Colin Greenwood calls Pitchfork on their BS
I am a Pitchfork apologist, mostly because I remember the days when it was a scrappy little zine with reviews that verged on experimental, and not the bloated, lazily written arbiter of taste that it is now. But this smackdown exchange from their Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) interview is awesome, and kind of deserved:
Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...
CG: That's like a late-night stoner comment. At about three in the morning-- after you've put on Captain Beefheart and you put the red scarf over the light bulb-- it makes a lot of sense. But the next morning you're like, "I don't know, maybe the world is fucked and we didn't solve it." So I don't know about that.
Ha! There's a lot of meaninglessness in music writing in general (in Pitchfork, definitely), so it's cool to see Greenwood call them on it.
eh.www.amNY.com
Comments (1)
hi EH, I thought that was a legitimate question or comment, or maybe a gentle way of saying Radiohead might be repeating themselves? I guess he could have just come out and said "Do you guys worry about repeating yourself?" or the reviewer could have wrote "This album is not breaking any new ground".
But in a way you are right, I rarely read record reviews anymore, just tell me which songs are good and that's good enough for me, I dont need extreme analysis which a lot of reviewers seem to be into. Wordy analysis.
Anyway, take care. Hope this made sense. Love this blog.