Yeezus [Def Jam, 2013]
Sign spotted on church in the wild: Death Grips--Be Like Them ("New Slaves," "Hold My Liquor") ***

>>127162327 (OP)
That's not a review. Yeezus could have existed without Death Grips. I get sick of people associating the 2 albums. Industrial hip hop existed before them like Techno Animal or Dalek aren't a thing. Christgau is cringe look what he said about Nine Inch Nails in the early 90s, some cringy weird "What did he really just utter that and think it's cool" type of review

>>127162557
I.e. he's thinking The Money Store or No Love Deep Web. Those albums are really good but only if you ignore what the internet has to say about it. My point, those 3 albums including Yeezus get referenced so often that the fun and entertainment value wanes when it's about Reaction Videos being the top listing for an album search query

>>127162327 (OP)
I think he doesn't like Kanye anymore.

>>127162575
People have every right to be a good critic and react however they please online, but what Pitchfork does wrong for anything they do right in terms of good taste making is that they follow sociopolitical trends over raw appreciation and open mindedness. It's what separates Tiny Mixtapes from P4K. Still, TMT for all the impeccable taste they have later fell for the sociopolitical trap as did The Wire UK. Wire are just pretentious wannabe experimental musicians who are too afraid to make music so they instead make some fun to read writing that showcases how much more talented their interview and review subjects are. Gatekeepers gatekeeping, at least some real artists want to cut their teeth instead of bullshitting their way like Christgau. How ham fisted of him

Christgau is still better than shitano, shit fork or shittuffi

>>127162557
He never said that, just mention it as a similarity
Nin is retarded shit

lester bangs mogs him scaruffi mogs them both

>>127162575
Nin was boring predictable shit if you compare it with 80s industrial. It was just full of tropes

>>127163528
Christgau>Lester bangs

>>127163545
>lester bangs: been a corpse for 4 decades
>chadgau: alive and kicking
honestly yeah he won

>>127163528
Bangs was more articulate but also more cringe

>>127163557
bangs actually hung out w musicians though christgau didnt and scaruffi probably has too
bangs also had a much better book bc carburator dung mogs anything christgau has written

>>127162327 (OP)
This guy eats other men's cum out of his wife. 'fraid so.

>>127164457
Christgau was friends with the Lennons.

>>127164931
boring

>>127165489
let's see what you say after a few brandy alexanders and harry nilsson

>>127164002
>more articulate
lol
only christgau and jphn peel had a wide knowledge of different genres unlike bangs or scaruffi

>>127166060
i see your point he had a very eclectic range of stuff he wrote about while many guys like Dave Marsh and the entire RSM staff were completely narrow focused on rock and singer-songwriters

>>127167753
People around here hate him for his "bias" when in fact christgau gave a lot of bad grades to women and black people

>>127169036
Specifically the bad grades were if they reminded him of his high school bullies.

127169036
They just create a strawmen

Bump

>>127162327 (OP)
Yeezus could have existed without Death Grips.
this. the two are nothing alike, it was such an ignorant talking point.