Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

it's sad. i get turned off by music talk with men for similar reasons, then when i do it i find myself complicit in it which is worse. that habitual internalized greek chorus of objective measurement of bands, albums. is it because music is basically queer that it has to be so patriarched all the goddamn time.

yes, that's exactly it.

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xp Hicks is at least partially responsible for the still ongoing appeal of the angry white dude.

― Murgatroid, Thursday, 5 December 2013 20:53 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so fucking glad I haven't participated in this thread. as are the rest of you, probably

the idea of ott big-upping curve was funnier when i was misreading it as "cursive"

<3 goole itt

yeah, it's a monastic/aristocratic argument. do it as a hobby. i do it as a hobby, i'm in the upper middle class. do what i did, start your straight career during the clinton era. or i'll call you a cunt on twitter.

I heard "Horror Head" the other day and thought, "Hm, I need to make time to listen to Curve."

Rightly so.

this was all fun and games for Ned until shoegaze bands starting becoming guilty by association

Things took an ugly turn then.

i just watched one half of two of this guy's videos and i can't believe a person like this exists and that people expend keystrokes over him

he pretty plainly has nothing to offer as a critic except a lot of hyperbolic impressionistic hooey

above all it seems like he just fell down some indie rabbit hole years ago and has yet to emerge

some people take themselves too seriously

just catching up lol

"Fucking idiot sheeple writers just feeding the capitalist beast"

vs

"Fucking idiot sheeple writers think they should get paid for their work... that's not what the capitalist beast wants! How dare you disobey the desires of the capitalist beast"

vs

"I am the example. I vlog the fuck out of music all darn day and I don't get paid a cent. I am not obeying the capitalist beast. I am actively disobeying the capitalist beast by refusing to let it pay me all the money it wants to pay me. That really gets its goat."

vs

"I think I'm in love with the capitalist beast but it feeds me these impure thoughts and my priest is on vacation and"

vs

"People really listen to me (when I'm saying the names of non-famous people and then talking shit about those names) and no one makes a cent (except Youtube) off of it (except Youtube)."

vs

"Also, DIY scenes suck and the music is the worst and no one should give a shit about them and we should protect them with all our purity."

vs

"Y'know, they called someone else a troll, too. Maybe you've heard of him... his name was... Jesus Christ."

also

"I literally have no fucking idea how to respond to the accusations of sexism so I am literally going to make up some stuff about women writers getting worshiped as goddesses from shiftless, masturbating men. I'm not vain, I'm just saying, if my projections aren't trustworthy than what is?"

or

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if i want to hear challenging opinions like that i'll just knock on my downstairs neighbor's door and offer him a beer

i don't understand him but i also don't understand why anyone is defending any of this shit. if you want to make your point, make YOUR fucking point instead of sticking it in the mouth of someone 1. completely unable to make it for himself 2. completely unable to make it without being a shitty human being 3. entitled enough to expect everyone to understand his tantrums without you clarifying

it reminds me of the cottage industry of kanyesplaining that's been going on the last few months

lol i haven't read a thing on kanye this year but that's been going on foreeeeeever hasn't it. i can at least understand the ever-popular "no look kanye is a magical unicorn" undercurrent, i have no idea what the impetus is for defending ott rather than just stating an opinion relevant to the subject ("subject") without trying to force a cosmic connection with The Artist Himself

it's funny how this thread has existed for 10 years now, not because of Ott's antics that have been going on for at least that long, but because he dared to insult The Band Alex In NYC Really Likes That's Not Killing Joke.

the wonder stuff?

Cop Shoot Cop

Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Schreiber?

https://twitter.com/jensenclan88/status/408847549991096320

Is the article this was initially responding to online anywhere still?
The original link 404ed.
I mean I can just about imagine what it's like but would'nt mind a quick peruse.
I'm still intrigued by what the scale of popularity of PF is since I have no way of guaging it? Or a norm to compare with. I stumbled on it by googling non-mainstream records I again wouldn't know the popularity of & don't think anybody I know who might be aware of it is exactly mainstream. So its difficult to landmark a horizon for its popularity. What would it compare to?

Otterface

Actually that article ended uo being the thing that got me into the Melvins

*up

zachlyon those were some very hard body posts, we could lock thread now I think

"if my projections aren't trustworthy than what is"

lol

yeah man that was top notch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8A1AmtyVo&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8A1AmtyVo

what the fuck

i mean that is not an actual thing right

man is /mu/ something people have to pay attn to?

the only thing I know about it is that they have a massively circulated memelistphotothing of the albums everyone should listen to, which is more or less exactly what you think it is

i think i need to step away from my laptop for a little bit

http://4chanmusic.wikia.com/wiki/4chanmusic_Wiki

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Jay-Z%26R.KellyBestofBothWorlds.jpg

http://4chanmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Mucore

lol men

whole damn thing essentially feels like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8

dying at ILX just discovering /mu/

/mu/-two

but seriously, can someone explain to me why there's a video with audio clips of ott and some other guy, set to visuals of wintry landscapes, with bon iver playing?

why does this exist?

dying at ILX just discovering /mu/

― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2013 12:41 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i knew it existed but i don't fuck with that place, come on

dying at ILX just discovering /mu/

― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2013 6:41 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is some real slick insider bullshit peacockery

personally i'm gonna take it as a point of pride that i had no idea it existed

Word

always good to see 'u don't know something haha' totally a classic internet sentiment

4chan's Alexa rating in United States: 368
Pitchfork's: 1,410

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jJENKW1nI

bragging that i know this incredibly popular, far-reaching thing, ok lets have more talk about girl slugs night unit wut wut