How did I miss this little graphical display back in January is beyond me! I stumbled upon it from the Onion while trying to see what their opinion was with the new Foo Fighters. (So far I figured it was going to be great because the two blowhards from Chicago gave a “trash it” rating.)
Meanwhile, if Pitchfork‘s rating system is to be believed, I would make a horrible staff member since most of the stuff they ripped a new anus I generally enjoyed very much: Ghostland Observatory (seen them live, they’re pretty cool and from Austin), Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes (the writer said they were rather manufactured sounding). Ouch! I’m not sure if they genuinely liked the Kanye West that gave them a stiffy or they are prone to the pretentiousness of being “rawk” critics, thus they have to prove they’re “free thinkers” saying the meanderings of Joanna Newsom is worth buying (three CDs of tedium) or the noise-ridden Beach House and Deerhunter (even when I was younger, I wasn’t keen on their predecessors Jesus & Mary Chain until those Scots scaled back the distortion). Then again, the stuff which got close to “10” were re-issues, showing they have a thing for playing it safe.
I definitely need to get off my duff to pop out my faves as I used to. Stay tuned because Pitchfork has indirectly called my tastes “pedestrian.”
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