it would make more sense if from now on they're putting track reviews in with album reviews instead of in with news
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
I wonder why they didn’t review that Beyoncé track; seems like it would have been a natural choice.
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
A Sufjan single is now the lead review and labeled BNM. So I guess this is a thing now.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 4 July 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
they're finally catching up with the fast-paced lifestyles of generation zoom
― j., Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
#allgenerationsmatter
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Featured Videos have also been moved to the top of the page (where news used to be)?
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
#allvideosmatter
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
weird posts austin
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 4 July 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
#allpostsmatter
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
not the pish ones
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Sunday, 5 July 2020 3:48 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this happens every weekend
― ufo, Saturday, 4 July 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
ah
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
12 minutes of maximalist minimalism that makes a hackneyed political statement, can’t wait.
― skip, Sunday, 5 July 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
idk seems credible
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 5 July 2020 06:49 (three years ago) link
Are they deliberately not reporting on Kanye for prez? If so, I applaud that.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
perhaps we could follow suit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 July 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
had the same thought. good on 'em if so.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Or they could just not be reporting on it because of holiday weekend, since there hasn't been any new news items since July 3?
― MarkoP, Sunday, 5 July 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
That Pure Moods review is lovely and made me laugh quite a bit, particularly in the sections about Enigma.
Crockett's Theme came back for a brief while during the balearic times of the mid-aughts, I used to play it at parties, same with Enya. People would go nuts for it?
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 5 July 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
Tiga’s remix of FPU’s cover of “crockett’s theme” is a goddam jam
― brimstead, Monday, 6 July 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
wait the original mix I mean
― brimstead, Monday, 6 July 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
the kanye news is there now but framed in a way that I appreciate ("has filed no paperwork" right in the headline)
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
so their new podcast is gonna flop right
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 6 July 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
rude
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
sorry didn't know you were producing
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
ah cool whiney congrats
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
Serious power move to place a review of an album entitled Fucking Hell directly alongside a review of an album entitled Massey Fucking Hall on today's albums page.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Thursday, 9 July 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
Surviving under capitalism is a drag—it’s the oldest story in rock’n’roll—
Is it? Like, "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip, Mum mum mum mum mum mum, get a job"?
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Thursday, 9 July 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
pretty sure the oldest story in rock 'n' roll is "I want to fuck"
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 July 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
You woman have heard of jalopiesYou heard the noise they makeLet me introduce you to my Rocket '88Yes, it's great, just won't waitEverybody likes my Rocket '88There is no ethical consumption under capitalism
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
more like a drag race
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 July 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
I guess Meddle is exactly on par with Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 12 July 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
I can't believe Pink Floyd had a dog in the band who could play the blues and make sound collages, and even more amazingly, the dog wasn't able to get a record deal of his own! Blatant music industry species-ism.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcuL4nIXoAEKDU6.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 12 July 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
Kind of funny to see Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead at the top of the reviews section
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 12 July 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
It's a good writeup even if I think it should be a 9.5 or whatever
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 12 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
“And here you are, still doin’ you,” she sings. “It never worked out, but it never stopped you.” Those are great lines
they are?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
"The best pop songs leave you wanting more."
They do?
― billstevejim, Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
I disagree strongly with this review. The EP is fantastic. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/summer-walker-life-on-earth-ep/
― FAC 179 (morrisp), Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
The main complaint seems to be that her lyrics aren’t to the reviewer’s taste. Like, sorry about that, but the music has other qualities.
― FAC 179 (morrisp), Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Wipers review reads like parody
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 19 July 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
There’s some good writing and analysis in it but the opening paragraph is ridiculous.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Missing the obvious childishness of 'No fair' is… not a good start. And the extended development around Reagan is peak p4k contextsplaining.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
this project of reassessing the alt canon through a social justice lens sometimes reads like a less entertaining version of the Maoist International Movement movie reviews, p4k shouldn’t be afraid to lean into the absurdity a bit more imo
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
I remember, in college, reading a review of the Cranberries single “Zombie” in the pages of the Socialist Worker, the free paper distributed by the (now-defunct) ISO, which was big on my campus. The entire review was a diatribe about how the song was reactionary propaganda designed to weaken support for the IRA... it ended with something like: “Unfortunately, the song is very catchy and well-produced, which will probably make it popular and increase the damage it will cause.” I thought this was so funny.
― FAC 179 (morrisp), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
(And honestly, that’s more attention to the music than Pfork sometimes pays!)
― FAC 179 (morrisp), Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Can't wait for p4k and Plugged In to converge at last, e.g.:
https://www.pluggedin.com/album-reviews/juice-wrld-legends-never-die/
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 July 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
xpost can’t wait for Ian Curtis’ suicide to be critiqued as politically impotent
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 19 July 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
A Tory offing himself? Nah.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 July 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
I guess if Protomartyr wanted that sweet, sweet BNM they wouldn't have dissed ian cohen in song
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
You’ll never guess how this emergency room physician runs her own cassette-only label (note-she is married to one of our staffers)
― beamish13, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link