We're No. 8!
  • Paul SPaul S

    Bob Lefsetz ranks music blogs No. 8 in his Music Industry Power Top Ten:


    http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/23/music-industry-power-top-ten/


    8. Music Blogs


    We’ll even put Pitchfork here too. This business was built by, and is sustained by, rabid fans. Rabid fans scour the Web for information on their favorite acts and new acts. Too many sites are started with the profit motive first, and that’s why they’re untrustworthy. Hell, that’s why MySpace has got such a bad name. And Mark Zuckerberg is doing a good job fucking up Facebook too.


    Music bloggers do it for the love of music. They can be trusted. Profit is secondary. Are blogs the new radio? If not quite, they show a pathway to the future, where it’s about being turned on by love, not hype.

  • ginny ghost friendginny ghost friend
    ahhh, but CAN we be trusted? bwahaha!
  • Paul SPaul S

    Everything is relative, I guess.

  • SongbyToadSongbyToad
    I for one would like to declare that I can not be trusted.
  • stytzerstytzer
    I certainly CAN be trusted, as long as no money is involved...and sadly there isn't
  • squashedsquashed
    Those barbarians with no taste are polluting the internet. Why can't they just behave and listen to Britney Spears like any other good consumers?  the blogs.. pah...



    PS. now that I can be trusted. I am bringing back disco. muwahahhahahaha....
  • scottp4kscottp4k
    yes, sounds descending from disco are so horrible and unpopular
  • squashedsquashed
    yeah but have you seen this youtube clip?



  • ThomasThomas
    Posted by: scottp4kyes, sounds descending from disco are so horrible and unpopular

    i think squashed means he wants to bring the gay back to disco

  • Taylor T-SidesTaylor T-Sides
    but omg guys pitchfork is not a blog
  • chengychengy
    Heh Pitchfork classified as a blog? After reading the review of Hello, Blue Roses's disc, I'm pretty sure they are against us.
  • MokaMoka
    To be honest I was very dissapointed by the "hello blue roses" album as well.
  • MokaMoka
    pitchfork pretends not to read us.
  • chengychengy
    Posted by: MokaTo be honest I was very dissapointed by the "hello blue roses" album as well.

     Completely understand. I expected a ton from it too due to all the blogging hype etc. It feels like all the reviews below 5.0 are just enrage people and goes against the grain just for the sake of it. HBR may have not been that good but it isn't complete trash like the review suggests.

  • Taylor T-SidesTaylor T-Sides
    I knew they'd trash it before they even reviewed it. lo and behold...
  • songsillinoissongsillinois
    When you google Pitchfork (and I had to since I don't read it and don't have it bookmarked) this is what you get:



    "Pitchfork is a website dedicated to music and the discussion thereof. And we rule." 



    Am I missing something?  Where's the discussion? It seems like it's a one way diatribe with no chance for rebuttal.  There's no forum, right?  You can't leave a comment, right?  And they don't make it easy to contact the writer so again where's the discussion about music?



    Just a thought.



    P.S. I totally agree with that review except that I didn't even find that first song very memorable.
  • squashedsquashed
    Posted by: Thomas
    Posted by: scottp4kyes, sounds descending from disco are so horrible and unpopular

    i think squashed means he wants to bring the gay back to disco



     


    Jeebus Thomas, will ya stop underlining wingnut section of canada.
  • ThomasThomas

    ? ? ?  That was a joke, btw.  I'd like to think I'm about as far from a "wingnut" as you can get.


    I'm more than happy to bring the gay back to disco.

  • mjrcmjrc
    when did the gay ever leave disco? ;-)
  • ThomasThomas
    couple of years ago i think.  i hear disco is now the province of unwitting homophobes of the straight hipster variety.
  • SongbyToadSongbyToad
    Yeah.  Disco is totally straight these days Marcy.  Where have you been - sheesh!
  • mjrcmjrc
    um, i think it's safe to say i am totally out of the disco world!
  • Dave RawkblogDave Rawkblog
    Posted by: songsillinoisAm I missing something?  Where's the discussion? It seems like it's a one way diatribe with no chance for rebuttal.  There's no forum, right?  You can't leave a comment, right?  And they don't make it easy to contact the writer so again where's the discussion about music?

    Yeah, somebody should totally tell the last 50 years' worth of rock critics that all this time, they've been writing diatribes! Good catch, Craig!

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