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I think I'm officially done with Pitchfork making my decisions for me. I cringe when I think how many amazing albums I've missed because of a shitty PFork review. Surely I would have missed this year's Forms record (6.6), which still remains my #1 album of 2007 and is definitely in my top 10 of all time; I would never have heard the French Kicks (6.0); and I wouldn't have bothered with The Most Serene Republic (5.8), which I downloaded last night and am rapidly becoming infatuated with. It's got the Arts & Crafts / Canadian indie pop thing going on, but also with the crazy melodies and angular structures of Mew.
I just finished listening to the Sports Guy's latest podcast, and in every single conversation he has with his buddies they all seem to be totally torn up about the Giants / Cowboys game. I don't see what's so hard about it - the Cowboys are going to kill the Giants. Last week's Giants game did nothing to convince me - their first quarter (where they gained a total of -2 yards) is pretty much how I expected the entire game to go, and I'm still not convinced that the Giants won that game, as opposed to Tampa Bay just completely falling apart. Maybe I'm wrong, but I certainly wouldn't bet any money on the Giants making a game out of it, even if T.O. stays on the bench.
Kath is out tonight; I'm debating whether I want to go out or if I want to go home and collapse. Haven't been sleeping well this week, which works out great for the dogs since they've been waking up with me at around 4:00am.
More in just a bit.
I just finished listening to the Sports Guy's latest podcast, and in every single conversation he has with his buddies they all seem to be totally torn up about the Giants / Cowboys game. I don't see what's so hard about it - the Cowboys are going to kill the Giants. Last week's Giants game did nothing to convince me - their first quarter (where they gained a total of -2 yards) is pretty much how I expected the entire game to go, and I'm still not convinced that the Giants won that game, as opposed to Tampa Bay just completely falling apart. Maybe I'm wrong, but I certainly wouldn't bet any money on the Giants making a game out of it, even if T.O. stays on the bench.
Kath is out tonight; I'm debating whether I want to go out or if I want to go home and collapse. Haven't been sleeping well this week, which works out great for the dogs since they've been waking up with me at around 4:00am.
More in just a bit.
I'm currently writing my end-of-year album list (hopefully to post next week, I've been more than a little distracted lately by some things I'll be elaborating on soon enough), and for what it's worth, my #1 album of 2007 didn't even get a 5.0 from them.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/38853-shine-on
i mean, i understand hating an album. truly. but pitchfork purports to be a "voice" of the music industry. give me a break!
There's lots of other reasons that have cropped up since then, especially the notion that they will sometimes give a good album a shitty score because they're Pitchfork and people go to the site to read them give albums shitty reviews, and they have to fill some sort of quota. I can't prove this, of course, but I have second-hand evidence of a reviewer actually going up to a band and apologizing for her published review, which was apparently quite different from what she had submitted, both in terms of content and numeric score.