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The steroid thing and the HoF is immensely complicated for me. But fuck Pete Rose. Guys, he signed an agreement with Bart Giamatti that spelled this all out, his lifetime ban, everything. And when he...

"Hey, y'all, come to my plantation-themed dream wedding":

I'm pretty sure they all did it so the peanut gallery could ask them why they did it.

Just discovered this one this past month thanks to Frances Ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PECnzN8P6KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b_X_SWuwM7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FVYO56z3j3k

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Full album credits. Sorry that it's ALL CAPS, but that's how Yeezus rolls. Some interesting names in here:

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS KANYE WEST AND RICK RUBIN CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHÉ POPE

ON...

I think this review indirectly gets at why I feel compelled to defend Kanye as a victim of selective outrage, even though there are some truly indefensible lines on the album:



I mean, this is...

This is an improvement over the "this album offends my sense of political correctness" thesis that was previously being advanced in the Salon piece. My quibble with this take is that I'm not sure...

I referenced "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "Gorgeous" as being particularly excellent pieces of writing a few posts up.

"Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?"

I mean, what is this shit, right?

We should cherrypick the dumbest lyric on his dumbest pop hit, and some of the most offensive and ill-advised lyrics from his most recent album and use those to evaluate his ability as a lyricist.

Probably Kendrick. A guy who owes more than a little bit to Kanye in his lyrical style, btw.

My understanding is the first three tracks, and "Send it Up."

FWIW, I've always liked Kanye as a lyricist. This particular album is not his finest hour lyrically, but I don't know how someone can objectively look at songs like "Can't Tell Me Nothing" or...

BUT WHAT ABOUT DRIZZY???

And surprisingly, no one has voted after the fact.

So you were giving your prediction about something that had already happened? Got it, that makes a lot more sense.

@perpetua: "The Yeezus cd packaging is so minimal that it's like they're mocking you for buying it in that format. (Couldn't do it, waiting for vinyl.)"

You really have reading comprehension problems.

Exactly two albums this year have been overhyped media circle jerks. Arcade Fire will be a third. That's not really a trend so much as a confluence of specific circumstances involving major artists.

9.5

I agree that its cringeworthy. I don't think there's any real basis for defending it, or several other lines on the album. I think you and others are entitled to point out the contradictions and...

Independent of what you think of Yeezus, what score do you think will Pitchfork give to it?

The Salon piece is ludicrous. What is lost, of course, in all of this concern trolling is that there is no argument in Yeezus. It's pure id and provocation. We're really going to fault Kanye for not...

This fucking release:

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Because it's important we keep the focus on the United States government and its actions rather than on the whisteblowers that expose those actions, this aggrandizing Q&A is highly necessary.

Cogent argument because racists in America have totally gotten over their issues with interracial sex.

Lol @ including "(front row)" in the video description.

He's at the beginning of "Hold My Liquor"

Major faux pas telling people to dress in white after Labor Day, guys.

Kim Deal is out of the Pixies: http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/06/kim-deal-quits-the-pixies/

Great, he's out of the hospital. Which clearly also means he's in condition and ready to play a 90 minute headlining set at a massive music festival.

I don't like this band, but I respect them...

Yeah fuck that dude for not recovering from brain surgery in time to play.

Isn't the Friday of this thing only like one or two stages for six hours, anyway? Or is it a full day all four days?

1. Tim
2. Let it Be
3. Pleased to Meet Me
4. Don't Tell A Soul
5. Sorry Ma
6. Hootenanny
7. Stink
8. All Shook Down

Now you've changed the post where you call me the moron.

Your brand of idiocy is even worse now that you're manipulating conversations.

Yes, I look totally silly now that you've gone back and edited the post I was responding to. Got me there.

It drove their production value up, you moron.

If we mean production value in the literal sense of the phrase -- how much money and resources were spent on the production -- and not as a value judgment on the final product itself, then very few...

If they go to three day weekends around the 4th, it won't matter. Coachella and most other fests are never on regularly-scheduled three day weekends.

I wouldn't say there's a specific problem with this so much (I don't think it will "ruin" Sasquatch or anything like that) as it is a part of the larger trend of festival over-saturation.

What the fuck does "sonic variety" even mean?

I actually really like Don't Tell a Soul. It may be four or five for me.

Festival overload

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Department of good timing: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130612&content_id=50446004&c_id=mlb

I may just do this. It's not a bad undercard:

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