pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

youd just give out half-chubs all the time

hate to break it to you but Penthouse already used the "boner system" for their movie ratings back in the 70s

youd just give out half-chubs all the time

― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Monday, November 30, 2009 3:46 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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deej it saddens me that you think there's not a single contemporary artist that gets my fanboy dick fully erect

DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Thread for Autumn 2009

some dude and deej, honest question.

Pick one: who is your favorite artist of all time who is still releasing records that you care about?

sonic youth

good answer

Neil Young

dj quik. hopefully sade.

Ghostface

Ghostface is my #2 after the Melvins fwiw

Pick one: who is your favorite artist of all time who is still releasing records that you care about?

from the 2009 readers' poll:

Trend You Wish Would Go Away:

* Afropop indie (Dirty Projectors, Fool's Gold, Abe Vigoda)

abe vigoda? i've only heard the new ep and seen them live but i really don't see the 'afropop' connection

also wikipedia says that they're a 'tropical punk' band.. am i missing something? are their earlier releases more world-music inspired?

that is what they referred to themselves as around the time of their first record iirc

yeah they use to sound like 'tropical punk' and now they sound like 'shitty post-punk.' neither versions of the band are really any good tbh.

haha

crits of afropop indie are mainly people informing others that they heard african music before any indie motherfuckers did

i'm sad to hear that pitchfork readers wish dirty projectors would go away :'(

I'm sad that p4k failed to list the Jesus Lizard under the best reunion and best live show categories. Mind-boggling.

Seriously. I knew it would be the Jesus Lizard before I even got there, but they were missing!

I haven't thought about my year-end favorite albums as a formal "list" yet, so completed the Pfork best albums section off the top of my head in about 3 minutes. Ended up going with The-Dream, Fever Ray, The Juan Maclean, Rihanna and Fuck Buttons -- in that order.

Was v. glad to see The-Dream under most underrated album category, btw!

i tried to fill out the readers' poll for the hell of it last year and the options were so limited that basically half the questions were impossible to answer unless Pitchfork is your only place to learn about music

I do like how they admit their own indie rock-centric bias in the poll, to the tune of --

Most Overrated Album: (insert a bunch of boring as fuck white bands with guitars)

Most Underrated Album: (insert a decent selection of comparatively diverse music)

abe vigoda are awesome, also they're pretty influenced guitar-sound wise by king sunny ade, and they were al obsessed with the konono #1 album for a while.

[and, okay, i need to change my ilx name!]

you can keep it (-;

Haha, it sounds like I would like Abe Vigoda by Stevie's discription, but I hate their name too much to try.

i find it's a good name! although i am young and didn't know who abe vigoda was at the time i found out about the band. it sounds like a weird alien camel or something.

i'd probably like the band more if they made weird alien camel music tbh

It just sounds like a dippy pop punk band name to me. I would listen to your favorite alien camel group.

You guys do realize it's named after this guy, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_vigoda

Yeah. And that's the sort of thing I'd expect from a dippy pop punk band.

seriously, skeleton was my favourite album of last year that wasn't recorded by erykah badu

^^^^there is no higher praise

You ilxors and your discretionary spending. I'll put it on my five mile long list.

we've done this on the rihanna thread, but the pfork review of her new album is completely dumb and mildly offensive. a pity, as it's brought out some really good writing elsewhere.

I know it was 5 years ago but

Santa Claus, the Virgin Mary, and Terrence "Turkeytime" Terrence just got the shaft this holiday season. Why bother with presents? 2005's Tickle Me Elmo was supposed to be a chicken-legged Sri Lankan with so much sex in her self-spun neons you might as well get wasted off penicillin with Willie Nelson at a secret Rex the Dog show

still makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

I haven't seen how this one is being presented by the label, but I imagine "Heartbeat Song" will inspire copy like "The Futureheads bring The Chaos back for their new album," an acknowledgment that the pursuit of maturity over their last two LPs came at the expense of everything that made their debut so exciting. But no amount of spin will make any of it true, at least here

this is a weird lede considering that Nui is a label that the futureheads created to release their records -- it's a bit weird to write as if there's a total separate press arm working independent of the band?

Enjoyed Pfork's Spiritualized review this morning, and glad they had the balls to give it the 10.0 it deserves. A bone to pick, though: the review is written as if the ~$190.00 collector's edition is the only new, remastered version available. It's not. The album is also available as a stand-alone rerelease, and as a 3xCD set without the twelve 3" pill-style CDs. Both are much more affordable; if you care about the bonus material, but not Jason Pierce's autograph and/or the individual CDs that are impossible to play in standard CD players anyway, then the middle option is the best choice.

but the pillbox is cool

Agreed, yes. But I'd rather have an extra $100 in my pocket...

I 'unno what a 'standard CD player' is but even the shittest ones I encounter can generally handle 3" CDs

macbook is the new standard

I 'unno what a 'standard CD player' is but even the shittest ones I encounter can generally handle 3" CDs

― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

that's what she said

I 'unno what a 'standard CD player' is

Maybe "standard" is poor word choice. I meant they won't fit in things with CD drives -- car CD player, laptop, etc.

Plus I'd rather enjoy the album in one sitting, including the seamless transitions between songs on this record (right?), than be forced to switch tiny CDs in and out every 5-8 minutes. I mean, fuck.