the 34,985,859,340,293,849,494th pitchfork post celebration and physical fighting thread
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
Spin in the early 90s was my Bible
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
And the Source, a golden age!
This isn't Pitchfork-specific, but re: their new feature in which musicians name their favorite albums of the past 25 years:
Hamilton LeithauserRoyal Trux’s Accelerator (1998)(...)On Accelerator, they really struck a remarkable balance between structure and chaos. Every single song is good… I would say it is a “no-skipper.”This translated to the live show as well. I’ve seen them more than any other band, and the Accelerator tour show at the Cooler in NYC was undoubtedly the top.(...)
Royal Trux’s Accelerator (1998)
(...)On Accelerator, they really struck a remarkable balance between structure and chaos. Every single song is good… I would say it is a “no-skipper.”
This translated to the live show as well. I’ve seen them more than any other band, and the Accelerator tour show at the Cooler in NYC was undoubtedly the top.(...)
I hadn't heard of Hamilton Leithauser (just looked him up), but thought this was a funny/cool detail. I was at that show, and there are comments on the YouTube vid (that someone uploaded), with others saying that they were there... it was a fairly packed room, but I didn't guess at the time it would be one of those "I was there!" shows, like Woodstock, lol
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
i liked this one by far the best, bun b on ok computer and esp zach hill on the mighty u.s. maple's acre thrills
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
Hamilton Leithauser isn’t really my style but he has some cool music in him.
Kudos for giving Royal Trux the respect they deserve.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 14 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
This feature is good. Someone should poll these selections.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 October 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
Would also be interesting to see how ILXers respond to the prompt
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
ahh right on ham, accelerator rules! that’s cool!
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
Pitchfork readers are dumb too!
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/peoples-list-25th-anniversary/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
If Radiohead doesn't make top ten 200 I'm done with these guys
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
The top 20 is similar to every single “haul” post on vinyl subreddits (aside from older albums of course), and that demographic is younger. So nothing is shocking me here.
― Evan, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
wait why do pfork's archives only go back to 1999?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
to get to the other slide
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
xxp very apt
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
It's kind of like when Rolling Stone did their 25th anniversary but burnt every copy printed between 1967 and 1969
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Friday, 15 October 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I think that the fact that Phoebe fucking Bridgers made it to the top 30 is enough to make me never want to be associated with "pitchfork readers," even in a loose sense, ever again.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
the readers list is a way more accurate reflection of the pitchfork over the years than any of the editorial lists
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 October 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
"Use the filters to see which albums people like you voted for."
its potentially interesting to be able to sort the list by demographic info, but framing it that way creeps me out a little bit
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
MBDTF very popular amongst 25-34 year olds
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
I just adjusted it for my demo, and I wouldn't have voted for a single album listed lol
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
Kind of funny that Madvillain was the most voted for album in Alaska
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
that divvy-up-by-demo thing is... bizarre
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 15 October 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
Kind of funny that Madvillain was the most voted for album in Alaska― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, October 15, 2021 1:51 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, October 15, 2021 1:51 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
for some reason i find this totally plausible.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
when i lived in an isolated rural place, all the "cooler" people listened to a lot of Madvillain and that kind of thing.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
Depression Cherry by Beach House is the #1 choice in Indonesia. Sophie apparently huge in West Virginia.
― Position Position, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
imagine looking at that list and picking out Phoebe Bridgers as the bad thing
― alpine static, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Imagine having 25 years of music to choose from and thinking a Phoebe Bridgers record is among the best.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
Like sorry, that's some cloth-eared bullshit
"45+" is such a drag lmao
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
Anyone older than Schrieber, get on the iceberg
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
It all looks like different combos of the same shit(?)
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
the data is not worth this wealth of filters
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
I think 69 Love Songs is the only album on my ballot that made the list... I thought that was a super-Pitchforky choice, but it came in pretty low (#108).
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
i actually don't think there's that striking a difference between the age groups really, it's all very "pitchfork stuff" to me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
https://www.34st.com/article/2021/10/pitchfork-music-album-reviews-spin-rolling-stone-the-independent-peppa-pig-born-to-die-taylor-swift-folklore
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
re: phoebe bridgers ranking that high, she's huge among young people so it's not surprising at all?
really, if anything, the results are just boring. i love a lot of the records here so i'd feel a little silly (and condescending) criticizing the website's readership, but there aren't many interesting surprises. i was about to say something like "at least it's not as male dominated as the 2012 people's list!" and then I noticed the top 16 are all men
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 15 October 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
oh, there’s another album I voted for (Big Thief)
― juristic person (morrisp), Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
lana & lorde being the highest placing female artists is just proof that p4k's version of "poptimism" or whatever is pretty boring
― ufo, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
was surprised to see voters in Hungary went for Vespertine and Untrue, two of my favorite albums of all time
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
Taylor/Kacey in the top 100 is something that wouldn't have happened a couple of years ago I think?
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Saturday, 16 October 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
why do I have thoughts idk
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Saturday, 16 October 2021 12:40 (two years ago) link
the geographic breakdown is pretty funny. except for hawaii, literally just the same ten records in different orders
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Saturday, 16 October 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
Xpost: I mean you’re pretty much warranted boring results the bigger the sample size.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 October 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
by harnessing the power of big data, we will use analytics to drive decision-making in key sectors
― typo hell 13: crypto in insidious, though (Karl Malone), Saturday, 16 October 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
for all this list's problems, if you compare just the 1996-2011 results of this one to the previous list, this one is a significant improvement
― ufo, Saturday, 16 October 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Really disappointed Pfork’s review of the new live Coltrane set makes no mention of how much drum-n-bass is derived from this music.
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
how many shitcats did they give it?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
lol at calling the very vanilla new charli track 'avant-garde', like there are certainly charli tracks where that's a bit less of a stretch but ... ?
― ufo, Friday, 5 November 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
did they call her "the future of pop" for the 7th year in a row?
― alpine static, Friday, 5 November 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link