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I just re-read Pitchf$%ck's review of SBS...


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According to Rob Mitchum:

 

Apparently, SBS is weak because the titles are simplistic?

A Ghost is born is bad because it doesn't remind him of Chicago enough.

 

Way to read the interview and then pull something out of context...

"The lackluster spirit even pervades the song titles"

 

Feel free to disagree with him, but taking that sentence and distilling the entire interview down to "SBS is weak because the song titles are simplistic" is far more disingenuous then the actual review. Similar thing for the AGiB review.

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I personally feel SBS is weak because it's physical: anyone could easily break a CD/vinyl in half and destroy it.

I place all fault on Jeff Tweedy and no one else for pressing music into a fragile medium.

Even mp3s are weak, man. They're like, so vulnerable to the delete button.

 

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just read the pitchfork review for spoon's new one and while i was over there i re-read this one b/c of this thread.

 

yeah, i still can't say i like this review. it's just damn derogatory in tone, it seems, too much so. i mean, if i would have read that review solely and was new to wilco, i probably would not have bought the album, and i don't like that. now, i know that one critic's take on something shouldn't sway your opinion, inevitably, it does happen.

 

overall, it's inordinately negative.

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if i would have read that review solely and was new to wilco, i probably would not have bought the album, and i don't like that. now, i know that one critic's take on something shouldn't sway your opinion, inevitably, it does happen.

 

overall, it's inordinately negative.

For better or for worse, part of Pfork's shtick is that they seem to assume the reader possesses a certain level of familiarity with a lot of the bands they write about, so they can write stuff with sort of a knowing smirk. I think they assume that very few people are coming to their website that don't know anything about Wilco, because if you've been following the indie-rock press at all this decade, Wilco has been almost universally fawned upon. So, I frequently get the feeling that Pf gets a kick out of being kind of contrarian about it. I dunno. Doesn't really bother me.

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actually that makes perfect sense. lots of people were posting links to reviews of Sky Blue Sky that said it was a good album. just because the review liked the album doesnt make the review overall GOOD, or well written.

 

 

stop trying to insult me or whatever and just go away.

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actually that makes perfect sense. lots of people were posting links to reviews of Sky Blue Sky that said it was a good album. just because the review liked the album doesnt make the review overall GOOD, or well written.

THAT makes sense. Which makes me disappointed. You had a legendary streak going!

Okay, I'm done. No more personal attacks. I'm sorry.

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just because somebody reviewed SBS well doesnt automatically make it a good review.

 

unless I am misinterpreting you used the term "well," which in this context is an adverb, describing the manner in which "somebody" reviewed SBS.

 

If this somebody reviewed the album well, then logic follows that it is a good review.

 

However, if somebody merely indicated through his or her review that SBS is good, which is an adjective, it does not necessarily follow that it is a good review.

 

and wilco doesn't care for the eskimos either

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