i mean i really hope the guy wrote some kind of elaborate code that pulled up these things w/o much effort, the idea of working for hours upon hours on this is mind-boggling, and i say that as someone who spends hours on trivial 'research' all the time― some dude, Monday, November 5, 2012 2:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Monday, November 5, 2012 2:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's pretty easy...I happen to have all the Pitchfork data on my computer for a never-completed project and I can just run grep over it.
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
does that include all the reviews they later deleted?
― 乒乓, Monday, 5 November 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
No, it's just what was up on the site earlier this year.
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
I demand a release of pitchfork.com's basement sessions
― 乒乓, Monday, 5 November 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I think you can get it on Soulseek
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
It would be like showing every mention ever of "butthurt" on ILM
― Clarke B., Monday, November 5, 2012 11:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
somebody please do that
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Monday, November 5, 2012 11:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I would provide ample free booze to the tech wizard that could accomplish such a feat
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
awaiting my booze
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
"serious question: are metallica fans the most butthurt fans in existence?"
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe people don't understand the power of our search function
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I meant seeing it all pretty and with lines and stuff like in the doc Scott's pal made
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
oh okay Mr Backpedal
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a man of my word: white, red, or rose?
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
white; red is good but it gives my wife migraines
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
looks like Pitchfork has never used "butthurt"
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Monday, 5 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha... Italian, French, or Swiss?
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I know Swiss wine! Leaning French but interested in learning
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Switzerland produces badass wines. Virtually nobody imports them into the US because (a) they're esoteric, and (b) they're expensive (due to the triple-whammy of their strong currency, the labor required to farm in the Alps, and their lack of a need to export--they drink 99% of what they make). You can PM me on here or find me on FB; I'm sure we share Mr. Raggett as a common pal.
― Clarke B., Monday, 5 November 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
(with your address I mean)
better late than never. a message from zach:
hi! i made the pitchfork index manually using google. it is chronological. it took about 8 hours to complete all told. i think it's funny and telling. i think lo-fi is a ridiculous term & i think music criticism should be challenged creatively -- it may help it perform better. i think we can all agree that music writing is not held to a very high standard. but what if it was actually good? most of all i think it's fun to use a simple principle to make a bunch of material speak in a way that complicates & obfuscates its original meaning. i am not an academic.
here's a couple other pdf books i've made which use similar methodologies: http://osr-tapes.info/osr/ashleysjacket.pdf & http://osr-tapes.info/osr/chomoanalects.pdf
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_linguistics
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 November 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
It totally blows my mind how easy and fun corpus lx can be in the google era. (I wasn't posting that to be an asshole)
I don't see what's ridiculous about "lo-fi". (Or "angular" for that matter! I like "angular".)
― JRN, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah lo-fi seems like a reasonable term to me. it's weird as a genre because one "lo-fi" band is gonna be diff from another one. but if you're using it in the sense of "home recorded" sure why not.
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
If you look at the more recent instances, "lo-fi" tends to get paired more with "90's".
― MarkoP, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
lo-fi musicians get pretty prickly about the term ime, i suspect because it's diminutive
― flopson, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
And this is what I get when I make a Wordle out of all the lines in that document, eliminating all the mentions of "lo-fi".
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5985718/Lo-Fi
― MarkoP, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
also, being in a huff abt being called "lo-fi" by pitchfork is kind of like when teenagers recoil at their parents' mocking (but not necessarily inaccurate) way of picking up on their subcultural signifiers. like, no one feels cool when their mom says "i remember when /i/ went through my punk phase" and the only way to react to it is "OMG SHUTUP MOM YOU DONT EVEN UGHHHHH"
― flopson, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
still giggling about "loafy"
― d-_-b (mh), Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
― flopson, Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:16 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not true, imo. I've gone through periods of being a lo-fi musician and I like the term. Dude who made this is completely wrong in saying it is "ridiculous". If he'd said it has become meaningless through over-use he might be onto something.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
I've gone through periods of being a lo-fi musician and I like the term.
i have, too, sort of, and wouldn't say i *like* the term but i definitely don't mind it. have found that people who care to have opinions on it tend to be crabby tho
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
downloading some loafy tracks on the wee fee
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
They should make a tent covered with these references and put it in a museum.
― Do You Like POLL Music? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 November 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
well when a word becomes meaningless through over-use, its use becomes ridiculous, no?zp
― zach phillips, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
ah lo-fi going to see The Babies on Thurs night and wrote the show into a things-to-do article i write weekly and so went to their site and:The one time side-project between Brooklyn lo-fi luminaries becomes a full-time concernaw <3
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 10 November 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link