Pitchspork Grammy Coverage

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Tiger Trap S/T

So yeah this is a 'Twee' group. Not really sure if twee is supposed to be ironic or not. Bunch of girls singing about girl stuff the songs are well made. Obscure AND good so it's a 'win-win'.

Is this twee or is it just creepy. Why do Japanese people have to 'overdo everything'?

8.3
Are Virginia Slims twee?

Aguirre, The Wrath of God; Greatest Film Ever?

Seriously this movie is 'the tits'
But honestly not joking this is the greatest movie ever.

I'll let the images 'speak for themselves'

Kind of feel like it's a statement on all of man's impossible dreams

It's just too fucking good can't even be a dick about it

The 'Loveless' of movies?
100.0 is that possible?

My 'Hero'

^What I imagine my hero to look like^
http://www.myspace.com/39946003
This guy is who I strive to be, my goal. I mean, of course my music taste is better but he's seen more film and read more literature than I. Here's to wishing I can be on his 'level' by the end of 2k10.

The Clash - London Calling

Supposedly, this album is a 'classic' 'punk' album. Not really 'punk' at all just Rock/Pop or if I was feeling generous I might call it 'Post-Punk' but nah. Feel like the people who call this punk are the same people who say shit like, "Woody Guthrie/Patti Smith/Mick Jagger/Nikola Tesla was sooooo Punk" Also heard people say that they 'pay homage' to Elvis with the lettering of the title but I thought Punk was about 'pushing boundaries' not producing the same stuff we've heard over and over but this time the guy's voice is kind of scratchy and they wear combat boots. 80 minutes too! All classic albums are ~40 minutes long. Lost in a Supermarket is still an A+ track though kind of feel like it's a metaphor for the existential crisis that plagues post-postmodern life.

6.6

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski, a legend. Before finding success as a writer, Bukowski was a step above being homeless for like 20 years. He was a 'vagrant', 'bum', 'lowlife' etc. His works were about this. Bukowski, along with 'hard boiled' detective novels are the basis of Tom Waits' lyrical style. Bukowski doesn'r have the best prose, his characters aren't particularly likable and i doubt you'd be sympathetic to them in real life but there's something so human in Henry Chianski's(fictionalized version of 'him') and his constant failures and disappointments that can 'touch us all'. You follow Henry as he goes from menial, repetitive job to job, the questionable women, booze. He truly is the 'novel laureate of the America Lowlife'(Source: Wikipedia)

He's a 10.0 without a doubt.

Breathless(1960)

This movie is 'iconic' to say the least. First 'French New Wave' film recognized by not only the critics but also the ignorant masses who thought it was 'cool' and 'edgy'. Jump shots, tracking shots, and the unorthodox positioning of shots albeit arbitrary at times was innovative. There is a profound 'beatnick' vibe to thick movie, the way the guy steals cars as a means of freedom and so forth. I also wish I could smoke anywhere at anytime like they did.
I feel like me and him are 'kindred spirits' and share similar 'existential' views on the world.
10.0 I could write a book on this film

The Fall(2006)

So I decided to start blogging about film too. I was hesitant to watch this movie, I heard that this movie was great and had excellent 'cinematography' but on the otherside it was a Hollywood movie and I rarely watch Hollywood films now. The film is about this guy in a California Hospital circa 1920 although the time period is completely irrelevant to anything that happens in the movie who is telling this annoying girl a story but rly he's just trying to get her to steal him oxys like it's supposed to be some interesting plot twist. So eventually he 'feels bad' about his 'betrayal' and cries and tries(cool rhyme) to redeem himself in typical Hollywood bullshit style. The only interesting part of this movie is the 'cinematography' of the story he tells.


Everything you can gain in this movie is in this pic.
4.3 and that entire 4.3 is from the cinematography that is in like 10% of the movie

Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

Are some things unbloggable? So isolated and without context that an opinion cannot be formulated on them? The story about this album is as follows:German guy whose been in Ash Ra Tempel and a bunch of other Krautrock bands you've never heard of went into the studio one lazy afternoon in 1981 and invented Techno. It's not like he made any more albums like this nor did his peers and I doubt that gay black people in Detroit and Chicago later in the decade listened to this guy. This album is like if someone made a Chillwave EP in 2006 but no one heard of it not even Neon Indian. I wish I was a dj and I could play this album and people would be like 'oh is this the new Lindstrom/The Field?' and I'd say "No".

8.8, 9.3 if you dont find a few minutes of Pat Methaneyesque Jazz guitar annoying

Pitchspork Update

Sorry I haven't been blogging everyone! I recently did acid and was pondering things such as the 'meaninglessness of existence' and wondering if my blog was just an 'absurd gesture' at 'self validation'. But it's not so I'll be blogging again! I was also wondering if I should blog and upload other mediums of media into my blog including but not limited to movies and books. I decided I should let the decision go to you my audience. Please let me know what you think.

"There ain't no such thing as halfway crooks" - Mobb Deep

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Ok, so I know that these tracks have been out since summer and the single has been out for 3 months but he still has <10k last fm listeners so i'm going to jump on the hype machine anyway. So yeah, this is basically documented proof that I was into him before the bandwagoners. It's pretty cool Post-Dubstep/Deep House. Reminds me of Todd Edwards kind of.

