pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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

otm

I get the feeling that the writer was no older than 5 when that album came out.

Yeah the Zaireeka and Soft Bulletin reviews were both written by the same guy. From what I remember, he only gave it a 0 because he didn't have five stereos to play the thing

it was a classic goof

endearing in the same way that we all feel for the kid puking in the lawn

i'm sorry that i arrived to this place tonight, but

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2231-forbidden-love-ep/

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yAA37ld6ydk/SPilcsCa-hI/AAAAAAAABU0/B9OTU3vYbJ8/s1600/Picture+3.png

Yes, they obviously know what they're doing. But they've still got to change that name. I suppose it's working for them, though, what with the Seventeen interviews and all. For now, just hold your breath and hope they don't get huge and make the jump to the "adult" market. You'd have to knock them substantial cutie points if they appeared in Cosmo as delegates from the Land of Sensitive Guys, or to weigh in on blowjob technique, or worse still, to appear photographed hanging out with Courtney Love. Or god forbid, Drew Barrymore. Come to think of it, maybe they ought to just add five members and change that name of theirs to God Forbid Drew Barrymore. Yeah!

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/news/a13864/zooey-deschanel-separates-from-ben-gibbard-5/

https://i.imgur.com/lSBHKrq.jpg

shit, i was the kid puking in the lawn the entire time

I'm not against looking at albums in hindsight, and I thought the one for 'Bell Biv Devoe' was very good: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bell-biv-devoe-poison/ The problem with the one for The Prodigy is that it's kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, and it's sloppy to not explicitly point out that the chorus to 'Smack My Bitch Up' is sampled from Ultramagnetic MCs.

I'm fairly sure the words "Kool" and "Keith" showed up in the review

oh yeah, in the second sentence, right next to the words "Ultramagnetic MCs"

but you're right, at no point does the writer connect these words to the sampled chorus, leaving the reader bewildered