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

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:

http://www.cluas.com/images/music/album/clap-your-hands-say-yeah.jpg

that's a solid record

OMG how could I forget that one? I did fall for that one.

"Home On Ice," "Over and Over Again," and "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood" are all excellent

i'm sure the rest hold up well enough, too. good record, and the production is ace

can't think of anything i really regret, still love dizzee and bejar and never got into lots of hyped indie stuff. if anything I wish I had checked more stuff out - my taste has def become more limited as I've gotten older.

One of my first posts on ILM was about how now can seriously like Wolf Eyes -- they had to be putting somebody on, right? It was the first entry in my "saying things that will make me hated" series.

And I don't have too many regrets over what I've liked. There are probably a few bands from circa 2004 (Franz Ferdinand comes to mind) that I championed, and looking back the music wasn't that good, but I'm not shedding tears.

the second CYHSY on the other hand actually makes me angry to think about

i don't even know if i ever heard the whole thing, but the first, deliberately-distorted track is really great, and the rest . . . totally unmemorable

Are FNM and Bungle nu-metal? If so, them.

― Davek (davek_00)

we are talking about the 00s here, not just things you regret. neither of those bands released a record in the past decade.

i fall in to the decemberist & sufjan camps as well. i still like sufjan's work, but i think a lot of my interest in him dwindled after he failed to deliver a timely follow-up.

i regret liking coldplay. i really, really wanted to like them, but they never delivered on what i thought was great potential.

i bought an audiovent album. that's pretty regrettable.

i regret owning a thursday cd

had dalliance w/ that kitsune sound for a while there. the good bits are still pretty good! the bad bits are 95% of the catalog.

as a child of britpop i got most of my getting swindled out of the way during 95-99.

In the future we should take bets on which trending indie bands and mini-genres will be called "bullshit" seven to ten years later.

chillwave, but it was more like seven to ten minutes after the first track was released

"this whole paisley underground rap movement...it's all bullshit, Larry. Get out while you can."

were the beta band bullshit? i haven't listened to them since they got called the tampa bay buccaneers of rock

source tags and codes was not bullshit, musically speaking, but that album title was

source tags and codes is some comp sci madlib shit

HTML mouse and Wikipedia was their other working title iirc

Track 3 was great but the rest, not so much. It always seemed like they were trying way too hard to just really go for it man!!!!!