Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs

Is this Pitchfork's most embarrassingly transparent and desperate attempt to try to lay claim to some sort of status above the cunted internet feedback loop?

Yep! 10.0/10.0

damn homie

whatta lazy cop-out

i do love the role of "ray suzuki" as pitchfork's http://bp3.blogger.com/_WqvMLlERcvY/RvyAN31SBeI/AAAAAAAAACM/y7TDkgpYyqY/s1600/deathatgolf.jpg though

They changed it from a 0.0 to 3.3 within the last hour. They can't even commit to their bullshit.

And now Scott Plagenhoef is the author, not Ray Suzuki...

and now the review is a picture of dogs.

oh, pitchfork, you card!

i thought the review was always a picture of dogs

I met someone who actually read pitchfork once, it was weird. I thought he was kidding but he looked all sad when I giggled.

This will be their Rattle And Hum moment, right?

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z100/Adolfo71014/RW-Peter-Griffin-Ridiculous.jpg

x-post: that's a good story, reading ilm is way cooler

can someone explain what happened here?

It was simply a computer error left over from our server change a few weeks back. An eariler version of this same review-- but with a placeholder rating, subhead, and author name-- was ported over and accidentally 'reverted to' in our system when I woke and it was changed asap. Sorry...it's a boring technical difficulty.

it's remarkable that a review like this one need a few weeks of advance planning, and that management still fucked it up.

"Everybody's got to hear the shit on WBALLZ, WBALLZ

WBALLZ!"

the original teaser made much more sense. now it's like they're apologizing to the band? either way this is just really lazy and kinda gutless

It wasn't so much advanced planning as one early, internal joke that turned out to be the thing we ended up going with. We are also constantly working to correct and curb our CMS errors but a computer error and a human error are different things.

Whether a reader, or loads of them, finds it lazy or gutless is another matter, of course.

I think it's safe to say Pitchfork will never recover from this one error

In a cheap and shitty way this review is satisfying to me.

I can't wait til the interview where that editor dude says "Pitchfork is entirely responsible for your backlash, whaddya think of that?"

I've felt like someone owed me an apology for Black Kids ever since I heard them, so this seems about right.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MuL6uz5JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

one early, internal joke that turned out to be the thing we ended up going with.

I don't understand; do you mean the review will remain the LOLDOGs image?

yeah,very good. and i hope they wont get ruined,once they will release a "proper" L.P.

-- Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:39 (9 months ago) Link
ruined by loldogs

yeah, totaly ruined. 3.3 is even a high score for this bad record

What does it mean for the dog picture to have an "author?" Does that mean Plagenhoef took the picture and added the lolcat caption?

think about it as an art piece...

In that case, 4chan is the internet's MOMA?

HOMO, morelike

Is it too much for them to at least explain why they think the record is so awful?

No shit! When they played a huge role in blowing them up to begin with!

Does it maybe mean they liked the EP but not the record like some of you dudes?

I haven't heard the new record at all! I just think its horribly lazy to pull this kind of stunt. At least tell us why this didn't live up to the promise of the EP.

Sometimes a couple of pugs are worth more than a thousand words. :-/

I agree with the "somehow, this review makes me happy" sentiment

And we've definitely proved that a couple of pugs means a thousand new blog entries on the Black Kids.

Does it maybe mean they liked the EP but not the record like some of you dudes?

-- call all destroyer, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

a. i dont think anyone here is playing capn save a black kid cuz we think this really awful record is good b. the record is basically the ep + 5 songs so that logic doesn't really fly either

How do you do this and not use a "DO NOT WANT" or "FAIL" image?

^^the best question

Oh I dunno, there's some pretty posi posts about the EP and then it was all re-recorded or something, so maybe people are down on that. I really couldn't be bothered to learn more because the songs I've heard are derivative, smug bullshit that remind me of the worst aspects of being friendly with hipsters in college.

it reminds you of getting friend-zoned?

The friend zone (or friendship zone) is a folk psychology concept found in many texts geared towards a male audience about "dating advice", or "seduction advice". In that case, that man would be mentally categorized as a "friend" rather than a lover, i.e. put into the friend zone.

Great try, but no.

It does kind of remind me of my roommate getting friend-zoned, though.

Honestly? You think Black Kids are smug? It's slightly clever twee - almost the opposite.

Also - slocki's comment? Hilarious. I should also emphasize I think it's the opposite not because it's twee (which can get pretty ironic and smug too) but because I think it's pretty sincere.

nb:: this blog: http://tweefashion.blogspot.com/

YO DUDE ARE YOU A SKYGREEN LEOPARD DUDE

jk i don't care :D

hehhhhh

oh skygreen leopards they will believe anything.

Jeff: Unfortunately, I'm not. Someone asked me that in the Pitchfork thread too - as I said there, I bought their CD a while ago and I've used their name as a log-in in everything since. I also like the band a whole lot. However, it can probably cause some confusion here on ILX. Might be changing the nickname soon.

these things are so weird to me, like everyone goes apeshit for some halfway decent/halfway shitty band and then all of a sudden they release a new album and it's like THE SCALES HAVE FALLEN FROM MY EYES....

new shit seems like kinda spanau ballet type shit...i dunno...i seriously don't know why like vampire weekend's week-ass shit is the best thing ever and this weak-ass shit is the worst ever...like just flip a fuckin' coin. i probably like this sort gay nu-romantic type vibe better than cod-african preppy "funk"....v

spanDAU ballet

Unfortunately, I'm not.

LOL

metacritic seems to have found the review unquantifiable.

umm..

http://www.stereogum.com/1925736/stream-black-kids-rookie/music/album-stream/

Kinda into this, two songs in and it sounds like the last eight years of indie music didn't happen.

I met someone who actually read pitchfork once, it was weird. I thought he was kidding but he looked all sad when I giggled.

― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (eight years ago) Permalink

Hehehehehe!