The only thing we like more than discussing Pitchfork are articles about Pitchfork. From the new Wired…
It’s hard to pinpoint a single factor responsible for Broken Social Scene’s rise. The band’s talent has certainly helped, as has a prolonged slump in major-label rock that has sent frustrated listeners scrambling for anything new and nonconformist. But the group also owes a lot to a backhanded rave from an online music fanzine called Pitchfork.Ryan Schreiber, the site’s editor in chief, reviewed Broken Social Scene’s US debut album, You Forgot It in People, in 2003. He began by lamenting the fact that he was receiving more promotional CDs than he could possibly write about or even listen to, and he acknowledged that he had plucked this record from the slush pile at random. He chastised the group for its gloomy packaging and liner notes (“How could they not be the most unimaginative, bleak, whiny emo bastards in the whole pile?”). Then he conceded that he’d been listening to the record obsessively for months. It “explodes,” he wrote, “with song after song of endlessly replayable, perfect pop.” Schreiber awarded it a score of 9.2 points out of a possible 10. An indie rock star was born.
“That’s when the phone calls started coming in,” Drew says. “The next tour we went on, we suddenly found ourselves selling out venues. Everyone was coming up to us, saying, ‘We heard about you from Pitchfork.’ It basically opened the door for us. It gave us an audience.”
Here’s the whole article, which reveals things you know already (Ryan Schreiber = bearded, Travis Morrison = 0.0), but is worth reading.
Picking on Pitchfork is fun (and easy!), but Stereogum does read it everyday and believes its staff of writers to be talented and good people.
That said, let’s make this fun: Wrongest PFork rating ever? … Go!
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I give pitchfork’s new unreadable cleartype font a 0.8.
I got it. Ultimate Fakebook’s This will Be Laughing week. It’s not a bad review because the album is good, the album is terrible. It’s a bad review because it never speaks about the music all it does is insult the bands hometown Lawrence, Kansas which is also my hometown. We have a great music scene and we have gained a reputation for being one of the most important scenes in the midwest. The reviewer says “I know nothing about the town, but that won’t stop me from making fun of it.” he says there is a population of 8 people or something and just makes it out to be a tiny backwoods redneck town. We’re anything but and it just pissed me off. At least Wayne Coyne loves us.
sure they’re talented and learned. but they take themselves way too seriously.
Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year…
Has anyone else noticed they give out a shitload of 7.6s and 8.7s?
Don’t forget their habit of shitting on anything David Bazan touches just to be douche bags.
But Davy B. gave Pitchfork the ultimate swirly with “Selling Advertising”. He shit more on pitchfork in a couple lines than they ever could on him in pages of text.
You’re so creative
With your reviews
Of what other people do
How satisfying that must be for you
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