LOL'd at this awesome Kathleen Hanna quote: "I am voting because watching the Kavanaugh hearings was like having Fred Durst sing 'Nookie' into my face for 12 fucking hours."
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/musicians-on-why-theyre-voting-in-the-2018-midterm-elections/
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
This is a well-written and interesting review (of 9-disc live release from a band that seems difficult to say something new or interesting about): https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rem-rem-at-the-bbc/
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
yeah I lol'd at that Kathleen bit too
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
no links to my mortal enemies itt
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
R.E.M.?
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Taking Back Sunday, The Used, AFI, Unwritten Law were all more popular on rock stations.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Weird to read "a band whose legacy is largely undecided" about your all-time favorite band. I am decided.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
For the Julia Holter one, I found the score of 8.2 confusingly low for a review that read like sheer impassioned accolades. I felt like something was left unsaid like a unspoken characteristic of the release that disqualified it from the top shelf and made it simply a perfect execution within the limits of it's sort instead of an absolute classic.
― ninthyoung, Monday, 5 November 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Think a long way upthread we were talking about how the score is not usually chosen by the reviwer, still seems crazy to me.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 November 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
ah I see. I guess the scores are too narrative-bound to be kept off the leash of centralized control
― ninthyoung, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
that only really makes sense if you're going to get someone to write a review who agrees with whatever the narrative is though, when there's an obvious disconnect like that it feels really weird
― ufo, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
in the olden days, some albums used to get very high scores without getting the editorial BNM.
here's an example: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12454-the-59-sound/
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 November 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
the gaslit anthem
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 5 November 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
8.2 is the only score that seems to get both BNMs and non-BNMs these days
not sure what the difference is supposed to be since editorial decides both these days right?
― ufo, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
I've always seen BNMs mostly given to records that may have some crossover appeal. Records that are very solid more strictly within their genre/style get the score but not the tag.
That's how I've always imagined the distinction.
― Evan, Monday, 5 November 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
Both Janalle Monae and this seemed like they very explicitly wanted to encapsulate what 2018 seemed like, and both surprisingly missed BNM, and though I can't really base it on anything it makes me think that Pitchfork wants to avoid looking like they give the tag out for extra-musical reasons. Which in both cases ends up meaning some of the most exciting music gets snubbed, but oh well.
― Frederik B, Monday, 5 November 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
the 8+ records that narrowly miss BNM are almost always more interesting to me than the ones they rave about
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 November 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
yeah, they collect them in the "overlooked records" feature, usually the best stuff is in there
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
no BNM for twin sister, no credibility
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
i really dont understand how mr twin sister were a way more hyped band in the indie press before they changed names and suddenly became the best band in the world instead of a just ok dreamy synthpop group
i guess part of that is they were briefly signed to domino, but it seemed like that came on the back of buzz around their early EPs?
― ufo, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 10:00 (five years ago) link
They had a couple of early singles which I still count among my favourite releases of the decade, then the LP on Domino was a huge let-down, think that burned a lot of people out, don't think a hype band can become a hype band again.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
BNM is one of the worst things about Pitchfork
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― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
re: ufo, blame Dr. Dre
― austinb, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
twin sister album was a disappointment
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
though not giving BNM to the 2014 was a big oversight
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Beer Helped Me Express My Identity—And Then I Stopped Drinking Beer
― triggercut, Thursday, 8 November 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Nice of them to give Ian Mackaye a column
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 November 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:13 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
listen harder
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Beer Helped Me Express My Identity—And Then I Stopped Drinking BeerI thought this was a joke (should’ve known better)...
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Thursday, 8 November 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
I think the beer narrative will be the defining literary mode of our time
― President Keyes, Thursday, 8 November 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:40 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The 2011 album? I could never get into it. Bad Street, Daniel and Kimmi In A Rice Field are ok I suppose, Saturdaysunday is legit bad.
I'm really into everything they've done before and since.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
mr twin sister put out a new album a few weeks ago
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
i believe that’s what flops is talking about
Right. That one is great, so is the previous one. But we were talking about the 2011 LP when they were just called Twin Sister.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
lol yeah when i made that very pendantic post i realized what you were talking about
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to it again now. Still really patchy, sounds like they were trying various producers who all didn't work in different ways. A few tracks are actually really good. But some real stinkers too.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
I suppose I expected more from Latinx people. (Why do we always expect more of marginalized people? Must the onus always be on the oppressed to be engaged constantly in acts of critical resistance?)(From the Morrissey article)
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
stop trying to make latinx happen
― niels, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
That's a real "who's we?" situation there xpost
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
I suppose I expected more from Latinx people. (Why do we always expect more of marginalized people? Must the onus always be on the oppressed to be engaged constantly in acts of critical resistance?) I expected, as society too often does, for Latinx people to walk, talk, and even rock in perfect parallel with their politics.
i don't mind latinx really anymore but i think the main problem w/ the piece is his assumptions that latinx people share some kind of common political or politicized identity or a shared experience of being marginalized & oppressed, or that latinx people would think morrissey's islamophobic comments are indicative of how he might feel toward his fans in latin america.
― marcos, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
like cmon dude do you know that there are people of latin american origin who are one or more of the followingrichracistconservativeislamophobicapolitical goths who just like the smiths
― marcos, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Not all languages are like English, and that's ok. I'm not convinced that English's relatively genderless grammar has resulted in a less sexist culture overall.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
i think the main problem w/ the piece is his assumptions that latinx people share some kind of common political or politicized identity or a shared experience of being marginalized & oppressed
All "white" people are the sameAll "black" people are the sameAll "Latin" people are the sameAll "Asian" people are the same
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
yeah I thought this was really weird too
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 November 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
I think the real tell in the piece is
Another fan, Jose, made the three-hour drive down to Long Beach from Bakersfield to see Morrissey perform alongside more contemporary favorites. “Every artist is pretty problematic in their own way,” he said. “Everybody’s going to be supporting them, so it doesn’t matter.”Jose’s friend, Diana, said that they try their best to separate the art from the artist, especially when it’s someone they loved from a young age like Morrissey. “It doesn’t mean we agree with everything,” she said, “but the music is good.”
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 8 November 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 November 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
even for someone as completely online as me, enjoying certain artists is an act of compartmentalization
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
or reinterpreting the work through my own lens so i can disentangle it from the shittiness of the artist (never entirely successfully, but it happens)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
^^^ my problem, among many, with political reporters aghast that Cubans are so damn conservative. What did you expect?
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link