pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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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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Kanye is #1 album of the decade!!! http://m.pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/5/

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

yea it's the worst in, say, "daft punk is playing in my house", "disco infiltrator", "north american scum", all those affectations

what about the songs where he does more traditional singing? "All My Friends" is one of my favorites of the past decade.

Can't believe there isn't a single Ciara video in that list.

the problem with "All My Friends" is that everything else about the song is fucking horrible

kind of surprised you hate it so much, the non-vocal parts of the song don't do anything that seem obviously objectionable to me

it's weird how consensus shifts around here, my memory is that vast swathes of ILM went absolutely apeshit for LCD from "I'm Losing My Edge" on

well there are younger music nerds here now, still clinging to their edge

personally I don't subscribe to any cult-of-personality about Murphy and his voice definitely has its limitations (painfully revealed in that live film) but man those records are really solid. DFA will forever get a pass from me for those and the Juan Maclean.

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it doesn't seem crazy to me to suggest that LCD were a key act of the 00s, "Losing My Edge" seems to encapsulate a whole bunch of stuff about that decade and its music, I would def place it pretty highly on best-of decades lists

listened to sound of silver the other day, whether people have overrated an eno-rock party band out of self-identification is not my problem but they were a great eno-rock party band

like, let me have my danceable songs about getting old and lame, if i want those clearly i don't think i deserve much

did M83 make any of these lists? i was listening to them yesterday. would rather m83 than lcd.

that midnight city song

personally I don't subscribe to any cult-of-personality about Murphy and his voice definitely has its limitations (painfully revealed in that live film) but man those records are really solid. DFA will forever get a pass from me for those and the Juan Maclean.

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― Οὖτις, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Think we should give him a pass for the vocals in that live film considering it was the fifth night in a row he did a 3 hour gig.

nobody made him do that, you get paid AND a pass

sorry - you don't get paid and a pass

Well it wasn't originally planned to be that many is my point.

ok i'm listening to "Losing My Edge" for the second time in my life

well filming the concert was planned, so maybe they should have planned better

They hastily adding gigs for a farewell concert that turned into a weeklong thing for fans who couldn't get tickets once all the concert/film wheels were in motion. Sacrificing posterity for the present day fans seems like a pretty sweet move imo.

this song isn't as good as the nurse with wound bonus track where david tibet reads the nurse with wound list