Adam Friedland Reviews Albums by Drake, Animal Collective, Hole, and More

Having an opinion is a insane thing to do.

I'm a wait and see.

[upbeat music]

Listen, I stand for nothing.

You see a stack of CDs

of artists that you want to crap all over,

I see a stack of potential celebrity friends.

So I'm gonna be very diplomatic here.

[upbeat music continues]

Weezer, Make Believe.

I'm not familiar.

What's on this one?

Is this Islas In The Sun?

That's green.

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10.

It's an insult to my intelligence.

Beverly Hills, that's where it...

Come on.

[Producer] Do you wanna hear the actual album score?

Yeah.

[Producer] We gave it a 0.4.

Fuck off. Okay.

10. Come on the show.

[audience applauding]

[Producer] Do you enjoy the song Beverly Hills?

Yeah, of course. Everyone knows it.

It was on the radio and stuff.

It was like Uber and it's at CVS and stuff.

It's amazing.

[Producer] Is CVS where you go to find good music?

CVS? Yep.

Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah.

That's where I've heard all my favorite One Republic songs.

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Where all the best Imagine Dragons track song.

[cheerful music]

Taylor Swift, Life of a Showgirl.

I'm from Las Vegas.

There's a lot of showgirls there, so it reminds me of home.

♪ I heard you calling ♪

[tape zapping]

I don't know. What is that?

It's like a farty horn and then a, [imitates drumbeat]

I don't want to talk.

She's very powerful. She can have me killed.

What are you putting...

You're setting my ass up right now.

Taylor Swift is,

She's the biggest star in the world, okay.

That must be a lot of responsibility

to be the biggest star in the world.

Must be a lot like how Donald Trump feels right now.

I'm sorry.

Got that.

I bet you're going to have me killed.

These people, they have a,

they have, you know, cybersecurity kind of.

My phone is probably hacked.

They're listening right now.

♪ She wear high heels ♪

Yeah.

I like,

that's a good song.

10. 10.

Yeah.

[Producer] Pitchfork gave it a 5.9.

What are you, psychos?

Oh, you're getting,

it's terrible for your business.

Taylor swifts to 10.

Come on to the show. [audience applauding]

If anyone wants to check her out,

you can stream her on Spotify, all the apps.

Make sure to listen to Taylor's version,

because the other one was stolen by,

[Producer] Scooter Braun?

Scooter.

How old is this guy? Let me look it up.

Look it up. [horn blowing]

45-year-old Scooter.

Oh my God.

What does he have a,

does he have a propeller on his hat?

Come on. Get a new name, bastard.

And stop stealing from Taylor Swift.

This is UW6 ST6 J-O-D-Y-B-O-O-F.

Can you just share your password?

It's probably some like acid house,

like Manchester kind of thing based on this, right?

♪ We at the hacienda with Bez ♪

All right, let's go. [upbeat music]

Oh, it's like one of the kids that rap.

[tape zapping]

Scary, scary.

It reminded me of a scary movie,

but if you're into thrills and bump,

things that go bump in the night.

Can I ask you a question off the show?

Is he white?

No. Okay.

All right. Fine.

Okay, now I'm kind of getting this bit of this.

Now, I feel powerful.

As the editor of Pitchfork,

I'm the most powerful man in media.

Give him a 10.

Give him a 10.

Listen, he looks like a great guy.

And cut that thing about, [beep]

[Producer] We gave it a 7.1.

Very nice. He's like 12.

You gave a 12-year-old a 7.1?

How dare...

Honestly, you bastards.

Why don't you make a spooky rap thing?

This guy worked really hard and you,

what do you?

You go to like a music class in fourth grade,

you're like pathetic hot cross buns.

Pathetic recorder.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

You guys want to hurt people's feelings or something?

Like, I don't know.

It's just what does it even mean?

I don't know.

You're putting it out as scary enough,

you tried your hardest.

You know how scary it is to try your hardest?

And you know, I don't know.

There are people that like Imagine Dragons

and they're doing,

I don't like the war crimes that they're doing right now,

but they're allowed to like Imagine Dragons.

I don't like their politics

but they're allowed to have the thing they like.

You know, there's a couple that,

they're wedding, they were kissing each other.

They're like, This is our song, 'Radioactive.'

[Producer] Would you have Imagined Dragons on your show?

Of course.

I'd love Imagine Dragons.

I want to know how you came up with such a great name

for such a good, such an awesome.

They probably like,

they're probably like, We, fucking,

we nailed it.

The first meeting when they came up with the name,

they were like,

This is about to be the biggest band of all time.

The Beatles, pathetic. Imagine Dragons?

Hole, Celebrity Skin.

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That's all I have to hear.

What's her name? Courtney Love.

I DM'd her to do the show the other day.

She commented on my thing, on a post of mine.

I'm giving this a 10.

I'm a big fan of holes

and celebrities and skin.

Come on the show.

[audience applauding]

[suspenseful music]

[Producer] Pitchfork gave it a 9.

