ITT: Worst Pitchfork ratings.
>>66210475
when they gave Travistan a 0.
>>66210475
>ITT: Worst Pitchfork ratings.
People who follow pitchfork are sheep
All of them
/thread
>>66210502
T H I S
H.H
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Pitchfork is a company that will actively delete their old reviews to fit in with the zeitgeist.
>Oh, lordy we can't be seen giving the 'Boy With The Arab Strap' a 2.0, better delete it.
>>66210567
Pitchfork used to be incredibly harsh with ratings, and their writers would probably be seen as too mean spirited and offensive for today's audience.
>>66210475
fuck this review was so cringeworthy. Man alive is even better than some of their new albums.
I hope Ian cohen dies slowly.
>>66210611
It's Orwellian. Gotta revise history to keep the proles in check.
Their obsession with black music of the past five years is a little odd, too.
>>66210677
>If anyone's got a more irritating voice than Jonathan Everything, they probably also have a harp and a few good stories to tell
wow
>>66210475
This album is one true gem that pitchfork couln´t see well.
>>66210717
>If anyone's got a more irritating voice than Jonathan Everything, they probably also have a harp and a few good stories to tell
is this a dig at jonew or something
>>66210475
HOLY FUCK THIS.
I've waited for this exact op for a long time now.
>>66210822
sounds like it
Zaireeka's 0.0 because the reviewer was too lazy to listen to the album properly
>>66210686
What's wrong with black music?
Racist.
>>66210926
He has a good voice, an amazing range and he´s very expresive.
Pitchfork is such an hypocrite site, they love thom yorke whinny vocals but they hate Higgs.
>>66211072
I think the problem with Pitchfork is that they seem to hate new artists that try something different. That wouldn't be a problem, but so many people fanatically follow them, and those people have no idea on how much music they are missing out on.
>>66211238
EE have been consistently bubbling under here since My kz ur bf came out, I remember that playing at a good number of parties through 2011
Get to Heaven seemed to have a pretty good response on /mu/ at least
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy getting a 10. It's more of a 7 or 8
Late Registration deserves a 10
>>66210983
>What's wrong with black music?
>It's so le quirky and different, it must be good
>>66210475
It was meh in my opinion, didn't deserve 3.8 though
EE really stepped their game up on Arc and Get to Heaven
>>66210611
The halcyon days when they weren't driven by their advertisers.
I fucking miss OGs like Brent Dicrecenzo
>>66211471
Get to heaven was obviously great, but I don't recall seeing much discussion for Arc
Duet and Don't Try were fantastic tracks
This one
>>66210983
Nothing is wrong dumbo, I didn't say that. I said it's odd that P4K changed so much in the past five years favouring a lot of black music.
>>66211601
what the fuck?
Every single The Mars Volta album Pitchfork has ever reviewed.
>>66211341
Late Registration is a 6 at best.
Why is /mu/ so obsessed with ratings? You do this all the time with P4K and scaruffi and others. It would be one thing if you posted with the actual reviews and said what was wrong with them, but why are we making a big deal just posting and disagreeing with the rating?
Would you be so upset if I said I'm giving Remain in Light a 5/10 right now?
>>66211601
Holy shit. This same guy gave franz ferdinand a bnm and not speakerboxx/the love below
>>66212304
This
Holy shit where did Cedric touch them to get such awful reviews
>>66210937
That album was unlistenable tho.
>>66211375
>memes
>>66211414
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
but Bitter Tea is actually amazing and it only got a 7.6. I love them but not that album.
>>66210475
Their positive reviews are often much worse than their negative reviews (See: Kid A)
>>66210475
It's really not a great album imo. Arc is a 6/10 and GTH is a 9/10 though. They really have found their unique sound and have progressed at an insane rate the past few years.
>>66210983
>>66211375
>>66212221
Black music has taken a big turn for the worst. From blues and jazz to this shit.
>tfw
>>66212510
Is it just me or are all Mars Volta album covers just really painful to look at?
