<![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along) - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along) - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:22:10 EDT Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:22:10 EDT http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6835006 @21pathsoftheson: You know I was going to post something defending the band and insisting the hype brought upon the bad Pitchfork review because their EP got an 8.4 on the same site, but i'm not now. In fact because of your post I like them less. Thanks!

DocStrange

]]> 33:398951:c6835006 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:22:10 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6828675 (actually, I'm not a street-teamer... just your average music appreciator)

21pathsoftheson

]]> 33:398951:c6828675 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:10:15 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6825335 hello;-)

21pathsoftheson

]]> 33:398951:c6825335 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:09:31 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6821999 @21pathsoftheson: Hi Columbia street-teamer!

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:398951:c6821999 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:11:44 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6820487 Are you guys serious???....SERIOUSLY???...have u guys even listened to Black Kids or have you just read their hyped up articles...these Kids are SICK...the songs are immediate and FUN, and I don't think that the band itself ever lays claim that they are trying to replicate any past eras or bands.... they're doing what all other music lovers/performers do- try to make music that they enjoy and that hopefully others will to, maybe even bring things to a more progressive level, which I feel that they did...so, good for them....Go Black Kids!!!

21pathsoftheson

]]> 33:398951:c6820487 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:27:41 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6819063 @ddb4: DiCrescenzo's at Time Out Chicago now. FYI.

tankboy

]]> 33:398951:c6819063 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:48:11 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6814039 @scottpl: Darn, I was hoping DiCrescenzo had gone absurdist and was working under an alias. Ah, the good old days...

ddb4

]]> 33:398951:c6814039 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:16 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6813861 @janine: are you debbie from curve? ;)

I was healed a long time ago, promise. :)

spazandmojo

]]> 33:398951:c6813861 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:59:08 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6813643 It was simply a computer error left over from our server change a few weeks back. An eariler version of this same review-- created before we were sure we were going to run that, and with a placeholder rating, subhead, and author name (an old inside joke resurrected for the Jet review, which was conceived by a few people over lunch rather than one author)*-- was ported over and accidentally 'reverted to' in our system when I woke and it was changed asap. Sorry...it's a boring technical difficulty.

* It also takes three or four of us to change a lightbulb.

scottpl

]]> 33:398951:c6813643 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:45:12 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6813367 Pugs are SO fall 06 through Summer 07.

NickEddy

]]> 33:398951:c6813367 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:30:03 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812817 @janine: Yes.

Bazooka Tooth

]]> 33:398951:c6812817 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:46:17 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812682 Bingo. Punch "Ray Suzuki Pitchfork" into google and the BKs review is the third thing down, though the link takes you to the Plagenhoef review.

ddb4

]]> 33:398951:c6812682 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:30:08 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812607 Pretty sure the "writer" on the original review was Ray Suzuki, who was also credited with that one Jet review. Anybody know whose pseudonym that is?

ddb4

]]> 33:398951:c6812607 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:22:33 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812503 @jetblackturd: I saw it too. I must say I'm disappointed in Pitchfork... are they too lazy to write a proper review? I know they're just coming off their festival, but still...

villagegreen

]]> 33:398951:c6812503 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:06:55 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812457 @jetblackturd: No, I just noticed the same thing. When the review first went up around 5, it had a different writer, a 0 score, and a front-page tag that said "We all make mistakes." Still had the dog pic though. Hm...

ddb4

]]> 33:398951:c6812457 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:01:05 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6812292 Hey, I just looked at the Pitchfork review, and I'm pretty sure it was 0.0, and then I refreshed the page and it went up to 3.3 and the reviewer's name changed... I am sitting rather dozily in front of my computer at work and it is only Tuesday, but...have I imagined the 0.0 review?

jetblackturd

]]> 33:398951:c6812292 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:30:22 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6810247 @GhostOfDuane and spazandmojo: Really? I thought that was right on. I'm a Black woman and I play guitar, and it's all to heal. Heal YOU!!!

janine

]]> 33:398951:c6810247 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:40:04 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6808219 Please see this band live and you will think shey suck as much as I do.

owenmeany

]]> 33:398951:c6808219 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:49:02 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6808176 @loudersoft: Indeed.

Captain Wrong

]]> 33:398951:c6808176 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:46:00 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6807967 Kissing goodbye to the obsolete racial and gender roles

Feigning outdated amazement at women and nonwhites in bands = more signs of an early '90s revival?

mike a

]]> 33:398951:c6807967 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:31:20 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805881 Is this now an open thread? If so, I'd like to talk about Rick Ross's former career as a corrections officer for the Florida Department of Corrections.

[www.thesmokinggun.com]

If not, you know, carry on talking about Black Kids.

The band.

loudersoft

]]> 33:398951:c6805881 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:05:59 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805584 @Maura Johnston: Well yeah, flying around the globe, splurging on wireless internet in the airport... You're the height of glamour.

@spazandmojo: Thank you for noticing, I feel somewhat less crazy now.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:398951:c6805584 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:52:05 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805467 @Aquemini: Who says the hype around Black Kids isn't just a byproduct of bring nostalgiac for 2005's version of the 80s?

