"regulate" is the best song of the 90s
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:52 (four months ago) link
from the semafor article:
Still, Condé’s messy move may create its own opportunities. The furor over Pitchfork’s public decline prompted interested buyers to approach the publisher, according to two people familiar with the situation.
gonna get bought by Paste
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
xxp there's definitely a case for it
the truth of casual music listening is that if you're only halfway paying attention, you associate songs with the time in your life when you first heard them or listened to them, not with a decade. my guess was that the partygoer who did the Warren G chronological flub first heard the song the most in the early 00s while in college, hanging out with friends who would play music that they knew along with new stuff, and it all blended together into an amorphous "music from college, which was the 2000s" blob
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:58 (four months ago) link
The G-Funk Era never ended
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:04 (four months ago) link
"Regulate""Jeremy""Longview" (or any of the other singles from "Dookie")"Rhythm is a Dancer""I Like to Move It"
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:11 (four months ago) link
shit,"Rhythm of the Night"
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:12 (four months ago) link
Twin Peaks themeProtect Your NeckTorn
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:13 (four months ago) link
Shook Ones but you shock everyone by choosing Part I
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:16 (four months ago) link
Chief Keef, born in 1995
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:21 (four months ago) link
I don't like
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:23 (four months ago) link
Lightning CrashesNookie Send Me On My Way
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:52 (four months ago) link
lol Keyes
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:55 (four months ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, February 5, 2024 3:16 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol a+ joke for those who speak the dunn language
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:57 (four months ago) link
“All-Star”“Semi-Charmed Life”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 5 February 2024 23:29 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKncMmq5uNw
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:14 (four months ago) link
My serious answer is Crystal Waters, unfortunate title but prob the best of the decade
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:17 (four months ago) link
Pitchfork’s latter-day list put it at 108, it seems, but among their top 30 house tracks of the decade
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:22 (four months ago) link
Robin S - Show Me LoveThe KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:34 (four months ago) link
XTAL
― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:09 (four months ago) link
Unlike most decades, the 90s had more than one good song.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:09 (four months ago) link
"fake bullshit for clicks"
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, February 5, 2024 1:28 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Calcified doctrinaire conventional wisdom is a way more tedious threat to discourse than “oh no we might upset people by having a different opinion and it generates revenue”
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 05:20 (four months ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gameshows/images/f/f5/Celebrity_Family_Feud_Big_Red_Strike.png
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:58 (four months ago) link
no youre right we should all be on our knees praying in genuflection to religious idols of your interpretation of the Correct History
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:56 (four months ago) link
no youre right "Dancing on My Own" is actually better than "Be My Baby" now because reasons.
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:04 (four months ago) link
this vintage d33j/Whiney beef brought 2 u courtesy of Alka-Seltzer, plop plop fizz fizz
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:26 (four months ago) link
Is "Dancing On My Own" considered a particularly bad song? It's one of Billy Idol's best imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:27 (four months ago) link
I like when he brings Monica from Friends up on stage in the video...
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:30 (four months ago) link
Is that the one that goes, "I'm tired of dancing here all by myself, tonight I wanna dance with someone else"?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:43 (four months ago) link
No it's the one that goes "ohhhh I wanna dance with somebody"
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:06 (four months ago) link
They're sharing a dance they call lonelinessbut it's better than dancing alone
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:11 (four months ago) link
Dancing On My Self-Own
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 21:43 (four months ago) link
Refuse to actually read the fucking thing to give em the clicks, but back to covering Kanye I see.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 05:35 (three months ago) link
Damn they actually did a review
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 06:40 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see him pop up as a news item or whatever, but didn’t expect to see a lead review (for whatever “lead review” means in 2024 as opposed to 2008 or w/e). Was hoping that level of actual engagement with his music had passed.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 06:47 (three months ago) link
It’s actually a pretty thoughtful (if somewhat dry) review of an album I’ll never listen to.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 February 2024 11:52 (three months ago) link
i've only heard a few tracks and the review is if anything far too kind to those
― ufo, Thursday, 15 February 2024 12:00 (three months ago) link
scrolling the Sunday review, and I'm getting a pop-up ad for The Pitchfork Review podcast, which hasn't put out any episodes since both of its co-hosts were laid off last month
― jaymc, Sunday, 18 February 2024 05:19 (three months ago) link
Eerie.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:29 (three months ago) link
Looks like they finally updated the masthead, though not anyone's titles; the highest position is deputy managing editor.
― jaymc, Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:26 (three months ago) link
The reviews section seems like business as usual. But if you just read the news items it looks like Jazz Monroe and Matthew Strauss are the only people left working.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:13 (three months ago) link
Beyonce fans now harassing N@dine Sm!th because the genre in the review is listed as "pop/r&b" and they're saying she should have changed it to country, even though she's explained that is apparently not possible w/ the way Pitchfork is set up to assign a solitary genre to an artist in the database
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 02:29 (three months ago) link
That seems dumb and short-sighted on the site’s part
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 02:35 (three months ago) link
Stans are weird about genre. Taylor Swift fans harassed the New York Times over Jon Caramanica's review of Folklore because he is, according to his bio, the paper's pop music critic and was therefore biased against an "indie/alternative" album.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 02:59 (three months ago) link
Maybe Beyoncé’ and Taylor just have unusually unhinged fans
― beamish13, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link
the idea of Swift being considered an “indie/alternative” artist is more a testament to the uselessness of genre in the current era.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:31 (three months ago) link
It’s funny that they likely tagged her that way because they started covering her circa Reputation, so even their retroactive reviews of albums like her ST carry that tag.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:41 (three months ago) link
(And yeah, I don’t understand why a genre tag has to be tied to an artist, rather assigned to each review individually)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:42 (three months ago) link
I think it was because Apple Music categorized Folklore that way? It's just a weird way to think about how genre works, as though she was doing something so radically opposed to what she'd done before that it would require special expertise to analyze, rather than just using a slightly different set of sonic signifiers.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:45 (three months ago) link
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Monday, February 19, 2024 9:41 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
If you're talking about Pitchfork, it tags Swift "Pop/R&B." FWIW, I think these are the only genre tags that exist:
-Electronic-Experimental-Folk/Country-Global-Jazz-Metal-Pop/R&B-Rap-Rock
But some artists get multiple tags. For instance, Carrie Underwood is both Folk/Country and Pop/R&B. So is Anais Mitchell.
So I guess it would make sense to use that double label for both Swift and Beyonce, too.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:56 (three months ago) link