>>66212510
>too melody-driven for prog
What else could be expected of someone with the last name Ubl?
>>66214033
what the fuck
>>66210475
>>66210500
>>66211601
>>66212510
>>66214033
These. All of them are way too high.
>>66214191
>0.0
>too high
you what
>>66211601
wow
how retarded can you be to give this lower than a 5?
>>66214033
I don't even like Tool, but what the actual fuck? That album is at least a 7.
>>66211601
I remember reading that. The reviewer had some strange grudge against New York, and kept ranting about how much he hates the place, their pizza, and their subway system.
>>66212510
I'm pretty sure that they refused to do interviews with Pitchfork back on the At the Drive-In days and actively avoided Pitchfork afterwards when they were getting really big.
IIRC Relationship of Command has a really low score too and none of Omar and Cedric's later work has any reviews
Surprised they didn't delete this. I'd image this sounding somewhat disappointing back in 2001 but it has aged incredibly well since then.
>>66211601
asaaaAAAAAAAAH
>>66214823
FRANKIE SINATRA!!!
>>66210800
Definitely. Never see it posted on here.
>>66210686
lol dude
Hip hop has seen a huge rise in popularity, and hip hop is obviously a genre with a massive amount of black artists. Of course more black artists are going to get attention, it's not a conspiracy.
>>66215807
shhh
Let them believe in the conspiracy. It's the only thing they have
>>66211375
DAE LIL GAYNE?!
fact: most of the people that shit on lil wayne havent listened to the early carter albums
>>66214033
What always tripped me up about this rating was that the review was written by the same guy who reviewed Kid A. It's literally so weird to see this stark difference in opinions, because Lateralus and Kid A are both in my top 20. For totally different reasons of course.
>>66210800
dance-punk classic
>>66210475
Holy fuck that's such a horrible score jesus christ. That album is fab
I don't care if the reissue got a better score, this was absurd.
>>66214046
I love all the album covers, they're all unique and interesting to look at.
to each his own i guess
>>66216154
Biggest difference in rating on Pitchfork I have ever seen.
>>66216413
fucking imbeciles, it may not be my favorite Ulver album but still it's a really great record
>>66214046
i don't even like Mars Volta and I love that album cover
>>66214046
They were made by the same group that design many album covers by Muse and Pink Floyd. STORMSTUDIO. I like them a lot.
>>66215867
That album got middling reviews all across the board mostly
The OG infamous they gave a 10
>>66210686
this
>>66210983
>>66215807
>>66215829
they gave this failed fucking abortion of an album 8.4, if that doesn't scream white guilt I don't know what does.
>>66216935
I think it was more following the trends and the $$$, not white guilt
White guilt would be giving an 8 to a shitty conscious rap album because of it's politics
>>66216935
one of the best hip-hop albums of the last five years, easily.
Giving Coloring Book by Chance a fucking 9.1.
Not even rap fans were talking about that shit like three days afterwards.
>>66216413
i actually agree with this one. It just seemed like an amatuerish outing, understandably of course
>>66217124
Coloring book is the best hip hop album of the year IMO
>>66216980
oh u mean like l e m o n a d e
>>66217101
I could get an autistic chimpanzee fucked up on ketamine, record it's disoriented chattering, and put it to a minimalist synth beat and you'd probably give it a fucking 10/10
>>66210475
Lol
>2016
>current year
>Current month
>current week
>current day
>current hour
>current minute
>current second
>still takes pitchfork serious
>>66216935
This album is GOAT. Definitely earned the 8.4.
>>66217343
What the fuck is this guy talking about? For someone who reviews music, it's amazing to think you can't look in an artist's back catalogue.
>>66212350
no, because you're irrelevant
pitchfork is very popular and therefore influential in shaping what the public considers good music.
that being said, I agree with you. Assinging an album a number is fucking stupid
>>66214033
to be fair, this is one of the funniest reviews I've ever read.
But the author is reprehensibly the biggest tryhard in the world
