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FruitKat:
Agreed... I don't read pitchfork and it probably IS my type of music that they review.
Noone's forcing you to look at that site.
sp2:
--- Quote from: est ---therefore it's pretty much useless to you as a review site.
--- End quote ---
Mainly I read it to get an idea of how likely a concert is to sell out, so I know if I should get tickets ahead of time. However, the writing often annoys the shit out of me, and I find that I hear a lot of people parroting Pitchfork reviews, and that pisses me off. It's pretty much just like how all punks or goths pretty much ascribe to the same philosophy regardless of the whole "think for yourself" mantra. It's the same with indie kids...."think for yourself so long as your opinion agrees with Pitchfork."
Moral: Subcultures suck.
KharBevNor:
Wierd, the moral I got out of that was:
The Sisters of Mercy > Radiohead
...
Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me...
Hatebunny:
Aww, c'mon...I like Sisters of Mercy AND Radiohead...y'just can't compare the two :/
My Aim Is True:
--- Quote from: StarlightRecycler ---Agreed... I don't read pitchfork and it probably IS my type of music that they review.
Noone's forcing you to look at that site.
--- End quote ---
same here... and it is precisely because you probably have to read each review 3 times to understand it (unless it just says "this is is tiresome and boring" which a lot of their reviews do). Most of the writers at Pitchfork just try really really hard to sound like they are far more sophisticated than they really are. They do spend 2/3 of a review constructing an elaborate and unweildy analogy. They also review things that ARE NOT indie, yet judge them on criteria completely inappropriate for the genre.
I don't really care about Interpol one way or another, but I am simply astounded that they rated the Bloc Party album 8.9.
that said, the news and interviews can be interesting, and occasionally I will find out about someting good, like Black Mountain.
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