pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

it's either trolling or the most absurd attempt at music-related conversation i've probably ever seen to assert that liking one artist in the pop music universe means you can't like an indie darling band, or vice versa. and this is coming from someone with little more than mild appreciation for both, at best.

Katherine-I really liked those 'my year in music' pieces, thanks for posting. especially the 'An Old Album I Discovered/Rediscovered This Year' part.

yw -- I'm not sure on this but I think the format was mostly lindsay's idea? (speaking of good pitchfork people, though technically she's not there anymore)

i don't get taylor swift but i can easily see why people like her. i don't get lcd soundsytem and i have a hard time understanding why people like him

i mean people fucking love this dude

he basically lived out the ultimate dream of every schlumpy record collector dude

but he seems nice right? i've never seen anything bad abt him i guess

eh, he was seemed like a smug asshole. i have nothing to base that on except photos of him. i think it's singing style too, it's so obnoxious. it has that cocky swagger that associate with a lot of new york punk

actually i don't know if its new york punk because i really don't know much about new york punk it his voice is just really obnoxious

yeah i think you probably don't

like i listen to "north american scum" and i get just can't past this dude's thick, insufferable voice

lol yea i don't

is new york punk all about how there are too many museums and stuff?

are there any good pitchfork people who aren't ilx ppeople? i never recognize any names. writing-wise.

mike powell! unless he's here and i've never noticed

like e's the type of dude that if i saw him at a party i would just need to get the fuck away from him

http://gatheringofthevibes.com/wp-content/uploads/james-murphy-03.jpg

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/3P/esq-james-murphy-040111-lg.jpg

http://publicsf.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/james_murphy.jpegp

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWUnbOohIMM/TvOFr_ipCOI/AAAAAAAAAz4/3-jPxOq5sE8/s1600/james-murphy-sunglasses.jpg

in the documentary he pretty much just seemed to walk around in bathrobe and drink coffee and walk his little dog

i like LCD soundsystem just fine, i don't feel strongly abt them...as far as popular rock bands go you could do a hell of a lot worse i guess

this rockist picked them for the best american band 04-07:
http://grantland.com/features/the-american-band-championship-belt/

seems like a normal dude in those pix tbh

i met him. he's cool. end of story.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ULAn24OSlhg/TnbIys61xnI/AAAAAAAAA90/n4sTr0auPNg/s1600/caterpillar%2Bwhite%2Bwhite%2Blashes1.jpg
http://cdn.pigeonsandplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/james-murphy1.jpg

http://www.susanleachsnyder.com/Conservancy%20Butterfly%20Garden/PhotographsForConservGarden/PussCaterpillar/PussCaterpillarDSC_0062.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/44f65a2cb046badf593acfeaa09b2a25/tumblr_mr2x949f8h1qlvaako1_500.gif

lol

"mike powell! unless he's here and i've never noticed"

yah, i know mike. and he used to post here occasionally.

p4k's lists never have anything surprising in them whatsoever, it's always the same shit they called bnm at the time of premiere + some pazz & jop 'hits' that they missed the first time around b/c they somehow forgot ("call your girlfriend") or never deigned to cover that artist at the time ("teenage dream").

are any of these blurbz worth reading, i shan't be sifting thru

I wonder if James Murphy's beard line is going to keep rising and rising until it covers his eyes

are any of these blurbz worth reading, i shan't be sifting thru

imo tim's

i don't get taylor swift but i can easily see why people like her. i don't get lcd soundsytem and i have a hard time understanding why people like him.

...eh, he was seemed like a smug asshole. i have nothing to base that on except photos of him. i think it's singing style too, it's so obnoxious. it has that cocky swagger that associate with a lot of new york punk

― marcos, Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:09 AM (2 hours ago)

this is just weird. people probably like LCD and TS for similar reasons: some combination of music, packaging, culture and personality. you don't like james murphy, fine whatever - doesn't make it so incredibly ~mysterious~ that other people do.

those two artists both have pretty obvious appeals, though what i don't understand re: LCDS is how few people think there's a huge gap in quality between his dance singles and rock albums

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/lcdss634_zpsf7f9ba6d.jpg

though what i don't understand re: LCDS is how few people think there's a huge gap in quality between his dance singles and rock albums

Which of their songs are "dance," and which ones are "rock"? Or do you just mean the singles released before the first album?

yes i mean those singles don't bother getting all "but what is genre anyway" on me

that's precisely one of the appeal.

people like the word genre-bending

people like when you know the same David Bowie songs as them, and can make things that remind them of those Bowie songs without actually doing anything remotely as well as Bowie. that's Album Of The Year material right there.

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

At this point I mostly just pretend that 45:33 is the only LCD album.

i like the DFA compilations of a decade ago, those were p cool

also cool to see theres like a million new answers on this p4k thread and theyre about lcd soundsystem

lol

LCD Soundsystem were great when no singing was involved. DFA drums!!

LCD Soundsystem were great. Of all the pitchfork champions I'd feel this is the one that would have been spared.

in my book every single and every album lcd ever did was beaut but now that murphy 'retired' i guess i could be nostalgic as happens when someone great is gone

"Someone Great" is great

he seems like a normal and friendly person in this interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380

btw wow if you thought the albums/tracks lists were slightly boring get ready for this http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9482-the-50-best-music-videos-of-the-decade-so-far/ boring 2 the xxxtreme

remember some of them, "Kaputt" and "Bad Girls, but would never care to revisit

lol, yea i am totally willing to admit that i am being unfair, especially w/r/t ragging on his style and his photoshoots. i am also willing to admit that there is always some bullshit behind me or anyone else claiming that they "cannot see how ANYBODY could like artist x". i think it's more just that for taylor swift, say, i don't relate to her music and i know it's not music that's made for me, but at the same time it doesn't repulse me and i have no specific aversion to it. it's just not for me and that's fine. i basically have the same feeling towards lcd soundsystem except that his specific vocal style i just find suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper fucking grating and i so strongly do not identify with it. in general i don't have to identify w/ music in order to like it, but in lcd's case i'm just so put off by that vocal style that it's a huge reach for me to easily just be like "eh, yea, it's not my thing," it's more like "yea i fucking haaate his singing"

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xp hehe, when I saw Lambchop live I had to close my eyes bc the way the lead singer did vocals was so annoying to me, can relate to how you feel http://youtu.be/vf0OuJEWRo0

Eddie Vedder (sometimes) has a similar effect on me