Pitchfork review of DAT politics album is the worst thing I have ever read.

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FUCK! "Butt Trumpet"!?

― Dan I., Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I refuse to go look at the review now. There's no way it can live up to this teaser.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i haf only evah read two things on pitchfork and both were by e.padgetXoR

― mark s, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ass-acoustics?

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Assuming all that stuff about flatworms is true, it's actually pretty educational; i mean, really, two barbed penises?? but um, i missed the part about the record, so from that viewpoint it's a bit odd.

― dave k, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone actually heard the record. That is to say, is it worth picking up? I'm a moderately enthusiastic fan of the Tigerbeat6 discs, if that helps.

― Lee G, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a punk band called Butt Trumpet.

― Mark, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read the review, and while it certainly follows a familiar and slightly overused music review style format, I can't see why it's so horrible. (The review was positive, by the way)... Uh, care to elaborate why it's so bad, Dan? (Besides invoking the words "butt trumpet")

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was Butt Trumpet a punk band? All I remember is their single from early 90's alt.rock radio. It made me laugh. But what did it sound like? I don't remember any outstanding punkiness...but I was, like, 10.

― Keiko, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was Butt Trumpet punk?--nay--Is butt trumpetting rock?

― Keiko, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Butt Trumpet song I have is on an old CMJ Monthly comp. The title is something like "I'm Ugly," which is also pretty much the chorus. It's so stupid that it's great; I just played it and I'm grinning with glee.

Actually, the contents on this thing are pretty great. Cranberries - "Zombie" !, David Gray, Wedding Present, K's Choice, the Bosstones, Helmet, B-52's, Tom Jones, Diamanda Galas with John Paul Jones, Spearhead, Consolidated, James, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Monster Magnet, and Team Dresch. What a mix!

― Dare, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pitchfork meh!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but has anyone actually heard the DAT Politics album, besides the butt trumpeting pitchforker?

― Lee G, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was Butt Trumpet a punk band?
Um, kinda. More of a low-budget joke band. Like GWAR without enough of a budget for latex. Or the cramps with one Lux Interior and THREE Poison Ivy Rorschachs. ("Sharon Needles"...what a hoot!)
All I remember is their single from early 90's alt.rock radio. It made me laugh. But what did it sound like? I don't remember any outstanding punkiness...but I was, like, 10.
Punkoidness? Some. More like someone imitating the feel of White Zombie without the benefit of modern sampling technology. But I think "Clusterfuck" and "Funeral Crashing Tonite" are two of the coolest tracks of the 90s.
A review I saw for Primitive Enema: "This got released on a major label. You know for a fact that SOMEBODY lost their job because of it."

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nickelodeon beatfuckery" ?
"shredded Spymaniac white noise" ?
"reediest farts" ?
"As [Stephen] Hawking's synth starts to smoke with over-stimulation, DAT Politics turn the track into a beach-movie campathon where Sandra Dee teases her surfer hunk co-star James Darren into prematurely popping his wad to the giggling delight of Sandra's spring-breaking sorority sisters." ?

I just read this review, and it's great.

― Dare, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd just like to point out that that particular Butt Trumpet song has made it into Kiki & Herb's regular repertoire. And whenever I see them, I suspect I'm the ONLY person there who knows that.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got the album and its great. I'd prescribe it for anyone who is fed up of being taken on epic minimal techno 'journeys'. I haven't read the review, but it differs from most tigerbeat6 stuff in that its sense of fun isn't cynical or mocking, and it doesn't daub everything in unlistenable static hiss or chaotic cut-ups. It seems to be trying to get away from IDM's hi-fi-anal syndrome as it sounds so brilliantly shrill and cheap, although there's still as many ideas going as say, Aphex, just a little more anarchic.

― Barnaby, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Methinks this was a potentially good review that got dumbed down to oblivion. Why else the grating colloquialisms -> "some far-out shit," "some trippy stuff," "or something."

And that's just in the first graph!

― Mark, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That part is really strange, Paul doesn't usually write like that. And I agree that there's a bit too much biology and not enough review, even for a Pitchfork piece.

― Dare, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. What is the standard split, anyways? 40/60?

― Mark, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If "good review" = review that makes you want to listen to the record, then that is a good review.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but a good review writer can write such a scathing review of a cruddy record, that it inspires interest in spite of itself.
"Wow. The reviewer sez the album stank. But he made it stink so vividly, I wanna get the record just to hear for myself how stinky it is."

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really, really, like DAT Politics.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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