![]() Frusciante used to be the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and there've been all sorts of rumors and probably some truths about crazy-ass drug abuse, insanity and his all-out disappearance. John Frusciante: Smile From the Streets You Hold ![]() If the same album were reviewed today, it would get a 6.5-7.7 like everything else. Tempted to vote for BTO, if only as a revolt against that review - It was published before pf started covering more general-title reissues, so literally the only reason it exists at all is so that some douchebag English major could feel temporarily superior to his douchebag accountant brother-in-law. We just set up some chairs in the landing & had four perfect channels of sound coming at us from each corner.Īfter this, our spirit of audio-visual adventurism was running at such a fever pitch that we ended up conducting the Dark Side/ Wizard of Oz experiment later that very night! Each kid had at least a boombox in their room, if not a full-blown cabinet set-up, so coordinating the discs was actually pretty easy & effective. I was living in a college rental house w/ eight others at the time & the top floor was basically like a 10x10' landing/hallway w/ a bedrooms off of each corner of the square. Voted for Zaireeka, if only b/c the one time I actually listened to it in its entirety was such a memorable experience. "Not because they heard it – because of the review." "One indie record store even said that they wouldn't carry it because of the Pitchfork review," Rosenfeld says. ![]() Several college radio stations that had initially been enthusiastic said they wouldn't play it. In a September 2004 write-up of Travistan, the solo debut of Travis Morrison (former frontman of the Pitchfork-approved art-punk group the Dismemberment Plan), Dahlen gave the album a score of 0.0, declaring that it "fails so bizarrely that it's hard to guess what Morrison wanted to accomplish in the first place."Īccording to Josh Rosenfeld, the cofounder of Barsuk Records (which released Travistan), the effects of Dahlen's review were immediate and disastrous. "I didn't know anyone at the local alt-weekly, so I just didn't write for several years," he says.ĭahlen is the author of one of Pitchfork's most memorable – and notorious – reviews. If he hadn't found Pitchfork after college, his career as a writer might have ended at his school paper. from a Wired article a couple of years back:Ĭhris Dahlen, a Pitchfork contributing writer and an IT worker who resides in New Hampshire, is a good example. I think the Travistan rating is probably the most dick-ish move Pitchfork has ever pulled.ĭefinitely. ― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 11 June 2010 15:17 (twelve years ago) link ![]() Jet - Shine On (*technically* rated as a monkey drinking its own piss. Robert Pollard - Relaxation of the Asshole (theoretically received both a 10.0 and 0.0 rating) V/a - This Is Next: Indie's Biggest Hits Volume 1 ― the british must pay for this (HI DERE), Friday, J9:21 AM (47 minutes ago) Poll Results Optionīachman-Turner Overdrive - Remastered Hitsīlack Kids - Partie Traumatic (briefly rated 0.0 due to "a regrettable computer error") Listing their 0.0 albums would be way more interesting Previously: Best Album Rated 10.0 by Pitchfork Media Upon Its Initial Release ![]()
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