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wow, no.
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
at this point I expect Pfork to be dead (or at least just a zombie) within the decade cuz who is their audience at this point
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
AT THIS POINT
I say
Traffic is up 54% if you believe ComScore, but you do you, Οὖτις
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
up 54% from what
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
i never check up on this site but i was reading the mariah carey interview they published and noticed a link that said 'top 50 holiday songs of all time' or something and just, like... what? can a typical person, or even typical music lover, even identify 50 holiday songs they remotely enjoy? or is it just like a compilation of holiday songs by p4k-approved artists? (didn't bother to click)
― dyl, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
like if you have 10 fans and add 5, hey yr up 54%.
in my world of young people, zero millenials know who pitchfork is
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Too bad Conde Nast doesn't allow all their business decisions to be dictated by Οὖτις anecdotes
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
most every new album i google they're the top hit, must not be hard to capture traffic when the traffic-directing mechanisms are pointing everyone straight at you
― j., Monday, 3 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
I don't think their popularity/readership has declined significantly much at all in the CN years. BNM still a coveted goal, has material gains for artists, etc.
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
I don't usually complain about Pitchfork scores, but that 6ix9ine album has too high of a score for an album with nothing redeeming about it.
― MarkoP, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
You get a certain amount of points for just filling in your name on the front
― Evan, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
True, but he still has more than twice the score of Greta Van Fleet.
― MarkoP, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
Did you actually listen to the album?
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
a link that said 'top 50 holiday songs of all time' or something and just, like... what? can a typical person, or even typical music lover, even identify 50 holiday songs they remotely enjoy?
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard and The ShadowsHoliday In Cambodia by the Dead KennedysBonehead's Bank Holiday by OasisHoliday Rap by MC Miker G and DJ SvenHandjobs For The Holidays by Broken Social Scene
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
This review isn't poorly written, but this bit made me chuckle a bit:
Despite the Blues Explosion’s brief flirtation with Beastie-abetted arena tours and movie-star-laden videos in the 1990s, Spencer has effectively been expunged from the modern indie rock narrative, just as his hell-raising heroes Hasil Adkins, Andre Williams, and R.L. Burnside have been excluded from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm not sure exactly what the "modern indie rock narrative" is, but I have a feeling that Spencer hasn't been any more (actively) "expunged" than any similar figure(s).
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
Can't they just say he's under appreciated or something?
― Evan, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
they mean he's not fashionable with indies of the present
― Number None, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Exactly. Nobody sounds like him, and nobody has his showmanship (that I'm aware of).
He'll be lucky to escape the promo cycle for his current album without being labeled "problematic."
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
pitchfork is an improbably good website for the internet in 2018. like i know we clown it for the craft beer native advertising and clickbaitey news items, but it publishes multiple long-form pieces about music every day. and they're often good
― flopson, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
I mean, they WERE really unfashionable in the window between 2002 to 2012, but like since then they've been invited by Jeff Mangum to play ATP, were in a bunch of Edgar Wright movies, got signed to the label that put out Sleigh Bells and Neon Indian, idk
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
He'll be lucky to escape the promo cycle for his current album without being labeled "problematic."― grawlix (unperson), Monday, December 3, 2018 2:41 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, December 3, 2018 2:41 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He didn't escape the fuckin 90s without being labeled problematic
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
I mean people used different words back then, but our dude has always got worry
http://www.jimdero.com/OtherWritings/Spencer.htm
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, December 3, 2018 1:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh, I'm not so sure about that second part
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
it's probably lessened somewhat, but ask a publicist if it's important or not
― alpine static, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
pitchfork is an improbably good website for the internet in 2018. like i know we clown it for the craft beer native advertising and clickbaitey news items, but it publishes multiple long-form pieces about Drake every day. and they're often good
― flopson, Monday, December 3, 2018 2:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sure but what if you want to hear news about musicians besides Drake?
― Evan, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
" lol "
― flopson, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
flopson otm
― Evan, Monday, December 3, 2018
Someone isn't reading the site 😈
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 05:03 (five years ago) link
Haven't read the review(s) yet but no way in hell Number of the Beast is better than Piece of Mind, that's some straight poser talk
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
The review's not bad, but I'm gonna draw a line: Iron Maiden are one of the greatest live bands I've ever seen (I've seen them five times), but they don't have a single front-to-back great album. Not one.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
Hmmm. I want to argue but I think I have to agree. Even their best albums are like 1/3 filler. They're the Tom Petty of metal.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Somebody on Twitter offered Powerslave, but that album is two of their best songs up front and two more of their best at the end, with four basically useless filler tracks in a row in between.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
they don't have a single front-to-back great album. Not one.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:40 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seventh son comes perilously close imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
but also i don't 100 percent disagree
The run from "Losfer Words" to "Back in the Village" easily disqualifies Powerslave
If you eliminate "The Trooper," most of side 2 of Piece of Mind is kinda meh in retrospect
I was going to suggest Seventh Son, which maybe comes closest to a front-to-back classic, but "The Prophecy" and "Only The Good Die Young" are pretty weak iirc
I feel a poll coming on
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
I'm weird but I love the shit out of Somewhere in Time
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
no way in hell Number of the Beast is better than Piece of Mind, that's some straight poser talk
anybody who doesn't co-sign this is suspect
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
xp I like Somewhere In Time too but I wonder how much of that has to do with nostalgia. I think it was the first CD I ever owned and I listened to the shit out of it. It's definitely their corniest record, though
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
it was def my first exposure to them
i ended up doing a report on Alexander the Great because it and used a quote from the song at the beginning lol
It's definitely their corniest record, though
Maiden is fundamentally a corny band so perhaps this means it's their best
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Totally agree on the studio records, and would also nominate Seventh Son as the closest.
Live After Death is pretty much flawless, like.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:35 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i completely agree but piece of mind was my first maiden record so i thought i might be biased
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
I actually prefer Killers to Number of the Beast. The production on the latter is bum.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
***long sigh***
I wish I could listen to bands like Iron Maiden and not laugh uncontrollably.
(i understand this makes me a horrible person)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
no, what makes you a horrible person is your lack of allegiance to Satan
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
otm. Satan's pretty cool.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
wtf, I heart satan?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Iron Maiden definitely have a front-to-back great album, it's called The Final Frontier.
― JRN, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Piece of Mind was the album that clicked first for me, for better or for worse. It was when I first heard "Quest for Fire" and sort of did a double take when I realized it was indeed a hilariously literal tale of cavemen hunter gatherers battling each other and dinosaurs. That's when I recognized the band was super silly and lovably so for it. It's also the Iron Maiden song I play for people who think Maiden is some scary metal band and not a goofy prog vehicle with ott vocals, and also for people who are big Tenacious D fans who don't recognize what Jack Black is aping.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
I'd like to be the Tom Petty of ambient music.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link