Career ruining reviews

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Who?
I guess that's the point

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Are music critics actually capable of ruining careers?

>pitchfork

I just got the sense [Pitchfork] thought I was a rock star and they wanted to take me down a peg, but I don't think it occurred to them that the review could have a catastrophic effect... Up until the day of the review, I'd play a solo show, and people would be like, 'That's our boy, our eccentric boy.' Literally, the view changed overnight... I could tell people were trying to figure out if they were supposed to be there or not. It was pretty severe, how the mood changed. The review isn't the story. The reaction to it is. The seriousness with which everyone takes Pitchfork is kind of mind-boggling.

career setbacking reviews vindicated

fucking tront

fake news

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4270-the-gap/

I would rec this album to anyone who likes post-rock or experimental rock music, it's extremely creative along with the rest of Tim Kinsella's stuff

this, p4k had a ton of influence back in the day

fake and gay

Its a 9.6

newfag

what artist was this again?

John Coltrane
Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes
[Impulse!]
Rating: 8.5

The Village Vanguard. New York City. 1961.

We was sittin' there watchin' the stage. Waitin' for the man they called Coltrane to come out and do his thing. It was me and my four droogs. Them bein' Peter, Georgio and Dim; Dim being really Dim.

'Round an hour'd passed and the place was packed straight through to the back. I'd just dropped some dollars for 'Trane's Giant Steps six months back. Now was the time, this was the place. The Village Vanguard. New York City. 1961.

I was only there for the first night, see, but them cats at Impulse! just made my life complete. They put out four CDs of all that sound 'Trane put out those nights. But you know my type, man. Can't afford to eat, let alone spend some heavy cash on music. So I only got the essential. Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes is one disc, makin' it one-fourth the cost of the box set. And you only get the best stuff.

Man, the opening beauty of "Spiritual..." It's like a dream I had: I floated on the River Nile, smokin' some fresh weed, relaxin'. But I ain't ever gonna see the Nile anyhow. This track's as close as I come, and it's close enough. Best of the best, though, has gotta be "India." It's only when you listen to a perfect old jazz tune like this that you realize how much drum-n-bass is derived from this music. 'Trane takes it to heaven and back with some style, man. Some richness, daddy. It's a sad thing his life was cut short by them jaws o' death.

Shit, cat. It don't make a difference. The man produced enough good music to last me a lifetime. This Village Vanguard thing's just another example of the genius of Coltrane.

-Ryan Schreiber

Travis Morrison, lead singer of the dismemberment plan

They gave his solo album a zero and spent the whole review making fun of him for shit that didn't even make sense. the album isn't even bad at all

Seems weird that they would do that

Didn't they give Emergency And I a 10?

Reading that always bums me out. Dude didn't deserve that
Early Pitchfork were a bunch of idiots that genuinely had no idea how much influence they had. The Disintegration Loops would barely be even a footnote in music history if it wasn't for the 10 they gave it

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5607-travistan/
Pretty notoriously one of their worst reviews desu

Is that image fucking real? Can someone explain?

they re-review rereleases or classic albums, they thought differently of the album 20 years later and Reznor called them cunts. Please study up on reading comprehension before you take the ACT

This isn't even the half of it. Stores literally REFUSED to shelf his album after the 0.0 review. To be fair, it's not a great album, but it's hardly 0-worthy. P4k in part built his entire career then destroyed it almost overnight.

This is most likely why p4k nearly never gives anything below a 7 nowadays.

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5607-travistan/

-vomits-

Is NIN really worth getting into? I'm thinking of trying to dig into Trent's discography to see what all the hype is about.

I asked if it was real or not, apparently it is. Thank you.

Only if you're under 17
You even need the nostalgia to "grow into" the Fragile (which Sup Forums loves) but if you didn't listen to the Downward Spiral when you were 14 you'll never really like it

Yes he is. Ignore

Absolutely. Reznor never stays complacent. There is no doubt a phase where people like and every myself end up where they think they are too mature for the music. But the older you get the more it starts to resonate again.

even*

I doubt it, friend. Cringeworthy lyrics, boring songwriting and shallow rock music don't seem like something that would resonate me when I'm older if they don't now.

Well im sure at 15 alots hard to understand

No, I think they make the most sense at 15. Like most music that's just chanting over 2 chords for 6 minutes at a time while cool sound effects distract you from the fact that the music isn't good.

Consider suicide

Frances the mute

Every day.

The Grateful Dead

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The Dismemberment Plan itself wasn't even the same after that review
It was a really unnecessarily cunty thing to do from a bunch of oblivious internet kids who had no idea how much power they actually had. It still makes me mad just thinking about it

>not posting the video

youtube.com/watch?v=n5fH5Qa0ELg

how cringeworthy

It's the goddamn torso-less jew meme for gods sake. Get a grip you autists

Follow through. 1 less human is good

did you think you're the only person itt to realize this?

this is simply not true

>Fragile, Downward Spiral
>boring songwriting
>shallow rock music
how to tell when someone is talking out of their ass.

>career ruining reviews
for the artist, or the reviewer?

BTFO

>implying the reviewer had a career to begin with

He's probably right, and he's a talented enough guy who's made enough good music that he didn't deserve that.

That being said, Travistan is legitimately one of the worst albums I have ever heard. I really encourage people to go out and listen to it, because it is fascinating how fucking awful it is

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shame that happened to the fragile. his actual deepest release

he's such a lil bitch, literally

kek

To be fair that 2.0 was a DiCrescenzo review and even he thinks he was a pretentious fuckwit back then. Probably because he was, in fact, a pretentious fuckwit. I mean, the guy's Kid A review is like half the reason that shit is Sup Forumscore.

>DiCrescenzo

the fucker gave Lateralus a 1.9. I'm not even a huge Tool fan but what the fuck?

he gave a sonic youth album 0.1 maybe 0.0, I can't remember.

>band named black kids
>all white
imagine p4k's reaction today

Anything this guy wrote

I think I have the exact opposite tastes of Robert Christgau

Man hates everything I love

anyone have the deleted review? i can't seem to find it via the wayback machine archive either

>discover this kooky scottish rap group from the T2 Trainspotting soundtrack called 'Young Fathers'
>Christgau loves everything they've done and give it all A's
>hmmm