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

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

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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...

I think I walked around pretending to like Annie for a while.

Although I still like Chewing Gum.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:yWhq8SMs_TB8hM:http://www.kidrock.com/img/bios/joe-c.jpg

keep it real ILM!

The Battles album was WAY better when I returned to it a couple of years on

I own it but still have not given it due time tbh. On first two listens it honestly reminded me of Gentle Giant more than anything, but that's a positive.

having trouble coming up with pop examples, maybe gwen stefani?

how about Lady Gaga

we need more records and then some distance

i find that most early 00s pop has gotten even more classic as the years go by

sorry, "most of my favorite early 00s pop"

lol yeah just trolling obviously

altho anybody rep'ing for Katy Perry in the future is gonna get the stinkeye from me

i mean, how classic does this sound right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwkgQcKWMU

like, everyone still loves Britney and Fiddy amirite

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god yes

yeah nelly seems actually better in retrospect

yep

Dude, Nelly's early singles are great!

lol at Big & Rich. I too, downloaded it because of that fucking thread.

I spent a lot of this decade catching up with pre-2000s music because I only escaped from the cave that I grew up in around 2001 or so. That said...The Rapture.

aw I like that one Rapture album I own, Echoes...

nelly is terrible sorry guys

actually fuck I just remembered the dark days of 2001

blink 182
feeder
semisonic
lyte funkie ones
ash

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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

Unless they've seriously reworked the new stuff I've heard live, I dunno.

When's the last time you listened to Echoes? Because I didn't think too much of it until I gave it a listen about a year ago for the first time in forever. And...yikes.

haha last weekend

it's fun. the only thing that really sticks in my craw about it is that one really blatant PiL rip, where they bite the "the face is raining/across the border" lyric/melody

(otoh I have personal connections to those guys so it has some added resonance for me)