― ian johnsooon, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
- Best New Music: Albums in this category are considered some of the best new music.
- Also Recommended: Albums in this category are recommended, as well.
- Nothing: Albums in this category are albums.
Sorry, that's all the time I have for now. I know it's complicated, though, so if you want to leave questions here, I'll try to answer them as soon as I'm able.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Their moms have advised against it.
― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
- Best New Music: Albums in this category are pushed by labels that bought long-range repeating banner ads on the main page
- Also Recommended: Albums in this category are from friends' bands, and/or friends' labels as well.
- Nothing: Albums in this category are albums that don't offer any financial gain for PF.
-- nabisco (--...), September 28th, 2005 12:24 PM.
ah, that makes it clear as a bell. thanks nabby
:-)
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
well they sure did
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
"If I were rating this collection based on the pure quality of the music it contains, as opposed to a whole bunch of considerations about your time and your money, it'd be up there in the eights"
This is the most distressing thing I've seen you write and I may have to reconsider the nomination for you as president of these United States.
Was the reason for the lower rating edited out? I don't get it.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/e/efterklang/tripper.shtmlhttp://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/h/hukkelberg_hanne/little-things.shtmlhttp://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/afrirampo/kore-ga-mayaku-da.shtmlhttp://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/grizzly-bear/horn-of-plenty.shtml
the list goes on and on, some reach 8.0, and only Vashti gets a 9, but that's not "best new music" now is it?
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm going to watch Sin City and drink Maple syrup.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
MR GOODMAN I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
But since this doesn't matter, keep on w/ your bad self.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost.stng: i'd rather chat about this than why annie chose certain tracks for her DJ kicks album
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
When did anyone profess to caring about this?
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mrgoodman, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
citations, pls.
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
As for the rating, I suggest you guys spend more time thinking it because it's the first thing (and sometimes only thing) people look at. They're like photo captions in news stories.
Also, on the internet, where nobody's worried about the amount of paper being used, more information should be included in reviews (like track titles/credits etc). Please tell Pfork.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
"A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment? I felt embarrassed for him at first, but then, the more I thought about it and the more I heard the record, I was awed."
and then today, making fun of the warlocks by making fun of magic: the gathering cards? i mean, how snobby and inhibited are these people, and how do they remain immune to rock's ability to loosen people up? maybe this isn't the right place for this thought, but still.
― tiny tim, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
sorry to break up the conspiracy theories, but Matthew rated all of those records in the 7s himself, and as far as I know there has never been a BNM record with a grade lower than 8.2/8.3.
Ratings are the grade given by the reviewer and BNM/rec status is chosen by the editors with input from staffers, same way I'd guess Blender or Q decides to choose which records from previous months are featured in sidebars in their reviews sections.
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Same here. I have never agonized over a rating and don't take the decimals seriously at all (they're useful only when you use "X.9" as a way of saying "almost X+1").
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
pure luck?
― dunno, Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Mr. Murphy done done it again!
― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
i see a lot of variety on the bnm page. could it be that once a band gets BNM it gets the perception of being "the same old band," even if that's unwarranted? for example, sfa had actually never been BNM until this album. kinda don't see how the game fits into your theory, either. and i'm sure everyone was REALLY tired of cyhsy before that pitchfork review...
― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ross Godfrey (scatter), Saturday, 1 October 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Kati Llewellyn reports:From Pitchfork's "We Keep Track of Every Move Radiohead Makes" Department:
This morning, you probably went through the "All-Stars or Pumas?" routine, moved on to a 10-minute debate over whether or not shaggy hair really does look best, and finally, sealed the deal with the choice to wear that hideous SpongeBob SquarePants watch. Celebrities, however, have real decisions to make, decisions that can impact everything from Ben Affleck's likeliness of winning another Academy Award (zilch) to the fate of planet Earth. Fortunately for all of us, Thom Yorke holds his stakes in the latter. Or sort of, anyway.
Last May, Yorke made his way to British Parliament as a representative of the Friends of the Earth campaign, in an attempt to get the government involved with decreasing the UK's impact on global warming. Writing in the the Radiohead blog Dead Air Space on Wednesday, Yorke relayed to fans the charity's latest request for his involvement.
Friends of the Earth asked this Radio head if he would meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair at Downing Street to discuss what the goverment "is not doing about climate change." Karma police, arrest this man! But Yorke hasn't made up his mind on whether or not he wants to go.
In a respectably honest confession, Yorke wrote, "i have no intention of being used by spider spin doctors to make it look like we make progress when it is just words. id love to know what you think but i cant ask. youd say oh ther e he goes again interfering and meddling in politics why doesnt he get on with the music and shut up. perhaps because i feel like a hypocrit if dont do anything, and equally feel like a hypocrit if i try getting involved... id love to forget about it like your average Times reader. wed all like it to go away. turn to to the rising sea and say come back later im busy right now."
He closed the entry with a request for decision-making assistance and a good ol' fashioned "politics is poision." We hope the next set of liner notes have an editor. Damn.
Yorke also gave a li'l update on the progress of Radiohead's upcoming album, announcing the titles of two tracks: "Pay Day" and "Burn the (White?) Witch". Since there are bound to be a few more in the works, we'd like to offer the following song titles as a sign of our deep Radiohead love: "Prime Time: A Day in the Life of Tony Blair" and "Googlefight: Blair VS. Bush". Do with them what you will, Mr. Yorke, do with them what you will.
AND YOU PEOPLE TAKE THIS WEBSITE SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!
― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
it's the fact they they have so much influence over the marketdeny all you want, not everyone is ironic, sassy, reading ILM
the point is right now, in music, esp indie music, they have a HUGE influence
this is the problem, not about if we think what they are saying is bible or not
― mrgoodman, Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― marc h. (marc h.), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link