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I reject Spencer's "suggestion" that we focus more on the rating, purely on the basis that I spend as much time thinking about the rating as I do about what I write. A number is not worth a thousand words, sir. Nor are a thousand words worth a number. Nor am I making a damn bit of sense, so I'm shutting up.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"just seems like the same old bands get BNM over and over."
i see a lot of variety on the bnm page. could it be that once a band gets BNM it gets the perception of being "the same old band," even if that's unwarranted? for example, sfa had actually never been BNM until this album. kinda don't see how the game fits into your theory, either. and i'm sure everyone was REALLY tired of cyhsy before that pitchfork review...
― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Radiohead's Thom Yorke Considering Meeting With Tony BlairKati Llewellyn reports:
From Pitchfork's "We Keep Track of Every Move Radiohead Makes" Department:
This morning, you probably went through the "All-Stars or Pumas?" routine, moved on to a 10-minute debate over whether or not shaggy hair really does look best, and finally, sealed the deal with the choice to wear that hideous SpongeBob SquarePants watch. Celebrities, however, have real decisions to make, decisions that can impact everything from Ben Affleck's likeliness of winning another Academy Award (zilch) to the fate of planet Earth. Fortunately for all of us, Thom Yorke holds his stakes in the latter. Or sort of, anyway.
Last May, Yorke made his way to British Parliament as a representative of the Friends of the Earth campaign, in an attempt to get the government involved with decreasing the UK's impact on global warming. Writing in the the Radiohead blog Dead Air Space on Wednesday, Yorke relayed to fans the charity's latest request for his involvement.
Friends of the Earth asked this Radio head if he would meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair at Downing Street to discuss what the goverment "is not doing about climate change." Karma police, arrest this man! But Yorke hasn't made up his mind on whether or not he wants to go.
In a respectably honest confession, Yorke wrote, "i have no intention of being used by spider spin doctors to make it look like we make progress when it is just words. id love to know what you think but i cant ask. youd say oh ther e he goes again interfering and meddling in politics why doesnt he get on with the music and shut up. perhaps because i feel like a hypocrit if dont do anything, and equally feel like a hypocrit if i try getting involved... id love to forget about it like your average Times reader. wed all like it to go away. turn to to the rising sea and say come back later im busy right now."
He closed the entry with a request for decision-making assistance and a good ol' fashioned "politics is poision." We hope the next set of liner notes have an editor. Damn.
Yorke also gave a li'l update on the progress of Radiohead's upcoming album, announcing the titles of two tracks: "Pay Day" and "Burn the (White?) Witch". Since there are bound to be a few more in the works, we'd like to offer the following song titles as a sign of our deep Radiohead love: "Prime Time: A Day in the Life of Tony Blair" and "Googlefight: Blair VS. Bush". Do with them what you will, Mr. Yorke, do with them what you will.
AND YOU PEOPLE TAKE THIS WEBSITE SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!
― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
it's not that anyone is saying "what pfork says is truth"
it's the fact they they have so much influence over the market
deny all you want, not everyone is ironic, sassy, reading ILM
the point is right now, in music, esp indie music, they have a HUGE influence
this is the problem, not about if we think what they are saying is bible or not
― mrgoodman, Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link