapsodizes the early days of punk, exactly how limited its considerations of the most marginalized people were, how narrow its stage once was and how vast it is becoming.

The PFork staff book club must have read John Doe's LA punk essay collection in the interim.

Yeah the idea of a magically progressive punk rock scene, particularly in late 70’s LA, seems quaintly romantic. It’s weird to see this egalitarian punk gospel shit still peddled in 2019.

Are the Doe books good?

I've only read Under The Big Black Sun but it's a good read, he got essays from a wide variety of people (relatively speaking, for a book that's like a quarter the length of Please Kill Me) and you get a good sense of the color of the very early scene.

The Germs write-up is good, but doesn’t everyone buy MIA rather than GI on its own?

Is either version still in print? Neither is on Spotify.

GI, at least, is on Spotify for me. (Possibly not particularly useful information, but hey...)

All I see are a couple of live albums

Yeah, in the US there are four Germs records on Spotify:

Media Blitz (compilation, mostly live)
I F*#ed Your Mom - Live '78/'79
Cat's Clause (Live)
Live at the Starwood Dec. 3, 1980

This is disturbing news

Looks like everything is out of print again. The cheapest MIA CD available on Amazon appears to be $42.61 and one offer for GI on CD for $99.

this is a hilarious statement

People have more or less collectively agreed that rendering women as pure sex objects in music doesn’t need to happen so much anymore.

you didn't get the memo?

there was a meeting

finally, some good news

pour a little out for rap music

just how bad does a kanye album have to be to get properly panned

He collaborates with Greta Van Fleet?

That review reads more like a 5.2, or even a 4.2, than a 7.2. I wonder if the reviewer's verdict was nobbled by higher-ups?

actually, missed the bit where she praises the production job. But it's still never a 7.2 review in a million years.

Lol these fucking clowns