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

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

I tried in good faith with a lot of this stuff. Destroyer, Decembrists, AnCo, Devendra... either it just couldn't stick to my ribs (the last two) or outright annoyed my ass (the first two).

I have only listened to each Dizzee album a few times but they seem pretty awes to me and I'm def gonna spend more time with them.

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

i guess i stopped paying attention at some point, ha. wasn't 'the fountain' ost from like 2006 tho?

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

that's what you get for giving a shit about chuck eddy's opinions

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

Showtime is the only Dizzee I keep going back to, that one has my favorite beats on it. I'd love an instrumental version of it!

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).

aww :( who do you mean? i love most of that stuff that i can think of. kaffe matthews is awesome. i'd be tempted to say minimalish electro-acoustic improv because i was so into that stuff earlier in the decade but i still think it's great.

how about certain no-fun fest bands, being... not interesting. i can think of a million other things i'd rather listen to to get the same effect nowadays.

devendra banhart is probably the closest i get on remorse. i really don't know what i was hearing at the time. fiery furnaces and latter-day of montreal are two things that i don't really listen to anymore, but i don't feel weird about my love for them when i look back.

Oh yeah, I bought that fucking Big & Rich album, too. Thanks, Chuck.

Battles? How are they tasting to y'all at this remove?

haha, apparently i missed the great Big & Rich ILM deception. They were the countrypolitan band with the midget rapper, right?

lolz @ people that listen to xhuxh eddy

Still love the shit out of Battles and anxiously waiting for another album!

They were the countrypolitan band with the midget rapper, right?

nah they teamed up with "blackneck" conservative Republican black rapper Cowboy Troy. (He is not a midget)

wasn't there a band with a midget rapper?

oh i'm thinking of the Kid Rock midget rapper. nevermind.

RIP

Well, and Geto Boys...