like both of those songs a lot, but i guess i'm pretty young
― een, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q77Zu75JtYthey should have hyped this as the next "paper planes"
― owl city's cover of "such great heights" (Tape Store), Thursday, 5 November 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
belated zing
but i'm now listening to dashboard confessional so it's all good
― goodbye indie, hello trendy. (Tape Store), Thursday, 5 November 2009 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I really hate that band name but I just listened to Johanna by Think About Life and it's pretty decent so I must apologize for my previous diss on them.
Wont be sold on the Sleigh Bells tho, I dont really care how or artsy or ironic it's supposed to be. Sounds annoying to my ears to me regardless of the 'immensely interesting' statement they're trying to push on.
― Moka, Friday, 6 November 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
did you listen to the one i posted above?
― goodbye indie, hello trendy. (Tape Store), Friday, 6 November 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. It still sounds like shit to me. I really hate that blown speakers aesthetic style. Can't really tell if I'd be more interested in the song buried underneath if they fixed the treble, i find somewhat annoying that those twee vocals never really quiet down and allow the other elements to breathe (if they could) except in the intro and the finale. I don't know, I could see some sort of people excited about this sort of sounds but it's really not my thing.
― Moka, Friday, 6 November 2009 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, Gucci's line about how his little boy one but his shoes 400 isn't that thematically far from "My Girls".
I don't know much about Gucci Mayne, but I'm having problems parsing this sentence.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 6 November 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"i just want adobe slabs for my girls" = "my little boy one but his shoes 400" (as in $4000 dollars, as in both just want to provide for their families)
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
er $400 dollars, obv
perhaps there's additional context that supports your analysis but, on its own, it looks like Gucci is bragging about how much money he can waste on baby shoes, not saying that he just wants to support his family
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even know what the context of the original statement is but it's a pretty easy connection to draw at a baseline just from the one excerpt that kingkong c+p'd in here
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not saying it's not tenuous at best, but that is what whoever wrote that sentence is saying
yeah I thought that was a c/p from upthread and you were fleshing out yr own argument, oops
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
okay
what is that from though anyway?
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/37038-mia-working-on-gucci-mane-meets-animal-collective-album
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 6 November 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i would smh @ tom but he's just bravely trying to make sense of some diplo bullshit soundbyte
― lindsay goham (some dude), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
obviously any "has gucci caught on with the hipsters yet?" convos can get sewed up now
the most dismaying thing in that story is the mention of the Major Lazer Adult Swim show
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I had trouble parsing this sentence, too, but it had more to do with not recognizing the dropped "is" and "are" at first.
― jaymc, Friday, 6 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, that's funny cuz our blog used to get a lot of hits from a hollerboard gucci mane thread but mostly it was just emynd defending him & the rest of them hating him
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
although i am interested in how one would even sound like gucci mane - he doesn't have a sound per se unless tons of new m.i.a. tracks are going to be at-points indecipherable - maybe he means animal collective +fatboi
― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of her tracks already ARE at-points indecipherable! I had no idea what she was saying at the beginning of "Jimmy" for about a year.
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yah ayers & co basically said they didnt think he could rap way back when ....
― heart goin ham (deej), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i think MIA and gucci have always been pretty much equal on the enuncuation/indecipherability scale
haha xpost
― lindsay goham (some dude), Friday, 6 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the writer should have put Mayne's quote in quotation marks too.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 7 November 2009 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
there is no y in his name
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
kenni mane
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 7 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yung joc feat. kenni mane - "YAHTZEE"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Before Chris Brown forced her into one of the most public celebrity domestic-abuse dramas since Ike and Tina, Rihanna's defining vocal trait was always how completely in control she sounded.
gratuitous and pointless lead-in alert!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
not if they're arguing that her "defining vocal trait" changed post-chris brown
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that is not what happens tho
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yes but just look at that s.e.o. bait
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate this kinda crap in the second sentence
The group's first full-length offering this year, Help, is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time. If the group rolled their joints on the sleeve of a first-edition copy of Black Monk Time, and took slugs of moonshine from the 13th Floor Elevators' electric jug (unplugged, of course), it wouldn't come as a surprise.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The group's first full-length offering this year, Help - not to be confused with the Beatles album put back into the limelight by the video game Rock Band, which vies with Singstar and Guitar Hero for domination of the crucial XBox 360, Playstation and Wii markets - is the apotheosis of what Thee Oh Sees can do as a rock group-- namely, kick out jams that pack a thick and brutal punch while offering a softer, poppier, and not-so-mildly psychedelic side at the same time.
Fixed
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha, A+
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
do people actually read album reviews
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
just the bands, I think
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
pitchfork seems to have this knack for pairing up the style of the writer and the style of the music. i appreciate it. whenever i start reading a review and the writing is off on some tangent or stretching waaaaay too far to create a simile, the music seems to have indescribably similar problems. \
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
If Rock Critic Fatigue exists, the kind of music Best Coast make is what most tired us out in 2009. So insert your cleverest lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave amalgamation here because quite frankly, I'm exhausted.
this is a tad rich coming from the guy who penned just about ever lo-fi/beach-pop/chillwave track review for pfork this summer
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
dope song tho
it's good but "the sun was high (so was i)" is a lot lot better
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahah this Animal Collective review, man
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
can't decide between the "dude, all their stuff sounds different, that makes them good"/totally off the mark AC vs. Grateful Dead == indie band vs. jam band thing/quoting Rakim for some reason even though the logic doesn't match
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ok it's Rakim
― balearific, Monday, 23 November 2009 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
when a writer quotes a musician that has nothing to do with the song/album in the last line of a review i think it's pretty much a dead giveaway that they didn't know how to end the piece/spent a lot of time working on it and decided to give up at the end out of frustration
― Mr. Yah (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"Whoa, I walk" is deliberately misheard as "What would I want?" I mention it because it's what this band has always done for me: take a sound and turn it inside out to make something new, but something recognizable, even familiar. I'm reminded of the words of the ever-wise Rakim: "Spread the word, 'cause I'm in E-F-F-E-C-T A smooth operator operating correctly."
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought he was talking about being reminded of indie rock band The Words of the Ever-Wise Rakim
― I got gin but I'm not a ginger (bernard snowy), Monday, 23 November 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"There's something here that reminds me of yoga, or of the 1990s, but I can't put my finger on it-- whatever it is, it's appropriate coming from a group that has, through no specific positioning of their own, become the jamband for people who profess to dislike jambands."
Do the 1990s and Yoga have some significance in relation to jambands?
― Evan, Monday, 23 November 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
seems like the rakim line got post-last minute cut out.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link