When did you outgrow p4k-core?

when did you outgrow p4k-core?

when I took the time to listen to some 10/10 rated pitchfork albums and realized that Kanye is not a genius, Dismemberment Plan can be down right cringey, Weezer is always cringey, and that Daydream Nation is average compared to Confusion is Sex.

Most p4k-core is also most rym-core which is also most fantano-core which is also most Sup Forums-core.

When they decided to only give good reviews to hip-hop/rap

I probably still listen to a lot of music they consider good. Its not like them liking it makes it automatically bad.

Go ahead and name some good non hip hop artists from the past 5 years that they haven't already picked up on.

young thug

I check their everyday to make sure I don't listen to anything they like. I make a note of any albums they give a bad review for and strictly listen to those only.

confirmation bias. they tout rock and electronic shit all the time.

Around 2013-14 because those were such shit years for music and p4k rated so many albums with BNM that didn't even deserve that designation and have aged terribly.

>When they decided to only review hip-hop/rap

ftfy

I don't know what happened but 2-3 years ago they just seemed like they were fully onto either shilling shit or trying to be controversial with a few reviews, also seemed to suddenly be pushing an agenda. Probably some of the hip hop reviews pushed me to lose interest but they seem to be doing better cause of em so I get it. I don't even dislike hip hop it just feels really forced.

this is where they lost me. giving BNM to top 40 artists regularly and obvious favorable bias for artists on labels which advertised there.

When I joined RYM and discovered that there's way more to music than rap, pop, indie shit, and spastic bloops

when they massively overrated Sound of Silver and started sucking James Murphy's dick too much

still read them occasionally just because, and they took a noticeable nosedive when Conde Nast took over

around 2012 when it seemed like most their recs were hip hop or effete hipster shit.

Pitchfork-core was never good and neither was Pitchfork.

high school

>Pitchfork-core was never good and neither was Pitchfork.
I understand this if you were just entering your teens around 2006-07, but for people that were in High School or College/University in the early-mid 2000s, Pitchfork was great

this. the reviews used to be great and they had good selections. the dropoff in writing quality for reviews has been really bad.

or maybe music in general was just much better in the early 2000s than it was in the late 2000s

Class of '04 here, can confirm. p4k introduced me to a lot of good shit.

Also: fuck, I'm old

Music blogs lead pitchfork down the path of FOM

>what's nostalgia
lots of early 2000s buzz bands are total shit, take off those rosey glasses

2007 and 2008 were REALLY bad years for music, also you're projecting really hard right now

>implying Pitchfork only covered "buzz bands"
>"hurr everything i don't like is shit"
get over yourself

>also you're projecting really hard right now
ah yes, the nuh uuuh of replies

post 5(five) good bands to this day buzzed by pitchfork in the early 2000s

lol you guys are so aggressive over anyone going against your nostalgia

You're retarded if you disagree, I don't know how else to say it

>nuh uuuh

Arcade Fire (good up until Reflektor)
LCD Soundsystem
Broken Social Scene (You Forgot It In People is GOAT)
Grizzly Bear
Wolf Parade
The New Pornographers

i rest my case

who do you listen to, hotshot?

Metallica
KoRn
Seether
Nirvana
Weezer

Zs, Guru Guru, African Head Charge, Battles, Have a Nice Life, Hawkwind, early Dirty Projectors, King Tubby, Goldie

i bet you wear those baggy cargo pants with a chain wallet you autist

I never really got into them because I used to be into music that they never even reviewed so I guess I ignored them back. I kinda wish I had gotten into them though I mean maybe I would've related to other people more.

Spoon
Deerhunter

cringe

>I kinda wish I had gotten into them though I mean maybe I would've related to other people more.
This is the main reason I still visit that shithole and why i lurk shitters like indiehead. I'm an autist that wants to be loved, but my taste is so far removed from indie pop and rap.

>When they decided to only give good reviews to hip-hop/rap

This. However, more accurately, when pitchfork decided to give 8+ reviews to Lil' B or Young Thug or any mumble rap or trap.

I barely comes to this site anymore, but all I see is mumble rap threads. That or deathgrip or grimes. Music is simply objectively horrible when compared to artists that have actual talent beyond their perceived appearance in their respective "communities". A guy like Young Thug cannot play an instrument, cannot sing, cannot write something beyond rhyming about pussy or weed, and, if you've seen interviews with him, seems incapable of even formulating a single sentence. He has no talent beyond making music for edgy white kids, whether they're in middle school or in a frat house. That and your average ghetto trash.

Luckily I don't feel the need to come here that often anymore or read pitchfork, but it is interesting just to see what little nuggets of gold I can find in these piles of shit.

When I realized that the best pop and rock music was always just the stuff on the radio

Pitchfork loves half of those

Never got into it. The key to a better life, is to not ever start.

Beatles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd etc. the list goes on

moron i never said they didn't. the point was that early 2000s bands weren't hot shit. read before posting

>La cringe

such as

>Daydream Nation is average compared to Confusion is Sex.
My man. Confusion is Sex actually has a mood to it. Daydream Nation just feels so lifeless

the time i looked at that radiohead review and cried laughing which was a long time ago

also when i realized their end of year charts are just 'trends of 20XX' and when they started re-doing their more provocative negative reviews which prefigured the poptimist/rap shit

bump

this

but also this

White-guilt: the online publication

the majority of artists who get BNM are still white, retard

does Sup Forums still hold 'p4k hype threads' for reviews?

i hope not, that shits pathetic. How the fuck could you possibly put any stock in what pitchfork says and does after all this time, they haven't been worth a shit since like 2004 at best and even then it was just a bunch of kids being snarky about music.

>tfw not enough of a pleb to have ever been into p4k-core

>Daydream Nation is average compared to Confusion is Sex
insanity

Confusion is Sex is trash.

Maybe good music and media is often universally liked across the board because it taps into something that many people within a given culture find resounding or interesting.
Huh, who woulda thought?

no, it's viral marketing and corporate media tricking and forcing people what to like, think and feel, you brainwashed husk of a human being

About once every six months I remember 94k exists and go through the BNM list and see if its any good.

You find a few gems and a few turds.

>when did you outgrow good and acclaimed music?
Never?

How do you know you weren't tricked/brainwashed into thinking popular music can't be good?

i never had a pitchfork phase cause i used to read magazines and preferred other websites like stereogum
oh please pitchfork's 2004 songs of the year was filled to the brim with top 40 pop and R&B/Hip-hop, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that but people here would be crying and bitching non stop.

When they stopped dictating careers with their reviews.

>songs of the year was filled to the brim with top 40 pop and R&B/Hip-hop
true

but the album lists weren't like that

at the end of the day they were still "telling you" to listen to "manufactured" music dominating the charts, which edgelords here think if some sort of sin.
and in the mid to late 00s the public were still much more inclined to buy the whole album rather than just download one or two songs

because i took the red pill