| Author | Message | ||
     Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 262 Registered: 04-2005 |
8.3! The review itself isn't the most insightful or well written, but usually the too-cool-for-you reviewers at Pitchfork give the GoBs a 7.0 or lower, so this is a breakthrough. If anyone cares. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/go-betweens/that-striped-sunlight -sound.shtml | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 263 Registered: 03-2006 |
Wow. The reviewers at PF really do piss me off, more than any other cooler-than-thou, no-life-havin' alterna-dweebs, but I still read them, if for no other reason, to help me hone my hate for what they write about (all that navel-gazing, self-referential to the point of disappearing up its own fundament, slacker indie "rock").... But still 'n all, that's very impressive...Go Robert and Grant! It's your birthday! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 263 Registered: 04-2005 |
I will always hate Pitchfork for convincing me to buy the Fiery Furnaces' "Blueberry Boat" and Interpol's first album. If they give an album a 9.0 or higher, be afraid...be very afraid. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 268 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yup, even contemplating the cacophonous, all-over-the-map musical bouillabaisse that was BB gives me a raging headache! I have discovered a group worse than Interpol though: "She Wants Revenge"...there's even less toner in the copy machine this time! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 284 Registered: 10-2004 |
i still cringe when i think about how pitchfork's reviewer of OA totally mis-quoted a line from "darlinghurst nights," and then proceeded to blast the misquoted line to pieces. what morons. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 270 Registered: 03-2006 |
I just read that, Jeff...too funny. No wonder the numbnuts reviewer dissed that line -when you misquote it, it really is pretty nonsensical: "Got rock spaghetti" (?!) | ||
| Alex Bolton Member Username: Alexb Post Number: 31 Registered: 01-2006 |
I don't think you will ever read a bad review about the GB's. They've long been untouchable for most critics. The definition of a critics band in many ways for better and for worse. Fans outside the UK may not realise how established they are in the pantheon of rock music with 16LL in every album guide. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 288 Registered: 10-2004 |
But Alex, Pitchfork has routinely given the Go-Betweens kind of mediocre reviews, which read like they were written by people who don't totally get where the Go-Betweens are coming from. So, a fairly glowing Go-Betweens review from Pitchfork is a first. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 273 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just listened to the CD part of That Striped Sunlight Sound the other night for the first time (despite buying it last Nov) and I was a little disappointed. I can see now why people were saying what they said about it. It does not make me want to rush into playing the DVD; though I played the acoustic session as soon as I got it and liked it a lot. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 291 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by the acoustic-living room session. Initially I was kind of skeptical, but I found it pretty enjoyable to watch. I still wonder why they couldn't find a way to delay shooting it until Grant got his voice back, though. |