Pitchfork must do extensive A/B testing. I guess devvine's version has Netflix children's show actors instead of a comedian/writer for Desus & Mero, an actor from I May Destroy You (please don't show that to your children), and Kelly Reichardt?
― rob, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
It's cool that Masha and the Bear are into Ethio Jazz though
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:19 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think i was just remembering a stranger things kid tbf
― devvvine, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
The “Here’s What [Celebrity] Is Listening To” articles clearly only exist so they can take advantage of the strings they’re able to pull with notable figures in the non-music wings of showbiz in a way that still ostensibly fits the site’s core mission, ie “our readers will probably click on a headline with Marc Maron’s name in it, and he at least listens to music, right?”.It’s basically a snazzier version of when they try to rationalize some reason why a midday article about the Clone High revival or w/e qualifies as “music news”.
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
It's kind of like the "STARS: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US" of the music world imho.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
They should do it from the POV of fictional characters. I want to know what Wendy and Lucy were jamming before Wendy's car shit the bed.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
https://oct.co/essays/wye-oak-jenn-wasner-no-horizon-interview
This interview, published on October, a beer publication, and linked to on Pitchfork, includes two questions about alcohol. The interviewee responds to each of those questions making brief and vague references only to wine. Beer is mentioned one time by the interviewer and zero times by the interviewee.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 15 August 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
There should be at least 2 questions about hops in each interview
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 August 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
has the beer site now lasted longer than the dissolve
― devvvine, Saturday, 15 August 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
well, there's surely more to say about beer than about films
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 August 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
"Let's talk wine barrels. Wye Oak... why oak?"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 15 August 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
wow i totally forgot about the dissolve
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 15 August 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
mentioning the dissolve reminded me of their vertical (not sure if that's the right term) for more experimental/fringe stuff ... way back in the early 2000s, I think? what was that called?
― alpine static, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Altered Zones? That was 2010-2011ish.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Also, in my mind I always think of The Dissolve more as an AV Club spinoff than a Pitchfork spinoff, which it actually was.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Dissolve was an AV Club spinoff published by PF
― beaky joshing shamanic part-angster (sic), Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
it read a lot like the av club which was a problem
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
yes, Altered Zones ... was it really that recent??
― alpine static, Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/j-balvin-and-roddy-ricch-drop-out-of-2020-mtv-vmas/
Seems weird to write this news article without a mention that j Balvin is recovering from covid
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 August 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
Nirvana drops out of 1994 VMAs
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 August 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Today’s throwback review (of Miranda Lambert’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is well-written, but it’s an extreme case of the usual problem — by the time Sodomsky gets around to actually talking about that particular album (for a paragraph or two), it’s startling/amusing to recall that a review of that particular album is what you had clicked on.
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Keep in mind: it's only been the last few years that Pitchfork's paid attention to Lambert, therefore context is more important than usual. I didn't mind it here, in large part b/c Sodomsky's one of my favorite working writers.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 August 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Mine too, but it could have just as easily been labeled a review of Kerosene!
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 23 August 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Kerosene’s the better album
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 24 August 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
I've leaned that way for a couple years
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 August 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
Whoever wrote the subhed for Sodomsky's Mary Chapin Carpenter review probably shouldn't have leaned so heavily on phrasing from the opening sentence.
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
I am devastated to learn there is “slut-shaming” on the new Nas album
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
is there a fetus
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
That's a pretty well-written review, though.
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Thursday, 27 August 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
Maybe I'm going stir crazy but for some reason this was just cracking my up yesterday: NEWSLil Uzi Vert’s Virtual Concert: Here’s What Happened
You'll never guess what happened: "Running through some of his biggest hits from a socially distanced livestream in Philadelphia... Uzi performed on under a Jumbotron and on a circular stage that flashed with a number of custom designs and animations" Sounds like a good time, hope he had fun!
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 28 August 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
“on under”?
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Friday, 28 August 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
imagine trying to diagram that sentence in 1968
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 August 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
nevertheless, he performed on, under a jumbotron
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/397c637b-d041-4337-8c58-6c15cb7d22a9_text.gif
― billstevejim, Friday, 28 August 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
whoops i meanthttps://y.yarn.co/397c637b-d041-4337-8c58-6c15cb7d22a9_text.gif
― billstevejim, Friday, 28 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
The Worst Part of Bill & Ted Face the Music Is the Music
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
i mean, they're not wrong?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
Unlike the original! Big Pig and Glen Burtnik 4eva.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
The music is bad in all 3 movies except for Primus I guess
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
the worst part of pitchfork's 2010s decade listicle was the music
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
the premise of the fantasy movie series Bill & Ted has always been "two untalented doofuses manage to make music that offends nobody"
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:57 (three years ago) link
the bogus journey soundtrack rules
― maura, Thursday, 3 September 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
it does! i was thinking of "god gave rock and roll to you" and "two heads are better than one" -- although at least those songs are funny-bad whereas the stuff in the last 10 minutes of face the music is headache-bad.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
just to say something nice, I really like the format of Alphonse Pierre's weekly rap column
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
"It’s Time to Take Enya Seriously"(?)
Maybe a teaser headline format like this shouldn't bug me, but it does - b/c it implies "we" haven't been taking her seriously, and my immediate response is - "That's on you, dude"
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Also, I feel like the “it’s time to take Enya seriously” thing is like five years too late at this point
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
yeah, agree (maybe it's an excellent podcast, idk)
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
pivot to Enya
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
It's Time to Take ABBA Seriously
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
About 162,000,000 results (0.73 seconds) No results found for "it's time to take yahoo seriously".
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link