Looking back, what's the biggest bullshit, musically speaking, that you fell for in the 00s

last thing on nu-metal: i probably still like some stuff from Staind's 14 Shades of Grey too, but haven't listened to it much in a loooong time

Slipknot's first album is good in a sort of Black Sabbath-meets-SAW sort of way...that & the Deftones & System are prolley all I'd salvage from nu-metal though

the fear of 'falling' for music is a sort of paranoia but if u r 'professional tastemaker' it's probably necessary

deftones and system of a down were always popular even among people who hated (nu)metal but i was kinda persuaded by the limp bizkit revisionism thread too

I wasted much time in 2003 trying to delve deeper into electroclash, but found it runs thin after 3-4 canonical albums. I wasted less time on the sludge metal/shoegaze crossover.

In general though, the evolution of my tastes has slowed to a crawl (sadly). I still eagerly consume things the push the envelope of genres I was first exposed to in my late teens/early twenties, but have become pretty complacent about by disinterest in vast expanses of the landscape. Hence I don't "fall" for much outside my well-rutted predilections.

smh at people who've mentioned vampire weekend and dizzee rascal.

Sanpaku, what are your "well-rutted predilections"?

i'm always interested in hearing what genres different people gravitate towards

As a band, Razorlight are as embarrassing as they get, but I still like not only the choons on their debut, but some of the B-sides too. For me it's mostly the opposite -- I didn't much like Dizzee or M.I.A. when they first came out, even after seeing M.I.A. open for LCD Soundsystem. But the albums have grown on me since. One exception, I used to lurve Amon Tobin, and never listen to the stuff now. I still think he's good, but just have no desire to listen.

i probably still like some stuff from Staind's 14 Shades of Grey too

^^talk about an album title that summed up the band

dunno y yall have to hate things like it represents who u are all of a sudden, feel like u r letting the puritanical constraints of acceptable taste inhibit and restrict ur urges.

^^^ used to say this a lot when I was in the closet.

― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:38 PM (15 minutes ago)

wtf r u even implying here, this is some smug illusion of wit bs

truth bomb, M@tt

i was kind of digging that field album - here we go sublime or whatever - until i realized it stunk.

here we go sublime or whatever

^^^ unofficial working title, shortened to here we go sublime

I didn't much like Dizzee or M.I.A. when they first came out, even after seeing M.I.A. open for LCD Soundsystem.

"i was there..."

i thought of amon tobin, i still think he's sick with sampling and 'supermodified' can be ridiculously lush, but it feels pretty dated.

i still love that Field record

my only real honest-to-god answer to this question is crystal castles, i remember being fifteen and thinking i was the hippest little shit. but idk, a lot of you were people with laptops who followed music for the entire decade, i was only 9 years old in 2000 so alot of the stuff ya'll are mentioning i've only discovered recently through like pitchfork lists or ilm. like i could say that being 13 years old and loving ska punk was "the biggest bullshit, musically speaking, that i fell for" but that's not the point i don't think. i'm not even rly ashamed of my brief stint in metalcore, that every time i die album still kicks ass.

I had my Decemberists period..
such a shame..

i think more years should pass by in order to answer this thread with the right perspective

this thread is awesome

i think of montreal was me getting caught up in ilx hype the hardest i ever did

i don't like have some big regret or anything but now i hear it and i'm like DAAAMAN this band is aggravating as hell

Yo La Tengo in middle age

i put some time in trying to dig Fiery Furnaces/Of Montreal/Decembrists etc. during the middle of the decade, but i pretty much never want to hear those bands again.

candyglo don't say noogo iirc

Good call on Fiery Furnaces, still pissed I spent so much time trying to "get" them. I suppose I'd keep the EP around, but that's about it.

you make me sad

fiery furnaces became bullshit only from their 3rd album imo.

fiery furnaces backlash is most predictable and easy backlash ever - as with GYBE, big, slow-moving (well in this case pretty spry but still a little lumbering) target

and they very quickly de-bullshitted after that imo

Of Montreal is the winner here.

