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

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

i am now ashamed of the 16 miley cyrus posters lining my kitchen wall.

i really tried to get into arcade fire, and i loved Laika--still do, in fact--but everyitme i'd put their album on i would listen up to power out, and fifteen seconds into it, i'd take it off again...i dont know what it was...

This thread in five years: Joanna Newsome, Dan Deacon, Vivian Girls, Kurt Vile, etc

I'm just sayin' this thread pretty much sums up the short shelf life of 'indie' - not because the music suddenly starts to suck or something (even though the music of three of the four examples above could be used for interrogation purposes round my house), but because yall are fickle and ungrateful and this is why bands getting Best New Music reviews on Pitchfork are still working at Barnes and Noble.

Enjoy your binary code, you spoiled brats.

you are retarded

I think I now regret putting Speakerboxxx/Love Below as my album of the year, but it would still be top five. Mostly for Big Boi's disc though.

But I do still kinda like TLB.

i dont really have too many regrets thus far actually...same indie crap i liked 5 years ago i still like a lot now even though i dont listen to them quite as much as I used to...

i fell pretty hard for Corrosion of Conformity's In the Arms of God, and that turned out to be kind of a mistake...

I d/l'd a bunch of MF Doom bootlegs I still have yet to listen to...

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

me me me! went through a musical housecleaning recently that included the selling of lots of wolf eyes & related stuff, but i found that i still love slicer/dread/dead hills/burned mind era WE to death. great stuff that kinda got lost in the noise glut.

The Neptunes

contenderizer otm, pretty glad I stopped following Wolf Eyes after that era

has someone mentioned arcade fire yet?

No, because nobody fucking liked Arcade Fire in the first place!! Except for that idiot at Pitchfork of course. Sure, people may have "tried to get into it," but that was it. Same goes for Hercules and Love Affair and the Junior Boys.

snrub you're being an idiot

I didn't get into wolf eyes until last year

& I don't see what's wrong with it!

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

― cupcake 24/7 (Tape Store), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Still supportin'.

man

loooool Snrub

i still stan for Neon Bible & So This Is Goodbye

have never heard Last Exit, and Begone Dull Care was trash tho

Destroyer

ksh you need to hear Last Exit right away, so much better than STIG

ok! i have added it to my increasingly long list of stuff i need to listen to. thanking u

All y'all talkin' bout indie stuff and no mention of:

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