Red Mosquito

pitchfork is just an easy target

Most of these reviews insist on summarizing PJ's entire career and then fitting LB into that, not just Pitchfork. I don't get it either, but few music critics are very good at their jobs, IMO.

Though in their defense, saying an album as a whole is "more of the same" while ignoring the few outliers isn't that bad (that's why they are outliers). The majority of the album is more of the same. You wouldn't claim My Father's Son is representative of the album.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

Lament wrote:I don't think any band's fanbase is as hung up about what Pitchfork has to say about their beloved as Pearl Jam's are.

i havent been following this thread much this afternoon, but are people really worried? i thought it was a decent but totally expected write up by them, i dont think they will ever like a PJ album but i could care less

Nah, I don't think anyone's really riled up about it. We're all used to it by now, but it's be crazy to think it could go completely undiscussed.

stip wrote:look at those elvis costello wanna be glasses!

David Lee Roth quote about music journalists goes here

Lament wrote:

stip wrote:Guys, I'm tearing up here. It's nice knowing that, come what may, I'll always have this legacy.

You're such a Stipster.

stipsters form a symbiotic relationship with hipsters. We feed off their discarded emotions and big gestures left ungested.

BurtReynolds wrote:Most of these reviews insist on summarizing PJ's entire career and then fitting LB into that, not just Pitchfork. I don't get it either, but few music critics are very good at their jobs, IMO.

Though in their defense, saying an album as a whole is "more of the same" while ignoring the few outliers isn't that bad (that's why they are outliers). The majority of the album is more of the same. You wouldn't claim My Father's Son is representative of the album.

One wouldn't claim that, but that's because the album is varied enough over the dozen songs that there isn't really a cluster that qualifies as "representative."

harmless wrote:Jorge still hasn't told me what music publication he writes for. I bet it's Pitchfork.

Three different ones, aside from my personal blog, but they're not Pitchfork. My writing is too gushy and sentimental for Pitchfork.

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:look at those elvis costello wanna be glasses!

David Lee Roth quote about music journalists goes here

It took a couple decades, but the correct response to the David Lee Roth quote is "why do meth addicts like David Lee Roth?"

that's cool. Who do you write for?

stip wrote:big gestures left ungested.

I love this. Let this not go unappreciated, people.

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Maybe both of these albums were just, you know, less precious experiments. Backspacer was "Let's try this pop sound out". Lightning Bolt is "We've done that, now let's try tons of genres". The reviewers who have said it feels like a compilation of "stuff we can do" are quite right.

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

theplatypus wrote:

harmless wrote:Jorge still hasn't told me what music publication he writes for. I bet it's Pitchfork.

Three different ones, aside from my personal blog, but they're not Pitchfork. My writing is too gushy and sentimental for Pitchfork.

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

Grantland.

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

Grantland.

Maids Magazine

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

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stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

Grantland.

Maids Magazine

Drudge Report.

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

Grantland.

Maids Magazine

Highlights

BurtReynolds wrote:

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

Lament wrote:

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:that's cool. Who do you write for?

Antiquiet

Grunge Report.

Absolute Punk

Grantland.

Maids Magazine

Highlights

Zillions.