Close.

We'll call it 9.,

I'll call it 10, but you'll round up after.

I'm only doing this for networking folks.

I love music,

but I love power more.

It's Drake.

Iceman.

The boy's back. He's incredible.

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I could have made another ♪

♪ I have to follow my mother and treat my ♪

10, 10, 10, 10.

This is the best.

Yeah.

He's the best.

Please, Drake. Please.

It'll be so fun if you come on the show.

Drake, I've been sending you DMs.

Can I read them to you?

I said, I miss us.

That was,

I though you'd think that was funny.

And then I said, Come through, my goat.

And then I said,

Thank you for 20 years of the best music, hubibi.

So if you want to check your DMs,

it's @adamfreelance, just my name.

♪ Cal me on my cellphone ♪

It's been 20 years of just wonderful tunes.

It's kind of a little bit like Harry Potter a little bit,

because I was like the same age when he was like,

he's like flirting with Cho Chang

and Harry Potter when the books were coming out were my age.

You're one years older, one year older.

I don't know.

I just relate a lot to you.

I think we're similar people.

I think we have a similar sense of humor.

We have a good diverse group of friends

that we all care about each other.

I'm going on too long.

It's like I'm leaving a voicemail

and I don't want to hang up.

I'm getting nervous 'cause

I've never talked to Drake before.

[Producer] Do you want to hear the actual score?

No, I don't actually,

and I'm going to get mad if you...

Okay.

Honestly, fuck you.

Okay. What did you say?

We gave it a 4.8. How dare you?

Like just honestly, a 4.8?

What did you do for the last 20 years?

Make the most beautiful music of all time?

He's given us this beautiful, lovely.

And he's so funny too.

When he's funny, we love him.

You come on the show, we'll be funny.

Come on the show.

[audience applauding]

It's a comedy show.

You know, like when you...

We just love it.

We just love you.

Animal Collective.

Everyone knows this.

Everyone's freaking smoking weed

and tripping out and what...

This, come on, bro.

Fucking, four walls of Adobe slab for my girl, dude.

I went to two gigs. Two gigs.

You weren't there.

I was at the Nissan Pavilion, Virginia,

which they changed the name to the Jiffy Lube Live.

The Lube.

And then I went to House of Blues in Vegas.

My mom got me the tickets.

And then I invited my ex-girlfriend

and I thought I was going to get her back.

And then she opened the door.

She's like, Can my friend get a ride?

I was like, God, worst night of my life.

I threw up from the stress.

Then I learned guitar. I did.

I locked myself in my bedroom.

But I learned Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard

and Knocking On Heaven's Door.

So thank you. Mr. Geologist, Mr. Avatar,

Mr. Panda Bear.

And what was the other one?

We should know.

This is Pitchfork.

Deacon. Deacon.

He doesn't get enough love.

[gentle music]

Bro, you remember this?

Dude, I wish we were back there, dude.

The Market Hotel, the 2A,

before Vice bought up fucking Williamsburg?

Glasslands Gallery

before the Apple Store came and the Whole Foods.

I didn't even live here. [laughing]

I moved in 2014.

I mean, they're amazing.

This is 10, obviously.

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[Producer] Pitchfork gave it a 9.6.

Greta Van Fleet, Anthem Of A Peaceful Army.

I like that.

First off, I want to say peace.

Peace is good.

No matter what that Joan Didion character

says about the San Francisco,

what's wrong with peace?

You know? Right?

And they're a peaceful army,

which is kind of like me and my friends.

Yeah?

Would you...

My associate's here, you would agree?

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It's annoying.

It's a little bit annoying.

[tape zapping]

Probably a 1.6. Yeah.

I mean, that was terrible.

Absolute dreck.

What were they doing?

They were in like theater or something growing up?

They were like, We're going to see 'Rent.'

[Producer] So everything's a 10

except for Greta Van Fleet.

I mean, I can't lie. That's pretty bad.

[Producer] We gave it a 1.6.

Yeah.

I mean, it deserved that, but they tried.

They probably though they had a great album.

I mean, they should just get a job.

Honestly, your parents are going to keep paying for this.

Guys, the polar ice caps are melting.

And their moms are probably so nice.

They're like, Oh, sweetie, I listened to your new CD.

This is dog shit though.

This is absolute dog shit.

I have to go.

You know, I'm not right for this job.

[video beeping and screeching]

All right.

Taylor Swift had that, [imitates drumbeat]

She had that Rastafari.

She's really trying to do stuff.

It's like Taylor Swift's infidels.

Can you put that back into the moment?

We're going to have to get some,

we're going to have to get some heat on this episode.

Leave in all that stuff I said about that guy, Scooter.

[Adam laughing]

Thanks for having me at Pitchfork.

I don't know.

Alex, who'd you see at Pitchfork Fest?

[Alex] Kelly.

R. Kelly?

[Alex] Yeah.

What the hell are you people doing?

What year was that? 2015. [speaks faintly]

It was probably incredible.