pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

yeah, i jumped TO the shark. good one.

No results found for "man standing on shark".

that just seems dangerous

Closest match:

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1491/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1491R-1129460.jpg

The three-chord refrain that closes "No Fly List" gets Froberg whelping at his sandpapery best

guyssss use a fuckin dictionary

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0c97819ed9434911671e389c5fe6103c/89597.jpg

whelp (hwlp, wlp)
n.
1. A young offspring of a mammal, such as a dog or wolf.
2.
a. A child; a youth.
b. An impudent young fellow.
3.
a. A tooth of a sprocket wheel.
b. Nautical Any of the ridges on the barrel of a windlass or capstan.
v. whelped, whelp·ing, whelps
v.intr.
To give birth to whelps or a whelp.
v.tr.
To give birth to (whelps or a whelp).

loooooooooool

okay lol at that one

whelpless whelpless whelpless wheeeeeeelpless

hahaha

It whelped a camel's ass

another acoustic guitar-based record, another Fahey reference...

Frontman Josh T. Pearson disappeared for several years, then emerged in Germany playing intimate, barely scripted shows that blended American Primitive guitar playing (think John Fahey) with quasi-Biblical lyrics (think Wovenhand).

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15222-last-of-the-country-gentlemen

i think that's for people who like john fahey but don't know what 'american primitive' means. there are actually people out there who read pitchfork and don't really care about learning genre names and stuff.

is there a pitchfork for jaded know-it-alls that contains zero references to other artists?

Have never seen a Josh solo show that was at all like John Fahey. In fact seeing four of his early solo shows within a week or two was responsible for giving me minor tinnitus.

Anybody else been getting lots of 503 errors lately when clicking various links around Pitchfork? Thought maybe it was just my computer at home being weird, but happening again today when I check at work.

Yeah, I'll get a 503, then hit refresh and it'll be okay.

Yeah, same here, just weird.

Hanna is a film about a "badass survivalist girl"; the Chemical Brothers have never seemed particularly badass, but it's fair to count them as survivalist, both because last year's Further was their best record in ages and they're the only act from the late-90s electronica boom making music anyone would want to listen to.

I hate this kind of talk!! I mean first of all Underworld came out with a pretty damn good album in 2010 and secondly this very site panned their last album pretty heavily so you're just throwing a bunch of acts under the bus for no reason.

Hanna doesn't represent anything more than a slight change-up from a group used to throwing fastballs.

STRIKE THREE!!

lol

I haven't seen Hanna; it appears to be a thriller set in Eastern Europe with a young female protagonist-- gifted in the art of action-- who eludes a ruthless intelligence operative. Digitized techno mysticism has been a go-to soundtrack of choice for this genre ever since The Bourne Identity rubber-stamped Moby's "Extreme Ways" as the perfect mix of heady paranoia, Euro style, and kicking things.

Oh yeah, THAT'S when all the euro-thrillers got soundtracks. 2002!

Man guess I imagined my soundtrack to The Saint all those years ago.

techno soundtracks, I mean.

HOW SOON WE FORGET

http://www.thesoundtracktoyourlife.co.uk/image.php?productid=5886

haha xpost!

Hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUGeI0kqrM

quite the xpost there!

I'm quite glad to know I wasn't the only person to immediately think THE SAINT SOUNDTRACK, YOU JACKASS when reading that paragraph

not that this Val Kilmer vehicle invented the idea of techno music scoring euro-thrillers either, just sayin

Yeah, I'm still lolling that someone else pulled that one out as a reference point.

yeah that was strike two. somehow, i completely missed it

it all goes back to MORTAL KOMBAT

Featured songs

* Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.1 • "Halcyon + On + On" (shortened version) • used as the film's theme
* Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.2 • "Speed Freak [Moby Remix]"
* Mortal Kombat (1995) • "Halcyon + On + On"
* Johnny Mnemonic (1995) • "Sad But True"
* Event Horizon (1997)
* The Saint (1997) • "The Saint Theme"
* A Life Less Ordinary (1997) • "The Box" and "Dŵr Budr"
* Spawn (1997) • "Satan" (with Kirk Hammett)
* π (1998) • "P.E.T.R.O.L"
* Human Traffic (1999) • "Belfast" •
* The Beach (2000) • "Beached"

How could I forget Hackers?

Not to mention The Matrix, which a few people saw

Tbh, people saw the sequels and erased the original from their minds.

You know I kind of forgot how great the 95-01 era was for techno soundtracks. The Beach had a really great one too.

Although I question if I could stomach one of them today

I guess it doesn't really count but... "Scarface"?

xp: most if not all of those soundtracks are still great, even including terrible ones like The Jackal

http://xore.ca/missingthepoint.png

anyone else read this
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15324-hit-after-hit/

and see absolutely no correlation between the score and the actual review? it's so OVERWHELMINGLY positive

not really -- i don't think a high 7 in any way contradicts a review that is completely enthusiastic and positive unless it specifically says it's like the album of the year or perfect or whatever.

but then i'm the kind of a weirdo that probably WOULD give a 7.7 to my album of the year

i think that happens from time to time where a review in the 7.7-7.9 range reads like something that could've been best new music

some of those prob would've got the 'recommended' tag if that was still around

= writer probably thought it was BNM worthy and editor resisted (xpost)

also it bears mentioning that Tom tends to come off SO ENTHUSIASTIC about like his 40th fav record of the year

lol true

xxpost
^ that's sort of what i thought. it's sort of subscribing to p4k's whole modus operandi of praising the innovative for the sake of innovation, and trying to make clear that they're not simply a "music review" site. which is ridiculous, considering how much they fawned over kanye's regressive new album last year.

what