pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Lol who could ever figure out what he means by that

kakistocrat OTM

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"

or "keyboards out of a John Hughes film"

Spike Lee: Occasional Jazz User

Light Jazz User Syndrome

Explore Elliott Smith’s Iconic Either/Or in 5 Minutes
Explore Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks in 4 Minutes
noticing 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!

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.

I see (I've never watched one).

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.

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, 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

so you've watched them all?

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!

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

right

is there an industry-specific reason they haven't pivoted away from video yet

this could be a hint http://16896-presscdn-0-13.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Innovation-Collection-Media-Kit_Pitchfork-r1.pdf

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/

i apologize for posting a link to something that i think is good though...

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/

Wes Anderson: Occasional 60s music user

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

Smiths Fans Are “Neurotic,” Björk Fans Are “Open,” Study Shows

https://goo.gl/images/XeobSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L104LViQeIw

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

https://i.imgur.com/WSDzU3M.png

absolutely meaningless word salad in this elephant man review from 03 made me laugh.

"staggering flaming synth ring"

sounds uncomfortable

those overlooked records list are always good, more stuff I like there than on the BNM list

that jpegmafia album rules

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/

Nah, that piece is otm

As a fan of a lot of the folks mentioned, and a huge gear nerd as well, no it isn't.

metal zone fuiud

yeah it totally isn't, i work at a guitar store, nobody uses Line 6 anymore. EHX & Boss rule the market along with local boutique pedal companies.

The article is about the last twenty years, not “anymore”

local boutique pedal companies is quietly the most important guitar pedeal of the last twenty years

don't have a horse here but what exactly is the objection? it seems like it was sourced and is full of quotes?

Surprised not to see Mary Halvorson's name in that piece; the DL4 is hugely important to her sound. We talked about it a lot when I interviewed her for The Wire.

yeah it's still wrong. Holy Grails, Memory Mans, DD-3's/5's/7's, and Carbon Copys were/are more popular and even people that used Line-6 delays (like Tyondai Braxton and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) had multiple delay pedals on their boards. the SP-303/404/555 are the defining instrument of the 00s.

local boutique pedal companies is quietly the most important guitar pedeal of the last twenty years

― flopson, Sunday, April 1, 2018 5:19 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one wants Line 6 anymore, boutique pedals are much more popular across the USA

Yeah, if we're just going off delays, the Carbon Copy was/is way more prevalent.

But, honestly, the idea that the Klon isn't the most important pedal of the last twenty years is just inaccurate.

among the types of acts pitchfork covers? really? who the fuck is using a klon?

anyway the idea that this is about "delays" is obtuse, it's about the emergence/prevalence of compact looping pedals of which the line 6 was one of the most, if not the most, accessible and common.

no way, king of the loopers was the Boss double red guy

Nobody's denying the DL4's influence.

But it would be inaccurate to say its influence and "importance" is greater than the Klon.

among the types of acts pitchfork covers? really? who the fuck is using a klon?

Chris Walla, Britt Daniel, homeboy from the Strokes. . .

travis barker is the most important guitar pedal of the past 20 years

thanks ufo, i'm only going to need a few hours. you will have it tomorrow by 9PM Pacific.

wrong thread, sorry.

no one wants Line 6 anymore, boutique pedals are much more popular across the USA

― flappy bird, Sunday, April 1, 2018 5:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You do realize that this like arguing that "technically if you add up the combined sales of every record Matador put out in the last 20 years, it's more popular than Chief Keef"

whiney i put boss, ehx, and mxr ahead of your local fuzz craftsman