Can pop music get any worse than Hero & Leander?

The female singer has a nice voice but the songs are annoying.

Plus how can a small student band afford to make videos , employ pr and get a review on AMG? It has all the hallmarks of a label like domino stagemanaging everything.

the video i watched was recorded on an iphone? idk how amg works, you will have to ask ned, but sure as fuck if domino or anyone like that was running some sinister sub rosa scheme to get hero and leander to rule the world, they would be doing a better job of it

why are hero and leander worse than all of those shitty bands in the primal scream / stone roses copyists thread?

because ive heard hero & leander?

then you haven't done your due diligence, if you want to answer the question you asked

http://soundcloud.com/modernfaces

why are you defending hero & leander?

this seems like every other shitty band that ilx would clown, ۩

― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i described Modern Faces as a great English rock and roll band on one of their Youtubes and did get so much as a "fuck off", really don't think anybody cares about any of this shit

"didn't get"

i described Modern Faces as a great English rock and roll band on one of their Youtubes and did get so much as a "fuck off", really don't think anybody cares about any of this shit

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:03 (7 seconds ago)

if doran is seriously interested in pursuing the idea that some shit music is for whatever reason objectively worse than all the rest of the shit music then he could use this neglected old thread

hi music journalists, what are the worst albums you have ever heard?

Plus how can a small student band afford to make videos , employ pr and get a review on AMG? It has all the hallmarks of a label like domino stagemanaging everything.

― ۩, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as per my other post itt their album is on a label called Tapete which I think is German, and is neither a Domino-sized indie behemoth nor a bedroom CDR operation

lol Lloyd Cole is on Tapete

weird that anyone considers this "pop" music really, this is so far below the radar

?? we're doing "pop" vs "popular"??? in 2013????

the sum total of the invective is like, 5 people going "this sucks"

no I mean like aesthetically this bears no resemblance to the formal characteristics of current pop music

AND it isn't popular

i dunno, "pop" is just rock-derived music that doesn't rock, in some senses

otherwise what tag wd you put on this?

this thread? #there's no such thing as bad publictiy

we should let the lex decide on whether this band are bad or not

http://soundcloud.com/modernfaces

― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:47 PM (2 hours ago)

i'm doing it i'm going in.

I'm so glad this garbage isn't popular.

xp eh. slightly shittier kasabian isn't very interesting.

feathercut indie isn't for actual listening to tbf

I know I sound self-righteous here, but what about the millions of people who do actually enjoy listening to this stuff? There are a lot of these people. And I'm sure they are valid as people.

I honestly couldn't care less if other people like this band or not. I think they're terrible and I'm very happy I never have to hear them unless I make an effort to subject myself to them; that's where my engagement with this ends.

I don't even know who you're arguing with here, or why.

I'm arguing with the trend, that gets stronger and stronger by the fucking day, that taste, as defined more and more narrowly, is some kind of moral imperative, and how it warps things like a 1,000-view band on some German indie pop label into the Great Satan of Music with 100+-post threads devoted to how bad they supposedly are and how no one can possibly listen to them.

i'm with you as far as "good taste" is concerned, but this is just "I Love Music", the message board for people who like talking about how bad music is.

and i think it's ok to be repulsed by something, tho yeah that rarely merits the backslappy "oh yeah let's all congratulate ourselves about not liking this" threads, but there's room for piss-taking of artists, genres, aesthetic decisions i think.

"trend" "good taste"

boo fucking hoo

nobody had heard of the puppini sisters when dom p made that thread but it was a totally worthwhile one. You cant like everything.
Noone is trying to define taste more narrowly on ilm.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVf7evHCQAER-ID.png

millions of people enjoy oasis so should noodle vague stop hating on them?

oh fuck I'm not supposed to like the puppini sisters

They tweeted something to @lloydcole on twitter but @lloydcole isn't Lloyd Cole the pop star, it's a retired firefighter with 8 followers.

heroandleander ‏@heroandleander 27 Jun
What a smashing chap #lloydcole is. Great bant.... #tapeterecords

I'm sure the boy singer from Hero & Leander looks like someone, but I can't place who it is.

Not just his physical body, but also his expressions and general demeanor.

I would be fine listening to them, but take a look at their videos! They are so annoying. And that's an objective statement. They look like the kind of people who make their videos themselves, not because they can't afford anything else, but because they think the whole idea is to be on camera.

They don't annoy me. They're just there. Not objective.

oh fuck I'm not supposed to like the puppini sisters

― katherine,

no one says you can or cant like a band. Puppini Sisters are still shite and deserve the mocking they got.

I don't have a problem with them and don't think they serve mocking. More specifically, my stance is they did a very nice cover of "Last Christmas" that's always pleasant in the rotation during that time of year. What does that make me, then?

why would it make you anything?

Because that's the unspoken implication behind every "OH MY GOD THIS IS THE ACTUAL WORST" chain-mocking: that the people who enjoy it (there are always people who enjoy it) are bad people.

(Unspoken in this case, that is, but I've heard the entire thing often enough.)

Three of H&L's last 5 gigs have been in the same pub, why not go along and heckle?

(The Wenlock & Essex, Islington)

kinda agree w katherine here