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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Pitchfork music website shutting down
 
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deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

 Wizard Hands would be a really good username

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deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

cumpantry posted:

same guy



This is the only one I've seen ITT that I disagree with

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deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

syntaxfunction posted:

Pitchfork has apparently reviewed multiple Dandy Warhols albums but never Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia? I guess it might have hit too close to home lol

It's so weird what they decide to write up a review for. And the review numbers are pretty useless, absolutely for cross-genre comparisons (an 8 or 9 for an indie album is usually like a 5 or 6 in other genres when they grade stuff), but also for the same genre. Goo by Sonic Youth got 8.5, and Permission to Land by the Darkness ("Thing Called Love" band) is an 8.2 and I don't know what that is supposed to convey.

It always felt to me like Pitchfork reviewers were basically scoring albums based how unfamiliar people would be with it and therefore how much they'd get to mansplain about it at the NYC socialite parties they went to when they brought it up.

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