one mention of Bruce Springsteen (?) no Roxy Music, Cheap Trick, ELO, Queen, Bowie, etc. put this into context you "writer"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
like would it kill him to describe the actual music?
yeah this struck me as well, you'd think it was identical to his previous records, which it really isn't.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
paging carles
― nxd, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Happy International Women's Day!
Listen to a Best New Track from a chameleonic 19-year-old rapper from Chicago https://t.co/DLiqJfHEu2— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) March 8, 2018
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
lmao
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that the conceit of the song isn't "girls are all equally wonderful!"
Pitchfork really on a streak today:https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/meet-the-man-unapologetically-selling-the-cars-biggie-and-tupac-were-shot-in/
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
At least the Yo La Tengo interview was nice I guess
I tend to be kind of a pitchfork apologist but yeah that andrew wk review was not great and very weirdly cynical. dude needs to party more.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
“You’re Not Alone,” the big finish, manages to wring poignancy out of the most obvious and obviously stated sentiment.
so cynical he can't help but use obvious twice in one sentence
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
You know a classic rock-indebted album is unique when ILM loves it and pitchfork thinks it's meh
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 9 March 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Vince Staples’ GoFundMe for Early Retirement Was Briefly Removed
It’s back now!
perhaps most lol thing about these kind of banal non-stories is pitchfork believing they require a byline for some reason
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
sorry, that was rude of me. Exceptional work, Evan Minsker, really terrific
https://pitchfork.com/news/kodak-black-moved-to-solitary-confinement-report/
"The arrest stemmed from an incident in which Kodak’s young child was shown in the vicinity of marijuana and a handgun"
who is the audience? like fuck solitary forever, but pitchfork isn't exactly delving deep into the prison industrial complex, they're just VICE without the t&a
― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 March 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link
pfork deciding to double down on reporting the criminal exploits of rappers they barely talk about otherwise is wack as fuck
― kakistocrat, Sunday, 18 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
As a Spike Lee-esque saxophone wanders in and out of the mix, Strangers links the spirit of Eazy-E to Capital Steeze, his sadly departed Pro Era comrade.
Legendary saxophonist Spike Lee
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 March 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
maybe he got wesley snipes character in mo' better blues confused with spike lee's character in mo' better blues
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Lol who could ever figure out what he means by that
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
kakistocrat OTM
― Yerac, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
xp point is there are sixty million jazz artists he could have referenced instead of a non jazz music-playing director known for occasionally using jazz in his soundtracks, and suggests that dude has a very myopic view of / knows fuck all about jazz. Like saying "guitar solos straight out of Almost Famous"
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
or "keyboards out of a John Hughes film"
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
Spike Lee: Occasional Jazz User
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
Light Jazz User Syndrome
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
Explore Elliott Smith’s Iconic Either/Or in 5 MinutesExplore Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks in 4 Minutesnoticing a trend here.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, March 2, 2017 4:25 PM
I always cringe when I see these (and they do them all the time now). Just listen to the damn album! If you have 5 minutes, find 32 more!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
well, it's not like it's a sped up version of the album — the idea with the videos is to give some background info / context / insight. i do agree that promoting these videos in this way is kind of weird.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
I see (I've never watched one).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Aside from the studied banality, the autoplay on these makes me want to shit out my spleen with RAGE. It's stopped me going to the site, pretty much.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
― tylerw, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm all for this, I devour all making of materials, but these are so cursory, none of them are anything more than the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. they're completely useless even for casual fans. idk, it's the pivot to video I guess
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
so you've watched them all?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
all the albums i care about yeah. checked out some others i wasn't that familiar with, and double checked wikipedia - i mean, you couldn't get more cursory. gimme twenty minutes at least!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
it would be one thing if these were presented as introductions but the notion that you can "explore" a record in 5 mins is stupid
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
right
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
is there an industry-specific reason they haven't pivoted away from video yet
― j., Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
this could be a hint http://16896-presscdn-0-13.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Innovation-Collection-Media-Kit_Pitchfork-r1.pdf
― maura, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
this is good. and has lots of good links at the end of it.
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-a-group-of-journalists-turned-hip-hop-into-a-literary-movement/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
i apologize for posting a link to something that i think is good though...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
No worries, I'll cancel it out --
A lotta words I don't personally care for in this headline: https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-wes-anderson-perfected-the-music-nerd-soundtrack/
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Wes Anderson: Occasional 60s music user
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
yeah those sure were a lot of words about almost nothing
he did choose some great songs though, no doubt
I guess it's down to those dusty crates...
the crate-digger soundtrack, a style of music supervision that heightens the movie-watching experience with the thrill of pawing through boxes of dusty LPs at a flea market
― niels, Thursday, 22 March 2018 07:34 (six years ago) link
Smiths Fans Are “Neurotic,” Björk Fans Are “Open,” Study Shows
https://goo.gl/images/XeobSk
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 22 March 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L104LViQeIw
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 22 March 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/great-records-you-may-have-missed-winter-2018/
if they're gonna do this every quarter, i'm not mad. I hadn't heard the Hailu Mergia album yet and it's fucking incredible
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WSDzU3M.png
absolutely meaningless word salad in this elephant man review from 03 made me laugh.
― oiocha, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
"staggering flaming synth ring"
sounds uncomfortable
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
those overlooked records list are always good, more stuff I like there than on the BNM list
― niels, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 09:56 (six years ago) link
that jpegmafia album rules
― nxd, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
Even adjusting for the "how far out of their ass are they talking" factor, this is pretty wrong:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-line-6-dl4-is-quietly-the-most-important-guitar-pedal-of-the-last-20-years/
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 1 April 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
Nah, that piece is otm
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 1 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
As a fan of a lot of the folks mentioned, and a huge gear nerd as well, no it isn't.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 1 April 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
metal zone fuiud
― flopson, Sunday, 1 April 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link