pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

(it's also somewhat amusing/interesting to me how this artist, who appears fairly young, says -- "...when I was younger, I was into beer. Like into IPAs and now I’m just like, 'Whatever.'" But that's a different, beer-specific, story.)

well, she formed her first band in college back in 2008

yeah - it's funny to me because when I was in my 20s, I drank the shittiest beer, and only more recently got "into IPAs," etc. And she's already over it!

(I guess the craft beer craze also didn't really hit until I was out of my 20s -- but I probably wouldn't have paid $$ on "good beer" at that age, even it had been a thing.)

10 Great Rap Songs About Money

10 Great PC Music Songs About Goose Island’s 312 Urban Wheat Ale

10 Great Rap Songs About Money

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a new low

levels is running out of ideas quick eh

in the "reviews that are incredibly o_O from long ago" department, I ran across this one the other day and was cracking up. this album... was just too horny for the reviewer

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/571-rooty/

10 Great Rap Songs About Money

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a new low

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, August 16, 2018 9:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

again i thought this was parody lol

pitchfork just handed out 8.8 to mitski so it's been a good day for pitchfork tbh

Rooty rules, whatever nerd

lol yeah, I get where the review is coming from (heh) but there is a paragraph in there that made me cringe and giggle at the same time. could picture the reviewer blushing and averting his ears

looking forward to

10 Great Rap Songs About Sex
10 Great Rap Songs About Drugs
10 Great Rap Songs About Rapping
10 Great Rap Songs About Food

10 Great Rap Songs About Rapping

kudos

oops forgot

10 Great Rap Songs About Being Great

Have they done one about beer yet? Could be an important lateral crossover promo with October

For the old school pitchfork type sex in music was really considered 'selling sex' and that's was a bad signifier in the indie world all the way until ... Kanye West became a household name?

10 Great Microbrews Named After Rap Songs

https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-st-vincent-play-nirvana-hendrix-led-zeppelin-riffs-more/?mbid=social_twitter

It's Jethro Tull

Best Pale Ale to Drink While Mourning Aretha Franklin

Have they done one about beer yet? Could be an important lateral crossover promo with October

10 Great Rap Songs About Beer (Not By Tha Alkaholiks)

https://www.complex.com/music/2010/03/say-aah-hip-hops-25-greatest-drinking-songs

https://www.complex.com/music/2014/03/drink-drank-drunk-25-hip-hop-drinking-songs-st-patricks-day/

Complex has that covered...and covered

10 Great Rap Songs About Being Great

― Οὖτις, Friday, August 17, 2018 10:41 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly i couldn't pick just 10

smdh @ complex thinking "drinking songs" strictly means "songs about drinking"

there are actually only 10 rap songs, so you can't pick any more than that.

xp

10 Great Rap Songs About Nerd Culture

10 Great Rap Songs About Ethics in Gaming Journalism

https://soundcloud.com/kabuto-el-pit-n/gamergate

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-prodigy-the-fat-of-the-land/

smack my pitch up

90stalgia is on its way out, shall we invest in early 00stalgia?

Soon, we're still in the middle stages of Nu metal revisionism.

prodigy is pretty bad though right?

Rating these legacy releases seems kinda... pointless.

yeah they must get a lot of traffic, the whole endeavor seems kinda weird

the writing on Sunday review has been great

Gloria Steinman

I like The Fat of the Land more now than I ever did at the time, tbh.

For instance, the synthetic plaid pants that make your grandfather the butt of snide jokes at family reunions might actually look pretty smart hugging the hips of that cute sales clerk at the record store.

coming in late, but o_0 at the anti-horny Rooty review opening with this.

Jesus that Fat of the Land review is terrible. Are we just gonna revisit every canon album out there and re-evaluate it using a woke-o-meter?

what if many of us thought the album had terrible politics at the time?

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sublime-40oz-to-freedom/

this 40 oz to freedom review insightfully explains why it resonated with such a wide audience while not shying away from its bad politics, that prodigy one is just the worst kind of smug, self-congratulatory garbage.

is going from that ridiculous Rooty review to deservingly giving Kish Kash a 9.1 the biggest positive turnaround they've ever done on an artist

they gave Zaireeka a 0.0 and then gave The Soft Bulletin a 10.0. Not sure if it was the same writer though.

The Fat of the Land is a solid album fwiw

40 oz to freedom review is way way way too harsh

I think we bitched about that Rooty review here at the time as well.

When did the 'We Are The World' singles column start? Pretty sure it would have been at the time of or a bit before Kish Kash. So in between 2001 and 2003 there was probably the biggest and fastest shift in Pitchfork's orientation that it ever went through (I feel like everything since then has been more incremental) and Basement Jaxx were the kind of artist best placed to benefit from it.

The funniest part of the Fat of the Land review is that the author — who showily uses Britishisms like "naff" and "necked" — doesn't seem to know "Charly" is slang for cocaine

Are we just gonna revisit every canon album out there and re-evaluate it using a woke-o-meter?

Most depressing (because true) explanation for why I can no longer read (retrospective) music criticism