Pick Of The ‘Fork: Your Wordsmiths Revealed
Oh, you guys. We are so on a roll. This week, about 48% of you picked the wrong sentence as our Pitchforkian decoy–the highest margin of victory for a winning Pick of the ‘Fork entry yet. That sentence–“[Their] lavish rendering of razor-on-wrist solipsism with conceptual bombast seems oddly prescient to the current emo/prog crossover…”–was actually from Stuart Berman’s 6.5 review of Legacy: The Best of Mansun. (Wait. Mansun is worthy of a greatest hits record? Does this mean we should expect a Menswe@r box set soon?)
Our decoy sentence came in second: “…phoning it in so aggressively, you can hear the hum of a dial tone underneath the paint-by-numbers sound.” (We had just received a call from a telemarketer, you see.) Nearly 20% of you picked correctly.
The remaining contenders:
“More on influence: Put together their CD collections, these five gentlemen probably have the entire Fishbone discography among them.” HoAg, The Word From Pluto (7.6 from Jason Crock, and nearly 17% of the vote)
“Girl parts, offered by bassist Nikki Monninger, are welcome respite; also, she’s way cute.” Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (5.0 from Rachel Khong, and about 15% of the vote)
See you next Friday!