RaptorAvatar

]]> 33:398951:c6805467 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:46:51 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805232 @loudersoft: I've heard Oingo is the one you want.

GROOOOOAAAAAAN.

Apologies all around.

DavidWatts

]]> 33:398951:c6805232 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:35:36 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805089 @Maura Johnston: Boingo is awful!! -- surely someone reading this can hook you up with a Verizon or a Sprint WiCard.

loudersoft

]]> 33:398951:c6805089 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:29:28 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6805000 @GhostOfDuane: Seriously, that review at Spin is OUT of control.

spazandmojo

]]> 33:398951:c6805000 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:49 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6804671 @Aquemini: So, let me get this straight. You hate everything in the world except for Jesus Jones and Vampire Weekend?!?

janine

]]> 33:398951:c6804671 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:12:18 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6804514 nothing wrong with happy music. you're assuming we don't like it because it's happy. we don't like it because it sucks. i love the hold steady, and they're as happy and as derivative as BK. I find BK seriously uninspired, and lacking a core of joy, two things I find in the Hold Steady.

dog door

]]> 33:398951:c6804514 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:06:03 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6804030 You guys make my life sound so much more glamorous than it really is!

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:398951:c6804030 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:11 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6803465 @DavidWatts: Isn't Maura part of the Obama World Tour press entourage? I think she's working on a 10,000-word piece for Rolling Stone right now called "Obama: Kraftwerk or Justice? Amy Winehouse or Carla Bruni? America Demands Answers".

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:398951:c6803465 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:30:59 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6803462 @DavidWatts: Chicago. Never ever buy wireless from boingo.com, as it's the absolute pits.

@Felonious Monk: I like happy music, but I tend to prefer said happy music to mix in things like competency and not sounding like later-period Hot Hot Heat.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:398951:c6803462 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:30:46 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6803403 My favorite part of the album was when they got Mugabe and Tsvangirai to agree to a power-sharing arrangement.

Bob Loblaw

]]> 33:398951:c6803403 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:29:10 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6803198 @Maura Johnston: Oh, yeah, you're in Germany or something, right? I feel like I shouldn't know that, and yet I do.

DavidWatts

]]> 33:398951:c6803198 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:23:24 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6803119 Man, what is with all the hate? No, they're not the best band of all time, but they're the best band lately. What, we should listen to nothing but the Arcade Fire? It's OK to like happy music.

Felonious Monk

]]> 33:398951:c6803119 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:20:45 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6802602 @dog door: But only one of them sucks in cardigans.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:398951:c6802602 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:04:22 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6802597 I'm here, I'm just on crap airport wireless that isn't letting me connect to anything Idolator-related. I'm actually typing this comment via my phone, and if typing wasn't so cumbersome I'd probably do the whole damn site this way today. And people wonder why I'm suspicious ofvtechnology sometimes ...

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:398951:c6802597 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:04:13 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6802434 @loudersoft: it makes it easy that they both suck.

dog door

]]> 33:398951:c6802434 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:59:11 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6802038 So, did Idolator HQ burn down some time mid-morning, or what?

DavidWatts

]]> 33:398951:c6802038 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:47:10 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6801442 I gladly listen to Vampire Weekend all the time. BK, not so much.

Bazooka Tooth

]]> 33:398951:c6801442 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:26:43 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6800651 @pantycrickets: hating Vampire Weekend is still in production for at least one more season, this hatred has simply been added to the fall schedule

loudersoft

]]> 33:398951:c6800651 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:56:47 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6800241 So we're going to finally move on from hating on Vampire Weekend to these guys?

pantycrickets

]]> 33:398951:c6800241 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:41:52 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6800213 Erm, don't confuse this with an endorsement, but in Spin boy's pop-political screed, you could probably plug in "Gym Class Heroes" for every "Black Kids" and it would read the same. Stick to the music -- the faux context doesn't work.
[blog.newsok.com]


GeorgeLang

]]> 33:398951:c6800213 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:41:01 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6798752 So the Black Kids ended racism and moved our country beyond the Bush Administration? I guess that's not bad for a debut album.

Maybe I'm a little extra-sensitive today after watching Generation Kill last night and then sitting in bed all night thinking about Generation Kill. But come on, guy from Spin, just stfu please. There's no contest to see who can hype this album the hardest (or is there?). The first sentence is a non-sequitor, and the last sentence is just tripe. Thanks for making my brain (and soul) hurt that much more on this crappy crappy 10000 degree Monday afternoon.

GhostOfDuane

]]> 33:398951:c6798752 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:53:23 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6798714 I've decided that we can't be out of touch not to get either Black Kids or Vampire Weekend. Why? If you remember when the records they're xeroxing came out, you can definitively recognize how neither band is nearly as good as the style they're aping.

I got VHS or Beta and I get Bloc Party. This, no.

loudersoft

]]> 33:398951:c6798714 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:51:43 EDT <![CDATA[Black Kids Are Ready To Save The World (Until The Next Best Thing Comes Along)]]> http://idolator.com/398951/black-kids-are-ready-to-save-the-world-until-the-next-best-thing-comes-along#c6798310 80's nostalgia/sound/fashion is so 2005.

Bazooka Tooth

]]> 33:398951:c6798310 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:09 EDT