That Mercury Rev ad on Pitchfork today

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Lists a bunch of positive reviews from NME, Jane(!) and Rolling Stone before mentioning the "5.5" Pitchfork gave it followed by a WHAT THE F???

Island did the same thing for a Bob Marley album back in the day. One ad listed all these raves and the one on the next page featured a line from Lester Bangs' dis with nothing around it. V2 be calling pfork out...on pfork!!!

(note: you may not see it when you go on. They've got that whole roulette wheel thing goin' with the ads. Not complaining.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

All gnus is good gnus with Gary .... Gnu!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a toronto alt-weekly critic whose zero star reviews have made it into many a broadsheet as well as the "now on sale" album ads in the music section of the same paper. its a good-humored and honest strategy, i think.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

this is as good a place as any to note that all neighborhoodies models should take a bullet in the face

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLLAND OATES!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this is as good a place as any to note that all neighborhoodies models should take a bullet in the face

you are not the first person to say this.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

He might be the first Miccio, tho.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

there can be only One

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope that applies to HOLLAND OATES.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not seeing it.

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

he might not be the first to say it, but maybe he'll be the first one to follow through with it

― mat, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

here it is:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/chris/ad/v2musicfebruary.gif

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

you might have to go to pitchfork's site first, and then enter the above URL

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah the Holland Oates Neighborhoodie dude has a look on his face that I imagine is about 50% joy and 50% immutable terror. Like he's being secretly raped by some sort of gremlin hidden in his pants. It's just disgusting...I almost prefer the I love J. Lo girl

― Kevin H (Kevin H), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

this is as good a place as any to note that all neighborhoodies models should take a bullet in the face

yes they should bring back the suicide girls ads if they're going to do that to us just to balance it out

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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― green uno skip card (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You know kids these days. Always running around buying things. But what are they buying? Shouldn't they be spending that cash on something important? Like CDs? From your record label? There are millions of people out there at this very second filling their checkbook ledgers with purchases of target-marketed mediocrity. At Pitchfork, we're trying to cure their temporary insanity by pointing them in the direction of something that will stay with them their whole lives. Something they can be proud of. Good music. Indie label music.

Since 1995, Pitchfork has been churning out four record reviews every weekday. But unlike monster-media hype machines, we write about music with artistic integrity. And most of it's coming out on independent record labels.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

JESUS CHRIST THE FUCKER IN THE "CRUNKED" SHIRT WITH THE MACHINE GUN.

OH WHAT THE FUCK.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the NME review of the Mercury Rev album calls it "Their best in living memory" wf?!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That album didn't deserve a 5.5. Not by a fair distance.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/ads/adimage.php?filename=neighborhoodiesaprilleader2.gif&contenttype=gif

this probably won't work

― a banana (alanbanana), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

just once when it cuts to his chest I'd like to see a huge fucking shot gun blast through it.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

DUDE YOU TOTALLY IRONICALLY KILLED ME! OHHH! AND ON THE NIGHT OF THE SLINT SHOW! WHAT IRONY!

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.netdisaster.com/go.php?mode=burn&url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the sweetest irony would be if that guy runs a rap blog

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, I didn't recognize him without his glasses. That's Jess.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear Holland Oates is the effective uniform of Dissensus.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I've created a more logical thread on which to vent

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

EVERYBODY IS GAY BUT ME

― moribund q. whistlestop, Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://img49.photobucket.com/albums/v151/bettymariebarnes/summertimefun/4.jpg
-- green uno skip card (ex machina), Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

HAHAHAH
this fucking made my night

― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

dont get it. or 'get' it for that matter. who/what's wolf eyes?

― pisces, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

One-hit wonder that Jimmy Eat World fans got into after those guys sold out. Sounded like the last minute of Odelay.

― da croupier, Friday, 12 October 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

they started this folky pyschedelic indie rock shit and this is the motherfucking thanks they get.

― max r, Friday, 12 October 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

That image is still so wonderful.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 12 October 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

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