Nurse With Wound - Homotopy to Marie

This isn't a normal 'pop' album but an 'idea' album(Steve Stapleton wouldn't apply these concept to pop music until Current 93's 90s work). I suppose it's supposed to make you 'nervous' or 'creeped' out. First song is 13 minutes of bells and some brit saying to 'not be so naive'. Second song is a bunch of clicks. The final song is the only one I really enjoy, relying on drones, noise, and samples. Not sure the normal listener would understand this type of music. I do, this dates back to when I did acid and realized I don't need superfluous things like 'melody' I just needed to 'feel' the vibrations of sound waves.

7.6 but I feel this album in particular shows the subjective nature of rankings because NWW requires a more complex understanding of sound and music.

So Over Indie-Brotronic

Don't get me wrong, I was over Phoenix/Passion Pit/MGMT even when they were still 'cool' to listen to. Thank god I wasn't still listening to them when Rolling Stone started saying they were good and when their songs got put in commercials(why do phone companies need indie bands to sell their product?). Now their fan base is girls who think mashups are genuinely good and bros who try to get with these girls by talking about old Nickelodeon shows(Remember when 'Catdog' found their parents?)

Pictures of David Bowie With Other People

What makes an icon? How does an icon shape the world around him and vice versa? I feel like David Bowie is the epitome of an icon which is evident in how lame everyone looks when they stand next to him. Here's a bunch of photos of Bowie with other bros/biddies.

Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed. Bowie is not just a style chameleon but he looks like one too.


Bros 4 lyfe


Bowie understands 'Black' music.



Could I(Drewgazer) pull off this look?


Bowie understands todays music trends

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit

This is terminally ill. Afro Beat = funk + jazz + fucked up english from Nigeria. Title track is this cool(and true) story bout how the corrupt cops(redundant term amirite?)planted weed on him so he had to eat it so the cops took him to the station and were like aight he'll shit it out so he had to trade his shit with another prisoners. So yeah, the title isn't metaphoric at all. I can tell Fela really hates 'the man' and values 'equality'. Makes me wish I could sell drugs and wear aviators all day instead of just buying alcohol for kids(is that trashy?)Guy was so cool he didn't believe AIDS existed. He died of AIDs in 1997.

RIP FELA KUTI MUSICIAN/ACTIVIST/COOL BRO

9.5

Top 10 albumsof the Decade

These are my top 10 albums of the decade but actually since 1997 when this decade's 'zeitgeist' began. I didn't order them and decided I should let my audience(you) decide what you think the order is.

Microphones - The Glow Pt.2
'Lo fi' folk but it has more than just boring acoustic guitar. I don't usually listen to the whole album but the first like 6 songs are really good. I'd listen to this while playing Fallout 3 because it matches the 'aesthetic'


Sigur Ros - Aegitus Bjurn(sp?)
This album was different. This is the album to get if you want something icelandic and weird but thought Bjork sounded too "James Bondish". It's like 'post-rock' without the lame crescendos that only GY!BE can pull off and 'dream pop' mixed together. There are themes of 'innocence' as you can tell by the fetus and the people with down syndrome that are in their music videos. I think they miss being in the 'womb'


Bjork - Homogenic
This album was for people who want something weird and icelandic but thought Sigur Ros was too 'gay'. It's basically Kid A but recorded a few years before and instead of Thom Yorke's whining it's some melodramatic/pausal person who looks Asian but is Icelandic(Island nation north of the British 'Isles').


Radiohead - Ok Computer
This album really captures the 'zeitgeist' of the past 13 years although some of the songs kind of suck. Pink Floyd + Cocteau Twins + reading-but-not-really-getting-Kafka. Am I the only bro who likes the last 2 songs on this album? Remember when Karma Police was on Now 3 along with 'Sex and Candy'?


The Knife - Silent Shout
Artsy Techno that I couldn't really see anyone dancing too. Mad props to Northern Europe though, 3 albums on this list already.


AnCo - MPP
This is a 'culmination' of many different styles. It already spawned 'Glo fi'/'chillwave' and I feel like the term Post-MPP will be tossed around a lot soon.


Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Chicago Techno + shoegaze + New Order it's really good. I had to stop listening to them for a while because this pleb said they kind of sounded like "Metro Station" but I got over it.


Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
It's like if electronic jam stuff was good and did interesting things instead of wank around. It sounds like the album cover looks.


Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol is for bros who are bummed that Joy Division has a limited discography. Idk if some of the lyrics are ironic or genuinely bad. subway she is a porno/stories are boring and stuff. They dress pretty well.

Butterscotch Stanely - It's a Shame that Everybody Loves Raymond
<15 listeners on lastfm!!!!

Anna OST

^^Ifelt like this picture better illustrated the 'aesthetic' of the album

French Pop with Anna Karina, Serge Gainsbourg and some guy who is not Anna Karina or Serge Gainsbourg(the only 2 French music artists besides Debussy and Justice(Daft Punk Sucks)worth noting). I don't speak French but I think the songs have to do with 'love' and maybe 'heartbreak'. Cool album to have on your ipod/zune maybe worth a listen or 2

9.1 but really it's like a 6.3

Charlie Brown Christmas

I love this album(ironically)

Mahmoud Awad - Sheikh To The Future

So someone just fucked up a random arab/persian/whatev album and made it psychadelic. I could just drink a lot of cough medicine/pop a lot of benadryl and listen to any 'normal' middle eastern music and have the same results tho. There is clearly an Animal Collective influence on this music though.

5.4 unnecessary