Sodomsky's one of their best writers.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
especially in 2020, when they remain the last band intact from their particular scene. https://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/kingbuzzosolo2012_638.jpg
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
6.2 means it's good
― billstevejim, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link
Back in the day when I had a blog I was probably guilty of this often, but 10 years later it gets my goat when a writer describes a group as practically "making a pop record" when said group is NOT REMOTELY pop. Like, adding vocals and making songs under 5 minutes does not mean Windy & Carl is close to making a pop record.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 30 March 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
That was my first thought after reading that review and clicking on the embedded track... in what sense is this pop?
― enochroot, Monday, 30 March 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
I mean, the review does say, "(don’t worry, it’s not that close)" -- but yeah, that is an old saw, so to speak.
― morrisp, Monday, 30 March 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
That is one of those parentheticals where the act of writing it is an indication that you should just delete whatever came before.
(It’s like seeing “no pun intended” in print—there was a moment in the editing process where you could have removed your unintended pun, but you didn’t, so the pun was intended.)
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
The subject of the lead review today is, wait for it, a reissue of the Paris Hilton album from 2006.
I appreciate everything's ground to a halt and there's nothing happening, but . . . come on.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, 4 April 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Stars are Blind does hold up tho.
― triggercut, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Was that an album that was beloved on this site upon it's release or mocked? Sometimes I can never quite tell how strong the forces of poptimism are. Especially when I still remember AllMusic's infamous 4.5/5 rating for it.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
This was released slightly pre-poptimism iirc. If it was released today by whoever her modern equivalent is it'd be a BNM and we'd be hearing her "break down" every song on the album and learning about her favorite IPAs
Agree Stars Are Blind is dope in that "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" kinda way
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
PARIS HILTON - PARIS
― rob, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
had forgotten about all her racist shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
review is really weird, sort of like....why do this?especially when you're giving it a 5.2 and not even making the case that it's worthwhileesp in the current climate I don't really find a rich kid's vapid bullshit real interesting right about now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UYjQD1l.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, totally weird thing to review... a vinyl reissue of a nothing album (and not even in the Sunday “retrospective” slot)? Feels like the writer maybe convinced the editors to let him do it, as a “pet project” or something. It’s not a badly written piece, but major points off for deploying this idiom:
It is quite tempting to shit on Paris at a time when...
― morrisp, Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
I recall giving it a pretty positive review upon release, not sure what side of history that puts me on
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
“Drunk Text” was good.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 April 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:29 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
no its not ... how are you posting on ilx and not knowing when poptimism is ... this album was a full on thelex moment
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 5 April 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
‘stars are blind’ is my gf’s alarm clock on her phone
― flopson, Sunday, 5 April 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
yeah I think there's a thread where ppl were really into the Paris album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
I guess in a way she was a pioneer of all these vapid assholes, YouTubers and everything
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
The thread is posted up a ways. Lex’s defining moment imo. Also horrifying.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
So... I can never keep track of people's usernames. Is this a post from the same person who reviewed the reissue?
She couldn't have less to say if she were plantlife. This album is beyond garbage. Case in point: "she opens the album with a little yelp of "yah! that's hott!"Oh, that's been mentioned.― Richj (Rich), Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:18 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Richj (Rich), Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:18 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
^If so, he should have led off the review with his old post; would have been funny.
― morrisp, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I think that Lex thread is what led me to ILX back in the day. Sort of similar to people falling into the alt-right:
Step 1: LOL I found a message board where people think the Paris Hilton album is great
Step 2: I'm listening to this Ashlee Simpson album ironically.
Step 3: Buys Big & Rich CD
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
lol big and rich omg
― brimstead, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
I kinda associate this time period with people ‘praising’/laughing at “this is why I’m hot”
― brimstead, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
First you ignore Big and Rich, then you laugh at Big and Rich, then you fight Big and Rich, then they win
― Vinnie, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Most 2020 title, kind of:
https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Came here to post that. I think the only word in that headline that doesnt trigger me is “in”.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Baths Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen
weird way to spell "The Beths"
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link
my sad terrible superpower is usually being able to predict Pfork scores for marquee releases within about .2 of a point just based on the surrounding narrative/buzz.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:19 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
I can always guess the general score range by reading the blurbs.
― Ainsley James Gryffyd Lowbeer Holdsworth (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 April 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
Most 2020 title, kind of:https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-headlining-coronavirus-relief-festival-in-minecraft/
That's a Yahoo Serious Festival headline if ever I've seen one.
― triggercut, Thursday, 9 April 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
Sodomsky's one of their best writers.The dude writes really well about Phish — cf. the review that’s currently up, and especially this previous one (a pan by a fan of a band, which is great kind of review to read).
― morrisp, Friday, 10 April 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
His Strokes review today is good, too... Sam S. writes measured, thoughtful negative reviews; he really gets into diagnosing what doesn’t work and how it could have been better.
― morrisp, Friday, 10 April 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
Watch These Nature Webcams While Listening to These Albums
Pictured: a bird feeder in someone's backyard, Mastodon album
It's like a step or two away from a legit Clickhole post.
― Evan, Monday, 13 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
Annual Flowers emerges from its chrysalis a wounded, staggeringly beautiful statement that feels like a new high point in his career.
...What may have begun as demos and sketches in 2011, and an overlooked highlight in 2016, has aged to perfection in 2020.
7.9
i know, i know. it's just funny
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
lol yeah that webcam thing killed me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
If there was no pandemic would they post Best Albums To Soundtrack 10-Hour Train Journey YouTube Videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiN7gOcNI4
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 13 April 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
How many times will the phrase “recorded while in quarantine” appear in pitchfork over the next year or two?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 13 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters/
holy shit
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
When's the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue?
― enochroot, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
a decade ago, I think. I don't keep track of such things.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Kanye West maybe?
― Evan, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
it's a great record more deserving than most but them leaning into the 'perfect' score thing feels a lil off
Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters—named Best New Music—is a perfect album https://t.co/IFQSikfarH— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) April 17, 2020
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Kanye West was the last time they gave a 10 to a non-reissue/retrospective.
The last time before that might have been Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in April 2002.
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
and a hair before that, Source Tags and Codes. different times.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Source Tags and Codes still bangs, I'd say it's 2/3 years away from a hugely positive reappraisal.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
9.9 a more appropriate score for this Fiona album. It's so good.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link