Is it THAT bad, Yea Forums?

No, the reviewer was an autistic jackass.

>trust bitchfork ever
BAKA

pitchfork has always been so fucking horrible and this is just more proof

every Sonic Youth album is a 0.0

It's Sonic Youth's worst album but it's still decent

absolute pleb

But one of the 500 or so rambling pieces I wrote as a Pitchfork brat still sticks in my craw. In 1999, I moved to Chicago from Atlanta with my buddy and Pitchfork founder to make the music website a semilegitimate media outlet. I also grew a chip on my shoulder about living in the Midwest, not New York. Around the same time, some thug broke into Sonic Youth’s touring van and stole all its gear. The iconic Gotham band, always one of my favorites, responded by buying new equipment and recording NYC Ghosts & Flowers, an album of pointilist, tuneless, beatnik street jazz. It couldn’t have been more Manhattan art scene had it been Jean-Michel Basquiat reading slam poetry over John Zorn’s ringtones. Come to think of it, that’s basically what it sounds like. I hated its clichéd New Yorkishness. So I ripped it a new one, deeming it a 0.0 on our knowingly silly, arbitrary decimal scale.

A decade later, I was on the phone with Thurston Moore, SY’s guitarist and singer, for a Time Out Interview. I mentioned that the Rolling Stones’ maligned Emotional Rescue reminded me of his group’s guitar interplay. He recalled that being the only cassette he owned while living in some dingy apartment in New York in the late ’70s. So, hey, we’re hitting it off. He’s a friendly guy. Why not bury the hatchet?

“Do you remember that cranky adolescent who gave your record a zero rating?” I asked. “Er, yeah, that was me.” He laughed. Thank goodness, he laughed.

“We loved that review! That was great!” Moore said. I apologized and told him that I now love the record. It’s unlike anything else, eerie and beautiful. The fiftysomething eternal punk told me never to be sorry for the nonsense I typed. No, the lesson here is: Beware the opinions of a kid right out of college.

>It couldn’t have been more Manhattan art scene had it been Jean-Michel Basquiat reading slam poetry over John Zorn’s ringtones.

I see he's still a shit-tier writer.

what's wrong with that sentence

it was always pretentious as fuck but it worked pretty well for discovering new music in the early 2000s

post-conde nast acquisition it lost whatever anti-establishment edge it once had and become another poptimist rag

Fuck me, I greentexted the wrong part. Well, disregard me, I suck cocks.

yeah, why would John Zorn have had ringtones? it's a nonsensical stupid-ass statement. i also like that it's literally just "i can't believe these smart people from New York made music that is influenced by smart people from New York" Chicago people are such cancer sometimes, and i say this as someone who hates New York, too.

Not at all, its honestly a severely underrated record.
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>anti-establishment edge
i mean, they were less establishment than they are now, but it was hardly ever more than fratty post-grads bigging up shitty house show punk music from like three cities.

late 90's and 2000's sonic youth is their peak, NYC Ghosts and Flowers is a dip in quality compared to Thousand Leaves or Murray Street

their peak began in the late '80s, contrarian fuck

God no, it's better than any of their early 90s output for sure. That can really be said for everything from Washing Machine to Rather Ripped though, with The Eternal hanging somewhere around Dirty levels I suppose.

all went speeding downhill after daydream

There was an upward trajectory again a few albums later. Daydream's hardly their last worthwhile album.

Is it THAT bad, Yea Forums?

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This one is correct.

No way, it's very spotty but it still has great tracks. Perfect Situation is highly redeeming.

youtube.com/watch?v=lG_ZJRrvl7g

listen to that guitar in the intro and you tell me it's a 0.4

patrician

shit taste retards

seems fine to me, not 0.4, but not even a 7.

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0 . 0 what's this?

Bait

He’s just got shit taste probably

the truth is that the closer a pitchfork review gets to 0.0 or 10.0 the stupider and wronger it is. the albums they pick for best new music are usually 6.0s at best and the ones they choose to bully are usually 5.0s at worst.