pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

the vocals on this album remind me of some of the eye vocals on soul discharge

brb guys goin ta africa school

The Big KRIT review is kind of inane and I can't even figure out whether it's the writer or the editor giving it that score.

like, what the fuck is going on here when a review starts off like this

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing

i mean i understand that he's a more superior producer than rapper but this is the most awkward initial sentence of the year

i think tom did a nice job w/ that review

yep

this thread should be renamed "irate, you rate, we all rate"

Thre review flows nicely w/ inclusion of back-story, but it's the trivial things that bother me. It was like every sentence I read thereafterwords was me trying to figure out "so do you like him or not? do you like him or not?". I just find it bizarre that so blatant a ~thesis statement~ would kick things off. You kinda have to, you know, build to these things.

maybe i'm too methodical, iono

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing

good lord use better words, i put more effort into bloody tweets

will always maintain that a love of language is probably the #1 requirement for being a writer (nb this is not an excuse for flowery purple prose)

u guys should really read full sentences:

As a rapper, Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. is pretty good but nothing amazing: With the empathetic warmth in his sticky drawl, he makes a convincing Southern everyman, and he has enough rhythmic dexterity to really stick to beats.

tom tends to use a more casual tone in general in his reviews but let's be clear that first bit is not like an entire topic sentence

haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews. i refuse to click on p4k apart from tom ewing columns, i only read what gets c/ped here

would enjoy a monthly column of tom and lex taking turns just shitting on everything the other writes

"status ain't good"

oh was he the one who came up with "british people" as a response to my weeknd piece? lol

haha yes

haha that's better, but "pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews

why?

http://twitter.com/#!/search/amazing

commonly used and easily understood words should not be used in reviews. gotcha.

they're so commonly used that they provoke little in terms of mental stimulii. thesauruses are a click away... this album was: enthralling, staggering, electrifying, flooring. each one of these words goes to far greater extents in the imagination than a tell-all word like "amazing" ever will.

"electrifying!" says rolling stone.

hmm....you're right.

amazing is sort of the Internet's word of the year, isn't it?

it's more like this weird cultural phenomenon where seemingly nothing is short of amazing, and amazing describes all and is sufficient for most anything. guess i'm one of the younginz here on ilx, but for the crowd in their 20's this is all i ever hear girlfriends describe anything as. but yeah, it's really prominent on the internet where a girl-to-girl compliment sesh will consist of at least 43 utterances of "you are the most amazing person"

waht

ur 2 old

expecting good writing/insight from Tom B is like expecting good writing/insight from Pitchfork

xp i am 27

it's more like this weird cultural phenomenon where seemingly nothing is short of amazing, and amazing describes all and is sufficient for most anything. guess i'm one of the younginz here on ilx, but for the crowd in their 20's this is all i ever hear girlfriends describe anything as. but yeah, it's really prominent on the internet where a girl-to-girl compliment sesh will consist of at least 43 utterances of "you are the most amazing person"

― kelpolaris, Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i kept thinking of this while reading your post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYT0YvQ3hs

I have to backpedal; I search-functioned the word 'amazing' & then 'awesome' just to see how many times they've been used on this board in the last week; came out roughly the same.

"my friend's band is playing tonight, you should come .... they're AMAZING"

"my friend just got done playing bass in this AWESOME metal show..."

hahahaha

"pretty good" and "amazing" should just not exist in professional reviews

"professional reviews" shouldn't exist

that statement unto itself is against everything this site stands for
everything we believe in
everything we fight for

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE/TJkZsJELyhI/AAAAAAAAl4s/j2AdfxmEmek/s400/statue+of+liberty+crying.jpg

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15391-gunz-n-butta/

why Tom B is published anywhere outside of his personal blog is beyond me

It's a one-dimensional affair, but that one dimension is pretty awesome.

... i dont get what is wrong w/ that, but it seems like i say that abt most of the pitchfork complaints

"pretty awesome" gah use better words

i know that p4kian purple prose is unbearable but make some effort at least

i cannot imagine ever filing copy with the words "pretty awesome" in it

tom's style is conversational

it's a decent piece, nothing great, but hardly embarrassing. don't mind the casual language.

fwiw, i can't imagine you ever filing copy with the words "pretty awesome" in it either, lex

he would probably write "pretty swag"

p4k should hire realniggatumblr dude

pfork needs a mobile site

markers posts very much in character

http://i54.tinypic.com/scb0wi.gif

my only real disagreements with tom is that i think he overrated that record somewhat, really more of taste than style

nitsuh summed this lp up nicely i thought here: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/dj_quik.html