The Best and Worst of Everything Else
The Pitchfork Review
Pitchfork
3.3 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Everything else aside, 2020 was a banner year for music. In addition to some truly stellar albums and songs, there was also plenty of sillier stuff to dig into: misguided anthems about the pandemic, casual covers and collaborations, good and bad tweets galore, and of course, Bernie Sanders introducing the Strokes and Soccer Mommy. On this episode, Pitchfork Editor Puja Patel is joined by Associate Editor Anna Gaca and News Editor Matthew Strauss for a senior superlatives-style rundown of the best and worst in these categories and more. Thanks for listening to the Pitchfork Review this year! We’ll be back with new episodes in 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pitchfork Review. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Pooja Patel, the editor of Pitchfork. |
| 0:10.7 | It's our last episode of the season, and I can say with total sincerity that it has been |
| 0:16.7 | an insane ride trying to figure out how to do a music podcast over Zoom during a pandemic. |
| 0:24.9 | So thank you for bearing with us through all of that. |
| 0:28.2 | We wanted to take a break from our usual year-end lists of best songs, albums, and artists. |
| 0:34.0 | And instead, we thought we'd bring on a news editor and a reviews editor to talk about some of the best and worst things that happened in music this year. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm joined today by Pitchfork Associate Editor Anna Gautza and news editor Matt Strauss. |
| 0:49.8 | Hello. |
| 0:50.7 | Hi. |
| 0:51.3 | Hey. |
| 0:51.9 | So the site just wrapped up this huge task of pulling together a bunch of different roundups of our favorite music of the year. |
| 0:59.5 | And within that process, there's definitely a lot of kind of kooky superlatives that jokingly get bandied about by staff. |
| 1:07.7 | So today we're going to try to run through some of the best and worse that just |
| 1:12.3 | didn't fit anywhere else, some of which feel extremely specific to 2020. Well, truthfully, |
| 1:20.7 | I want to take some credit here because I think the seed of this idea started in my notes app |
| 1:26.4 | where I write everything that I write for pitchfork |
| 1:28.5 | on my iPhone notes. I was just riffing. I was just riffing on some of my least favorite things |
| 1:33.1 | that happened this year, some of which were a little too spicy to make it on the podcast. And it's, |
| 1:38.0 | you know, my great honor to be joined by Matt Strauss, who's just known for his incredibly dry sense of humor that he shares with us in our |
| 1:47.5 | daily morning meetings, riffing on the news in Deadpan, so dead that I can't believe he's here |
| 1:53.5 | with us today. Yeah, I have to, I'm on 20 Adderals right now just to stay awake. It is true that |
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