Amen Warrior Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Here is a cool Pitchfork story for you. I met this guy who is a friend of a friend at a bar one night. He is a senior writer / review for Pitchfork or something, he was awkward as fuck, like we talking spectrum. I tried to make conversation with him and asked if he wanted to talk about music. He bluntly replied "no" like I was gutter trash. So I was like fuck this cunt and had a cigarette. Made no effort to talk to him anymore. Not that I liked Pitchfork prior to this, but any notion that Pitchfork is full of pretentious assholes was fully supported by this interaction. SO yeah fuck Pitchfork. Well, to be fair, we don't know you that well and you might very well BE gutter trash! Benefit of the doubt and all that though. I know a guy who writes for pfork. More of an acquaintance TBH (friend of friend) but I've met him IRL. Like most he's freelance and knows a niche genre well, in this case he's a big metalhead. True story, he was told to edit out the beginning of a review for a disappointingly dull sludge metal album he was tasked with. He started off the review confessing that about a 1/3 through listening for the first time he got bored and turned on the newest Riff Raff album instead. He was completely honest but they didn't want him to include that. He tweeted it instead. Had it been late 90s thru mid-00s pitchfork they wouldn't have interfered. Most writers for these sites are decent folks but personally I think the site as a whole, and their editors at the helm, has jumped shark long, long ago. It's a PR outlet and big inide / "cool mainstream" multimedia site. Fade and FACT are just as bad, in fact I'd argue FACT is way douchier and superficial than pitchfork. I like sites like Quietus, Tiny Mixtapes, RA, and Consequence of Sound a lot more. A cunt I went to school with is now a music 'critic' for the telegraph. I remember him at 16 years old thinking the blink 182 tune about fucking a dogs arse was the pinnacle of music. Here he is now slagging off a frank ocean album in a national newspaper in exchange for money http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/messy-pompous-and-pointless--why-frank-oceans-blonde-doesnt-live/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 opinions are like assholes - if you pimp them out to be buggered for cash, chances are they'll end up loose n prolapsed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Here is a cool Pitchfork story for you. I met this guy who is a friend of a friend at a bar one night. He is a senior writer / review for Pitchfork or something, he was awkward as fuck, like we talking spectrum. I tried to make conversation with him and asked if he wanted to talk about music. He bluntly replied "no" like I was gutter trash. So I was like fuck this cunt and had a cigarette. Made no effort to talk to him anymore. Not that I liked Pitchfork prior to this, but any notion that Pitchfork is full of pretentious assholes was fully supported by this interaction. SO yeah fuck Pitchfork. Well, to be fair, we don't know you that well and you might very well BE gutter trash! Benefit of the doubt and all that though. I know a guy who writes for pfork. More of an acquaintance TBH (friend of friend) but I've met him IRL. Like most he's freelance and knows a niche genre well, in this case he's a big metalhead. True story, he was told to edit out the beginning of a review for a disappointingly dull sludge metal album he was tasked with. He started off the review confessing that about a 1/3 through listening for the first time he got bored and turned on the newest Riff Raff album instead. He was completely honest but they didn't want him to include that. He tweeted it instead. Had it been late 90s thru mid-00s pitchfork they wouldn't have interfered. Most writers for these sites are decent folks but personally I think the site as a whole, and their editors at the helm, has jumped shark long, long ago. It's a PR outlet and big inide / "cool mainstream" multimedia site. Fade and FACT are just as bad, in fact I'd argue FACT is way douchier and superficial than pitchfork. I like sites like Quietus, Tiny Mixtapes, RA, and Consequence of Sound a lot more. A cunt I went to school with is now a music 'critic' for the telegraph. I remember him at 16 years old thinking the blink 182 tune about fucking a dogs arse was the pinnacle of music. Here he is now slagging off a frank ocean album in a national newspaper in exchange for money http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/messy-pompous-and-pointless--why-frank-oceans-blonde-doesnt-live/ lol I haven't even heard "blonde" yet, but this is the level of criticism this mug is throwing out: and there are only drums on five of the songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 *backflips out of k-hole* *drops glow stick in trash and solemnly walks away* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 opinions are like assholesthis can now be the "opinions are like assholes" - [fill text here] thread - they can give you aids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreOceans Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 and there are only drums on five of the songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 and there are only drums on five of the songs. says it all really. I wonder if he brings his prior incarnation as a blink182 listener up in polite company? Actually, what am i saying, all those reviewers probably had and continue to have bad taste. All that said, i'm sure his review on frank ocean's new album is on point, hahah. I've never heard frank ocean before, but i can't imagine that it brings any sonic delight to the table, or the dogs under the table for that matter. That drums quote is hilarious though, should have renamed the article "the day the drums died", would have fit in with this thread better then too. You know, isn't "i can't like it because it hasn't got a beat to it", one of those clichés that plebs use when trying to explain why they can't get classical music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Well, am i wrong ? Mainstream music is a mess. My mind is better off without it. Given the likelihood of it being terrible, the possibility of you invalidating a judgement made using my hard won wisdom is pretty low kiddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 "Hard won wisdom"? Citation needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 lol never listened to Frank either though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Delet, you think General Relativity is a liberal hoax Where is this "wisdom" you speak of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Next up is some vaporwave neo-nue-metal hybrid that'll come with a critical re-appraisal of bands like Mudvayne and Static-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Delet, you think General Relativity is a liberal hoax Where is this "wisdom" you speak of? Well given that, though you have misrepresented my position on that topic, i am not then going to engage in a fruitless 180 post count 'debate' with you on this, well this i would say, ably demonstrates my wisdom. hahah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Would it be fair to say that you don't 'believe' in Relativity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 I seem to recall you don't believe in Quantum Mechanics, either And as I recall you suggested that the reason these theories gained popularity was ideologically-motivated "gatekeeping", no? P.S. How do you feel about the theory of Evolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 I listened to Blonde for the first time the other day. Lush album. Not one part is bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 what would you recommend broseki ? track wise. And make sure there's drums innit, heheh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Warrior Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 and there are only drums on five of the songs. says it all really. I wonder if he brings his prior incarnation as a blink182 listener up in polite company? Actually, what am i saying, all those reviewers probably had and continue to have bad taste. Here is another one of his articles..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/11000681/Blink-182-Ill-take-them-over-the-Beatles.html I went to school with such a bunch of wankers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 and there are only drums on five of the songs. says it all really. I wonder if he brings his prior incarnation as a blink182 listener up in polite company? Actually, what am i saying, all those reviewers probably had and continue to have bad taste. Here is another one of his articles..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/11000681/Blink-182-Ill-take-them-over-the-Beatles.html I went to school with such a bunch of wankers Good Lord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 lael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 and there are only drums on five of the songs. says it all really. I wonder if he brings his prior incarnation as a blink182 listener up in polite company? Actually, what am i saying, all those reviewers probably had and continue to have bad taste. Here is another one of his articles..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/11000681/Blink-182-Ill-take-them-over-the-Beatles.html I went to school with such a bunch of wankers Why can't people like him die in a fire.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Oh god what a fucking idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 So much trigger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 what has happened to this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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