Powerban
06.01.10 | List is a bunch of albums I enjoy in totally different moods. |
Emim
06.01.10 | People are retards though. Better to have at least most of the cool ones on here. |
illmitch
06.01.10 | uh are you surprised or something? pitchfork has professional reviewers and is known nation-wide. sputnik has skilled writers who do it for fun and is known to people who click random links on wikipedia or elsewhere |
Captain North
06.01.10 | Pitfork is known internationally, not just nationally dude. It is the go-to for hipsters the world over. |
illmitch
06.01.10 | yeah i almost said world-wide but that implies something different
idk why i said nation-wide tho |
Powerban
06.01.10 | I'm not surprised with sputnik being behind, but I also did not think sputnik was dwarfed by that much. I like sputnik a lot more, but I don't see why sputnik can't be just as good. We have a handful of superb reviewers already.
Pitchfork had a 10 year headstart. Can sputnik reach the popularity of Pitchfork in another 10 years time? |
Mordecai.
06.01.10 | uuuuuuh |
porch
06.01.10 | maybe if sputnik fires 90% of the staff and replaces them with pitchfork writers
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Powerban
06.01.10 | I know most of the user base doesn't want to embrace in pitchfork hipster correlation, but surely there is a whole lot of people missing the sputnik train that would actually enjoy this site more.
I guess the overall question is if Jeremy has something sneaky up his sleeve to steal some of the blind userbase. |
Bitchfork
06.01.10 | Well, I am half of both sites' total hit count, so I guess it's up to me.... to make sure Pitchfork is still 80x more popular than Sputnik. |
SylentEcho
06.01.10 | I don't like pitchfork. Sputnik all the way. |
deadinholywood
06.01.10 | Bah pitchfork talks such shit, if it's not underground rap or ambiguous indie it gets a poor rating. |
Damrod
06.01.10 | Pitchfork and Sputnik are owned hard by ultimate-guitar.com according to Google trends. That is something that suprises me much more |
Counterfeit
06.01.10 | We do not need a bunch of new d-bag hipster users bro... cmon you know that.. |
Powerban
06.01.10 | Pitchfork has pretty much the same popularity as rollingstone.com. I find it interesting that there is a massively sharp dip in Pitchfork's hits in January this year.
The lack of a graph for Sputnik this year is a little concerning. I wonder if it has dropped in site hits.
One discovery I found when I searched 'music reviews' on Google is that sputnik doesn't come up anymore like it used to. Instead Google points me to localized review sites over everything else.
This definitely lowers the hits that we'd get here and could be an issue later on. I know you can front page sites on google by systematically repeating a process where you link 'music reviews' search to sputnikmusic.com
I assume that this would require a lot of time and dedication if Google does still run on that system. |
IllPromiseYouThat
06.01.10 | just saw pitchfork for the first time and it was an awful expirience... ew |
porch
06.01.10 | can't be much worse than your music taste |
Inveigh
06.01.10 | zing! |
WeepingBanana
06.01.10 | question: does anyone here actually want sputnik to get as popular as pitchfork? |
bloc
06.01.10 | Wow, didn't know Pitchfork was so popular. Never been to the site myself.
I can understand UG being more popular, that site pretty much has everything; music reviews, gear reviews, columns, lessons, and most importantly guitar tabs. |
Parallels
06.01.10 | illmitch has a point. i only realized sputniks existance from seeing the ratings of sputnik across various music albums thanks to wikipedia. otherwise i probably would be scrolling across pitchfork now. cept sputnik is way better. fuck pitchfork |
Waior
06.01.10 | Yes, but look at this...
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=sputnikmusic.com,+absolutepunk.net&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
Sputnik is catching up to stupid Absolutepunk... and we have more Australian users than they do. |
theacademy
06.01.10 | f*ck p4k and lol @ absolutepunk...