I have a hard time deciding whether I still like The Stroke's "First Impressions of Earth" or not as well.

jesus

i'm not even saying Fiery Furnaces is necessarily a *bad* band -- they're certainly interesting! I just decided I didn't want to put in the effort.

guys we're azll ok, and music is fun

sad i never got into Tapes 'n Tapes

Oh, and add Arctic Monkeys. Whatever Keith Richards said about the band - something along the lines of "complete and utter bullshit" - I now agree wholeheartedly in retrospect.

Other than that I generally enjoyed this decade.

i bought a diplo cd

― po-mo da don (tpp), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:22 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

See also that period where I was a teenager and read the NME. Owning an album by... The Wombats! and The Holloways! Exciting! I totally remember who these bands were! They were presumably mildly funny on Never Mind The Buzzcocks/Popworld (depending on when they came out) that one time!

answer might be Guillemots btw

this thread should be for things that were inadequate to their claims to srsness, not slightly shambolic but joyous things you liked as a teenager

"fell for" is an interesting way of putting the thread question, because it implies some level of commitment or genuine interest that has faded with time. e.g. I tried to like the Fiery Furnacves' post-Blueberry Boat output but certainly didn't "fall" for it, and eventually gave up like most people here. I still love that record and the first one though.

Pretty positive that the biggest bullshit I fell for was the more experimental end of laptop techno, Mego label and the like (altho those Kaffe Matthews CDs are still great). Later period posthumous Muslimgauze releases are a good candidate as well, I have sold nearly all of those now.

haha i completely fell for mego, no apologies that stuff was often pretty great (and witty too)

i'm not even saying Fiery Furnaces is necessarily a *bad* band -- they're certainly interesting! I just decided I didn't want to put in the effort.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I meant. The returns I was getting was not at all worth all the effort I poured into listening to them. If they float someone else's boat, great, I just wish I'd have given up after my first try like I considered until the gushing reviews convinced me otherwise.

haha ja rule/ashanti. if i recall a LOT of folks here on ILM were really repping irv gotti's "sparkly" production style or whatever. shit is terrible.

i guess at the very beginning of the decade i was still repping shit like, oh god i can't even remember the name, ah yes... stereo total or some other indie pop stuff. probably wouldn't be able to listen to it now.

never was able to understand fiery furnaces at all. don't think i've made through a whole album.

anyone here buy a vines CD? hehe.

i regret falling for post-godspeed post-rock, like explosions in the sky or mogwai's 2000s output or 80% of what my college station added when i djed there

I can't work up any remorse over anything, but I'm pretty sure from other people's perspective my answer would be electroclash stuff. I mean, I not only own some WIT but specifically went out to see them live. If I think back on electro stuff, though, the bulk of what I really remember is stuff I still think was great -- Gigolos stuff, Miss Kittin / Hacker / Golden Boy, Dutch stuff, Legowelt, that Ghostly compilation, etc.

Fiery Furnaces/Of Montreal/Decembrists

seems unfair to lump FF in w/the other two to me, but then I've only ever listened to FF's EP and think it's great so subsequent output didn't sour me on them cuz I never bothered to pick it up haw

i'd like to claim explosions in the sky as my own answer but some of their stuff is still quite good, maybe (haven't listened recently, 'your hand in mine' at least probably still great)

mogwai's 2000s output

But their output in the latter half of of the decade is actually very little like post-rock!

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/b/artist-big-rich/album-horse-of-a-different-color/cd-cover.jpg

Hahahahahhaha

this thread should be for things that were inadequate to their claims to srsness, not slightly shambolic but joyous things you liked as a teenager

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:20 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well i was a teenager and treated every record i bought as something more important than it was instead of i dunno, learning how to talk to girls

learning how to talk to girls was one of the best elephant6 records

Mego label and the like (altho those Kaffe Matthews CDs are still great)

yah towards the end of hs i was really into this shit & theres a lot of it i dont really listen to but there are a few things that i still absolutely adore: 17 songs after midnight, the 1st fenn o'berg thing i guess thats really abt it. i mostly regret the amount of $$$ i spent on this shit but i dont like feel a fool for having multiple pita records or w/e