IWasBored
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If Fanatano isn't annoying and pretentious as hell compared to a lot of things, I'm glad I don't read reviews. Hate that guy.
I'd seen the Hot Chip one but not the Lana Del Rey one. Those are some pathetic self-satisfied little fucks. At least when p4k reviewed a Jet album with a gif of a monkey pissing in its mouth it was funny.
P4K's Lateralus review is probably the funniest review I've ever read.
This review is terrible because of the score he gives it
Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ALBUM REVIEW - YouTube
And then the score he gives this
Skrillex- Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP REVIEW - YouTube
I'd seen the Hot Chip one but not the Lana Del Rey one. Those are some pathetic self-satisfied little fucks. At least when p4k reviewed a Jet album with a gif of a monkey pissing in its mouth it was funny.
I like video reviews better because they better illustrate "why the fuck would I care what this guy thinks?"
"I have done my best to place the album, as a series of utterances, in its agony and vacuity, in its depth, in its lonely sincerity, with its unnameable masks on, at the center of an endlessly conflicted, hip niche within contemporary capitalism, to show itself."
Fuck you, you fucking twat
And Needle Drop guy is the biggest of them all.
...just saying that, for me, I find them more useful as a counter balance to the opinions I've already formed as opposed to a fountainhead for forming that opinion in the first place.
And Needle Drop guy is the biggest of them all.
This is a smart way to use reviews. This forum has become my go-to place for recommendations, but Pitchfork, whatever its problems, is still a valuable source of new music for me. They have very rarely steered me wrong. In fact, I can only think of three things they have strongly recommended that I have not found much if any value in.
And here they are:
Neutral Milk Hotel
Pavement
My Beautiful Stereotypical Fantasy
I'm genuinely curious as to what people have against this guy, aside from his super-hipster appearance.
Because no, he's not.
I'm genuinely curious as to what people have against this guy, aside from his super-hipster appearance.
What do you mean? I think it's great (and I like Lateralus).My brain can't navigate this review.
I have no fucking who that person is
My Beautiful Stereotypical Fantasy
How dare you.
There’s showy, and then there’s “Take a Fall for Me”, a collaboration with RZA, who Blake gives free rein to smear awkward romantic imagery all over his track. It’s easy to understand why the pair would collaborate: their production styles aren’t dissimilar, both showing a fondness for gloomy, bass-heavy soundscapes rooted in R&B. Why RZA was asked to rap, however, is hard to understand. If you want to hear the phrase “tight as the grip of a squid” on a James Blake album, or an American’s stereotype of a proper British meal (fish & chips, Guinness), you’re in luck. For the rest of us, “Fall” is Blake’s first out-and-out failure, the sort of song that should have been relegated at the very least to bonus track status, and probably should have been kept private altogether.
They still haven't reviewed True Romance, but we have another Best New Music. I've never even heard of The Haxan Cloak...
As much as I like Fantano, I thought he was completely and totally out of his mind on this review:
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away