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damn. pitchfork. I just got up, Paula.. you ruined my good mood by mentioning those shits!! :( |
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i like them for liking tindersticks, tim hecker and especially jan jelinek - he got 9.3 for loop finding jazz records |
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LOL! they gave blur 9 and Lou Reed 'the raven' 2?? Pitchfork are worse than I thought. |
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they're not too fond of yokota either... |
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8.8 for The Darkness people. EIGHT POINT EIGHT? Burn in fucking hell. |
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what? I thought everyone loved yokota? what 'is' wrong with them?? |
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LOL! keep em coming, what next Oasis 9? |
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and don't even get me started on their lame reviews of NIN |
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no kidding.. and meanwhile they give fucking soundalike garage bands 9.0+ pitchfork are a (bad) joke. |
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They gave Pet Sounds a 7.5. What the fuck were they doing reviewing that anyway? |
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Oh hey look... I posted that like, 10 posts and SIX MONTHS ago. |
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ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa. |
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but there's no other obsessive (5 new releases almost everyday) site. sometimes i agree, sometimes don't...but reviews will never be perfect cause human minds are so unique. but i do wonder what makes them so popular in music fans typing/talking |
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if pitchfork are a bad joke... then i'm scared absolutely shitless of the rest of the journalistic community... |
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you should be... |
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*nods in agreement* pitchfork is a scam.. they've scammed probably millions of people into thinking they're the authority on cool music. they may cover fantastic music but their writers are hacks and you shouldn't trust any of their reviews even if they don't seem far from what you think. pitchfork are like those stuck-up pricks at the record store who sneer at 99% of the customers for buying "bad" music and then at the other 1% for buying good music too late. |
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i have no difficulty whatsoever placing my trust in at least a handful of their writers and wouldn't think twice about calling Mick Richardson one of the most knowledgable electronic critics in the world right now.... i won' t argue that there is a large degree of pretension in what they do... but when it comes time for the best of list at the end of the year... you know there'll be a lot of awesome stuff.. |
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I completely distrust pitchfork. it's pretentious musicjournalism living up to all it's clichées. |
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and here you go for the record: Radiohead: 9.3 Massive Attack: 5.1 (deserved) Autechre: 6.2 Mogwai: 7.1 Aphex: 7.7 Zwan: 4.8 Cat Power: 8.9 Blur: 9.0 Kid 606: really hasn't happened yet... unless we're talking about the Illness EP which hasn't been reviewed conclusions to be drawn: hating a review site... and then assuming that they must hate everything you love, and will love the one token item around the bottom of the list that you've thrown in to show contrast... doesn't always work out... some of the guesses were bang on... some were way off... and certain albums that one would've expected to be good... were most certainly not... and deserved every docked mark they received... from everyone |
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Well they're about that new Britney Spears single - it's magnificent! How can you not love that feature the line My hips are movin' at a rapid pace? She's the cheese queen. reconize |
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after years of seeming to fit into everything somehow... now everywhere Madonna goes she sticks out like a sore thumb... Britney would've been better off without her here if you ask me |
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does anyone have britney's pictures from the new esquire? :) (her music is pure quality btw) |
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i've followed along and i was happy to be wrong when i was. it's not always that they give what i and many others feel to be a great album a bad review or vice versa, it's their whole ATTITUDE.. it's WHAT they say in their reviews that really makes them shitty journalists. it's their embodiment of rock journalist cliches (which they unfortunately put to use on electronica and hip-hop reviews as well), like qrter just said, and like i and others have said earlier in this very old thread, their total egomania and backward thinking. half the reviews are exercises in smugness and contempt. this sort of self-importance and pompousness is why i don't trust or give two shits about spin or rolling stone. for an outlet that so many people i know and am friends with trust, i expected more from pitchfork when i started reading their stuff. |
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muahahahah *plans more EEEEEEEEE VIL things for da Q-meister* throws a pie at ophecks......ehehehe WAKE UP!! |
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dammit! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE EVIL ONE!!! |
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nope......i'm more evil......cos you're GAY! donchaknow =b ahhahhaha i'm JUST YANKING Evil Q's chain.....cos i can.......ehehhehehehheh |
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doh! |
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yank.......... yank ya..... ehehhehehhe....... |
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let's start a betting pool on what pitchfork is gonna give upcoming albums. So who won the pool? ;) |
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me since almost no one else contributed.. we can keep doing it though, and give your estimated pitchfork rating and i'll do the same |
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hahah I asked ryan scheiber or whatever (editor-in-chief): "so what band did you not make it with" and he called me a "666" and a fuck.. I was telling him how transparent the "we are the world section" is.. it's to make them seem less predictable/indie and that it was like a "let me play too!" plea to the mtv contingent |
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i know, it's totally transparent. it's something they've been concentrating on for about a year now to throw off detractors who say they only give reviews to the most ultra elite music. they'll also kiss the asses of the extremely mainstream to make it seem like they're not so one-dimensional and go out of their way to diss great non-mainstream music (eg: last year's bitch, godspeed, and past reviews for people like autechre, aphex, squarepusher, nin, etc.) to appear "fair and balanced".... like fox news. |
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