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

ok guys are you ready for the big one

coldplay

How many people are still willing to rep for Wolf Eyes and their ilk?

― Darin, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:33 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

with a passion. still blast this ish on the regular. i was just blazing Pink & Brown and Kites the other day

Also, Sightings have made like the best record of 2010 imo

sightings are great
wolf eyes possibly a bit overexposed but should never put noise on this thread cuz people who says noise is 'bullshit' 'a fraud' etc are nudniks, whatever else it is it isn't that

poptimists and rap-stans have no regrets, I see

― I won't vote for you unless you acknowledge my magic pony (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see i've been trying to think but like a couple people said upthread, i don't tend to have a lot of remorse about these things. here and there i'll remember albums that were in my top 10 a few years ago like Brooke Valentine that i wouldn't rate as high now, but i'm not really like lol man i got swindled or anything. then again, the 90s was my time of being a teenager and going whole hog on some goofy shit, in the 00s i was more conservative with only really taking chances on or initially overrated new albums by artists i already liked, that turned out later to be kinda crap.

i bought into the second jeezy album, which actually only has like 4 good songs

that's one that i remember convincing myself was actually good, but it's def noticeably worse than 101 or recession (or trap or die)

haha i remember being so mad at how shitty that album was, and am still kinda mad that Breihan stood by his rave review of it even after The Recession

yeah and then they let dombal underrate the recession

listening to "cheese and crackers" today kind of made me regret ron browz, even tho i still think "pop champagne" is dope

jeezy only has one good album tbh

he has one great album, one good album, one relatively crap album

Rap albums I regret putting money down on from the last decade-

Viktor Vaughn 2
Graduation? If Sarge is gonna be annoyed over the second Jeezy record for only having 4 good songs...
This Is Not A Test
That Mike Jones album that never lived up to Still Tippin'.
Investing time in Lil Wayne's career only for it to turn into pop joek 101
Surprised no-one has said Hell Hath No Fury to much eye-rolling yet...
Common: The shitty Kanye years was a big waste of money in hindsight. God knows why I bought Finding Forever, I don't think I've even ever listened to it once through.

poop* joek

i was thinking of 'graduation' but i'd still bump that album even tho it's def his weakest

'hell hath' would be a good candidate but people who dig that album stand by it

(on the other hand, those Paul Wall and Slim Thug records/ and get yr mind correct + still tippin' makes that whole scene worth it.)

has someone mentioned arcade fire yet? i'd say 'funeral' is probably at the top of the list of indie albums i dug when i was younger & would never really listen to right now

also: the boy least likely to

HHNF saved by Trill and Wamp Wamp in my memories. Those 2 are so dope that it doesn't really matter that the rest is a bit dull.

another rap album: bun b 'II trill'

I don't feel a lot of shame about much from this decade, compared to the 90's. There's stuff I don't like but it doesn't feel like I invested a lot of time and money in it, compared to the pre-internet days when seeking something out was so much harder to do and there's always a solid plastic object around to remind you of what you though was good at one point.

i definitely have held some goofy unpopular opinions like yo i kinda like lloyd banks better than 50, but the thing is i STILL think those things more or less

Ever look at yr record collection and wonder if you were the only person in the world to buy something? Just noticed I own the second India Arie album.

G Unit were such a waste of potential :( free yayo

i think g-unit pretty much fulfilled their potential

first 50 album, first buck album are great, plus great singles like "on fire" and "so seductive" and "outta contrl (rmx)" and the various pretty good singles off the first g-unit album and subsequent random dope 50 songs

plus the singles off the first game album

I dunno, I remember listening to all them early mixtapes and thinking daaaamn these dudes could be more than... lloyd banks and tony yayo and the game and young buck. Although I guess hip-hop is built on the tears of one time good punchline types.

i don't think any crew has ever fulfilled their potential, with maybe the exception of beanie & freeway, but even roc a fella as some wasted potential

it would be cool to pool various rapper crews of the decade, but i suspect that jay's would walk with it

G-Unit were so ubiquitous in my hometown (of maybe 23000) that the two gangs names themselves G-Unit (graham st.) and P-Unit (putnam st.).

Unfortunately they took it way too seriously and shot my favorite weed man.

Graduation has one bad song, the god-awful track with Chris Martin. Otherwise it's near flawless. Late Registration is Ye's worst record, by far (and even then has a bunch of great tracks).

damn, RIP

i don't think any crew has ever fulfilled their potentia

http://badbeat.la/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/wu-tang-clan-04.gif

I got into the Polyphonic Spree's first album, but did a quick about turn when I went to see them live. I was so enraged by the hippie good vibe feel, and all the wild gyrations in a look-how-into-this-we-are way, that Mrs. Position had to drag me from the venue kicking and screaming, just as I was about to storm the stage and forcibly choke several of them to death by ramming bottles of patchouli oil down their throats. You all would have thanked me if it had happened.

ctrl+f 'junior senior'

just me then huh :-/

Graduation is like 2 great singles and maybe a couple keepers beyond that, fewer songs and no skits seemed like a good idea but really it just made the album feel kind of bare to me

Poll options-

Gucc (ay!)
Jay (is bleek still alive?)
Does all that Swishahouse count? '05 never forget
GOOD music lols
G Unit
d12 LOL
are wu allowed now they all hate each other/rza?
lol british but wiley and co?
timbaland (hey guys, remember magoo? wonder what he's up to?)
neptunes various rappers (roscoe p coldchain had that one dope song once)
this current horrible cash money thing
talking of which, when did cash money v.1 implode?
other

Graduation is like 2 great singles and maybe a couple keepers beyond that, fewer songs and no skits seemed like a good idea but really it just made the album feel kind of bare to me

― sipster cuppies (some dude), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:40 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm -- late registration no doubt has some clunkers but it's sprawl helps in that regard

we've had this exact discussion in the kanye album's poll thread tho

If Graduation and 808 were made an 8 track ep (or just Flashing Lights, Amazing and Cant Tell Me Nothing), it would have been the best thing ever.

I wasn't around then, but fair play. I just think LR is just overblown and indulgent, and songs like "Roses" suck.

yeah but We Major and Drive Slow and Gone and My Way Home and... is it Jay's last great verse on Diamonds? etc.

it is overblown and indulgent, which is why it's kanye's opus

(altho not his best album)

but making an overblown orchestral record with jon brion that has massive highs and a few lows -- i mean, that's kanye -- that's why we love(d) him -- graduation was misguided conceptually

I just see Graduation as the logical extension of the sounds he was playing with on LR, like on "Diamonds" and "Celebration" and "Addiction." Seems like a natural progression to me, cutting out the masturbatory orchestration and shaping it into something concise, er, relatively.

has someone mentioned arcade fire yet?
i wrote a really positive review of their first record ... and I haven't listened to it since.

I see it as a logical extension in that he's always been jumping on current fashions (late registration has ray charles, screwed and chopped, mauroon 5 and graduation has autotune, daft punk samples, chris martin) - i guess i just like the first lot more and they work better together.

speaking of "roses," where are all y'all who once supported THE LOVE BELOW?

that is a good one