pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

https://web.archive.org/web/*/pitchfork.com

five albums with skulls on the cover

If I want to look through old reviews I just increase the page # at the end of this link:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/?page=1

currently goes up to around 1600 pages, but the years 1999-2002 seem to have been pared down a lot

^^^That's why it's best to use the Web Archive, as they have scrubbed a lot of reviews from the site.

Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassing stuff that was published early on on Pitchfork that got scrubbed long ago.

I did a blog about the whole issue several years back: http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2010/09/deleted-pitchork-reviews.html

No real broader point to be derived from this, but:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ben-frost-threshold-of-faith-ep/
"We hear exactly who Ben Frost wants us to think he is but get precious little view of the man behind the persona."
Ah, yes, because what's the value of sheets of electronic noise if there isn't something of the confessional to it.

It's not really important but I just kinda like the ending of this news story: http://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-everything-now-earn-third-straight-us-no-1-album/

“Everything Now” was one of Pitchfork’s “Best New Tracks of June 2017”

Yeah... That's not the review people are going to remember from this cycle...

lol

http://pitchfork.com/news/broad-city-are-selling-officially-licensed-sex-toys/

new band name

WUXTRA WUXTRA: broad city branded yas kween vibrators announced on pitchfork

lol they're all sold out already

grace and frankie > broad city

lol um no

Grace and Frankie is fine for what it is - a senior sitcom - but it's largely joke-free and some of the acting (primarily Waterston/Sheen) is legit painful

Broad City rules, psyched for the return. Ilana was v good in otherwise mediocre Rough Night - Abbi is in a new movie called Person to Person that just opened here, heard it's more "a look into the lives of quirky new yorkers!" sorta thing but w/e i'll still see it bc I love her and Michael Cera.

BC jumped the shark pretty definitively for me mid last season

broad city is annoyingly full of itself and has been since midway through season two

otm, sadly

eh i thought season 3 was mostly good, even the hillary episode was whatever, but the whole bleeping out Trump's name in season 4 thing is so dumb

Has any comedy been good past 2 (could stretch it to 3 maybe) seasons?

Lots! The most extreme example I can think of is Always Sunny.

yeah good call altho i havent seen it since like s5

Loads have!

like mad about you

the simpsons

the hogan family another prominent example

difficult people, so far

king of the hill

i wish review had a longer third season

oh and nathan for you's third season had "smokers allowed" and "the hero"

friends
Seinfeld
Cheers
MASH
The New Girl

like a zillion others

I think comedies tend to peak around season 3-5, first season sometimes you're figuring stuff out, second season gets better, 3-5 cast knows how to work w each other and writers, but things haven't gotten stale

Parks and Rec (big time late bloomer)
The Office (US)

I dunno like I could just keep listing like 80% of successful long running comedy shows

Yeah, lots of sitcoms might have sketchy first seasons, and many peter out towards the end, but there's usually a significant sweet spot in the middle of several seasons.

finally some people talking about tv shows on this board

BREAKING: FATHER JOHN MISTY'S COVER OF THE FAMILY TIES THEME SONG AT LOLLA IS EVERYTHING

just puked on you

fuck you pitchfork for spoiling twin peaks

yeah fuck you for spoiling a repurposed scene from the 1992 movie fire walk with me

especially on the morning after the episode aired, my god

confirmed: FWWM existed

Uh it's a spoiler.

Anytime I see headlines about some band appearing in a Twin Peaks episode it's a spoiler. Stereogum's been doing this for every cameo since the season started.

It's def a spoiler. People who've already seen it know it happened already, so for them it's a useless article.

yeah fuck you for spoiling a repurposed scene from the 1992 movie fire walk with me

thanks for describing it. i didn't click on the article in hopes that at least i would be in the dark about if it was new footage or old. so thank you for spoiling it in greater detail!

you're welcome adam!!!!

btw welcome to the internet!!!!

that's a shitty attitude brad, for one thing the story went up last night right after the episode aired, and not everyone is able to watch it the night of. Bowie's appearance wasn't publicized, unlike other cameos they've mentioned (Sky Ferreira, Moby, Hudson Mohawke). also spoiling who's going to be in the nightclub credits sequence is not as bad as spoiling a pseudo-Bowie cameo.

and yeah, who is the story for? La Bateau Ivre otm, it's a useless story

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it's weird bc i spoiled that particular scene for myself by accidentally reading a synopsis of episode 14 when it leaked last week

anyway i know my extremely spoiler-neutral stance is super unpopular so i'll back down

imo "spoiler" means revealing some sort of plot revelation before people may have seen it, but I guess if you want to be pedantic it could mean revealing anything at all