pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

adam otm re Cobra the best stereolab album

damn y'all sure are owning the shit out of an 18-year-old brent dicrescenzo review. shame on you pitchfork

i gave rage legitimate props for introducing radical leftist politics to me as a teenager and thousands of other teenagers. even that fold-out CD insert just showing a bunch of radical books in evil empire had an influence on things i read and discovered as a teenager. seeing a brown frontman and a black guitar player in a popular rock band also was inspiring to this latino kid living in white suburbia. they were easily my favorite band as a teenager.

some of their sounds are good, i think evil empire especially, prob their best record

but they are also bad and many of their lyrics and riffs are terrible and embarrassing

http://shamebell.com/

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me - I'm going to my room!"

i literally did this! my dad came in and took the cd out of the player and broke it.

What an asshole! You should run away

That's so awesome.

Thank goodness teenagers have streaming these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrb5AGizjoY

the need to rage against the machine has been nullified by our internet overlords

They're the Banksy of music

well, once raged-against, the machine started giving us free music so we became bros with it

I caught a set yesterday by a dubstep dj/producer named Rezz and the highlight was her remix of "Killing in the Name", so clearly they are still relevant

Yeah, seriously, RATM were a joke from the moment I first heard them. "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me - I'm going to my room!"

― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:02 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how is this not a Turrican post

At a 1993 Lollapalooza appearance in Philadelphia, the band stood onstage naked for 15 minutes with duct tape on their mouths and the letters PMRC painted on their chests in protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center. Refusing to play, they stood in silence with the sound emitted being only audio feedback from Morello and Commerford's guitars. The band later played a free show for disappointed fans.

otm

RATM are one of these bands I dislike in theory but then when I hear them, they def got the head nodding beats and riff

they are completely ridiculous but also sort of amazing for how dumb and ludicrous and shameless the whole thing is

(full disclosure: i wore a parental advisory warning tshirt from like 1992 to 1996 until it fell apart)

Oh hell yeah, was gonna say that stunt will forever make rage CLASSIC

Xp Nevermind & Rage s/t we're recorded at the same studio lol

xp didn't see the previous posts, so i assumed the stunt you were talking about was when the bass player climbed the set of the VMAs and wouldn't come down.

hey, that stunt ended hunger

https://i.imgur.com/Tvt18aI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dHlmGRM.png

I wish any VMAs moment from this decade was half as interesting as that one.

“Black Mirror” Season 4 Out Now on Netflix: Watch

Journalism lives

haha, this is the end

finally a place where i can find netflix news

It's like an episode of Black Mirror, right

what if yer music site was part of a multimedia conglomerate

For like 1 full second I thought that was a joke post.

It’s a miracle Pitchfork managed to ascend to what it is now. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7618-come-pick-me-up/

Shit, cat

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-blue-nile-hats/

Oh my god this review is beautiful

that's a really great review, except the score is too low

i actually blurted out "what the fuck" when I first saw it but complaining about a pitchfork score just feels so trite

though a higher score could've gotten more people to check them out :(

Good review. Does seem a weirdly conservative score.

I blurted out "wtf" but only cause they didn't assign it to brad

Hmm. Never really thought of Nile Rodgers when I listen to the Blue Nile.

Who is responsible for the last few years of millennial interest in/knowledge of the Blue Nile?

Like I def lived through the Hats era of MTV and the first time I remember hearing their name was via J0rdan S.

the 1979 def helped

The Blue Nile are to Millenials what Talk Talk were to my generation

I don’t know how or why but it’s most jazz school grads around age 30 I know who listen to them, take cues from them

Who is going to be the aging No Doubt type band that scores a huge hit covering a Blue Nile song?

My sister (who has lived in Leeds for 15+ years) and her partner (who is a born and bred northern Brit), both big music nerds, claimed to have never heard of the Blue Nile the other week.

Louise Burns had a good, very loyal, cover of Downtown Lights on her 2017 album, wasn't a hit though

I came across the album at a record market, bought it on recommendation from a collector (who more or less only listens to 80s indie), ofc I fell in love with it as soon as I put it on

I feel like Destroyer's Kaputt had something to do with it.

I thought for sure Brad had reviewed it.

i discovered them due to a comparison to kaputt somewhere

Lol, yeah, the question made me immediately think of Kaputt.