pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

it's called "much more focused" than "ye", which I see got 7.1. Continuity!

The review of ye is pretty funny. It's extremely harsh, but still ends up at 7,1...

Going by their non-stop flow of headlines about his ever move, Kanye probably generates a good 40% of their traffic to they aren't going to nip that brand.

yeah didn't you guys see the user poll

don't bite the hand

were people writing like that about neal sedaka or frankie valli?

Greil Marcus' intro to the reprint of The Aesthetics of Rock talked about how the book was heretical (to whom, I don't know) because it considered Tommy James and the Shondells on the same level that it considered the Beatles or whoever.

― timellison, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 5:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i: to readers of and co-writers at crawdaddy, where the first excerpts of AoR ran. cf its editor paul williams on nearly anything but especially dylan
ii: to ppl who felt an "aesthetics of rock" wd be not dissimilar in social import and therefore fileable alongside to an "aesthetics of jazz" or an "aesthetics of moderrnist art" -- viz the kinds of ppl meltzer hung with in 1966-67 and wanted to ruffle a bit, inc.i imagine some of his chums fluxus-side (were his argument was that rock-and-pop were doing to a LOT of very unprepared people what happenings wd only ever do to a tiny number of fairly prepared* ppl)**

*(samuel r delany is probably the only person who walked into an actual real happening unprepared and wrote down its full sensually deranging effect on him: cf the chapter early on in triton)
**in later years i think an embittered meltzer has retreated a lot from his early super-enthusiastic claims, which is a pity really, bcz run alongside e.g. ian macdonald's not-dissimilar but far more negative worries abt the effects on random cageian stimulation on a generation (viz "revolution number nine"), i think an interesting claim was being made abt purposeless play and mass media

ok the "to" in "alongside to an" s/b between "import" and "and"

I assume you also meant "effects OF random cageian simulation"

cuz I was having trouble parsing that tbh

lol i did yes sorry

LOLing at "Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album"

appears to have misspelled "publicity" there

As though KW has an "unwavering focus" on anything besides the nearest mirror.

ahhaha 7.2 such a cop out

even RYM hates this album

I respect the challop tbh, the resistance to the critical meme as a maneuver. Wish they’d done it on chance’s Album instead but what ya gonna do

I need to scour eBay for a copy of The Aesthetics of Rock now.

xpost if that was the intention they probably should have found a reviewer who likes the album?

Idk didn’t read it lol

Idk didn’t read it lol

pvmic

The relentless bombardment of ads on Pfork is starting to piss me off in a big way.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/6392c96728189ae7dc5aa060e19ce0add8bcbd5c50d13080251056cb6b5666c6.jpg

Erm . . . I do. Pitchfork's ads aren't affected by it.

The current one is a huge banner for their ongoing Paris festival which takes up the whole of the screen, pushing whatever review I clicked on down to the bottom of the page.

Another one is their ad for their Sunday Review, which comes up on the screen 10 seconds after you have clicked onto a new page, every single time, no matter what.

It's fucking infuriating.

Yeah, I got that Paris banner too. Just add pitchfork.com##.livestream-crown to the filter list of your adblocker and you'll never see the damn thing again.

In Ublock Origin I don't get the Sunday Review ad (or any other ads on Pitchfork), so you might need to update your filter lists and/or extension.

I'll give that a go, thanks.

you just know that livestream is on every page so they can say it was watched by however many people

if they've always been so woke, they should have reviewed it already. absolute bullshit.

(by the way, i bought that album on vinyl on its release date and have been living in constant disappointment ever since. such an overrated, sunstance-free pile of trash.)

they were decidedly not woke in 2000 when that album came out

and they definitely are now, going by dead prez let's get free standards.

and all it took was getting purchased by Conde Nast

anybody remember the stupid fake censoring of the dead prez album cover?

Dead Prez is fun!

i've listened to a lot of their music. even enjoyed some of it, perhaps surprisingly. i've had a lot of thoughts and feelings about it over the years.

but never, ever, not even once, has the adjective "fun" ever crossed my mind in all of that.

I went to school with some redneck crackers
around the time Third Bass dropped the Cactus Album

shit goes!

C'mon, "Mind Sex" is a fun song, admit it, Austin.

i first heard that song when i was nineteen. even then, i remember thinking, "this is one of the corniest things i've ever heard."

beat was nice though.

this shitty boyz record is great

lol dude wants to stretch for some blue collar Buffalo content and doesn't know there's a fancy hotel chain Loews Hotels

"It’s a sentiment Gunn circles back to often on Hermes 7 with crass lines like, “First nigga in my city with a Rolls/Fuck two bad bitches at the Lowe’s,” injecting a conventional rap boast with some of his hometown’s blue-collar attitude."

lol, though that reminds me of a discarded thread idea I had for luxury brands you only know about from rappers

Never heard of the hotel chain, but I would've thought about the theater chain before the home improvement store.

Thank you for coming to Loew's
Sit back and relax
Enjoy the show!

I prefer the critic's version of that line

xp My wife and I used to have a joke about that jingle — I would sing it when we first met, and she refused to believe it existed (I guess the theater chain was never in California). Then eventually YouTube uploads came around, and I was able to triumphantly prove it.

(by the way, i bought that album on vinyl on its release date and have been living in constant disappointment ever since. such an overrated, sunstance-free pile of trash.)

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:08 (one week ago) link

Bizarre post

thanks; it's what i do.

when sony bought loews the jingle got rebranded in the most awkward way

big news

https://pitchfork.com/news/real-estate-unveil-signature-wine/

Real Estate have unveiled a signature red wine blend. Produced in collaboration with Sonoma Valley’s Echo Echo Wine Company, “Reality Estates” is a blend of malbec, petit verdot, and cabernet sauvignon. According to the winery, the blend is “hand crafted to reflect Real Estate’s love of intense and nuanced flavors while complementing the sanguine feel of their music.” The product description also says the wine contains “aromas of blackberries and dark cherries in tune with black pepper, plus flavors of Satsuma plum, dark chocolate, with medium body and light, silky tannins.” Preview the bottles below.

yes but are Echo Echo Wine selling real estate?

Ivers composed “In Heaven” for David Lynch’s debut film Eraserhead, hosted the public access variety show New Wave Theatre, and recorded numerous demo cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes, leaving a mess of pop oddities at the time of his still-unsolved murder in 1983. On Becoming Peter Ivers, RVNG Intl. presents a collection of his bizarre and beautiful recordings, some of which have never before seen the light of day. It is an embarrassment of riches that crowns Ivers as the weirdo king of bedroom pop, decades before the genre existed.

*sigh*. Emitt Rhodes' first home studio recordings: 1970, McCartney's home recorded solo debut: 1969, Cleaners from Venus' first home recordings: 1982, etc etc

I'm sure there's others - Gary Wilson (1977)?

DECADES!

(also, Pete Townshend's demos starting around 1966-67)

could arguably call the Beach Boys' home studio recordings from the late 60s the real ground zero (Smiley Smile, for ex.)