ITT: Times Pitchfork were very wrong

>>73556578
mbdtf 10
tame impala getting a 9
solange getting best album
any sufjan album getting a 9

>>73556578
I can't think of a single time where they were right

>>73556586
>mbdtf
>not a 10

>>73556586
Tame Impala should have 10's, I agree.

>>73556607
its a 7. pretty poor considering he spent 3m

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>>73556578
anything from this picture

>>73556578
Isn't that most times?

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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5804-pretty-hate-machine/

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14890-pretty-hate-machine/

>>73556640
nice chart, mind if I save it ?

>>73556632
never listened to it, is it good?
i like their 2000 album tho

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>>73556578
a fucking 2.0

>>73556640
>Laughing Stock
No way, everything else, sure

>>73556640
Now this chart would explain why so many of these albums are spammed all over /mu/ - everyone's actually a pitchfork drone... *sigh*

>>73556640
>imbailin Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space and Laughing Stock aren't 10/10

>>73556712
>muh space rock

nice meme genre

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>>73556578
never forget

>>73556686
Yes, it's not as easy to listen to in my opinion. It's a pretty slow and depressing album (until the end), but after repeated listens, it becomes one of their top 3 best albums

>>73556737
not even remotely close to an argument

>>73556737
But LaGWAFiS is symphonic rock, not space rock.

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>>73556708
Most of those didn't even get good scores
demon days was a 6.9
exmilitary a 7.5
de-loused a 4.9

>reading pitchfork and taking any of their 'just-out-of-college-esque' ramblings seriously.

>>73556708
most of those albums were released when pitchfok didnt even exist

>needing an online media outlet to tell me what i should like, and how it categorises me in terms of my personality

>>73556640
but they gave demon days and at the drive in mediocre scores and they hate the mars volta you fucking moron

>>73556836
and the rest of the albums????

>>73556586
U a hater

>>73556925
u a pleb

>>73556857
too many canon/prestige picks and not enough actual pitchfork buzz core to be a good chart

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Their latest offense

>>73557035
accurate score tbqh.

>inb4 butthurt fantano fan

>>73556586
I hope you think blonde was supposed to be #1

>>73556640
now this is just lazy

>>73556632
Agree, every album of GY!BE should have gotten a 0

>>73556766

fucking kek

>>73557035
>I just gave my nigga head

I listened to it last night. It wasn't good. It wasn't bad. Just generic hip hop with very little musical value.

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>>73557082
You must be crazy

>>73557047
You do realize if it's better to be a fantano drone than a pitchfork drone right (even though I'm not either and I just think he gave that score to be a tastemaker)

>>73557189
drone mentality right here ladies and gentlemen
god forbid we think for ourselves and form our own opinions on things.

>>73557212
Did you even read my reply?

>>73556640
lel. that's from the /mu/core chart right?

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>>73557281
well done

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>>73557370
watch it fuccboi

>>73556766
This is literally the worst thing I have ever read.

>>73556766
>Pitchfork will never be this great again

>>73557572
>>73558018
What's the synthesis?

>>73558038
There's a time and place for everything, but not now

>>73556686
it's their best album

>>73556599
I personally think that these sorts of posts are made in order to get readers to prowl through Pitchfork looking for shitty posts, thereby generating page views.

Pitchfork doesn't care about being "right" about albums, only about creating buzz. Hence low scores on popular albums, and high scores on several pretty terrible ones.

They consider themselves the curators of cool and people believe it because they want something like that to exist. But it doesn't.

Rolling Stone pulled the same shit in the 60's, if you want examples look up the RYM page with the worst Rolling Stone album reviews of all time.

>>73558353
>hurr durr everything ever is a capitalist scheme

>>73558353
Pitchfork is more influential than Rolling Stone was or is though, not really comparable

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>>73557035
So terrible. Pitchfork has been pulling this bullshit with hiphop for years

Niggas on the moon

>>73556640
People Who Can Eat People hasn't even been reviewed by Pitchfork

>>73558050

this can't be real

>>73556742
Score should be lower

>>73556578

90% of their 8.0+ ratings of the last 5 years or so.

>>73559045
neither has f# a# infinity or Richard D James, probably a lot more too, so that chart is a total lie

>>73558050
Lmao. That's insane.

>>73558728
Word, should be much higher

>>73556708
>*sigh*

>>73557035
I agree tho. Fantano really overhyped this shit.

>>73557035

should be lower

>>73558728
thugger > gay niggas

>>73559072
it sadly is. should've been a fucking 2 at the most

>>73560712
Thugger is a gay nigga tho

Giving Born To Die (best pop album of last 5 years) a 5.5

>>73556578
No matter how many times people make this thread they fail to understand that the score and review is based off 1 person.

>>73558550
In for-profit industries, like music journalism, yes.

>>73558603
Neither Pitchfork, nor Rolling Stone *should* be influential. Neither publication actually addresses the music.

When they do, it's usually to describe it emotionally, rather than to discuss the different musical techniques on the album or single being discussed.

Both also tend to bite into tabloid narratives of the band or artist being discussed.

Both publications ignore vast swaths of musical output, anything deemed 'uncool' by modern standards is shafted in favor of "trendier" music (which the industry itself pushes to be trendy). This is done regardless of merit, and to the detriment of artists that aren't "cool" enough to get Pitchfork reviews.

A great example of how music journalism works can be found in the promotion of the latest Portugal. The Man record. They sent the album out to a few youtubers and allowed them to say whatever they want about it. The result? Free advertising for your new record, even if it is unfavorable coverage. You get buzz, and in the age of the internet, that's potentially worth money.