pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

no, but I heard his agent is

Terrific: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yoko-ono-season-of-glass/

I (genuinely) like that they pushed much of the extended “context setting” to the review’s second half. If you only have a casual interest in Ono & Lennon, you can stop reading at “… the only difference was that people were, momentarily, listening.”

Jack White Posts Tribute to Meg White as World Considers the Viral and Bad White Stripes Take

The internet was a bad idea, guys.

(Seriously, I think Meg is whatever but people have been joking about her being a suck-ass drummer since the day the White Stripes became a thing).

Breaking News: World Rallies to Colin Melody’s Defense After Journalist Tweets He Is Pretentious

viral and bad?

Meg's a great drummer and people should be pushing against misogynistic crap wherever they see it

bold take in 2023 to argue that misogynist bullshit against Meg White is okay because people have been pulling misogynist bullshit against Meg White for twenty years

Jack's IG thing was weird, but I appreciate him saying something

Karen Elson's response was better "keep my ex husband’s ex wife name out of your f*cking mouth"

Not only is Meg White a fantastic drummer, Jack also said the White Stripes would be nothing without her. To the journalist who dissed her, keep my ex husband’s ex wife name out of your f*cking mouth.
(Please and Thank You) https://t.co/qnnxgT3Rxh

— Karen Elson (@KarenElson_) March 14, 2023

meg>ringo

Macca Posts Tribute to Billy Shears as World Considers the Viral and Bad Sgt. Pepper's Take

meg should finally release her solo album and it should just be 80 minutes of her doing the most sparse, simplest beat ever. no guitars, no vocals, nothing else.

10/10 bnm.

Meg White Plays Thomas Brinkmann

(would buy)

what is Meg up to? do we know? working an office job? independently wealthy? making music for herself? have they ever said that she just wanted to leave the industry or something?

i have no idea. never cared much for this band ... one of those where i dig everything about them except the music. no slight to her, of course. she obviously rules.

never mind. i just remembered i could Google this, so i did. my bad!

i have no idea. never cared much for this band ... one of those where i dig everything about them except the music. no slight to her, of course. she obviously rules.

― alpine static, Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:18 PM

very otm for me too (nearly verbatim).

i have no idea what she's up to and think of her as kind of a perfect role model; especially in regards to the shitty criticisms of her style. did she ever say anything in response? i don't remember that she did. kind of passive aggressive non-response of, "well if i suck so much why does seven nation army rock so hard?"

(thread idea: "musicians you love/ride for/defend while actively disliking the music they make")

Good idea. I thought of a few already but I'll save them for the thread

thanks for reminding me why I stopped posting here

I liked Jack’s IG poem fwiw

thanks for reminding me why I stopped posting here

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, March 16, 2023 6:21 PM

np

i just thought the headline was very goofy, especially "the viral and bad white stripes take"

agreed. don't mean to goof too much about this because it's a pretty fucking daft criticism. like i said, i don't even like the band and it bugs me.

the "viral and bad" is funny, but the part that made me laugh/cringe most was "as world considers"

the music Jack White has made since the end of The White Stripes is all the evidence you need that Meg was not the problem in that band

this x 100000000

There is a little Kevin Shields in the way Tumor manipulates sounds; the way the triggered samples detonate on late-album highlight “Purified by the Fire” recalls MBV’s “Touched.”

Isn't Touched all Colm's work or is my memory failing me? Anyway good review.

i believe that's the case yeah

After 50 years as one of the biggest bands in the world, there’s something charming in the way that U2 keeps acting like they have something to prove.

are you quibbling with rounding 47 up to 50?

hey, fake news is fake news.

they were one of the biggest bands in the world in 1976?

yep, fake news.

(sorry i'll stop now. the thought of u2 in 1976 on totp has tickled me greatly.)

you guys did it, you finally nailed pitchfork this time

It's a beautiful day

(sorry i'll stop now. the thought of u2 in 1976 on totp has tickled me greatly.)
Given the way they looked on TV in 1978, and 76 being before TOTP felt the paradigm shift, I imagine their way of glamming it up could have made them look like Slik or John Miles.

Doesn't it feel like U2 has been around for 2000 years, though?

very christ-like, yes. good observation.

It's a beautiful day

lol that’s so catty, I really don’t care how or when people get into things

Guess they meant 40 years.

Likewise, the exercise of switching “Bad”—the band’s 1984 song written about a friend’s struggles with drug abuse—from third person to first person disrespects the song’s original intent.

I also noticed that. Having already caused hoo-hah here I swept it under the rug.

All I need from a U2 review is the names of the band members:
Bonobos, Thedge, Adam Clay Two Thousand Pounds, Larry Mullen Srs.' Son

AARP sponsored content...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsEvGoWaUAA3ZYq.jpg

Well if you were in college when Talking Heads and Television debuts came out you could collect Social Security now

xp That doesn’t look like actual content on their site(?) I think it’s just an ad (being served up to you!)

Nice find:

you would never guess in a million years what album’s pitchfork review opens with this paragraph pic.twitter.com/1p7PaYV299

— collin (@spiketvviewer) March 30, 2023

Luckily for Gillian Welch, the path to acclaim in the folk-country genre doesn't require moving to Oklahoma, Appalachia, or a Mississippi riverbank. Nor does it call for songs about killing people, peddling crack, or mining for black ass-gold (in fact, the latter is probably anathema to the cause). Rather, it's just fine if you sound like you know what you're doing and appreciate tradition, and Welch achieves that with ease.

Well she did move to Nashville in 1992

ass-gold

xpost - my wife spent some time working with AARP on a campaign and I can assure you that Gen X is their prime ad demographic. they don't aim at people they know are retirement age, but those heading that way. so makes total sense that Pitchfork would be in an ad buy.