pitchfork

[snorkel]

I dislike Pitchfork because it's one of the only major and popular venues for good indie music media (news, reviews, etc) yet their taste is rather awful. They exaggerate the greatness of shitty indie bands while denying that albums like Demon Days are the greatest ever, and the new music they feature is of haphazard choosing and influenced by something besides quality.

I do occasionally find good new music there, though, but I prefer the circuit design/indie music blogs (that sounds lame as fuck) for taste

[Geno]

They exaggerate the greatness of shitty indie bands while denying that albums like Demon Days are the greatest ever

I think that's called having an opinion

[Samus Aran]

I think that's called having an opinion

actually, Geno, in the case of Pitchfork, it's pretty legitimate to say they exaggerate things one way or the other

the other thing that Pitchfork does that annoys the fuck out of me is that their writers seem to write reviews with a thesaurus close by, because i sure see a lot of pseudo-intellectualism in the language style, and not a whole lot of actual "reviewing"

[Placebo Headwound]

I read it sometimes for news when I'm bored. I never pay attention to their reviews.

[Zach]

actually, Geno, in the case of Pitchfork, it's pretty legitimate to say they exaggerate things one way or the other

the other thing that Pitchfork does that annoys the fuck out of me is that their writers seem to write reviews with a thesaurus close by, because i sure see a lot of pseudo-intellectualism in the language style, and not a whole lot of actual "reviewing"

Yeah, they definitely have the hipster thing going on.

[the shortest route to the sea]

I use their ratings to get a ballpark estimate of how the album is, but really it's not that much information. the reviews are pretty useless.

also, arcade fire pitchfork drinking game: take a shot whenever you read the word catharsis

[C.Mongler]

albums like Demon Days are the greatest ever

lol

[Travis]

pitchfork can SUCK MY COCK

[??????]

PitchFork gave Portishead an incredibly low score. 

[C.Mongler]

PitchFork gave Portishead an incredibly low score. 

you consider 8.8 and 8.2 incredibly low score?

[Cookie]

Is it weird that I've never heard of pitchfork before?

[Samus Aran]

Is it weird that I've never heard of pitchfork before?

uh, yeah

[Daddy]

only to watch out for upcoming albums

[Socks]

Is it weird that I've never heard of pitchfork before?

not at all.

[Geno]

Is it weird that I've never heard of pitchfork before?

Well if you aren't into music then no not really