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

hissing fauna is a damn classic, you fucks

the one after that is a mess tho

An overrated classic, yes

Only thing I regret is placing Aly + AJ's Insomniatic in the #1 spot on my J+P ballot in 2007. And I don't hate the album, but I definitely overrated it that year (which I blame on the now extinct teenpop cru who made me see beauty in the album and then left me holding only sad regrets).

all i had to do was wait until the supermarket had soup on sale and now i have a full set of drums thanks to Lars's basic insight into the true nature of the snare drum

Also to person who regrets owning Thursday album: U suck I hate u.

hissing fauna is a damn classic, you fucks

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:12 AM

classic if you ignore the second half, sans the final track

treads a thin line between great and totally fucking cloying

"standing at a Swedish festival, discussing Story of the Eye"

stfu

overwrought Jeff Buckleyness

she's a rejector is one of the best songs on the album!

NOOOOOO

some publication, i think it was P4k, was talking to Barnes abt instruments and he said he loved his Rickenbacker bass which is OTM b/c the bass tone on Hissing Fauna is killer

i really hated the hubcap snare of st anger, but when lars explained it as "expressionist" because he really loved expressionist art, i kind of thought it was a pretty amazing and ballsy move tbh

i really hated the hubcap snare of st anger, but when lars explained it as "expressionist" because he really loved expressionist art, i kind of thought it was a pretty amazing and ballsy move tbh

― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten)

there's no way he actually said that

i think it's more like, Bob Rock doesn't know how to get a decent fukken drum sound out of Metallica w/o making it sound like the drums on Black Album

varient question: ever fallen for huge bullshit and known it was bullshit while you were falling for it, but fell anyway?

I thought LArs snare sound was more Basquiat tbh

i love Metallica, but James's "aaaaaaaccccccccccchhhhhkkkkkk!" in "Invisible Kid" is totally priceless

j0rdan & k3v otm, Hissing Fauna is unimpeachable. the follow-up yeah not so much.

hissing fauna is the one of montreal album from satanic panic on that i ever listen to. some great stuff on there.

of montreal h8 is making me ;_;

― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:06 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

you not alone, bro. kind of weird b/c i can see the hype machine re: burial, dizzee, (britishes + blogs, what can ya do)... but of montreal, kinda don't get how you could feel tricked or fooled. but then the whole concept of being embarrassed by what you like(d) is for gaywads.

hey guys -- in the interest of this thread, i'll now link to reviews of indie rock albums that i wrote in my freshman year of college that will probably embarrass me if i read them again

http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2006/10/3/decemberists-deliver-career-high/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2006/10/6/beach-house-delivers-serene-masterpiece/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2006/10/24/annuals-release-stellar-debut/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2006/11/8/blow-creates-simple-indie-minimalism/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2007/2/20/joanna-newsom-ys/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2007/3/20/bird-s-latest-album-just-good-his-last-one/

(with the joanna newsom one, i stayed up all night writing 4 600 word reviews, one of which was menomena & the other of which was fujiya & miyagi, so i think convinced myself that the album is actually good)

haha just those urls are pretty lol

yeah, i mean, i'd like to note that i had no input on headlines

"Bird's latest album just as good as his last one" lol

btw, i hate that the internet stores all of my bad writing, wish i had used a different name

there's a good chance that i never even listened to that annuals album all the way through including in the time that i wrote the review

oh hey my school

word?

i mean i graduated two years ago, but yeah. didn't work for the maneater though, just vox.

i still rep for hell hath no fury definitely. i much prefer it to the re-up gang mixtapes people raved and raved about.

i don't really get regret w.r.t music tho really. when i was tween we listened to nu-metal, black+death metal, hardcore punk, emo + rap and now i just find anything that was corny really hilarious and it brings back loads of memories. as a teenager its easy to convince yourself that stuff is good when its not...kind of miss those days tbh.

being a teenager in the first half of the decade and listening to loads of pretty bad music with my friends

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

the latter half of the decade where you might buy a bad CD because of bullshit blog hype (e.g my diplo example)

when i went off to university i was mostly still listening to rap exclusively and then when i realised my friends who stayed in london or went to university in 'cooler' cities were all listening to blog house, minimal house or terrrrrible ed banger bullshit i tried to read kewl blogs and bought a few cds to try to catch up. never really got into any of it tho beyond some of the mimimal stuff which i still love.

i got quite into 'the black album' (jay) which now i find pretty awful but i was still listening to the blueprint loads at the time which is so classic so i guess its all about perspective

The answer is: my own writing.

getting yourself totally obsessed with a particular artist and convincing themselves that their weaker albums are just as strong as their classic stuff i think it hilarious and quite cute

trying to force yourself to like stuff because of hype or feeling like you should be into what other ppl are into - this is what i feel is my 'bullshit, musically speaking'

