The Shins Will Change Your Life

I don't get it. Also first post fuck yes who cares

Posted by: Josh at 07/13/05 7:55 PM | Reply
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What a load of exaggerated waffle. It's almost a ranting excuse to write eloquently about pretty much nothing, I think.

Posted by: John at 07/13/05 8:20 PM | Reply
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Holy crap! So embarrassing you can't stop reading. It's like watching nineties sitcoms. Check out the one about The Hold Steady.

Posted by: Collins at 07/13/05 8:40 PM | Reply
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so is he making fun of them by posting snippets of their reviews? he's reviewing a review? laaaame

Posted by: Elliott at 07/13/05 8:40 PM | Reply
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I think it's more of a place to do your one-stop shopping for ridiculous reviews of overhyped albums. And if you don't get it, then you probably write for pitchfork and have a superiority complex.

Posted by: jane at 07/13/05 8:59 PM | Reply
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Horrible review, good music. Why, why?

Posted by: Daniel Nicolas at 07/13/05 10:05 PM | Reply
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If you swim your way through the bad reviews shins will --->
stylus ---> to the National site. The vid they got posted on there doesn't suck. Never heard these guys before, but I dug the vid.

Posted by: sandy at 07/13/05 10:14 PM | Reply
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Q. What's lamer that whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs?

A. Whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs whining about whiny snobs. And so on and so forth.

Posted by: Platypus at 07/13/05 11:40 PM | Reply
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this is just more meta-cultural let's-make-fun-of-pitchfork nonsense. aren't we tired of bemoaning the long-winded review yet?

Posted by: jpc at 07/13/05 11:50 PM | Reply
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Scott needs more Britney news, so here it is:

http://channels.aol.ca/entertainment/article.adp?id=20050328100009990001

Posted by: kidney at 07/14/05 1:38 AM | Reply
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The National is great, I recommend "Alligator" highly.

Posted by: madskrillz at 07/14/05 8:57 AM | Reply
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"All this - the new Indie rock, the bloated internet reviews, the fan sites, the hyperventilating hipsters - simply betrays a shallow emptiness throughout modern culture as a loose-knit collective strives through hyperbole to make something important and relevant where there is nothing. Trying in vain to turn a mirage into reality.

Future generations will laugh out loud (LOL)."

Look! I can do it, too! I'm "Meta."

P.S. most of these bands are boring.

Posted by: Billy K at 07/14/05 10:08 AM | Reply
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I think you are missing the joke. It's not aimed solely at Pitchfork, but all music criticism everywhere (PF, like the fat kid in dodgeball, is just the easiest target). I myself have read numerous reviews that are so over-the-top with praise that it's just ridiculous.

The Believer magazine does the opposite with book reviews... it registers the climate of book reviewing as too "snarky," or the "hostile, knowing, bitter tone of contempt."

Posted by: jerry at 07/14/05 10:10 AM | Reply
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if there is any news that should be posted, it is on the purported "rigging" of the Dancing With the Stars finale. this needs more investigating.

Posted by: jack at 07/14/05 10:43 AM | Reply
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I GOT THE JOKE.

Posted by: horace at 07/14/05 11:28 AM | Reply
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I don't get it.

Posted by: NaNa J at 07/14/05 1:31 PM | Reply
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haha, i half expected some of my reviews to be on there. i'm a terrible writer, but i like getting free shit. the good outweighs the bad in my little world.

Posted by: jt at 07/14/05 1:47 PM | Reply
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I have just enjoyed the hell out of this site...and enjoyed knowing that I am about as gushy as these guys. Gotta watch that.

Posted by: Belle at 07/14/05 3:13 PM | Reply
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hahahaha this is great
critics are so far up their own asshole these days
clap your hands say yeah? shit!

Posted by: Erik at 07/14/05 4:17 PM | Reply
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this made my world complete. why hasn't this been around longer? dang, ya'll!

Posted by: bobby withers at 07/14/05 6:24 PM | Reply
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Platypus: I laughed at your comment but stopped abruptly when I found your LJ.

Posted by: Paige at 07/15/05 6:57 AM | Reply
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Man, that's some trash culture dreck for ya. You know, couple of our good friends who had been together for awhile just broke up. The feeling that reading those reviews gave me was eerily reminiscent of the feeling that hearing about their breakup gave me. Funny.

Posted by: jed2 at 07/15/05 11:33 AM | Reply
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"Hide and Seek" is just as the Pitchfork reviewer said it is. It is a fantastic song.

Posted by: Stephen Dierks at 07/15/05 12:28 PM | Reply
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where did it go? WHERE DID IT GO?

did somebody take it down?

Posted by: katie, a princess at 08/08/05 1:41 PM | Reply
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