Village Voice's F2K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIf1uMZ7WRw

oh, swizz

lol at 4:20

I don't want to get involved with the whole Maura vs. nu-Idolator shit talking, but I just want to say that this is killing me

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/11/new-blogger-in-action-for-hipsterrunoff-rob-is-my-name-and-here-is-my-top-10-albums-of-the-decade.html

....

holy shit at this fucking horrifying thing (YEAH!)

someone should take a staple gun to the taints of everyone involved in this (LOUDER!)

Is he yelling "STRENGTH" or "STRINGS"?

29!

this is one of those "ok i can actually defend this song but at the same time I realize why a rational adult would consider it a heaving bag of suck" entries. my mayer pick would be the political inaction anthem "waiting for the world to change," though. or maybe the ballad that climaxes with "oooh and you can tell the difference between miles and coltrane!" or something.

not the first time i've said on this thread, not the last time either, i'm sure-

ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

at first i thought "well this is just kind of dull" but after sitting through the whole thing, i feel kind of queasy. maura's best blurb so far as well.

"oooh and you can tell the difference between miles and coltrane!"

hahaha what. "i am so turned on by this person who can tell the difference between instruments!"

the song's called "comfortable"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5ZAF21IDc

she says the Bible is all that she reads
and prefers that I not use profanity
your mouth was so dirty
life of the party and she swears that she's artsy
but you could distinguish Miles from Coltrane

I like "Waiting For The World To Change" because I always hear it as an indictment of the complacent. I am not sure it's INTENDED to be an indictment of the complacent but that's neither here nor there.

The "I'll use my hands" part of "Your Body Is A Wonderland" never ceases to be incredibly fucking creepy.

yeah if randy newman was singing "waiting" i'd definitely hear it that way (and probably consider it his best song this decade), but mayer's quotes about the songs suggest a lack of irony

mayer should have sang "i'll squeeze your glands"

croupier to thread, really should have been a Defend The Indefensible: Have we discussed John Mayer's new Trustafarian anthem?

hahaha reading the WFTWTC Wikipedia entry is a good way to generate "FUCK YOU, JOHN MAYER" sentiment

croupier is all over that thread, with an earlier screen name

xpost

LOL yes - I am slow this morning.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/12/meet-becca-a-new-hro-blogger-with-a-female-perspective-for-female-readers.html

The most amazing thing about HRO is that he's built up an empire and brand and--by giving the comments a read--I don't know if half his fans fully understand the jokes and references he's making.

holy shit, lol

Whiney, let's go.

listen: there's a hell of a good metaverse next door; let's go

man those outtakes from some kind of monster are epic.

Whiney, let's go.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:14 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have some real work to do today, can it wait?

lol @ the hipster runoff thing

The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
This was some really chill acoustic shit, mixed with rock noises. It was back when indie music could be funky and fun. Now every one is being all serious. Cmon guys! lighten up! let’s have fun and dance again… It’d be cool to have a Woodstock of Indie music just to see how it would change the scene. I’ll bet a lot of bands would get back to basics to say the least… food for thought.

Carles' "bro" piece does offer a nice swipe at both the interminable recitation of the 00s' self-fulfilling Significant Releases (which [everyone involved] spent the entire decade reassuring themselves were significant), and the delusional notion that effort and knowledge have anything to do with being in or out of touch with pop music anymore.

pee-oh-oh-pee

let's do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a75XwZhmlzk

Whiney, let's go eat ice cream and play video games while your robot surrogate argues with ol' cee-oh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhG8BgJb9Xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-T3yzQbMVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8wfFSGRGM

"Mike" on HRO re Outkast: "A lot of people say that black rappers and singers just sing about hood stuff, but these guys came hard to deliver some artsy stuff." Heh heh.

Those two HRO links are pretty fucking classic.

28!

loool Oberst would never be an R, dude will be a burnt out hippie fer sure. Also nobody in WOW calls them 'avatars' >_>

HELLS OF SLANG so you know it is off the cuff and that means it is authentic. FYI David Cross is the asshole version of David Cross, bro.

Holy crap those lyrics. I need to hear this, it sounds beyond awful.

Also nobody in WOW calls them 'avatars'

What are they called?

They're called "toons".

and this is going to generate the lolsiest comments ever

http://blog.room34.com/wp-content/uploads/underdog/babylooneyv2.jpg

]NIGHTGOAT says:

So, I'm sure troops in the SS didn't have much choice either. It was hard being in Nazi Germany, ya know, with all those great uniformed SS and NOT join them. Shucks.

yes because you see American minorities are a direct parallel to the SS and Nazis

Now I've got Duran Duran in my head. "Waiting...for the nightgoat!"

NIGHTGOAT is missing the big point of my piece that I didn't exactly spell out. I can't exactly judge someone for joining the army because I've been fortunate enough in my life to never have that even be an option. I don't know what upbringing Stewart has, but I can tell you that a HUGE HUGE SUFFOCATINGLY HUGE portion of the audience for indie-noise pitchfork bands is in the same boat as me.

I don't know, I thought you pretty explicitly spelled that out

Like, to the point where the only way I can see NIGHTGOAT making that post is if he either saw the song listed and just commented without reading the piece or he is just functionally illiterate.

dude is def on my team with that screen name tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwSOrd4E7yw

I remember when the army recruiters came to my school with the mandatory tests to see what you'd be good at in the army and I was just uh "I'm pretty sure my fat ass is going to college, can I just save you a step?"

ploppy says:

pffft. way to prop up hetereonormative views and belief systems

http://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/images/20080513-oreo02.jpgyeah, good job on backing up our oppressive cookie overlordshttp://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/images/20080513-oreo02.jpg

i see why this song is hated on but still, the Harry Partch noise and various squealing doodads are pretty cool