The Ultimate Hipster Playlist / Good Albums that Suck Because You Exist

Yeah, I always found it wierd that they gave it a ten. But Pitchfork reviews are sketchy before 2005ish, they seemed to be alot more liberal with the "10.0's". Regardless, I really like Animals because its some of the only 70's pink Floyd that isnt rammed down my throat, so it never lost too much of its luster, since I could listen to it on my own terms.

That Animals review, the writer seems to be drowning in his own nostalgia (the most insidious corruptor of great rock and roll). I feel like alot of the reason he gave it a 10 was because it reminded him of when he was a kid.
 
Yeah, what people can't control shouldn't be judged. Sexuality definitly shouldn't be something that neeRAB to fall into a category.

...Everyone is a little bit gay anyways...
 
I was talking about the song on You Forgot It In People. I...like it.

Anyways, onto the next entry... If I didn't upset too many people with the last admission, this should do the trick.



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8. Morrissey's Solo Career (1987-)​

Take your pick which album sucks the most. Some suck more than others, some just barely reach the threshold of sucking, but they all just plain suck. Musical progeny of Morrissey simply goes in two directions: sucking and sucking hard.

So what’s this fourth-gender heartthrob done to offend me?

Everything. His attitude towarRAB life, his lyrical “merit,” even his fucking hair: it all exudes an aura of extreme pretentiousness. All through the eighties, The Smiths did nothing but piss off the world at large. And then, come August of 1987, Morrissey felt that he was entitled to a solo career. Now, I don’t know how England feels about the Smiths, but I’ve never imagined them to be any more than a pop icon for a few years and fade away. But it was not so. Morrissey lingered, producing albums which sound as successively dated as the last. He’s produced some of the most boring, pretentious music that the industry has to offer, and it hasn’t changed in over two decades.

Morrissey is probably the only artist on this list that I genuinely loathe. There are so many reasons you can hate on Morrissey. He’s that guy who can’t get enough of himself, who can’t find a reason why he isn’t the greatest thing ever, who, despite all claims to the contrary, has never had a real relationship. I always imagine that Morrissey occupies the time in which he isn’t answering fan mail by staring at his reflection. And whenever some guitarist exhibits the slightest desire to share in the spotlight, to harbor some disparity in creativity, well, that just doesn’t sit well with Morrissey. He couldn’t write a tune to save himself, and it’s pretty obvious he couldn’t catch an imagination if it bit him on the ass.
 
this thread is sounding less and less like a ultimate hipset soundlist, and more and more like a forum for your disappointment with pitchfork. do like the rest of us and get a WIDE scope from reading many reviews from many different sources.... pitchfork is as arbitrary as the rest. the best way to get an real review is to take a group of ratings for a single album and average them. similar to how rottentomatoes.com or gamerankings.com does. if your to lazy to do that, figure it out for yourself. who cares if pitchfork called TOTBL the best album of the year? i mean you came on to bash an album you admittingly said you liked...?
 
I don't even understand all the hate for Pitchfork. I checked it out after seeing how much hate it received here and searched through some of their reviews, and for the most part they seemed pretty fair.

Someone posted some surrealistic fantasy story review saying it was their most pretentious review ever and fair enough it was silly, but how pretentious can you be if you are obviously not taking yourself seriously.

Ehh, I probably haven't read enough of it to develop a dislike..
 
Get the fuck out.

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10. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)​

"What?"

Yes. In 2002, this album was shoved up the ass-crack of everyone and their mother...because they sounded vaguely like Joy Division. It was heralded as the leading album for the post-punk revival (which lasted about two months, btw) and was praised across the board. Pitchfork spearheaded this anal-bumfuckery, calling it the best album of 2002 [and if you remeraber 2002, that's quite a bold call (think: Yoshimi, Songs for the Deaf, Phrenology, etc)] and created such a shitstorm of attention for this admittedly mediocre band that they had difficulty booking gigs large enough to accomodate their metastatic cancer of a fanbase. And then it went from bad to worse to just plain stupid.

The album itself isn't bad; there are some interesting songs like "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down," and overall it wasn't a terrible accomplishment. But it wasn't that good. Turn On the Bright Lights just comes across as a bad ripoff of the Bunnymen, and with less personality than a deflated cheeseburger. The band itself is even less interesting; Paul Banks' singing makes me pine for Robert Smith and the rest of the band looks like they're just trying to piss me off:

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And then it just gets stupid. While Interpol was far from the worst thing that Pitchfork released upon the world, they certainly couldn't manage to hold that "good record" streak for very long. Subsequent albums Antics and Our Love to Admire garnered less and less critical attention. Maybe Pitchfork got sick of 'em, maybe Interpol changed their sound (who am I kidding?), but soon those kiRAB that loved 'em so much just a few years ago were the first to cast the stones. In forums, in reviews, just about everywhere, people said the same thing: "[Interpol's latest album] wasn't as good as Turn On the Bright Lights." People just grew disenchanted with Interpol.

Bullshit. Six years after TOTBL was released, I still hear the same goddamn people tell me how good it was. It doesn't matter to these people how good their latest record is, nothing will ever come close to the perfection that was Turn On the Bright Lights. Interpol could come up with a fucking Dark Side of the Moon and it still won't approach how good TOTBL was. Right?

And just so it doesn't sound like I'm beating a dead horse, this will be my only rant against an album of this wave/genre. So I'm not gonna try to explain why these albums suck. Go figure it out yourself.
  • Good News For People Who Love Bad News
  • Silent Alarm
  • The Back Room
  • Is This It
  • Up The Bracket

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The author enjoys his Interpol now and again!​
 
I feel like way more people listen to music to not fit in, than to fit in, which is what lots of pitchfork haters seem to suggest. I mean, christ, if you wanted to fit in why the hell would you listen to Neutral Milk Hotel? Death Cab seems much easier to find. And now, with Aeroplane its like 7th grade with the poser police out in full force again, since the major criticizers seem to be ex-fans. Even Urban, who put ITAOS in his list of things that annoy him about music lists some obscure NMH demos like "Beauty" as part of his music collection. Note Lucifer's correct spelling of Mangum, rather than 'Magnum' which would most likely be the common misspelling for a casual fan who hasnt found the need to google him before:)

Just speculation here.
 
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