Consolidated Shovel.com bashing thread

[Turf Out]

What a le Sac of crap.

[John Junk 2.0]

What's with the decimal system?  What's the difference between a 6.8 and a 6.7 or a 6.9?

[Stupornaut]

What's with the decimal system?  What's the difference between a 6.8 and a 6.7 or a 6.9?

I honestly am not sure. I usually just wing it. I used to think it'd work just by assigning each song on an album a 0-10 rating and then averaging that out, but I decided against that method when one of the first things I reviewed was a box set with something like 200 songs on it.

[Gilly]

What's the deal with the Black Kids "review?"  That album totally blows, but I don't know what the little reference is to.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic

They were the ones who really hyped that band based on one song. That ticked off a lot of people who already thought that Pitchfork was too self absorbed in their reviews.

[John Junk 2.0]

To my ears

that Black Kids song

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[Gilly]

Two things I miss about Pitchfork and one thing I wish they'd have:

1: Singles reviews. They were one of the only sites that had them.

2: The best new music section used to let you see all of the albums not just the last four.

3: Wish they had the review score next to the album on the front page.

[AllisonLeGnome]

To my ears

that Black Kids song

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SERIOUSLY.

[Gilly]

It's probably not fair since they're probably just sending music critics out to interview, but everyone I've watched has been pretty awkward. It's like they send out the artists biggest fan and they don't know how to act around them. They still turn out to be ok interviews but they're kind of hard to watch.

[Jouster]

It's probably not fair since they're probably just sending music critics out to interview, but everyone I've watched has been pretty awkward. It's like they send out the artists biggest fan and they don't know how to act around them. They still turn out to be ok interviews but they're kind of hard to watch.

Was this prompted by the Jay Reatard interview?  Because yeah, that was awkward.

[John Junk 2.0]

Maybe they should send out M.C. Steinberg.

[Gilly]

It's probably not fair since they're probably just sending music critics out to interview, but everyone I've watched has been pretty awkward. It's like they send out the artists biggest fan and they don't know how to act around them. They still turn out to be ok interviews but they're kind of hard to watch.

Was this prompted by the Jay Reatard interview?  Because yeah, that was awkward.

You got me. There have been a few others I felt the same way about and I haven't watched many.