― Nicole, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Well, the Albini thing practically is...
― mr. sparkle, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Makes sense, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Well, the Albini thing practically is... huh???
― Brock K., Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dleone, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dleone, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dudley, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You have completed your learning of life's lessons. Now, you suck ass just like all the other bores before you. Kylie, Alanis? Whatever, bitch. I am sure you already have the defense mechanisms in place so, this will mean nothing but, another exercise in...oh, who cares. Looking elsewhere for reality...or maybe I can pretend to be a rubber worm like pitchwhore.com...here big fishie, look, I rounded 'em up for you in a arrel. A whole demographic!
Not Funny
― Dare, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Y'know sometimes they really are asking for it:
"White Williams issues a debut album layered with impeccable influences-- including Roxy Music, Beck, and T. Rex-- and a sense of calculated disaffection."
Well shit SIGN ME UP.
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that was a bit of a repellant blurb if I ever saw one.
― Z S, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, are you saying that doesn't seem accurate?
― nabisco, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I read 'White' as 'While' and thought "The Saul Williams album sounds like that?"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
it's more that they used that as their _hook_
x-post
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The front blurbs are always stripped/condensed summary descriptions from the review inside -- in this case
His songs are thin and languorous, with impeccable influences and the sort of calculated disaffection that comes from an MFA in design and a good weed connection.
― nabisco, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
omg that is horrorshow
The blurb >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the article quote
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I assume that's an article quote; nabisco, if you just made that up then SHAME ON YOU.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
why would a critic ever try to guess where a song comes from?
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm more bothered by beck as impeccable influence
― dmr, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The description of "a sense of calculated disaffection", a combination of words that makes me imagine the shittiest band of all time, followed by "recommended" was repellant for me. I guess I like my disaffection to be natural, not carefully planned, so I would never recommend something like that.
Then again, I've never heard it so what do I know and so on.
― Z S, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
b-but someone at pfork said "hm, how can we get people to read this review? I know! we'll mention the artist's impeccable influences and calculated disaffection! that'll reel 'em in!"
RIP satire etc
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
they could have collaged+mis-used _anything_ from the article, and they collaged+mis-used that
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The White Williams album reminds me much more of late 10cc and Bread than of Roxy Music. That bit was like the classic "Let's over-hip our influences" review.
― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 1 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The description of "a sense of calculated disaffection", a combination of words that makes me imagine the shittiest band of all time, followed by "recommended" was repellant for me.
See, this sounds like the blurb WORKED for you -- i.e., efficiently let you know you would probably not like this act.
I agree, though, it looks kind of weird to have such a neutral-to-disparaging summary blurb on a recommended album.
― nabisco, Thursday, 1 November 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I like how they gave the new Babyshambles, which is actually tuneful and a good all around album, a 4.0, but gave the first one, which is dreadful and hard to listen to / bloated, a 7.3,
Yeah, it was definitely TWICE as good as the new one. Fuckin' morons.
― Erock Zombie, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh, "impeccable influences" is really repulsive.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost) was that a parody or are you really getting worked up about an internet score for babyshambles
― dmr, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
He was worked up?
― roxymuzak, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, i thought the grading scale was logarithmic. like 5 is twice as good as 4. somebody email ryan schreiber to find out.
― elan, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
shit, now i need to reevaluate all my purchases of the last five years.
― elan, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
It's actually modelled after the Richter Scale, hence the superlative designations of various well-reviewed albums as either "Reccomended," "Best New Music," or "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
if anything, that reads like a good reason not to check out the album....
― stephen, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
richter scale is logarithmic xpost
but kudos nonetheless
― elan, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah sorry the "actually" sounded like I was disagreeing when it more of an "yeah and" thing
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
No band has marked indie's prog revival more definitively than Battles: Their debut, Mirrored, took rock for a set of puzzle pieces, but was ultimately defined by its pictorial sensibility-- each song felt like a cartoon soundtrack-- and the incorporation of jokes into the most historically humorless music in the known world.
― latebloomer, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf, wtf -- wtf? -- wtf!
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the incorporation of JOKES
― s1ocki, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ya i saw that too... pretty lazy writing
How can you get paid to write if you don't know what "but" means?
― HI DERE, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
jokes?!?!? has dude ever read the back of a don cab/a minor forest/whoever cd?
― YGS, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
That bothers me more in a semantic sense: I think the album has a sense of humor, sure, but I don't know what "jokes" refers to in a largely instrumental piece of work.
― jaymc, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
joeks, bruv
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
You can here an interpolation of classic knock-knock jokes in "Atlas".
