pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

I get the conversational thing, but not understanding why Tom was hired in the first place. Dude reads like so many other blogs.

i left a comment on status aint hood when it closed down ;_;

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

yup, good piece

but hey, nitsuh sums up everything nicely, sooo ¯\(°_o)/¯

^ yeah, just love to read the words...

why is the video content so juvenile

What's with this musicless "Twin Shadow frontman makes out for 60 seconds" thing?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/60-seconds-left/1722-twin-shadow/2767-60-seconds-left/

dude

i don't see anyone questioning YR art

I'll ponder it deeper next run-through.

Crank it, fullscreen, etc.

hold on
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15587-me-doing-standup/
what

they've been reviewing comedy records for at least 9 years fyi

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1675-shut-up-you-fucking-baby/

wow, and on sub pop. weird.

i think what you meant to say, kelpolaris, is: what the H!?

Surprised that I was the only one who thought the Twin Shadow kissing thing was out there.

it's not out there, just odd and boring. warhol trubite?

regarding the comedy review - it raised an eyebrow (just putting it out there: this is something i have never, and will never, physically do in real life) as to why pitchfork writers thought themselves qualified to grade comedy. but then it made me realize how weird it is to assign numerical ratings to music in the first place, so i kinda gave them a pass thusly...still it reads more like a term paper than a review. i really how this doesn't imply a desire by pitchfork to start assigning 6.8's to all mediums.. especially considering that whole videogame thing they've been experimenting with.

*i really hope

i think what you meant to say, kelpolaris, is: what the H!?

― some dude, Friday, July 1, 2011 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

:D

"that whole videogame thing" is an entirely different publication that Pitchfork occasionally reprints on their site. Kill Screen Magazine is a quarterly print journal and regularly updated website co-founded by longstanding Pitchfork contributor and professional video game critic Chris Dahlen. The two parties have a deal where select Kill Screen content is republished on Pitchfork's site. It's not like Schreiber and Co. one day said "hey let's all of us review video games!"

i thought it was funny how one of their stock questions they did when interviewing artists used to be "what video games do you play" and every response was "i don't play video games"

ian cohen is v familiar with comedy fwiw

the comedy world etc

But while free mixtapes can boost the profile of a rapper at any level without earning a legit dime, comedy records are at best peripheral income streams for their headliners and useless for most everyone else.

is only live comedy cool now or what is the deal

He probably means as opposed to DVDs

oh ok.

Electronic Dream is pretty, but it's pretty like the morning sun twinkling off of a dangling machete blade-- you don't want to fuck with it.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15566-electronic-dream/

classic breihan

this might sound a little vain, but i'm currently caretaking my parents house in mexico for the summer and have been doing so for the past 5-7 (seasonally, obv). so i'd like to say i have a fair amount of experience with machetes, as i usually spend the first couple hours after my flight thwacking down grasses to get to our property (which is essentially in the jungle).

anyway, what i came here to say is: machetes don't glint. they hardly glean. what light they do reflect is only by accident. when you buy them, they essentially look "dirty" from the moment you buy them- they're not kitchen knives here. it gets especially bad when you have brain reside mucked on em. that's just disgusting.

But what else could he have used? I mean, everyone knows the dangling machete in the morning sun metaphor already, so

I might be overstaying my welcome in this thread, but I don't know - glint of the rising sun upon a katana before you're getting your head lopped off? Glint of the guillotine during a morning execution? I can't tell if I'm doing better or worse here. It's just an awkward thing to say in the first place.

im just saying theres so many more sharp (and shiny!) things in the world than a machete. machetes aren't really the epitome of either, they're just fuckin big.

there's a reason Cannibal Corpse wrote "Fucked With A Knife" and not "Fucked With A Machete" guys -- you don't want to fuck with it

if any album ever deserved a vicious takedown it's Big Sean, what the hell was that wishy washy soft hands review

I think that sentence is actually saying that you don't want to fuck with the reflected sunlight.

because it can give you skin cancer

when your dangling machete reflects it back under your umbrella

http://music.newcity.com/2011/07/14/did-pitchfork-kill-the-rock-critic-the-changing-landscape-of-music-journalism/

sw00ds' remarks:

I’m not really the person to comment on this, given just how infrequently over the years I’ve visited Pitchfork. (I know there are people all over the web who wear comments like that as if they’re a badge of honour or something, but truthfully, I’ve just never felt a kinship with the place or with the bands and genres they are in general known to cover, never really cared for their overall presentation or feel or design enough to even bother delving much into the writing; I’m also not in an endless quest for new music, and haven’t been for over 20 years.) Still, the central thrust of this piece — Pitchfork has been much more successful at promoting the Pitchfork brand than at promoting any individual writers — seems accurate enough. The question is, does it matter? It matters to Jim DeRogatis, who is quoted here while jumping up and down proclaiming that music “is not entertainment” and therefore deserves better (isn’t it? does it?). But does Pitchfork‘s readership care about what Jim DeRogatis cares about? Should they? (If so, why?) Do Pitchfork readers really give a shit about finding “the modern-day Creem“? (Do any of us really need more of that, right now?) Why were no DeRogatis-like experts from Pitchfork‘s actual demographic tracked down for commentary?

Overriding all of this, however, is my growing irritation at the word “curator,” which shows up twice here (it was one reason I also couldn’t resist mocking that Creem story from a couple days ago). When did this stupid notion — of rock critics as “curators” — take root and what can we do to kill it, preferably sooner rather than later?

PF is maybe less personality/writer-driven than it used to be but i don't see how it's a huge break from the past -- it's annoying when people say "Pitchfork says" instead of a writer's name or even just "a Pitchfork writer says" but i think it was that way more often than not with Rolling Stone too

how old is this kid? he talks about interviewing kot for a story "for school" last year, and he's telling us about the heyday of rs, creem, and the voice?

google book search has brought the magazines of yesterday to the youth of TODAY

unless he's some kinda rodney dangerfield oldest-living-freshman this kinda strikes me as parroting dero's line outright, whatever the validity of the argument. if he's in his 20s i'm not sure i'd even trust him to talk about the heyday of, like, spin.

he's the kind of college student who cares what dero thinks, i think it goes without saying we've found a very special kind of useless here

(“It’s also revealing that they don’t allow comments,” DeRogatis notes)

Every time I think I'm being too hard on DeRo he delivers a solid gold idiotism.

call me a company man and a fascist all you want but as long as the comments stay away its pitchfork pitchfork uber alles

i think pitchfork should allow comments for one day just to show everyone how awful it would be

I mean that remark is on the level of Jonah Goldberg saying it's "revealing" how Hitler was vegetarian and lots of liberals are.