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| Poll: Rolling Stone or Pitchfork? |
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington 
- #1
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:12
- Post subject: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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I've often find it amusing the disdain people seem to have for both of these now "established" sources of musical criticism and official charts. Obviously, one represents conventional wisdom, whereas the other one is sometimes hipper than thou with an overemphasis on all things indie, and is perhaps self conscious about being the anti-Rolling Stone. Some of you complain about both (which I've never quite understood) so now I want to know, if these were the only two sources of music criticism and established album lists, which one would you value more? Also, if neither one of these is good, is there a middle ground source that you trust more? Name it.
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- #2
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:16
- Post subject: Re: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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| Mr. Shankly wrote: | | Also, if neither one of these is good, is there a middle ground source that you trust more? Name it. |
B
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I come here for all my musical suggestions, nothing else compares
<3 BEA
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington
- #3
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:21
- Post subject: Re: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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| Polythene Pam wrote: | B
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I come here for all my musical suggestions, nothing else compares
<3 BEA |
And yet people also complain about the BEA overall chart. 
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- #4
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:22
- Post subject: Re: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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| Mr. Shankly wrote: | | And yet people also complain about the BEA overall chart. |
Well do you think I go to the overall chart for recommendations...? 
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington
- #5
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:27
- Post subject: Re: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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| Polythene Pam wrote: | | Well do you think I go to the overall chart for recommendations...? |
Maybe it's not recommendations so much, as which opinions and overall albums charts you respect more. Let me rephrase this: Is Rolling Stone's top 500 albums list better or is Pitchfork's best of the decades lists (and single years) better? Which one holds more credence overall?
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SquishypuffDave
Gender: Male
Age: 34
- #6
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:27
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Between the two, Pitchfork for sure. Not sure how I'd find good prog or metal though, since they don't seem to want to acknowledge its existence.
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- #7
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:29
- Post subject: Re: Rolling Sone or Pitchfork?
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| Mr. Shankly wrote: | | Maybe it's not recommendations so much, as which opinions and overall albums charts you respect more. Let me rephrase this: Is Rolling Stone's top 500 albums list better or is Pitchfork's best of the decades lists (and single years) better? Which one holds more credence overall? |
Bleugh they are both awful though
Mine is the best 
Probably would prefer the RYM chart though, much better than RS or Pitchfork
As for opinions... Well I don't read anything from either of them so...
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington
- #8
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:31
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Crap! I misspelled the title. 
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- #9
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:45
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If I have to choose Pitchfork's charts and opinions are more tolerable to me. However I can't stand either, and don't want to give either a vote. I think pitchfork is just this generation's rolling stone anyways. In thirty years aging indie kids will read it to desperately hold on to their musical values the same way Rolling Stone tries to keep the old classic rock values alive. Neither publication is particularly relevant at all to me.
I barely trust actual music publications at all anymore. Reviews read like press releases, do nothing to actually analyze the music, and the biases of publications are boring and obvious. Their opinions seem to box people's tastes in more than actually expand them. There are far more interesting and intelligent opinions written by random people online totally unprofessionally. Despite not having an rym account myself, I have the pages of some interesting users bookmarked and mostly refer to them now. For general critic response I look at metacritic. And I use BEA of course too!
Last edited by Yourselfisntsteam on 06/03/2012 14:53; edited 1 time in total
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- #10
- Posted: 06/03/2012 14:48
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Out of the 2 definitely Pitchfork (although they're both better than NME  ) I just find them infinitely more interesting and I have to thank them for at least a handful or 2 of discoveries. But it'd obviously be foolish to get your recommendations from one source so other sources I like:
Drowned In Sound
tinymixtapes
Coke Machine Glow
Stereogum
Uncut
Spin
and obviously BEA charts, although most of the time you're just indirectly disovering things from Pitchfork or RS, etc, whether you like it or not  . For example I think Scaruffi is a dumb cunt but I wouldn't have discovered some albums I really really like from members on BEA if not for Scaruffi. So there's no point in any of us complaining about music critics because no individual finds music out of thin air (as much as some people might sometimes like to make it seem that way).
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