James

People hating on Pitchfork is so boring, we get it you think it sucks. Why don't you stop reading it if it pisses you off so much?

TheBig3

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James

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And I disagree with what you said 70s are my favourite decade.

Dayvan Cowboy

I don't think it sucks, I think that the amount of hyping going on is unfair.

also, I read it, and I don't mind it that much. I like the amount of leakage going on and it's a nice news site.

TheCunningStunt

I didn't know what Pitchfork was until this place, it seems to be an American thing. An American thing that hypes up a load of "hipster" Noise Pop and people seem to hate it.

Hating on Pitchfork is like hating on the poor kids at school because they get free lunches and you don't.

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James

How is it unfair?
Critics rate music and if it's rated high by the critics people buy it, it's the way things work and Pitchfork does it the exact same way as all other publications.

Dayvan Cowboy

some hype is ridiculous though,
like AnCo. I love AnCo, but the hype is ridiculous and they shouldn't be as worshiped as they currently are. They're just AnCo, not god.

James

I hate "AnCo".
But anyway, the way I see it if hype bothers someone they can just ignore it. If you truly only care about music hype shouldn't be a factor.

Nine Black Poppies

Do they, though (in re: the huge herd of sheep)? Cos everyone I meet seems to pretty much have that same opinion. It seems more that different groups of people like different music and tend to be sort of compartmentalized about it. It seems sort of presumptuous to say that a band doesn't deserve attention if a lot of people like them. Which is actually sort of a weird balance cos everyone seems to realize taste is based on opinion, but people still act like it isn't. I dunno, I'm musing off on a tangent here.

I don't suppose it really matters, though, because 1) as you say, that's just what happens--it's part of the nature of having a critical ethos, which most publications do--and 2) that's the exciting thing the internet has done for music; it's made everything so much more available to be listened to and hyped and everything. No matter WHAT you think deserves the hype, you can find some other people who agree with you, plus people hyping things you've never heard of--that's part of why places like this exist. Which brings me to:

Cos I totally agree with that. If someone is turned off by a bad review on Pitchfork... well, so what? It doesn't seem like that's the kind of person that's going to be a hardcore supportive fan anyway (if they'd have been a fan at all) and even if the music is great, it's their fault for missing out if they're not smart enough to learn how to read a publication with a grain of salt. But I still think there are less people like that than we tend to assume.

I suppose it comes down to the idea that I find complaining about music one doesn't like to be sort of silly when that's effort that could be put into finding something new that you do dig. I'm also one of those people that's upset by the fact that I'll never be able to hear everything out there, though. So I dunno...

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BTown

What makes you think Math Rock is a dieing genre and needs more artists, Dayvan Cowboy?

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