They should add comments back in
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
Why don’t I get a direct voice on the review
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
bring back the pfork mailbag!!!!!!
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
Hire me to answer your mail, pitchforkYou COWARDS!!!
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
I wish Chris Ott were alive to see this
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
lol now Pitchfork seems to be down, they couldn't handle the traffic from enraged Interpol stans
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
nevermind, one can only dream
I can't precisely describe what is so off-putting about this revisionism... it's like they already made a move to bend the arc of an artist's career upon the release of an album, now they've invited themselves back into the narrative and it feels (to me) to be unwanted and/or unnecessary. Like "we already dealt with your website once, now you're back at our door(s) again?" Retrospectively raising the score of an album doesn't feel like a correction so much as it reminds us of a slight already inflicted. Saying "the Pitchfork staff was wrong about Liz Phair s/t" doesn't undo the shittiness of the original act, and changing the number (in theory only, even!) seems to only re-open the wound. Retrospectively lowering the score of an album just feels petty.
An album I made in 2014 got a 3-star review from Michael Hann in the Guardian, and Alexis Petridis revised it to 4-stars on year's end. I hated the feeling. It didn't feel vindicating to see it happen, it just made me feel like "the effects of Hann's original indifference are still being lived", and "this seems to highlight the arbitrariness of the review process more than it highlights the quality of my work", and "I feel gross that I'm having to spend even MORE time interacting with the psychological effects of work-being-reviewed a second time around"
― kermit the grouch (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
gotta admit the first sentence of the first blurb -
Rilo Kiley’s Take Offs and Landings is now seen as an undeniable classic, but our review—which was written as a screenplay
- caught me off guard and got a loud laugh out of me. dont remember that review but such a perfect example of weird old pfork, i love it.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
"this seems to highlight the arbitrariness of the review process more than it highlights the quality of my work
This gets at it for me
(not that I'm an artist)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
I've been mad about these Run-DMC ratings for 16 years, fix them!
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11816-run-dmc-king-of-rock-raising-hell-tougher-than-leather/
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 5, 2021 11:00 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
what the fuck!
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
jesus what assholes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
pretty sure Breihan might think differently now
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
That's a really honest, and accurate, review. Run-DMC were a great singles act. Their albums are all at least 50% filler.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
yeah the opinions are defensible (and I agree about Raising Hell). That's good writing for Pitchfork in 2005
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
i'm talking about the way it shits on their legacy and importance, the bow wow line was completely egregious
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
none of y'all deserve larry smith production
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
Miss me with that, unperson and Soto
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
"honesty" = "someone being wrong but with confidence"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
a lonely word too
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
I like Back From Hell and Down With the King
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
it's also easier to be a harsh and ahistorical critic than a good one
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
everyone is so untrue
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
they downgraded interpol, nice
the downgrade made a connection between the interpol singer and ian curtis' voice, and that is very bad. it is perhaps my biggest musical writing pet peeve, and i don't even like interpol, i swear. i just cannot fathom a universe in which music writers repeatedly make that connection. interpol singer is not within 1 trillion miles of ian curtis in any way or form, not even superficially
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
i have been listening to stories from the city/sea obsessively the last few weeks so i wholeheartedly agree with the upgrade
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
I'd be more peeved if we'd pulled the site's frat boy attitude toward queer artists at its inception.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
a harsh and ahistorical critic
Those Run-DMC reviews are definitely harsh, but they seem pretty cognizant of rap history as it stood in 2005.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
The recent ones that come to mind where I think they were way off:
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it6.5 -> 8.7
Kanye West - Jesus is King7.2 -> 4.2
Also would be nice if they had reviewed Paramore, Taylor Swift, et al. pre-2017 but I appreciate that they're working to rectify some of those gaps.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
A little disappointed there wasn't at least one "Middling Sub-Best New Music Score" -> "Not Even a Passing Grade" shift.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
the funny thing about this whole monday morning quarterbacking effort is that they seem to think that *now* they've reached full enlightenment and aren't a product of their times just as much as those old reviews were a product of their times, that future generations will look at say, Turnstile's Glow On, and feel like yes Pitchfork was right this is an enduring and influential masterpiece
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Just wait for the next Pitchfork Anniversary retrospective where they reconsider the Best New Music handed to Wiki's Half God.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
i would support a constant churn of revising all their ratings on a weekly basis dependent on twitter mentions, sociological change, clickthrough, astrological charts, reverse alphabetical order and blood type of original reviewer
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
all universal donors get a 1.6+ hike
all ratings should be contained within magic eye images
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
you really want to know how that new Low scores? well, cross your eyes a little and just zone out...
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
One of my only superpowers is being able to see Magic Eyes instantly. And no, my eyes are not permanently crossed.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
what will be the first record to get a second revision? and will it be low>high>low, low>high>higher, high>low>high?
"It was cool to like Prince in 2021, and this was arguably not the case in 2004. Now that it's 2025 and we know more about his sexual proclivities, Musicology cannot in good conscience be higher than a 5.4"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
and so the new editor-of-chief was chosen not by a vote, but by universal recognition of the chosen pair. chosen pair of eyes.
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
good money to be made with a social media scanning algorithm that can fix all these automatically on a minute by minute basis
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Thread:
While I'm here, when I started at Pitchfork, you had to write 50 reviews *gratis* before you started getting paid (won't even tell you the number of bounced checks I collected). Workload was 2x 800 word reviews weekly, hence all the crazy long intro graphs in those old reviews.— βετα (@betaworldpeace) October 5, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
The Grimes downgrade makes me think her next album has to be outstanding or she has to take a long hiatus or she’ll get ravaged by critics.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
thing is, that new album really did suck badly (imo) she could just put some good music out, it would probably help her case!
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
last year's album was fine.
Welcome to realiti.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
Oh well if anything goes wrong she can continue doing 6M NFT scams.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
thing is, that new album really did suck badly (imo)
I disagree, I think it was really strong and still sounds good, and the scramble to downgrade it 1.5 years later (because the "narrative doesn't cohere" or w/e) is laughable, but that's lyfe I guess
― juristic person (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
Welcome to New Jerzi
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
oh, i remember! i think it was well liked here. just saying, to at least one set of ears it really was pretty bad. her descent into being a really, really shitty person in the last couple years probably did contribute though, i can see what you mean
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
While they’re at this revisionism might as well get Ignition remix out of their top 20 songs of the 2000s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
but i think i'm just a sucker for more low frequency synths that are less harsh paired with reverbed out vocals being delayed to infinity. it's a trick and easy to do but i like it. by contrast her new music seems designed to reflect the awful future she's actively trying to create
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
I agree with KM, not a fan of the contrived concept, the obnoxious lyrics and specially the sound of it. I could ignore it all if it sounded good but it’s super harsh sounding to my ears.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link