I refuse to believe that anyone actually takes pitchfork seriously. I get some of my favorites from scaruffis reviews but... you know... he actuary has good taste
Why does this board have such bad taste?
Anthony Bailey
Angel Fisher
It's so, so, so much worse in Yea Forums
Owen Russell
People are never going to stop having a passion for music, I'd be interested in reading your reasons though.
Buddy it ain't 2010 anymore, no one here takes pitchfork seriously. The other two are problems but it's also really fucking easy to just ignore those threads. There is plenty of gold here in generals and some threads.
Justin Mitchell
I can't even imagine. I haven't seen a television show that I've been impressed by on an artistic level and most praised movies are pap. I doubt they'd even consider watching golden age movies
Gavin Howard
I ignore the lazy/shittasteposting too but its pretty retarded when you have to ignore 90% of the threads here to do so. Personally I will always be posting controversial opinions in prog threads.
Dominic Gonzalez
What do you mean having passion? I feel there's a purely experimental approach to music that comes with true creativity that is largely missing in today's music. I'd assume this is due to the internet and the increasing influence of society on the individual artist. I can't remember exactly what I wrote, but I certainly spent too much time writing it. I'm always willing to change my opinion but of course I only received boomer responses.
Anthony Barnes
Different user but I agree. Traditionally underground styles have all become commercialised due to the exposure the internet brings. The industry is also set up in a way that where it is too tempting to sell out and dumb down your music for the hordes of shit taste teens and young adults out there. True experimentation is utterly deincentivised.
Dominic Garcia
A lot of people here literally believe there's NO WAY to express why they like a piece or an album beyond "it sounds good to me." When asked why they'll just answer (defensively) "it just sounds good to me, I like it, art is subjective, blah blah blah blah." Nobody's disputing that art is, to a degree or another, subjective, but this idea that it is SO WHOLLY SUBJECTIVE that there is NO POINT in even TRYING to express what is appealing about it is ridiculous.
"Because it's bad," "because I like it," or "just listen to whatever you want" are the ultimate conversation killers.
Jonathan Stewart
Deincentivised maybe, but the internet has allowed literally anyone and everyone to publish their experimental music with absolute ease
You and the other user both fall into the boat of thinking that all music is represented by popular, charting, reviewed, etc music. Yeah, rock music has come to an absolute standstill and rap music probably can't even be as experimental as punk was - which was not fucking very. but thanks to the internet, absolutely anyone can publish music and its very easy to find extremely underground shit. "Most music" is released on the internet and hardly heard and there's a lot of it. Music labels have less direct control than ever, even if they are probably tightening their grip and forcing plants harder than ever.
Matthew White
Furthermore, "reviewing" music and telling people what makes it good is not just attaching a bunch of fucking adjectives on it and then saying "I also feel like ...". Tell us about the timbre, music theory, instrumentation, structuring, what could have been left out, and why you think this makes it good music. Do this instead of telling us how the fucking album made you feel, what kind of mood it evoked or any of that related bullshit. Almost no rock music "critic" is capable of this and so the "into music" masses think it's acceptable not to be either.