30,000 sold would likely mean it's a hit these days, btw, as far as that goes.
also, i'm guessing it might be an indie thing considering i doubt the paper planers are gonna stick around for IWASBOOOORNFREEEEE nanananananananananana
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Hirschberg hell now comprises the totality of reality -- removing a bookmark will not change the constitution of the Absolute
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread kind of a microcosm for what reading about indie bands on the internet is like in 2010
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys, dirty projjies covered a bob dylan song iirc
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Thread still needs a link to 1000TimesYes to accomplish that in full, iirc.
xp
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xp A microcosm? This thread is literally about reading about indie bands on the internet in 2010.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Nabisco weighs in, apparently:
"Maya Arulpragasam was never a politically sophisticated thinker. We knew that already. What else do we know about her?"
http://pitchfork.com/features/why-we-fight/7813-why-we-fight-4
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
guys here's a giant painting of Isaac Brock standing next to a boar that is in the office of the Portland mayor
http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2010/06/03/portland-mayor-now-has-a-portrait-of-isaac-brock-on-his-wall
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status/15333104281http://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status/15333104281http://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status/15333104281http://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status/15333104281http://twitter.com/colinmeloy/status/15333104281
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Meloy is following Brooklyn Vegan, Largehearted Boy, Infinite Summer, Pitchfork, The Paris Review
i am not making this shit up
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The question was never if she was a politically sophisticated thinker. The question was is she a more politically sophisticated thinker than Bono, who she takes down and implies is a less politically sophisticated thinker than she is. Which is truly begging the question.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
the way ksh has elevated from one of the worst posters to one of the best posters is a magnificent feat like Dr. Dre going from the World Class Wreckin Cru to The Chronic in the span of a month
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^ made my day
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Read who it's coming from, then reconsider.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ksh has done cooler things than post colin meloy's twitter updates
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
still think it's hilarious that that tweet merited a fuckin P4k news story -- http://pitchfork.com/news/39014-echo-chamber-colin-meloy-vs-mia
when that showed up in my Google Reader, it may as well have just read: Hey supposedly intelligent readers, fuck you!!!
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey supposedly intelligent readers, LOCAL NATIVES!!!
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
looooooooooooooooooool
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ m.i.a. LP4 ^^^
― 0xCAFED00D (LOLK), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oops.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck it.
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
wait do you mean "a magnificent feat like dre going from wreckin cru to chronic in a month instead of the 6 years it actually took"
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
If I relax my eyes, that looks like it says something about a truck.
― Otherwise you're kinda being comp-lit in his racism. (kkvgz), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, nabisco OTM, the end:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
nabiscos essay is v smart and i agree with it, but can pitchfork not afford em-dashes or something
― max, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
nabisco i think is pretty much otm as usual, and i hope that his write-up re-frames the discussion from "wow look at the pop voice of the third world engorging herself in wanton luxury" to something more along the lines of "wait does MIA's imagery align herself with the oppressed or the oppressors?" which I think would make off-hand remarks about her 'incoherence' more, er, coherent...
― blair x-soul (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
that's exactly what that means, yes
― a mind is a terrible thing, too #based (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5600/lolp4k.jpg
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://coolrain44.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/spike-chester.jpg
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
OG hipster puppies
― tylerw, Friday, 4 June 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a terrific piece from Nabisco.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ksh that is obviously a fake Echo Chamber, there are 173 characters! O_O
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
u_u
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol strongo
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
wokka wokka.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought it was funny
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
shut up
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
love you too Jess
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.linuxbochs.net/phpBB2/files/stop_posting_1_115.jpg
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
no thanks
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
age and wisdom
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
can we get back to "truffle fries" now?
― da croupier, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is making me want to give war a chance.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
so, MIA is like the clash with more colorful tops?
― scott seward, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty much.
― drop it like it's hot, Elena (HI DERE), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
If you go back to the NME/Melody Maker reviews of the second Clash album, you actually see pretty much the same arguments [nabisco] is making about casual use of revolutionary violence. It's Joe Strummer's Red Brigade shirt all over again.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I once asked Nabisco himself why Pitchfork's style is "blah blah-- excuse me-- blah blah" rather than "blah blah -- excuse me -- blah blah" and he said it had to do with line breaks (you wouldn't want to split one of those double hyphens), but yeah I don't know why they don't just use em-dashes.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i knew you'd be with me on that, jaymc
― max, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link