Realized I can’t think of a single album from the past 25 yrs to which I would assign a 10.0 (which I take to mean, “This album is so perfectly realized and historically significant that no other rating would make sense, and identifying any ‘flaws’ would feel utterly superfluous”)... guess it’s good I’m not a Pitchfork editor, lol.
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
from the past 25 years?:
midtown 120 bluesaaliyahdiscoverythird
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
it's odd that whenever I've talked about Björk with millennials they've brought up that TV clip
― rob, Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I had never heard of it until now.
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
voodoo
― maura, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
yes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
was gonna offer BLACKsummers'night
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
that too
― maura, Sunday, 8 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
Cuban linx
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
what TV clip?
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
Ready To Die misses by three months
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
Some of the old stuff that’s gotten 10s are “flawed masterpieces” and some of the old stuff gets treated more harshly I don’t totally get it
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
what TV clip?It’s linked in the beginning of the review:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A78yTvIY1k
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
(It’s cute, but I’m not sure why it’s worth spending the first two paragraphs of the review on...)
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
Pivot to video
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
the review wasn't linked tbf
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
That’s why I answered yr question; I assumed you hadn’t seen it.Anyway, does this mean Telegram deserves, what, a 12.0(?) Because the mixes are better, plus it has “My Spine”?
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Sunday, 8 March 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
lemonade
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 9 March 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
The review concedes that Post is, at best, Bjork's third-best album:
She would soon leave London for the south of Spain and then New York, recording her two towering masterpieces—1997’s Homogenic, which Missy Elliott once gleefully likened to “Mozart at a rap show,” and the introverted microbeats of 2001’s Vespertine
― enochroot, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Post > Homogenic > Vespertine is such a perfect run of albums.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
And I love Debut.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
her two towering masterpieces^I think you can see the superfan revealed thru the critic’s veneer hereFWIW, Homogenic also received a retrospective 10; though Vespertine, which was reviewed upon release, got a 7.2
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
So this is it. The great follow-up to Homogenic we've anticipated since that overcast late-September afternoon in 1997 when we first sat listening to the album for the first time, wondering what she might do next. Somehow, it doesn't seem worth the wait.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
a state of emergency iirc
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
Imagine listening to an album for the very first time, wondering what the artist “might do next”!
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
Uh, I do that all the time
― Frederik B, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Was going to say. Usually it's after the album is over, but still. "Can't wait to hear what this artist does next" can't be that odd of a thing to imagine when listening to something you really enjoy. Especially if it's an artist already known for drastically changing up their sound/approach.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
A brand-new album? “This is good and all, but what else you got coming down the pike?” To each their own, I guess.
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Eh, for me it's more, "I love this, I want to hear more" excitement. Doesn't mean I'm dismissing what I'm currently playing.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
these days an artist isn't going to drop a new album for 3-5 years so it's kind of like speculative fiction
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
'Oh wow, there are so many great ideas on this album, you could build on these ideas for at least two more albums! Can't wait to hear what they thing up next, I need more!!'
― Frederik B, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
I think the answer to this question 75% of the time is "will go disco"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Post and Homegenic are 10s in my book.
― Indexed, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), 9. marts 2020 16:39 (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lol, I've mostly asked this question lately while diving into the metal poll, so this made me laugh
― Frederik B, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
Like I said, to each their own. I can honestly say that within the first album of absorbing a new album, my thoughts have never turned to what the artist's next release would be like... but I see that's not universal. (I still think the framing in the Pfork review is bizarre: wondering about her next album as you sit listening to the one that dropped that day.)
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
weird framing in a pitchfork review from 2001? are you sure?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
morrisp has nitpicks (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
lol, true enuff
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
I think I'm closer to morrisp's perspective here. One listen in is too soon (for me!) to think about what's next, and I would guess a lot of artists wouldn't necessarily dig being asked that question either. (Although certainly many times they've already moved on while waiting for the "current" record to come out.)
Neither's right or wrong, obvs, just an interesting thing to think about.
― alpine static, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
damn Grayson did Code Orange dirty
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
Recorded with Nick Raskulinecz, who has spent 25 years helming consistently middling efforts from the likes of Ghost and Korn,
i mean he also helmed two of the best deftones records. not my favorite producer on earth but c’mon
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
i haven’t heard the code orange yet but this review makes me think i’ll love it lmao
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
it's great!
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
I generally like Grayson's reviews but imo it's a tell when you trot out words like "dated" to dis a record's sound
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
4.5 means I will like it
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
that's bullshit about the producer, click the link to his site, they could have easily said "who's produced everyone from highly acclaimed metal acts Mastodon and Ghost BC to Rush and the Hold Steady
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
also the korn albums he produced were not middling, they were their best efforts in a decade plus, but whatever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
yeah they might be the deftones have been super consistent i know, just felt like a cheap shot because of how korn is perceived now and they could have easily cherrypicked other examples that cast it in a different light but they clearly wanted this "out of touch, out of date nu metal guy" narrative
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Just in case you’re keeping scoreRehashing shitty ‘90s nu-metal: BadRehashing shitty ‘90s emo: Very, very good
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link