SPUTNIK 4 LYFE |
IllPromiseYouThat
06.01.10 | MrPorchular atleast i'm not a pussy who doesnt rate albums for fear that an ass like you might bash them. We all have our own taste or else this site wouldn't exist in the 1st place. |
Athom
06.01.10 | I like p4k |
ShadowRemains
06.01.10 | i'm liking the profile pic...
hot blonde + rofl knife/sword = win |
ShadowRemains
06.01.10 | btw: sputnik > pitchfork |
Athom
06.02.10 | due to the community atmosphere and there being no emphasis on any type or period of music, Sputnik is a great place to fuck around and waste time on, but for finding music and stuff like that I prefer p4k and cokemachineglow. |
illmitch
06.02.10 | and sorry but the overall quality of reviews (and the taste in music) on pitchfork >>>> the overall quality of reviews and the taste in music on here |
porch
06.02.10 | "MrPorchular atleast i'm not a pussy who doesnt rate albums for fear that an ass like you might bash them."
lol
big influx of over-sensitive 14 year olds on this site recently |
joshuatree
06.02.10 | how obvious is that statement |
joshuatree
06.02.10 | to illmitch
and besides the taste in music part sorta
i mean, it's been said, but pitchfork's writers are professionals. sputnik is just some spare time shit |
ubermensch518
06.02.10 | It doesn't really matter how good the reviews are if pitchfork doesn't have my taste in music... sputnik rarely fails me |
WeepingBanana
06.02.10 | i actually can't stand pitchfork reviews. all it is is a showing of how flashy the writer's vocabulary is. which would be fine i guess if they didn't have stupid reasons for stuff (saying de-loused in the comatorium isn't good because "it's just not fun" and comparing mono to celine dion)
also they have such an agenda. Andrew W.K. got a .6/10 review which consisted of bashing AWK as a person and his fanbase, yet somehow that album made it on the top 200 list of the decade. |
illmitch
06.02.10 | yeah they have an agenda because one person on the staff reviewed andrew wk and didnt like it and the other people on the staff liked it
that makes sense |
Poet
06.02.10 | Doesn't help that we have a bunch of idiotic users. |
hoipolloi
06.02.10 | yeah i agree with poet and im not a big pitchfork fan, the only band they like on there is pavement lol, which is cool but i like to branch out haha i read an amazing article by the onion about pitchfork once, if you guys can find it you should check it out its very roflcopter worthy |
WeepingBanana
06.02.10 | @illmitch
well the guy who wrote the review is the site's creator so i'm sure he has a pretty heavy say on what goes on that list... |
Ire
06.02.10 | People on sputnik say sputnik is better than pitchfork
no way |
hoipolloi
06.02.10 | http://www.theonion.com/articles/pitchfork-gives-music-68,2278/
found the article |
WeepingBanana
06.02.10 | ^that's such a funny article |
ShadowRemains
06.02.10 | haha, that made me laugh indeed
IDK, I haven't checked out pitchfork too much... |
Nikkolae
06.02.10 | sputnik is fun and you can write your own reviews, whats not to like? |
IllPromiseYouThat
06.02.10 | ha yeah man that was ridiculously over sensitive. I was already pissed off. |
HolidayKirk
06.02.10 | Pitchfork puts the spotlight on deserving bands, I like 'em. |
ShadowRemains
06.02.10 | I do kinda get annoyed from time to time by the guys that shit on others' views, but then again, I get annoyed at those people in my actual life as well |
Powerban
06.02.10 | In the end I just want a Sputnik Festival with all the Sputnik favourites.
I can't say much about Pitchfork since I find their site annoying. I'm guessing their staff are that elite, that the word elite is superseded by a word that isn't even in the human language based on that lulzy article. |
Nikkolae
06.02.10 | "In the end I just want a Sputnik Festival with all the Sputnik favourites."
that shit needs to happen like right now!, that way we can all get to know eachother and indulge in the most rabbid ways of love making, no homo |
Zizzer
06.02.10 | Pitchfork reviewers are NOT better than Sputnik ones. Some may be better writers, but their pretentiousness ruins all of their reviews. I read more reviews which I don't like there than ones I like. Seeing Sputnikmusic grow in popularity would be great I think. I always recommend it to my friends and link Sputnik reviews on my facebook etc. |
Powerban
06.02.10 | Zizzer feels exactly how I feel. The staff bring themselves down to a user level here.
The staff reviewers here get straight to the point with their reviews. You usually don't have to wrap your head around obscure references. You also don't really have to deal with a reviewing thesaurus.
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Sevhead
11.03.10 | askjeeves beats them both. |
