Comments | superpotato: I love Slate's writers. So much.

superpotato

I love Slate's writers. So much.

Dec 04, 2006 16:35

I'm kind of obsessive about reading the same half dozen or so sites every day: Slate.com and pitchforkmedia.com are two of them, which is why I found this article so amusing ( Read more... )

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hah lesthanjill December 5 2006, 01:54:44 UTC

i too love slate.com, and all i could think about when i read that excerpt was erik adams.

Re: hah superpotato December 5 2006, 02:07:51 UTC

HAHAHA. I should e-mail that to Erik and ask if it sounds familiar.

newslady December 5 2006, 03:48:04 UTC

My other favorite Pitchfork article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/pitchfork.html

animal214 December 5 2006, 08:45:54 UTC

I like Slate a lot, but I've never read Pitchfork. After reading what Slate has to say about Pitchfork, I'm glad I've never read it. I read enough bad writing at work.

Besides, the only music reviews I can remember reading are those on artists I already know and like.

As Billy Joel says: "There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine."

superpotato December 6 2006, 19:09:54 UTC

Well, the point is Pitchfork is pretentious and verbose just to be pretentious and verbose, but that's why we love it. Yes, I tend to scream at my iBook in frustration when they give a good band a horrible review or string together unneccesarily large words just to be clever, but in all, I enjoy their reviews, interviews and features.