But when it comes to music, there's nothing I regret. No regret, no remorse. Fuck that shit.

the biggest bullshit i fell for in the 00s was when i first got to university in 00/01, having never really been aware of...the music press, the "canon" &c, and basically getting fooled into thinking it was important. spent about 8 months wasting time and money on trying to get into eg the beatles, bowie, rolling stones, dylan...it was all so, so shit.

i have no regrets about any of the music made in the 00s that i enjoyed. certainly not electroclash, that got me into clubbing for the first time! actually, maybe the streets, though that's just a classic case of subsequent material making the debut album seem a lot worse in retrospect.

i kind of regret ever defining myself as a pop fan - particularly UK pop.

find it so depressing to see ppl mentioning grime on this thread

source tags and codes is some comp sci madlib shit

― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 05:27 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You don't mean this the way I hope you mean this, do you? Cos if you did it would be a fucking awesome record I have to check out right away.

Also xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost- check out those MF Doom records! Operation Doomsday, Viktor Vaughn, both KMD records and Madvillainy are PERFECT. The others, even Special Herbs and Spices + VV2 have good stuff on them. It's pretty much the best career of the past decade.

Black Album could have been so great but it wasn't.

Skeletal Lamping >>>>>>>>> Hissing Fauna although I get that it is a bit of a Speed Racer headache inducing type record.

What is wrong with UK pop lex? Or do you just mean current associations? In the middle of the decade it was terrific.

i truly loved grime + to this day feel frustrated with what happened to that scene. like do ppl listen to it back now and think its just bad or is it a case of "i'd followed the blogs and was into this new genre all ready for it to blow up and then it didn't what a load of bullshit" like the music only exists to serve your personal brand or whatever.

yeah, the mid-00s were great, but i think that was more of a blip - in the main i don't like that cheap, amateur aesthetic that tends to code britishness, but in terms of a stance to take rather than just music to rep for (or not), i don't think i realised then just how antithetical to my actual taste the popjustice aesthetic (and the pop blogs that orbit it) was/continues to be, i find it embarrassing that my taste could ever have been linked to it.

the only people who'd be embarrassed about liking grime are those who never really liked it in the first place. grime was one of the absolute best things about the 00s.

Only thing I didn't like about grime is that it stopped people paying attention to some ukhh records that were better than anything grime ever did

*cough*
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/B000KB6D8W.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V45794486_.jpg
*cough go listen to this, one of the best ten rap records of the decade*

i owned that once!!! i think i liked it. it got lost in some house move sometime :(

the biggest bullshit i fell for in the 00s was when i first got to university in 00/01, having never really been aware of...the music press, the "canon" &c, and basically getting fooled into thinking it was important. spent about 8 months wasting time and money on trying to get into eg the beatles, bowie, rolling stones, dylan...it was all so, so shit.

I went through this, but I honestly think it's necessary to become the person you are now. (semi-lol) So, no, I don't regret listening to the Eagles. Nor Beatles (even though I knew I wouldn't really get into them.) That way I wouldn't have discovered early Stones, Fleetwood Mac,...

Like a few on this thread, I'm having trouble thinking of stuff I truly regret falling for. If anything there are a lot of bands and releases that I've over-listened to, or just don't feel as relevant today as they did back then.

I have little inclination to listen to Aphex Twin any more, but that might be because his output has been sparse these last few years, and his schtick has become less appealing or interesting as a result. By comparison I've totally rekindled my love for Autechre after Oversteps. There is an awful lot of zingy late-period IDM like Kid606, Astrobotnia and Cex etc who were pretty dire, but then I never really bought into those.

There's an awful lot of dance stuff I won't really put on, but that's because dance is by nature disposable - things that once were anthems can get outdated extremely quickly as new stuff comes in, hence why I'd only really want to put on a microhouse comp for nostalgic reasons.

Other things that looked like they were going to rule but somehow ended up sucking a bit include Sigur Ros (first EP and most of the first album were great - the rest a snooze), GYBE! (one-trick poneys, got old fast), Devendra Banhart (really sad he turned out to be some egocentric flower-yipster instead of the 67-year old Havana-smoking cajun grandma I'd assumed him to be).

"But when it comes to music, there's nothing I regret. No regret, no remorse. Fuck that shit."
aside from this statement I don't understand this thread. I don't regret or have remorse liking anything, even if I don't listen to much more. Is this just music I used to think was cool and now I found something else that's cool? Are most people posting on this thread below 30. Not a jab at anyone, just wondering.

This thread is A+ and I love you all. I don't have musical regrets. If I like something I like it and that's that. I do, however, have a hard time justifying buying the Vines CD and seeing them live. More than once iirc.