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BareBones

wheezy
OMG, that fake banner ad at the top of the rich dork page almost made me piss myself! "Pain Funnel - I love this album so much I hate it!"
 
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Buick6

too punk to drunk
nomadthesecond said:
MIA? ha

I was thinking recently that Sarah Palin is to the right as MIA is to Pitchfork readers: both are undeniably beautiful, sexy, whatever, with a great look, but both are one-dimensional characters whose politics are dodgy at best, downright scary at worst. Both are somehow perfectly emblematic of the "perfect female" according to their respective adoring crowds, but neither crowd acknowledges the inherent contradictions and hypocrisies in this adoration.

I could go on and on...
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There's a 10 storey high MySpace billboard (like most in the USA) of MIA next door to Amoeba records in LA.

I got diarrhea soon after seeing it.
 
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ripley

Well-known member
cue dissensus' biannual "why we must talk a lot about hating MIA in a way that doesn't assess her as a musician but as some kind of media experiment" discussion :slanted:
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
I think her image is much more interesting than her music, which sucks.

I'd be happy to go on at length about why, if you'd prefer.
 
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Agent

Agent

dgaf ngaf cgaf
reading pitchfork makes my nose bleed for some reason. i think it aggravates some kind of dormant evil in my soul. the only music critic i've really been paying attention to lately is alex ross:

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gumdrops

Well-known member
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/07/hip-hop

Telepathe appear to be a sign of the times. Once, online music zine Pitchfork - a sort of bible for the serious indie rock connoisseur - sat cosily within its self-proclaimed parameters of guitars, unkempt beards and light irony. A couple of years back, though, hip-hop broke in Pitchforkland, ushering in a new editorial policy where Kanye West sits next to Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne rubs shoulders with Radiohead and fans - and bands - are comfortable walking the join.
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claphands

Poorly-known member
is there a reason there isn't a place I can click to browse all their past "this month in" columns? are they ashamed that they used to have something interesting and worthwhile on their site?
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
The only time I ever lowered myself to writing to them was when somebody there fucking claimed that A Certain Ratio sucked because they were part of a general trend in the pointless fake nostalgia for post-punk among factory bands to "glorify the holocaust" or something equally stupid, because their name refers to something Hitler or sum1 said about Jews.

When in reality, anyone who knows anything instantly recognizes their name as A BRIAN ENO LYRIC you dumb fucks.
 
Alfons

Alfons

Way of the future
an interview about the pitchfork review of the animal collective lp
http://flavorwire.com/7091/critical...r-mark-richardson-on-animal-collective-review

kind of meta-reviewing, seems weird... but still lets you in on how pitchfork "works" in a way I guess?


also for laughs, the hipster runoff post which deals with the same review amongst others (guessing there might still be 5 people on the entire internet that haven't seen this):
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/01/animal-collective-is-a-band-created-byforon-the-internet.html
 
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mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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Reviews should be conducted blind, using galvactivators to measure average and peak levels of arousal in a randomly chosen sample of critics over multiple auditions, in various contexts. Only then might one justify using decimal points in one's grading system.
 
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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
"I couldn't help feeling that it was exactly what might be written by an outstanding grad student who has not challenged himself, or labored beyond the pieties required to succeed in grad school. Withheld: any sense of the writer's personality."

This is pretty OTM, and something I was guilty of myself as a "music critic".
 
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