pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

The Germs write-up is good, but doesn’t everyone buy MIA rather than GI on its own?

Is either version still in print? Neither is on Spotify.

GI, at least, is on Spotify for me. (Possibly not particularly useful information, but hey...)

All I see are a couple of live albums

Yeah, in the US there are four Germs records on Spotify:

Media Blitz (compilation, mostly live)
I F*#ed Your Mom - Live '78/'79
Cat's Clause (Live)
Live at the Starwood Dec. 3, 1980

This is disturbing news

Looks like everything is out of print again. The cheapest MIA CD available on Amazon appears to be $42.61 and one offer for GI on CD for $99.

this is a hilarious statement

People have more or less collectively agreed that rendering women as pure sex objects in music doesn’t need to happen so much anymore.

you didn't get the memo?

there was a meeting

finally, some good news

pour a little out for rap music

just how bad does a kanye album have to be to get properly panned

He collaborates with Greta Van Fleet?

That review reads more like a 5.2, or even a 4.2, than a 7.2. I wonder if the reviewer's verdict was nobbled by higher-ups?

actually, missed the bit where she praises the production job. But it's still never a 7.2 review in a million years.

Lol these fucking clowns

Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album, a richly produced but largely flawed record about one man’s love of the Lord (and himself).

A 7.2 should be impossible with a lede like that.

i tell you the truth, it is hard for a richly produced album to enter best new music.

it's called "much more focused" than "ye", which I see got 7.1. Continuity!

The review of ye is pretty funny. It's extremely harsh, but still ends up at 7,1...

Going by their non-stop flow of headlines about his ever move, Kanye probably generates a good 40% of their traffic to they aren't going to nip that brand.

yeah didn't you guys see the user poll

don't bite the hand

were people writing like that about neal sedaka or frankie valli?

Greil Marcus' intro to the reprint of The Aesthetics of Rock talked about how the book was heretical (to whom, I don't know) because it considered Tommy James and the Shondells on the same level that it considered the Beatles or whoever.

― timellison, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 5:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i: to readers of and co-writers at crawdaddy, where the first excerpts of AoR ran. cf its editor paul williams on nearly anything but especially dylan
ii: to ppl who felt an "aesthetics of rock" wd be not dissimilar in social import and therefore fileable alongside to an "aesthetics of jazz" or an "aesthetics of moderrnist art" -- viz the kinds of ppl meltzer hung with in 1966-67 and wanted to ruffle a bit, inc.i imagine some of his chums fluxus-side (were his argument was that rock-and-pop were doing to a LOT of very unprepared people what happenings wd only ever do to a tiny number of fairly prepared* ppl)**

*(samuel r delany is probably the only person who walked into an actual real happening unprepared and wrote down its full sensually deranging effect on him: cf the chapter early on in triton)
**in later years i think an embittered meltzer has retreated a lot from his early super-enthusiastic claims, which is a pity really, bcz run alongside e.g. ian macdonald's not-dissimilar but far more negative worries abt the effects on random cageian stimulation on a generation (viz "revolution number nine"), i think an interesting claim was being made abt purposeless play and mass media

ok the "to" in "alongside to an" s/b between "import" and "and"

I assume you also meant "effects OF random cageian simulation"

cuz I was having trouble parsing that tbh

lol i did yes sorry

LOLing at "Christianity is the unwavering focus of Kanye’s gospel album"

appears to have misspelled "publicity" there

As though KW has an "unwavering focus" on anything besides the nearest mirror.

ahhaha 7.2 such a cop out

even RYM hates this album

I respect the challop tbh, the resistance to the critical meme as a maneuver. Wish they’d done it on chance’s Album instead but what ya gonna do

I need to scour eBay for a copy of The Aesthetics of Rock now.

xpost if that was the intention they probably should have found a reviewer who likes the album?

Idk didn’t read it lol

Idk didn’t read it lol

pvmic

The relentless bombardment of ads on Pfork is starting to piss me off in a big way.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/6392c96728189ae7dc5aa060e19ce0add8bcbd5c50d13080251056cb6b5666c6.jpg

Erm . . . I do. Pitchfork's ads aren't affected by it.

The current one is a huge banner for their ongoing Paris festival which takes up the whole of the screen, pushing whatever review I clicked on down to the bottom of the page.

Another one is their ad for their Sunday Review, which comes up on the screen 10 seconds after you have clicked onto a new page, every single time, no matter what.

It's fucking infuriating.

Yeah, I got that Paris banner too. Just add pitchfork.com##.livestream-crown to the filter list of your adblocker and you'll never see the damn thing again.

In Ublock Origin I don't get the Sunday Review ad (or any other ads on Pitchfork), so you might need to update your filter lists and/or extension.

I'll give that a go, thanks.

you just know that livestream is on every page so they can say it was watched by however many people

if they've always been so woke, they should have reviewed it already. absolute bullshit.

(by the way, i bought that album on vinyl on its release date and have been living in constant disappointment ever since. such an overrated, sunstance-free pile of trash.)

they were decidedly not woke in 2000 when that album came out

and they definitely are now, going by dead prez let's get free standards.

and all it took was getting purchased by Conde Nast

anybody remember the stupid fake censoring of the dead prez album cover?

Dead Prez is fun!