pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

xp I found all three of those LPs a couple years ago, about $30 for all three, great shape. It was a wonderful and upbeat week, musically

When I think "marrying the rhythmic economy and literate alienation of post-punk with the instrumental dexterity and formal ambition of prog," I think of Wire's "154." Meanwhile:

Fripp's path in this era is another case in point

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

BadBadNotGood’s Matthew Tavares Shares Statement on Departure From Band

To be unfollowed by the Instagram you made is a funny feeling.

HERE'S WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT YOU

hahahahahaha

Hahaha bravo

X-post - those into King Sunny Ade should check out a movie doc on old school Nigerian musicians called Elder’s Corner that is now at some online and in person film festivals or one off events. The youngish Nigerian Director doesn’t have much of a budget. The film covers Ebenezer Obey , Fela, and more obscure musicians but Ade is in there for a bit .

I like the idea of a catch-all list of random stuff that may have otherwise escaped notice, but cringe at "progressive pop music"... no one says that.

progressive pop music is Supertramp

good list that

ok, I would have rather seen a deep dive on The Chinese Album but still nice to read about Spacehog again. I always found them so much more charming and enjoyable than 90% of the other post-grunge alt-rock radio fodder of the same period.

really great caspa/rusko review today.

i know, the writers don't choose the score. still, i love that "being submerged in a warm bath for 95 minutes" is a 7.0 experience, lol

i guess you would start to get all pruned up after a while. maybe a 95 minute warm bath really is a 7.0

The final Audioslave album is like being a slave to audio for 48 miunutes

Heyyyyyoo

The Worst Party Ever album is like

Five Takeaways from Clicking X on the Full Page Ads Pitchfork Loves

good lord the number of proper nouns in this review made me dizzy: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yard-act-the-overload/

also a funny read after spending time in the british expressions thread

Good call on the proper-noun barrage. Also:

How you feel that he shares the same last name as Mark E. Smith—fun happenstance, insufferable media bait, a shrug—will probably tell you how much you’ll enjoy what Yard Act is selling.

(I do like the extended talk about a particular song to end the piece, though)

My Bloody Valentine Call Out Spotify for Sharing “Incorrect and Insulting” Lyrics

^they’re reporting on a tweet, by telling you what the tweet says (and that they have no more info to share). That is not news

i mean fox news does it . . . why not pfork?

The inexplicable historical revisionism of Third Eye Blind being good is baffling: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/third-eye-blind-third-eye-blind/

Why? The earth belongs to the living and not to the dead.

they were always good

It’s a good piece. I also didn’t know what a huge dick Jenkins apparently was to the guitar player etc., until I read this last night (and then some other stuff)

I acknowledge their existence

some otherwise very trustable music pals of mine were obsessed by 3EB growing up, and still love them today. i was in the right place at the right time for that but it didn't happen

The key line (in a "there is an unbridgeable gulf between this writer's experience of life and art, and mine" sense) is when they seem to compare Stephan Jenkins favorably to a youth pastor, as if either of those — singer for Third Eye Blind, or youth pastor — could ever possibly be a good thing.

a buddy of mine was their publicist for awhile, she seemed happy with the work

I dismissed 3EB when they were popular because I was a pretentious college freshman and they represented the lame mainstream. Now, however, I think they're musically more interesting than most bands of their ilk.

from what i could gather as a middle schooler who liked songs on the radio and mtv/vh1 but was rapidly transforming into a huge snob, most ppl who cared to listen to the s/t at the time discovered the same thing

(i know ned has always been immune)

I just can’t get past “||: doo doo doo, doo da-doo! :||”

To me they are like “whoa-ohs” in music, the singalong thing, no thanks. If a musician is doot doot then I will listen to “doot doot”, because at least that song has a cool keyboard part

musically more interesting than most bands of their ilk

A bar so low it's digging a rut into the floor.

this is how you doot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0uxnnzY-n0

xp It rare I’m aligned w/unperson, but yeah lol

when i was in 10th grade i would just play the third eye blind s/t and built to spill's perfect from now on on a constant loop

admittedly 3eb is what happens when a very smart and good-sounding rock band is fronted by the worst coffee shop-ass self-stylized beatnik poet you've ever met (even though i think his lyrics have been consistently very good and funny on every record), and this fact makes his desperate grabs for indie rock cred in interviews over the years super pathetic and pretentious. but on record it actually works that way for me, it could sit next to matchbox twenty (uuuuughhhhh) on the airwaves but it had the depth and dynamics of pretty much all the indie i listened to at the time

If people enjoy the music of Third Eye Blind good for them i guess. But that piece is ott enough that big chunks of come off like the 90s pop-rock version Patrick Bateman on Huey Lewis: "Sure, crystal meth will lift you up — but Cadogan’s dulcet strumming is a steadier kind of high... [swirls snifter of Jones Cola] ...Even deeper cuts like 'The Background' spin every instrumental into wispy wonders."

i disagree with this piece's thesis about kevin cadogan. he was good but out of the vein, the first record they made without him, isn't noticeably worse than the s/t or blue. jenkins is the band unfortunately, and there's such a consistency in sound between records that imo you wouldn't notice the band had almost been entirely replaced unless you already had this information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAta5RbJayw

the string slide that opens this song is my favorite sound in all of music

Who gets credit for that long gtr/instrumental break in “Jumper”? I always really liked that

maybe i'm overstating that jenkins "is the band," but he's the common denominator. get deep enough into the weeds of 3eb legal stuff and you will become aware of xeb, a sort-of-tribute band made up of ex-3eb band members, and they sound just terrible

"jumper" is credited solely to jenkins, cadogan probably played the guitar line, who knows beyond that

If I need mid 90s pop rock sound I reach for bands like Poole but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a whole 3EB album either.

I read about XEB last nite, had no idea…

third eye blind had their fifteen minutes. fuck off and don't come back.

I spent this entire revive wondering why no one was mentioning the band's famous singer, before realizing I was mixing up Maroon 5 and 3EB

proper insult, that. well done.