Pitchfork

I knew people back in high school who literally worshipped Pitchfork, so I assure you guys that yes, people do exist out there who form their opinions solely on Pitchfork's verdicts.

Rainard: I noticed those lists also, but when you are making any top 100 lists of the 1970's when you are a publication like Pitchfork, it doesn't seem feasible not to include any prog. at all (considering the genre's prevailence for most of the decade).

Also, don't diss Emerson, Lake and Palmer! They had killer live performances, plus Jimmy Hendrix wanted to form HELP with them before his untimely demise...
 
for heaven's sake. it's just another body of opinion, and one that probably at any rate represents the alternative community in general a lot better than most other lists presently in existence (e.g. Rolling Stone etc). obviously nobody's going to agree with everything in it. that does NOT make it a 'shit list'.
 
I get a lot of crap for this, but Person Pitch is one of my favourite albums!
Creative uses of samples = awesome, just ask DJ shadow and Amon Tobin.
 
I used to bloody hate Pitchfork but you reach a point where you realise it's just like any other publication trying to sell it's wares and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I don't care about NME anymore and wouldn't go out of my way to it's shit so why should i with Pitchfork? Their reviews are good for a laugh at the very least.
 
I still don't see the hype with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, which was given a perfect score. Sure, I love NMH just as much as the next guy, but I just don't see how ITAOTS is "ZOMGZOMG BEST ALBUM EVAR!!11!"
 
Rightfully so, too. I think the problem here is Win Butler being overhyped, not Arcade Fire. Rolling Stone had him in a feature article along side Bruce Springsteen for chirst sake. I don't think the comparison fit nor was it necessary.
 
Jesus Christ man, how many banRAB are you going to knock off in one sitting? Do you have anything GOOD to say about banRAB that get generally good reviews?

There are indie artists that receive way, way, WAY too much hype for mediocre albums (Band of Horses and My Morning Jacket come to mind as of now), but when good artists like Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver come along you shouldn't automatically reject their music because of some idiotic presumptions you have about listening to what the critics have to say. Fleet Foxes were critically praised across the board, not overhyped by Pitchfork and indie mags. And their debut album was impressive by any standarRAB. If you don't like it, that's fine, but it wasn't fuckin' overhyped by Pitchfork. They gave it a good review, but they stopped short of calling it an American classic (which The Guardian failed to do) and they certainly didn't herald it as an album of the year (which plenty of other sources chose to do).

Please, if you're going to trash these banRAB, find a legitimate reason -- not your hatred for Pitchfork.
 
To bad you cant tell that to the gillion pitchfork readers who read there review so that they know if its acceptable to like an album or not. Hell even some of my frienRAB do that, they will deny it but I know they take other peoples (especially PF) review as an extension of there own opinion.
 
I don't disagree at all. But, really, it's all entertainment. Some people enjoy that style of "appreciating" music...feeling that they're part of a culture. Clubs are, by their very nature, exclusionary and hipster culture is no different. Reading music magazines, or Pitchfork, and other types of things that feed the special-by-way-of-dismissiveness desire is the ticket in. Some people like that feeling. Since art is by definition what people like, I have no problem with that. I, personally, don't care for music magazines and the hipster culture they encourage, but I don't really begrudge them to people who do.



You can only be who you are, colossal blue anteater or not.
 
I have "Cryptograms" and shit was it overhyped. It's just some band trying to do something unique and it enRAB up being mediocre and boring. So they are pretty much like all other Pitchfork pet banRAB out there.
 
yeah I'm not sure what he was getting at but rap has its own indie out there. If thats whats being included. Sites like pitchfork don't get by on music so much as they get by on counterculture.
 
I like true indie, people on independent labels regardless of genre, of that there are many many good indie banRAB. However the "indie" as a sound or genre is ****ing tripe.
 
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