kornrulez supports one of my claims that people on here dont' like it for my reason #1, they don't like the bio or how they look. Wimpy is an obnoxious reason to hate a band, but it's still a reason.
Also, the "I loved yellow house" but couldn't motivate to listen to the new one is strange to me. Not sure I follow, if You love an album wouldnt' you want to check out the latest one?Knee jerk reaction to hype/exposure if you ask me. People on here are too self aware.
― Emily's Cheese, Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
how they look.
If the hair's wrong, I am more skeptical, sure.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, less pop garbage than usual this year, huh? good work, kidz.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
how many haven't you heard!?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
tops is Mt Goats at #80!
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
pissed jeans?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
saw em, didn't hear the record (ditto Grizzly Bear & YLT)
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
& godawful Wilco
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
kornrulez supports one of my claims ...they don't like the bio or how they look.
I'm sure their bio is dynamite stuff. And no doubt they're all handsome young lads. But in refute to your presumptuous (some would say bratty) assumption, I'm basing my opinion on how they sound.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm about a week late to this, but re: the relative size of Pfork to other sites/blogs: here are some approximate monthly stats for some of the more well-known sites:
(Audience/Pageviews)---------------------Pitchfork: 1,500,000 / 30,000,000Hypem: 1,300,000 / 12,000,000GVSB: 85,000 / 485,000Fluxblog: 17,000 / 50,00099.9% of remaining blogs: way lower
Stereogum keeps traffic data private, ditto for Brooklyn Vegan, but I estimate those at about:
Stereogum: 1,250,000 / 6,000,000Brooklynvegan: 750,000 / 4,500,000
― Catbird (mbvrc), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Catbird, where'd you get those numbers from?
― ekaloudis, Saturday, 30 January 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/pitchfork-editor-takes-public-forum-defend-its-greatness-i-think-you-underestimate-how-much-bigger-we-are/
wtf
― ksh, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Music critics Chuck Eddy, Christopher Weingarten, Maura Johnson, Scott Seward, Ned Raggett and others offered their assessments of the poll
...I did?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Go nuts.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM
^^
― ksh, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Now the whole internet knows how much Ned loves polls!
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Thrills.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
@ekaloudis, a combination of Quantcast data and cross-referencing/relative size data from other public data sources (Compete, et. al.)
― Catbird (mbvrc), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
P&J parallel: 2009 vs 1990
The-Dream = Guy
Maxwell = Neville Bros
― zvincter (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure what you mean by "parallel". the-dream and max did considerably better in 2009 than those two in 1990, and the Nevilles had a top 5 p'n'j album the year before.
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
just that they filled v similar niches
― zvincter (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess, though the neville brothers were far more of a critics band, with little to no pop/r&b chart action
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Roots-rock-type voters way more likely to go for Nevilles than Maxwell - no comparison at all, as far as I can tell.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody speculated, somewhere, that since the voting instructions for the first time this year didn't spell out the 15-14-13-12-11-9-8-7-6-5 weighting pattern, there would be a lot more unweighted 10-points-each album ballots. This didn't turn out to be the case, but I was waiting for a minor display-bug in the stats software to get fixed before adding the point-pattern breakdown to my list of slices. It's there now, for anybody really interested in numbers:
Point Patterns
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 12 February 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for reading my blog, Scott & Christopher ;-)
― ederblog, Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link