pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

only if u think those ratings 'matter' i guess xxp

As a reader, I always assume that the rating is a quick, dirty summation of how much the reviewer liked whatever they're reviewing, so ratings being out of whack with the review itself is a little disorientating. I can see why an editor might have to calibrate the rating from time to time tho and split the difference between the reviewers personal tastes and the publication's general stance.

5 of the 27 topic sentences in Tom B's Odd Future wrap-up

This is where things get great.

More importantly, though, Bastard is just a straight-up great rap album, the first from the Odd Future camp.

Musically, it's a great, short distillation of the Odd Future aesthetic, with Tyler's murky synths and lurching drums only slightly obscuring a great ear for melody, like the hop-skipping piano line that makes "Luper" bounce so hypnotically.

Earl, it turns out, is a great rap storyteller, though his stories quickly become nightmares.

And the production here is borderline gorgeous; it's like the Odd Future production brain trust of Tyler, Left Brain, and Syd all got together and agreed that they finally wanted to make something that would sound great in a car.

Also worth noting is the topic sentence that appears between the first two above: Here's Bastard's basic appeal in one punchline: "Cruisin' in my go-kart at Walmart selling cupcakes/ Go 'head, admit it, faggot; this shit is tighter than butt-rape."

What a great review

"Earl, it turns out, is a great rap storyteller, though his stories quickly become nightmares."

http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/um/um3/440.jpg

haha "great" is such a placeholder word, when i'm writing drafts i put it in caps though, to remind me to go back and think of a synonym

^^^ great call

u mean GREAT call?

breihan is just the master of goonthusiasm

Is it someone here who coined the phrase, "a Breihanian level of misunderstanding"? Because that's all I can think about when I read his stuff now.

only took tom two paragraphs to drop an "asthmatic rasp," which is right in line with his world record time

Have you ever forgotten to remove one or a few, leaving some GREATs throughout?

all-caps great wouldn't stick out that much in some of the things lex has written tbh

"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"
"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"

hold up what!??!

thats otm though for the most part. nb i dont know the context. u dance to dj sets you dont watch them

Well... no one actually goes to a DJ set to watch the DJ, right? Unless they also happen to be DJs?

xp: yeah D-40 OTM

the sentence contains with it the assumption that people go to dj sets to watch them! which makes it doubly clueless.

*within it

"The idea of watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition"

it's not the idea that's the proposition... it's the watching. try this:

Watching someone perform a DJ set may not be the most enticing proposition

boom, three words saved.

could even cut 'someone perform a'.

maybe it's from a review of a concert DVD where the camera is pointed at the DJ the entire time

It's from the Thom Yorke thing, no?

maybe they're reviewing Creep's live show

The reason Deadmau5 is successful is because people like watching him perform a dj set

This IS fun to watch...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcq7NTFHgOk

Honestly almost every cut to the crowd is golden.

could even cut 'someone perform a'.

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it might just be me but the verb 'perform' wrt a DJ set seems really odd and clunky to me, so yeah... other than that I don't see the issue w/ the serntiment given that it's talking about watching a film of a DJ set?

I realize that video isn't really a DJ set by the way.

DJ sets would be much funner to watch if you were actually able to see what it is they were doing... from the standpoint of most shows, it looks like a lot of unskillful knob-turning and intermittent fist-pumping being all you need to be the next big thing.

dunno how this would be accomplished, tho, aside from video camera

er well you could go and see a bunch of DJs somewhere small w/ no barrier and have a peek maybe

then get told to leave the club when you spill a drink in their record bag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhxr8Muz5A

granted this was a long time ago, but this was not boring

The reason Deadmau5 is successful is because people like watching him perform a dj set

Deadmaufive is not a DJ

?

I was hilariously mispelling Deadmau5

Is that the Hensel twins at :06 in the Deadmau5 vid?

I was hilariously mispelling Deadmau5

i lol'd

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7947-you-were-there-the-complete-lcd-soundsystem/

why say the pre-album singles are "from" an album that came out years later and no longer even includes a bonus disc compiling them?

why list remixes and session versions for Daft Punk Is but not for Tribulations (or any of the other non-in-house remixes) (or session versions) (or live versions)?

why say 45:33 was originally a 2007 double LP when a) it first came out as a file the year before and b) the LP doesn't even play the entire song in full but the CD does?

did Throw not come out somewhere else years before the Planet E single? sessions comp maybe?


pitchfork is dumb

looking forward to reading this in a day or two

is lcd soundsystem the band that played wolf?

I'm a huge fan of LCD Soundsystem so it kind of pains me to say that I don't know if I can even get through this

Murphy's first out-and-out ode to New York City aims to revive seedier times. "Yr city's a sucker, my city's a creep," he taunts, with the perfect combination of fuck-you and what-the-fuck-do-I-care that may have been born on the downtown F line somewhere around 1976. LCD's fascination with its hometown would peak with Sound of Silver's gloriously ambiguous "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down", but "Sucker" is more of a cocksure strut. They city isn't bringing Murphy down just yet.

**vomits on keyboard, publishes it on Pitchfork**

trying really hard w/ a band 99% of their readers already know/like

this thing is a lot of words!

John Cage's "4:33" is all about a void of composition and performance creating space for random, ambient sounds. James Murphy's "45:33" is the exact opposite: a micro-managed, dense, building-size mural of music that leaves nothing to chance.

Pitchfork writers get paid by the word : CONFIRMED

This thing like one thing, but this other thing that has not connection to it whatsoever is shockingly not like it at all

Like I love LCD Soundsystem and love a lot of these writers. But couldn't imagine reading any of this for any reason. Am I alone in that?

how dare you not have time for a sprawling retrospective overview of an epic THREE ALBUM CAREER

yeah i'm kind of on yr side there, i mean lcd soundsystem are one of those bands that have never been short of rock crit love, so they've had a loooot of stuff written abt them already

LOL U GUYS READ PITCHFORK

I mean, no offense to LCD and no offense to writers who's stuff is genuinely and consistently good, but I really can't muster any reason to tackle any of this.

I'm trawling through it and barf

it's no surprise that "Us v. Them" became a live staple for the group (it's their tenth most-played song according to setlist.fm)

They only have 3 albums with 9 songs each