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Go on, then.

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

It sure gets mentioned a lot on ilm.

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

I think Pitchfork is fantastic. I check it every day. The crucial thing to remember is...don't read the reviews.

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

I love Pitchfork as well. Of course I don't agree with many of their reviews (especially Ryan's), but I think they have some great writers who I almost always agree with (Paul Cooper- when he's not talking about farts, even though that DAT Politics review was funny, Matt Lemay, Kristin Sage Rockerman, Mark Richard-San, Dominique Leonne, Christopher Dare, even Brent is often funny). Just keep Kevin Adickes' boring reviews away from me.
I love that they have 4 reviews every day and have a huge archive. I also like the new We Are the World section, as it adds some variety.
The best thing about Pitchfork for me is that it has helped me discover tons of bands that I'd never heard of before. Since I discovered it in 2000, my cd collection has nearly doubled.

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

It was originally called "Turntable."

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

Pitchfork is the best site devoted solely to independent music reviews on the internet today.

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

Since I discovered it in 2000, my cd collection has nearly doubled.

oh dear.

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

I remember visting pitchfork back when they still had frames and thinking "why can't this bunch of amateurs write more like Addicted to Noise?"

They still think "concept" is important, which is good. They speak to emotions I no longer have a use for.

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

They speak to emotions I no longer have a use for.

this sentence sums up my life so well it frightens me to the tiny black ball at my center.

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

Worthwhile as a newswire, the reviews are useless. It's amazing how many indie rock musicians and college djs I know who give much more respect than it deserves.

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

it's true. i remember being in the "indie" record store one time and hearing two or three chuckleheads (behind the counter) talking about a p-fork review in tones reserved for the massive myth of rolling stone, etc. i await the day when jann wenner is confusing me for a girl and saying that i need to find more productive things to do with my energies than slag off RS.

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

friend of mine surprised me by outa nowhere asking if I knew of p-fork coz this brent guy was brilliant.

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

I've told this story before, but it's been awhile and it's late at night and I'm drunk and I'm not sure if I'm telling it right, but the gist of it is that last fall I mentioned The Blueprint to some kid and he was like, "Maybe I should get that album, Pitchfork gave it a great review," and I was like, "Yeah, actually I helped the reviewer edit that review," and he was like, "You know Ethan P?!"

― Ian, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pitchfork sucks......but not totally......they got a few good, original writers floating around in that sea of amateur bitchmen.....but yo, they are vilified more than most because they actually diss bands.....a lot of indie bands to wit......usual bitchplume retaliation, indie kids are tenacious with the scrappy......for example, that Splendid E-Zine site's writers on the whole are crazy boring and less skilled than Pitchfork's, but don't get taken to task like P-fork because Splendid's disses are not nearly as venomous nor nearly as frequent......I love disses and cruelty so I think P-Fork is obviously better......this unspoken "it's all good.....don't analyze art unless you're nice" get- along-gang Dave Eggers shit is for cunts......also, that Brent guy on Pitchfork is a horrible damned fool, but he has made me laugh out loud on occasion. Not a single person that has posted in this thread so far has the ability to make me laugh out loud......this includes the niggas I'm friendly with.....pack an xacto, I don't care.

― Ramosi, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont mind pitchfork at all, i think its ok, and i've laughed at brents reviews too, you got to give him some credit i reckon. yeh, pitchfork can be cringeworthy sometimes, but good other times

― gareth, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One thing I'll say in Pitchfork's defense is that they have pretty cheap ad rates and so tiny labels (like say Cloud Recordings) that couldn't dream of advertising in CMJ can buy a spot on Pitchfork and still nail a large segment of their target demographic for little cash.

― J Blount, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Their review of Ben Folds Five's "The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner" is the most cringe inducing, embarassing, loathable, namedropping, smug, self-satisfied, gimpish piece of writing in the history of the English language. "Well, me and Steve Albini were at the cinema...."

― Judd Nelson, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, Everett True doesn't write for Pitchfork!!

Or does he?! SEE WHAT I DID?!

pitchforkmedia dot com are HATERZ of me and therefore I am haterz of them because they are VERY VERY BORING. But they started it.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, they hate indie bands which are fun like elephant 6 because they don't MEAN enough!

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the news section's really beefed up in the past year or two, which i will give them credit for, even if the editorializing therein gets a bit obnoxious sometimes. i wrote for them for a few months about a year and a half ago, and Ryan let me go under some pretty bizarre (and in retrospect pretty funny) circumstances, so i don't wanna sound catty or disgruntled, but i think everyone who has read it with any regularity has their points to make. mine is this - Matt LeMay: it just doesn't get much worse.

― al, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a mixed bag, but I get mostly positive vibes from Pitchfork.

However, I can do without the sweater geek reviews of non-IDM dance albums. There's nobody writing for them right now that appears to understand dance music. "What inane lyrics!" Piss off.

― scott, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Basement Jaxx review was a travesty.

I mean I got mailed that review by two different people, neither of whom write about music for a living or have a major interest in it, and they could see how bloody ridiculous it was.

Not to mention the slating it got here aswell. Whoever wrote that should never be allowed near a dance album again.

― Ronan, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan, basment jaxx obviously need to be more emo.

actually, there's a thread here, that i'm going to start RIGHT NOW>

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I should point out I meant the "slating" that THE REVIEW got here, rather than Rooty itself.

― Ronan, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the Basement Jaxx reviews were pretty funny before I, y'know, actually listened to the albums and discovered they were pretty damn good.

Their review of Discovery is pretty dunderheaded as well. "Maybe I just haven't taken enough ecstasy and horse tranquilizers to appreciate the tinny, sampled brass ensemble, the too-sincere "chill out" midsection, or the fat drum machine beats that throb in time with my headache." OH SHUT UP

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops. Link didn't work. Eh, you can find it somewhere.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And of course all of us hopefully know by now that nothing good has come out of house music since Deee-Lite.

― Andy K, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/lovage/ music-to-make-love-to- your-old-lady-by.shtml

This review made me laugh out loud numerous times.

― Jake W., Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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