LPTJ in pitchfork

[Andrew_TSKS]

ohhhhh yeah. i've heard of that site.

[JamesSchneider]

sorry to be unclear

[elpollodiablo]

Thing is, any music 'journalism' (and the pfork people are journalists in the same way that Bill O'Reilly is a journalist) that includes arbitrary quanifications of a record's 'relevance' or 'quality' represented by a 1-10 scale is uniteresting to me. Oh, you've got a needlessly dense seven-paragraph treatise on the clime and culture of independent music--  touching tangentially how said record fits into that clime--that follows your 5.7 or your 7.2? Oh, well, that's justified. Nothing like the square media, say EW or USA Today, with their laughable alphabetical rating systems and terse, penetrable comments.
Fuckin' assholes.


And, yes, Andrew. You win.

[Andrew_TSKS]

actually, that's a really good point, elpollo. i'm a big fan of evaluating a record based on how much i dig the music on it, not on any larger relation to the state of music today blah blah etc etc. that kind of criticism does very little to tell me what records actually sound like. also, i think it reinforces the sort of musical cliquishness that's really popular today, where people condemn or praise records they've never listened to based solely on who already listens to those bands, or what bands/genres the band in question is associated with. if there's one thing i hate, it's when people do that kind of thing.

[bYul]

i'm a big fan of evaluating a record based on how much i dig the music on it, not on any larger relation to the state of music today blah blah etc etc.
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haha... that reminds of how buddyhead used to review music based on a five point scale of how stoked axl rose was about it.  That was genius, but sadly buddyhead no longer does reviews

[dieblucasdie]

Haha, well obviously you have to take the numerical reviews with a grain of salt.  It's a good general barometer though.  I have may done a similar post before, but my take on pfork trustworthness:

0.0-4.0 - They're probably right; it's probably pretty darn bad.
4.0-8.9 - This album could be great or it could suck.
9.0-10.0 - This album is probably pretty good.

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