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How Pitchfork Struck a Note in Indie Music
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| 8/15/10
| Claire Suddath
Posted on 08/16/2010 6:03:53 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde
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Pitchfork can have a huge effect on an indie band. Although while a good review can help move a good amount of albums, a bad one isn't fatal. They hate Kings of Leon and they are doing OK.
Arcade Fire had the #1 album last week, although at 150,000 sold it is still a long way from what the really major acts move today. The album is excellent by the way.
To: a fool in paradise
You may be interested in this.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:04:53 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Mr. Blonde
Wow. I’ve never even heard of this “ hip-hop megastar”
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:11:03 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: Mr. Blonde
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:11:38 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: Psycho_Bunny
Wow. Ive never even heard of this hip-hop megastar hip-hop=rap="kill whitey"
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:13:08 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: Mr. Blonde
I would LOVE to get Pitchfork to look at our new movie when it comes out in two weeks, “Rockin’ the Wall,” how rock rolled up the Iron Curtain (www.rockinthewall.com). Take a look at the trailer.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:13:39 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: freedumb2003
Oh, please. There’s a lot of brilliant music being written...you just have to know where to look.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:15:18 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: Psycho_Bunny
>>Oh, please. Theres a lot of brilliant music being written...you just have to know where to look.<<
if you say so...
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:17:09 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: Psycho_Bunny
I’m impressed if you have managed to have never heard Outkast. They were all over the radio with Hey Ya and The Way You Move from Speakerboxx/The Love Below. They are a very good example of why I think the broad brush used on rap here is incorrect. Especially when it comes to mainstream huge selling rap.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:18:31 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: freedumb2003
Why 1972? Seems a little suspect that it is before Blood on the Tracks came out for starters, and ignores the tremendous amount of great music that has come out since.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:23:13 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: freedumb2003
Why 1972? Seems a little suspect that it is before Blood on the Tracks came out for starters, and ignores the tremendous amount of great music that has come out since.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:23:13 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Mr. Blonde
Pitchfork can be real hit or miss - the reviewers sometimes seem so intent on being tastemakers that they overrate new releases to an embarrassing extent. They overemphasize indie rock and post-rock acts, while giving much less coverage to electronic music, soul and hip hop acts that do not flirt with indie rock tropes.
I also suspect that the editorial staff is either sleeping with or belong to an apocalyptic cult formed by Animal Collective. Perhaps the most overhyped outfit in post-rock today.
To: LS
Looks very cool. Definitely worth making them and the other music blogs aware of it.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:27:24 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Mr. Blonde
>>They are a very good example of why I think the broad brush used on rap here is incorrect. Especially when it comes to mainstream huge selling rap.
<<
cRap has no staying power. In the music industry, there is a concept known as “catalog.” It basically means albums and songs that sell long after their release. Items like “Yellow Brick Road”,”White Album”, “In Search of the Lost Chord” etc. still dominate the catalog domain.
cRap music has about a 1 week shelf life. There is no catalog and eventually the industry will implode from its own embrace of the non-sustainable street poetry.
Who goes back for 10 or 20 year for cRap? No one. But people still want to buy and enjoy “Houses of the Holy.”
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:28:02 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: Mr. Blonde
Choose an arbitrary point and snootishly claim that nothing good has happened since.
It's the sign of a mind that's no longer interested.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:31:32 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: Mr. Blonde
>>Why 1972? <<
Among other things, Morrison died.
It was also the last good year for GFR.
cRap is just stylized beat poetry — Maynard G. Krebs writ large.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:33:10 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: Psycho_Bunny
>>It’s the sign of a mind that’s no longer interested.<<
No, just ears that have been assaulted for 3 decades by garbage (for the most part). The last decade has been particularly vile.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:34:37 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
To: wideawake
I agree with everything you said. Although I will admit to not being anti-Animal Collective, but it takes a lot of work to get into them. If it takes 5-6 listens to come around, the music is just too out there.
If you aren't one of the ones they like, in the sub-genre they like you will get a bad review. And they seem to get off on being pretentious.
Posting articles from The Onion isn't allowed, but I will link to their,
Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8. Even 3 years later, still probably my favorite thing they have done. "Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably 'Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat' by Franz Liszt and 'Closing Time' by '90s alt-rock group Semisonic," Schreiber wrote. "In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement."
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:35:09 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Mr. Blonde
“Im impressed if you have managed to have never heard Outkast.”
I don’t have time to listen to the radio and I can’t handle commercials. Plus, most of my work is orchestral so I’m rarely exposed to anything beat-driven outside of dance clubs.
It’s annoying because I known I’m missing a lot of good stuff.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:38:48 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: freedumb2003
Outside of U2, I don’t know if there is a major band I care for less than The Doors. Sadly Morrison’s death wasn’t enough to end drunken buffoons posing as poets.
I’m sure you’re aware Houses of the Holy came out after your arbitrary cutoff date.
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posted on
08/16/2010 6:44:32 PM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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