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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Vas Deferens on July 22, 2008, 07:14:00 am
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic)
LOL.
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god bless those idiots at pitchfork. yesterday they called erykah badu's billboard top 10 reaching album on of the "best OVERLOOKED albums of the year" (my caps).
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wow
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picture of two pugs is the best review theyve done ever
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Not quite as good as the monkey drinking his own piss, i.e. the infamous Jet review.
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That was the pinnacle. They should've just closed up shop review-wise after that and went out on the highest note possible.
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Not quite as good as the monkey drinking his own piss, i.e. the infamous Jet review.
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Since we're on the topic, I just have to vent about band names for a second. I'm so fucking sick of bands that insist on using the words "wolf", "black", "kids" or "deer" in their names. It's old. Be creative. You can do it.
And yes, I'm talking about the following:
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother
Wolf Eyes
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Cold War Kids
The Cool Kids
The Black Kids
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
The Black Lips
I'm sure there are more.
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
Not quite as good as the monkey drinking his own piss, i.e. the infamous Jet review.
if you would rather watch a monkey drinking his own piss than look at pugs, i suppose so
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You can add using the word fuck to that list...
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:(
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the Black Kids cd was rated high in Urb and Blender.
My only complaint with them was they were kind of underwhelming live. I am going to give them another chance though, they do have really catchy songs.
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suggestion for a can't-fail band name:
"the blackwolf deerkids"
instant hipster cred, before a single note is played. forming the above band would require a french horn player.
Originally posted by killsaly:
the Black Kids cd was rated high in Urb and Blender.
how many pugs did they award the new album?
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Only other I can think of at the moment...
Simple Kid
Originally posted by bearman:
Since we're on the topic, I just have to vent about band names for a second. I'm so fucking sick of bands that insist on using the words "wolf", "black", "kids" or "deer" in their names. It's old. Be creative. You can do it.
And yes, I'm talking about the following:
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother
Wolf Eyes
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Cold War Kids
The Cool Kids
The Black Kids
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
The Black Lips
I'm sure there are more.
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Black Mountain!
AIDS Wolf
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Dude not exactly work safe imagery there...
<small>[ 07-22-2008, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: kosmo ]</small>
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black hollies
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from comments at brooklynvegan:
the pitchfork review was originally a 0.0, "written" by someone else, with an opening line on the front page that said "everybody makes mistakes sometimes."
kudos for Pitchfork for calling this bullshit out !
...Black Kids sound like 14 year olds making fun of The Cure
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Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Wire
Winterkids
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Black Lipstick
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black pugs
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Black Sabbath
Steppenwolf
New Kids on the Block
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I generally agree here. I really LOVE Sea Wolf though. I wish they were called something else, like "Depressed Accordion Music."
From Sea Wolf's website:
We want to be JUST LIKE: Wolf Eyes, Wolf Parade, We Are Wolves, AIDS Wolf, Wolfie, Wolf Colonel, Patrick Wolf, WolfMother, Guitar Wolf, Steppenwolf, Hugo Wolf, Kate Wolf, Laurent Wolf, Wolf City, Duran Duran (though they don't really count. they were just 'hungry like a wolf'), Howlin' Wolf, Superwolf, White Wolf, Seasons of the Wolf, Wolf & Cub, Peanut Butter Wolf, Peter Wolf, Peter and the Wolf, Los Lobos, Fuckwolf, The Wolfgang Press, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfstone, The Wolfnote, Wolves in the Throneroom, Le Loup, Tiger Bear Wolf, Fox 'n Wolf, Wolftron, TV On The Radio (they did 'Wolf Like Me', got a lot of demand for them so apparently they qualify) Wolf, Wolf Cub ..If there are any more that we haven't mentioned here, let us know!
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I've won this game way too many times already but here goes again (sigh):
Black Devil Disco Club
Black Dice
Black Forest/Black Sea
Black Pus
Black Tambourine
Black Strobe
Black Twig Pickers
Black Uhuru
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Blackstar
Black Ladies
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Black Sugar
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people stop hijacking my thread.
this is about Black Kids and their pugs.
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Aren't black kids more likely to have pit bulls, and other fighting dogs, than pugs?
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Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
people stop hijacking my thread.
this is about Black Kids and their pugs.
Do you think guys named 'Jack' get offended by the word 'hijack'? Because seperately, it would seem like Hi and Jack would indicate something nice and warm, but put them together, and BLAMMO!
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What about Vampire and Zombies?
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excuse me, but why are you hijacking the word "hijacking" on my thread?
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
people stop hijacking my thread.
this is about Black Kids and their pugs.
Do you think guys named 'Jack' get offended by the word 'hijack'? Because seperately, it would seem like Hi and Jack would indicate something nice and warm, but put them together, and BLAMMO! [/b]
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Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
excuse me, but why are you hijacking the word "hijacking" on my thread?
Because it provides a fleeting, momentary distraction from the utter black hole that is my life. Speaking of which, is cheese generally considered orange or yellow? Is there tension between more lightly complected cheese and its darker-hued brethren?
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So what came first?
The word hijack or "jack" used to mean to take w/o permission or steal as in "My bastard roomate jacked that last piece of cake I was saving for later so I'll have to get him back by taking a leak on his face as he sleeps tonight."?
I'm thinking that use of "jack" was adopted after "hijack" became part of the English language but am not totally sure.
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from wiki:
There are two folk etymologies:
That it arose from someone wanting a lift on a truck calling "Hi, Jack" (the exclamation plus the name), until this was used often as a trick by robbers.
That it comes from seamen who were robbed by prostitutes in former centuries in London. Prostitutes would call out "Hi, Jack" to passing sailors. Instead of receiving the services they expected, some sailors were instead robbed by an accomplice.
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their shows are being moved to smaller venues
Metro Chicago -> Abbey Pub
The Fillmore SF -> Great American Music Hall
it's pitchfork's fault! :p
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Not many people know it, but the origin of the word pitchfork goes back to 1931 when Amos T. Scuttlebrow took the mound of a community baseball game in Auburn Smash, Idaho. Lacking a proper baseball -- this was the depression after all -- he used the only available tool he could find, which was a fork. He threw it, and it skewered Thomas U. Dinklefwat in the upper abdomen. Dinklefwat became so enraged that he went to his barn and got this weird looking tool and then proceeded to chase Scuttlebrow around the yard with it. Later, someone asked Dinklefwat what that weird looking tool was and he said "It's a pitchfork."