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61no, to do coke off the wash basins and solicit sex.
run joe run wrote:Kerble your enthusiasm.
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62i tried searching and i didn't see it so...http://pitchforkmedia.com/cgi-bin/search2/search.cgi?terms=10.0
i'm not sure if it's an exhaustive list but if it is how goddam staid. it's a mountain of reissues. i don't believe in perfect albums but christ. and the revisionist shit of going back to bump up the rating for ok computer is completely reprehensible. i don't care if it was two days later, if you don't want the guy to review it and rate it don't run his review.
i'm not sure if it's an exhaustive list but if it is how goddam staid. it's a mountain of reissues. i don't believe in perfect albums but christ. and the revisionist shit of going back to bump up the rating for ok computer is completely reprehensible. i don't care if it was two days later, if you don't want the guy to review it and rate it don't run his review.
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63whiskerando wrote:i tried searching and i didn't see it so...http://pitchforkmedia.com/cgi-bin/search2/search.cgi?terms=10.0
i'm not sure if it's an exhaustive list but if it is how goddam staid. it's a mountain of reissues. i don't believe in perfect albums but christ. and the revisionist shit of going back to bump up the rating for ok computer is completely reprehensible. i don't care if it was two days later, if you don't want the guy to review it and rate it don't run his review.
they just reviewed the first 3 wire records last week and guess what 2 of them got..
the reviews were basically cut'n'pasted from AMG with a few obligatory witty/clever remarks thrown in.
i will give them some credit for going out on a limb for a few new records.. even if it's stuff like 'kid a' and 'source tags and codes'
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64tommydski wrote:no, to do coke off the wash basins and solicit sex.
So that would be a "vente Bolivian with extra foam and shake it roughly"?
You had me at Sex Traction Aunts Getting Vodka-Rogered On Glass Furniture
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65The single biggest problem with Pitchfork is that their reviews appear to be largely the product of internal consideration (by the writer and/or the website's staff) as to how the review will go over. As opposed to, you know, an honest opinion.
If I'm going to trust another person to make musical recommendations, I want to know they're being up front with me and not just telling me something they hope will impress me.
Now, what I'll never understand is how we ever got to a place where gushing over an Animal Collective album is seen as a means of impressing others. Maybe I picked the wrong tracks to listen to, but I had no desire to listen to that band ever again, and frankly felt cheated out of 10 minutes of life.
If I'm going to trust another person to make musical recommendations, I want to know they're being up front with me and not just telling me something they hope will impress me.
Now, what I'll never understand is how we ever got to a place where gushing over an Animal Collective album is seen as a means of impressing others. Maybe I picked the wrong tracks to listen to, but I had no desire to listen to that band ever again, and frankly felt cheated out of 10 minutes of life.
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66On the whole idiotic, NME styled ranting crap.
The only redeming feature being they have a page dedicated to free downloads. It's problem is it's mainly crap music.
But sometimes, just sometimes there's something worth while there.
I wouldn't be sad if it feel of the worlds musical landscape.
The only redeming feature being they have a page dedicated to free downloads. It's problem is it's mainly crap music.
But sometimes, just sometimes there's something worth while there.
I wouldn't be sad if it feel of the worlds musical landscape.
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67ty webb wrote:So that would be a "vente Bolivian with extra foam and shake it roughly"?
i don't know what this means.
this is part of why i don't like starbucks. coffee to me is coffee beans and boiling water. adding anything else to it is bizarre. like there's a car here in europe and they've based their entire advertising campaign around the fact that it's got an arse on the back of it. and so in the advert they have lots of pictures of women with great behinds and then keep showing this stupid car as if to say "what's better than a car? a car with an ass!". that's starbucks thinking right there. "what's better than coffee? coffee with ground ginger extract in it!"
it's funny that you live in new york, which is the only place in the world where i have to go into starbucks because someone decided to build a city without public facilities. that's basically my only grievance with new york except the stupid fucking subways.
run joe run wrote:Kerble your enthusiasm.
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68tommydski wrote:ty webb wrote:So that would be a "vente Bolivian with extra foam and shake it roughly"?
i don't know what this means.
this is part of why i don't like starbucks. coffee to me is coffee beans and boiling water. adding anything else to it is bizarre. like there's a car here in europe and they've based their entire advertising campaign around the fact that it's got an arse on the back of it. and so in the advert they have lots of pictures of women with great behinds and then keep showing this stupid car as if to say "what's better than a car? a car with an ass!". that's starbucks thinking right there. "what's better than coffee? coffee with ground ginger extract in it!"
it's funny that you live in new york, which is the only place in the world where i have to go into starbucks because someone decided to build a city without public facilities. that's basically my only grievance with new york except the stupid fucking subways.
hey.
hey.
save it for the starbucks poll, BUDDY.
(also, you're right on both counts)
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69stewie wrote:Chromodynamic wrote:
I concur. However, I was once directed to a review of a Bright Eyes CD at this site and there was one paragraph that was completely golden:
"So much of what passes for emotional and intellectual depth on this album is blatantly contrived nonsense. This would never have been so terribly obvious had he not placed a gut-wrenchingly ludicrous staged radio interview with himself at the end of "An Attempt to Tip the Scales." I simply cannot stress enough what a maddeningly self-indulgent mass of pseudo-depth this section of the album falls into. In this sickening chunk of narcissism, Oberst makes a laughable attempt to prove to his listeners that he is of a penetratingly deep intelligence by spouting strings of stale aphorisms that pass for rich understanding amongst those reluctant to have original thought. Not only this, but the mock interviewer actually interrupts Oberst to tell him how brilliant the album is. On the actual record he says this. I hate to sound haughty, but I have honestly never witnessed such tasteless, ostentatious self-promotion on an album by anyone. It must be heard to be believed."
This paragraph: certainly not crap. That's a very accurate description of what I thought when I heard that piece of shit.
while i don't like connor oberst and i do like a good deal of hip hop, and would take even mediocre hip hop over bright eyes any day, i must say that the statement "i have honestly never witnessed such tasteless, ostentatious self-promotion on an album by anyone. it must be heard to be believed." cannot be truthfully uttered by anyone in this day and age who's heard any amount of hip hop (ie, anyone in this day and age). having a clip of some dj gushing about you in an interview? yeah it's a stupid thing to put on your album, but hip hop has gone there... though i'm sure it's more annoying hearing it in the context of connor oberst's whiny crap rather than in the context of the self-affirming braggadocio of an oppressed group. also that bullshit is generally separated out into "skit" tracks aka skip tracks -- not overdubbed over a fadeout for maximum horribleness.
he should save it for the skits. here's a bright eyes skit... oberst yelling "torture, motherfucker! i fuckin'... i fuckin'... i fuckin' whine in your face, right in your ear, and i just keep whinin', and whinin'..."
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70pitchfork on nina nastasia's the blackened air
tool
in general the reviewers manage to call a spade a spade, but every now and then an ordinary spade will come by from the right part of town with a fancy haircut wearing ladies pants and the pitchfork staff seem to wet themselves in excitement
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As for Nastasia's performance, her voice is not bad
tool
in general the reviewers manage to call a spade a spade, but every now and then an ordinary spade will come by from the right part of town with a fancy haircut wearing ladies pants and the pitchfork staff seem to wet themselves in excitement
allmusic.com all the way