Pitchfork Reviews Reviews

loooooool

that's basically what i'm doing right now

would be worried if you had written "drink so that I forget PRR exists"

So wait, if you write on a blackberry it automatically capitalizes the first letter of a paragraph? This makes total sense because even my shitty ancient bottom-of-the-line Nokia does that!

Dude writes a whole lot, so you have to give him credit for that. But i dont think it's really anything great or mindblowing. I would kinda like to see a Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Reviews site.

I would kinda like to see a Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Reviews site.

Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Reviews

This guy strikes me as someone who would've just stuck to writing pornographic fan fiction had he reached adulthood before the internet gained popularity, but instead he found a particular niche that he could exploit from a sheltered vantage point.

Really, he's my favorite music writer working today. And his shit absolutely needs to get into next year's Da Capo Best Music Writing series. Nabisco's right, his essays use a really great personal narrative structure that runs through his work, and it's fantastic. I find that a lot of music crit runs together into one big formless uninteresting mass, but this guy has a VOICE. And not many people do. I like writers whose personal style I can recognize, follow, understand, and I like being able to reconcile the crit with the writer, and see the two as a piece. I can do that with (to name Pfork writers in conjunction with PFF talk) Breihan, Tim F, Jess, Mark R, Ewing, Drake, nabisco, Mike McG, Scott P. And much as I'm sure several of them would resent seeing their name next to the PRR fella, I'd put him in the same league at this point. He's as good as any Pfork writer working today. And that's incredible.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor)

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i mean look as the dude who will unapologetically brag abt 'discovering' ringtone cru classics i have no shame bigging up myself but just .... LOL

O_O

http://barthel.tumblr.com/post/1196280642/6-ways-of-looking-at-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-based
http://barthel.tumblr.com/post/1196420478/to-be-less-obtuse-about-my-previous-post

...and my friend leans over and blows some high school kids' candles out because i think that is the punkest way to handle this. an asian teenager who is standing in front of me and dressed in drag asks me if the plastic birthday cake that is strapped to the top of his head is blocking my view and i say "no you're good" and connect my thumb and pointer finger to make an O and outstretch my other fingers and hold my hand up and smile

i mean come on. that's how you do it.

amazing piece of writing, no lie

Really, he's my favorite music writer working today. And his shit absolutely needs to get into next year's Da Capo Best Music Writing series. Nabisco's right, his essays use a really great personal narrative structure that runs through his work, and it's fantastic. I find that a lot of music crit runs together into one big formless uninteresting mass, but this guy has a VOICE. And not many people do. I like writers whose personal style I can recognize, follow, understand, and I like being able to reconcile the crit with the writer, and see the two as a piece. I can do that with (to name Pfork writers in conjunction with PFF talk) Breihan, Tim F, Jess, Mark R, Ewing, Drake, nabisco, Mike McG, Scott P. And much as I'm sure several of them would resent seeing their name next to the PRR fella, I'd put him in the same league at this point. He's as good as any Pfork writer working today. And that's incredible.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, September 25, 2010 3:16 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

omg u r an actual idiot

And what about, you know, SUBSTANCE? I'll give you that the kid has a personal style, but let's not forget that when he *actually writes about music* he's just spouting bullshit 80% of the time.

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Predictable.

That Awl piece is like an 11th grade essay--with a bunch of paragraphs beginning the same way:

so we walk around outside the venue

so we walk around to the back of the venue

a girl who is alone walks up to us

then a woman comes up to us

And of course 3 variations on "Then they played some songs"

I believe they call that 'having a voice'

or 'having a diary' can't remember

or "didn't take Essay Writing 101."

let's give him so much attention that he takes all our work, A+ you guys

I think you mean 10.0

Crankiest New

Amazing writing? Come on, it's basically livejournal-level 2003 Weezer reunion show memories where every cliche about being in a hipster music scene is imbued with tremendous meaning and affected high school school drop-out grammar rules to give an air of youthful, exhilirating breathlessness. If I were to think this was amazing writing it would also mean livejournal circa 2001 was dominated by literary geniuses the likes of which only appear once a generation. Which, yeah, may be the case...

successful troll is successful itt

im interested in why nabisco thinks this is great writing

LiveJournal was dope

one of my favorite web services ever

Yes. But if we call this great writing why not just go to the source? And the source is teenagers w livejournal circa 2001.

Yeah but their journals are now FRIENDS ONLY because of IGNORANT COMMENTS.

because no one uses LiveJournal anymore!!!!!!!

Not even Momus

man

"Friends only"....what are you fifteen years old? I think you have the right to do that but when a site that has many good photo blogs and other artistic stuff, having to navigate through a bunch of teenagey "friends only" stuff is depressing.

I don't let random people walk into my house, why would I let them read my angsty accounts of moving into college?

[via 2005]

xp - the early adopters did!

"Friends only"....what are you fifteen years old? I think you have the right to do that but when a site that has many good photo blogs and other artistic stuff, having to navigate through a bunch of teenagey "friends only" stuff is depressing.

― My Big Fat Jewish Wedding (u s steel), Monday, September 27, 2010 3:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

the guy navigating random livejournal pages is asking you if you're fifteen

you don't spend your entire day surfing LiveJournal? *incredulous*

hm: not a guy, read yr xls

let's give him so much attention that he takes all our work, A+ you guys

this is possibly the most OTM thing Whiney has ever said

Hipster Puppies Review Pitchfork

A rising tide of swill raises all gorges.

can't believe PRR killed music criticism

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/suzannechambers/g8KJVDTXBa1JQc7ruEpIJUZRMg4kv7ukVa9Jn5cpa9vMsJoDFLHvUlkwQIpQ/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&Expires=1285602286&Signature=XKOe7So1LNBNi5bkHH8iFcr2Cds%3D

...and my friend leans over and blows some high school kids' candles out because i think that is the punkest way to handle this. an asian teenager who is standing in front of me and dressed in drag asks me if the plastic birthday cake that is strapped to the top of his head is blocking my view and i say "no you're good" and connect my thumb and pointer finger to make an O and outstretch my other fingers and hold my hand up and smile

worst slash fic ever

im interested in why nabisco thinks this is great writing

― just sayin, Monday, 27 September 2010 14:15 (1 hour ago)

well I'm not here to argue about it, because I understand it doesn't work for everyone and, umm, I don't care a ton about it. but basically I think the Awl piece is good at using concrete details to describe the show's context, its objective, and its dynamics. most music writers would express this stuff in a non-narrative sense and largely from the perspective of the band's decisions, rather than fan experience. but he lays out a bunch of reported details (the stuff about the venue's staff being eye-rolly about the show, the way that's condensed into the caricature of the door guy fixing his hair, the note about kyp malone being outside the dynamics of "cool" so he can sing along louder than anyone, etc.), and does stuff like that quick reading of karen o spitting water into the air (and the usual issue of, like, professional spontaneity in rock shows) to paint that all pretty effectively just via narrative.

given his age and location the guy is hyper-focused on dynamics of "cool" and access and how things are done, which can be tiring and is probably annoying if you don't care about that stuff, but this piece in particular strikes me as good at tracing and painting those dynamics, so yeah, I think it's well-done, as music writing and especially your average show review go!

heh, from the Awl piece

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i can't help but feel that this is only the beginning:

http://millennialsmag.com

so now i will be writing about pitchfork reviews when i am inspired to write about them, which might be pretty often or not that much, who knows? also i will have more time to do the stuff i like to do so that stuff will be better. okay i am going to finish a post about spending a night with himanshu from das racist and interviewing avey tare from animal collective, you will like it i hope!

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/1199627944/morning-roundup-announcement

good move!