Stars are Blind does hold up tho.
― triggercut, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Was that an album that was beloved on this site upon it's release or mocked? Sometimes I can never quite tell how strong the forces of poptimism are. Especially when I still remember AllMusic's infamous 4.5/5 rating for it.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
This was released slightly pre-poptimism iirc. If it was released today by whoever her modern equivalent is it'd be a BNM and we'd be hearing her "break down" every song on the album and learning about her favorite IPAs
Agree Stars Are Blind is dope in that "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" kinda way
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
PARIS HILTON - PARIS
― rob, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
had forgotten about all her racist shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
review is really weird, sort of like....why do this?especially when you're giving it a 5.2 and not even making the case that it's worthwhileesp in the current climate I don't really find a rich kid's vapid bullshit real interesting right about now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UYjQD1l.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, totally weird thing to review... a vinyl reissue of a nothing album (and not even in the Sunday “retrospective” slot)? Feels like the writer maybe convinced the editors to let him do it, as a “pet project” or something. It’s not a badly written piece, but major points off for deploying this idiom:
It is quite tempting to shit on Paris at a time when...
― morrisp, Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
I recall giving it a pretty positive review upon release, not sure what side of history that puts me on
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
“Drunk Text” was good.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 April 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:29 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
no its not ... how are you posting on ilx and not knowing when poptimism is ... this album was a full on thelex moment
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 5 April 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
‘stars are blind’ is my gf’s alarm clock on her phone
― flopson, Sunday, 5 April 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
yeah I think there's a thread where ppl were really into the Paris album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
I guess in a way she was a pioneer of all these vapid assholes, YouTubers and everything
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
The thread is posted up a ways. Lex’s defining moment imo. Also horrifying.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
So... I can never keep track of people's usernames. Is this a post from the same person who reviewed the reissue?
She couldn't have less to say if she were plantlife. This album is beyond garbage. Case in point: "she opens the album with a little yelp of "yah! that's hott!"Oh, that's been mentioned.― Richj (Rich), Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:18 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Richj (Rich), Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:18 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
^If so, he should have led off the review with his old post; would have been funny.
― morrisp, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I think that Lex thread is what led me to ILX back in the day. Sort of similar to people falling into the alt-right:
Step 1: LOL I found a message board where people think the Paris Hilton album is great
Step 2: I'm listening to this Ashlee Simpson album ironically.
Step 3: Buys Big & Rich CD
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
lol big and rich omg
― brimstead, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
I kinda associate this time period with people ‘praising’/laughing at “this is why I’m hot”
― brimstead, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
First you ignore Big and Rich, then you laugh at Big and Rich, then you fight Big and Rich, then they win
― Vinnie, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Most 2020 title, kind of:
https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Came here to post that. I think the only word in that headline that doesnt trigger me is “in”.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Baths Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen
weird way to spell "The Beths"
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link
my sad terrible superpower is usually being able to predict Pfork scores for marquee releases within about .2 of a point just based on the surrounding narrative/buzz.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:19 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
I can always guess the general score range by reading the blurbs.
― Ainsley James Gryffyd Lowbeer Holdsworth (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 April 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
Most 2020 title, kind of:https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/
That's a Yahoo Serious Festival headline if ever I've seen one.
― triggercut, Thursday, 9 April 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
Sodomsky's one of their best writers.The dude writes really well about Phish — cf. the review that’s currently up, and especially this previous one (a pan by a fan of a band, which is great kind of review to read).
― morrisp, Friday, 10 April 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
His Strokes review today is good, too... Sam S. writes measured, thoughtful negative reviews; he really gets into diagnosing what doesn’t work and how it could have been better.
― morrisp, Friday, 10 April 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
Watch These Nature Webcams While Listening to These Albums
Pictured: a bird feeder in someone's backyard, Mastodon album
It's like a step or two away from a legit Clickhole post.
― Evan, Monday, 13 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
Annual Flowers emerges from its chrysalis a wounded, staggeringly beautiful statement that feels like a new high point in his career.
...What may have begun as demos and sketches in 2011, and an overlooked highlight in 2016, has aged to perfection in 2020.
7.9
i know, i know. it's just funny
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
lol yeah that webcam thing killed me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
If there was no pandemic would they post Best Albums To Soundtrack 10-Hour Train Journey YouTube Videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiN7gOcNI4
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 13 April 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
How many times will the phrase “recorded while in quarantine” appear in pitchfork over the next year or two?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 13 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters/
holy shit
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
When's the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue?
― enochroot, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
a decade ago, I think. I don't keep track of such things.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Kanye West maybe?
― Evan, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
it's a great record more deserving than most but them leaning into the 'perfect' score thing feels a lil off
Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters—named Best New Music—is a perfect album https://t.co/IFQSikfarH— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) April 17, 2020
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Kanye West was the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue/retrospective.
The last time before that might have been Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in April 2002.
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
and a hair before that, Source Tags and Codes. different times.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Source Tags and Codes still bangs, I'd say it's 2/3 years away from a hugely positive reappraisal.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
9.9 a more appropriate score for this Fiona album. It's so good.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
yeah i think i resent something this special being used for brand building (completely separate to the content of the review)
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
Source Tags and Codes is so great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Inevitable, though.
xpost
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
haven't listened yet but i am skeptical that "No music has ever sounded quite like [this new fiona apple album]" as repeated multiple times on the front page, review intro, and review proper
― na (NA), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
silly to fixate on that phrase i know but it's bad bc you can either take it literally and it's wrong, or figuratively and it's meaningless
― na (NA), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
9.9 repeating
― geoffreyess, Friday, 17 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
my silly prediction is that this will happen again this year
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
no music has ever sounded quite like the new weezer album
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link