― HI DERE, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>jokes?!?!? has dude ever read the back of a don cab/a minor forest/whoever cd?
-- YGS, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:53 (10 minutes ago) Link</i>
"jokes" was horrible word choice on my part--john is right--but come on, do you really think that having a punny song title is the same as making music that is formally and sonically <i>humorous</i>? eh. don cab always struck me as definitively unfunny, they just tried to compensate with SURREAL HEADLINES.
― mike powell, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, I didn't even read the review, so I didn't know it was you, Mike.
― jaymc, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
There are new reviews
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 March 2024 12:13 (two months ago) link
^reporters CUmmings and Keyes doing the lord's work
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 13:59 (two months ago) link
Something weird is going on because they removed a bunch of recent reviews. there was a schoolboy q review this week but its gone now. Some others too - very odd.
― anonanon, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:44 (two months ago) link
Huh
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
yeah there's a big gap in the bnm and 8.0 review sections - between march 2024 and october 2023
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link
PAnon over here
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:55 (two months ago) link
if you google the schoolboy q review, you can find it https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/schoolboy-q-blue-lips/
but within the site itself you can't find it.
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
what're they hidin
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/1amtvd.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:59 (two months ago) link
I thought I was going crazy today when they had the news feature on the Dreamville lineup announcement and there was no Nicki link, nor did any of her reviews show up when I searched her on the site. I was starting to think I was crazy like surely Pitchfork has reviewed Nicki albums and then I finally found one of her most recent album on its wiki page.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2024 05:09 (two months ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/pitchfork-oral-history-music-festival-conde-nast-review.html
it's weird that this had zero mentions of any list that pitchfork ever did. the year end lists couldn't drive attention week to week like best new music could, but they felt like an important part of building and maintaining a pitchfork editorial voice.
― circles, Friday, 22 March 2024 11:31 (two months ago) link
why do we have two "pitchfork is dumb" threads?
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:36 (two months ago) link
ilx is dumb
― na (NA), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:37 (two months ago) link
It's a series
― Nabozo, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:38 (two months ago) link
this one is gigantic and ancient so a sequel thread was made at some point but people keep using this old one anyway
― ufo, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:38 (two months ago) link
thread names are too similar
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:42 (two months ago) link
i feel like having to ask demonstrates the reason. in the original thread there was a discussion about it being too big and being impossible to go back to if you're after anything but the latest few messages. but that message is buried forever because the thread is too big and is impossible to go back to if you're after anything but the latest few messages.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:43 (two months ago) link
(and obv i do know this is the original thread i haven't lost my mind just yet)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:44 (two months ago) link
Condé Nast should buy out this thread.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:45 (two months ago) link
this one is gigantic and ancient so a sequel thread was made at some point but people keep using this old one anywaylol I thought this one *was* the sequel and that the earlier discussion of the Slate oral history was on the original. ah well.
― jaymc, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:22 (two months ago) link
Thread names too similar
― President Keyes, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:25 (two months ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/future-metro-boomin-like-that-kendrick-lamar/As exciting as it is to finally have a full-length from the duo, “Like That” doesn’t show either at the peak of their powers. In fact, it’s boilerplate by their standards, Future boasting about nameless one-off flings and endless supplies of drugs over a so-so Metro beat that splits the difference between modern Atlanta and vintage California and Memphis.the beat is literally "Everlasting Bass" by Rodney O and Joe Cooley
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:27 (two months ago) link
That was not good.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:00 (two months ago) link
I haven’t listened to the song but rap nerd internet seems to be pointing out that the beat is sampling Three 6 Mafia sampling Rodney O
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
Or referencing or whatever, again, I haven’t listened to the song
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:23 (two months ago) link
I dont buy the three 6 thing. idk maybe he was inspired by how they flipped it. but metro flipped rodney o and joe cooley on the 21 savage album too hes not like ignorant of them
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:09 (two months ago) link
I just saw an article where Rodney O said Metro approached him about it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:31 (two months ago) link
The cut up vocal sample is from Three 6's 'Ridin Spinners', no? Not sure where it was from before that.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:20 (two months ago) link
you mean the Eazy E sample?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdf_GIV9Svo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:26 (two months ago) link
that's the one
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:26 (two months ago) link
chops up vocals from eazy e's "eazy duz it"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:27 (two months ago) link
right
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:28 (two months ago) link
that little chant has been sampled in duz-ens of songs through the years
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:30 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQTHxGdWv4
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:31 (two months ago) link
A lot of people sampled Gumby's hightop fade
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:40 (two months ago) link
I feel like lazy/obvious sampling in current hip hop could be a thread of its own
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link