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

xp yeah well I was trying to be friendly...she was pretty popular around the workplace, and I had to deal with her everyday...

but fuck her anyways, I lent her my Vasleines CD and she NEVER GAVE IT BACK!!! I special-ordered that shit too!!! >:( (I also lent her the third VU album but I don't really care about that so much)

btw a hoy hoy re: DOOM Operation Doomsday & Mr. Hood are both GREAT and I plan someday to listen to every record you talked about...I love DOOM; Madvillainy is my record of the decade, but there's a LOT of stuff on that torrent that I just did not need

I was gonna guess it was a secret santa thing

Another regret from this decade, perhaps just a "Why did I waste so much time...?" thing, is giving the time of day to anything that received JAMC/MBV/etc. comparison in the music press. For every band that's stuck with me (e.g., Black Angels, Raveonettes) I'm sure that I heard a handful of bands that were embarrassingly bad -- Brian Jonestown, Dandy Warhols, BRMC, Warlocks, Editors, post-Bright Lights Interpol, Kills... the list really just goes on. Not that I "fell" for much of this stuff (though I did buy Antics, the first BRMC album, and probably some others I'm forgetting)... I just regret wasting so much time on post-punk/shoegaze "revivalist" music, with very little payoff.

Yknow I always feel that there is at least one Dandy Warhols album that deserves a spot in my record collection...I just haven't figured out which one yet. I'm thinking it's the one with "Cool as Kim Deal" on it...

Bright Eyes is another one I don't rate at all now. I was a huge fan after Lifted and Fevers & Mirrors but I never really got into the albums he put out on the same day, then I totally fell out with him at Glastonbury 2005. He headlined the John Peel Stage, came on off his face acting like he didn't want to be there, insulted John Peel, played a whole set from the Digital Ash album then buggered off.

I know bands are capable of having off nights but I could never listen to him after that without picturing him acting like an annoying little kid.

i really don't think it should be surprising that someone into club music prefers electroclash to bowie and the beatles - it's more incomprehensible to me that anyone wouldn't pick miss kittin over either of them

I dunno Golden Years by Bowie is one of my favourite songs ever...

(of course it reminds me of New Face in Hell, that's why...)

Not at all surprised that's your preference. I'm just surprised you'd write off Beatles, Bowie, etc. as "so shit" even though it's not exactly your cup of tea. Like I said... I've heard enough Beatles in my younger years to last me a lifetime, don't currently own the albums, and so forth... but I'd not write it off as "shit" simply because I have stronger preferences now.

xpost to lex

Really surprised no one has mentioned Tool/A Perfect Circle. I was into these guys until 10,000 Days came out with that magnifying glass 3D depth perception cover... owned the APC albums, saw them a few times in concert. I mean, it's not 100% terrible I guess, but maybe it's the Sigur Ros effect -- their fans are so apeshit about it that now, when I hear the music, it's just, "I actually liked this shit?"

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)

Mer de Noms has a handful of decent songs, but Thirteenth Step is still a solid, solid record imo. i stan for it.

as far as Tool goes, search Lateralus, which is excellent, and a couple songs from Aenima and 10,000 Days (from the latter, specifically search both "Vicarious," both "Wings for Marie" tunes, and "Right In Two, and destroy the rest of it -- fuck bullshit like "Rosetta Stoned" imo)

ok, well, i would! i think they're both actively awful, not just "not my cup of tea". i would have to leave any room they were playing in.

xp

or at least turn them off and put miss kittin on instead.

i also can't follow you guys on Antics, which i still rate (although fucken Our Love To Admire is a songwriting and production disaster), or Bright Eyes circa-2005 (i will still stan for Wide Awake and parts of Digital Ash, specifically "Gold Mind Gutted" and "Easy/Lucky/Free")

ilxor, you're speaking to lex here.

Yes, I've realized this.

fuck bullshit like "Rosetta Stoned" imo

C'mon Maynard, just call it "We Are So Fucking Stoned" and be done with it.

what a fucken silly, bloated mess

what, this thread?

lalz, no. this:

All righty then. Picture this if you will.
10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes,
in my need-to-know post just outside Area 51
Contemplating the whole chosen people thingy when
just then a flaming stealth banana split the sky like one would hope but
never really expect to see in a place like this
Cutting right angle doughnuts on a dime and stopping right at my Birkenstocks
and me yelping... HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Holy fucking shit
Fucking shit
Holy fucking shit
Holy fucking shit
Holy fucking shit...fucking shit...fucking shit

also, the end of the song, where he goes "shiiiiittttt tthhhhheeeeee bedddddddd agaaaaaiiiiin"

i am not making this up y'all

ksh: Listening to latter-day Tool records so we don't have to.

"shiiiiittttt tthhhhheeeeee bedddddddd agaaaaaiiiiin"

just tryin'a save ilx from the pain of ever listening to some of the most O_O shit this side of Brokencyde

if you've been making dumb Scientology references for ten years, stop. just . . . stop

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1384-1/%7B05DD0014-7624-4A1E-93B5-EAC0006C9A6B%7DImg100.jpg

holy fucking shit @ rosetta stoned lyrics.. i can't believe those are real.

http://toolshed.down.net/lyrics/10kdayslyrics.php#08

also i can't believe no one has mentioned screamo/post-hardcore bullshit.. i fell for that hard in the early 00s

And after calming me down
with some orange slices
and some fetal spooning,
E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
He said, "You are the Chosen One,
the One who will deliver the message.
A message of hope for those who choose to hear it
and a warning for those who do not."
Me. The Chosen One?
They chose me!!!
And I didn't even graduate from fuckin' high school.

unforgivable imo

knew someone was gonna mention Blood Brothers eventually - BPIB still bangs obv

i need to relisten to this song just to hear how maynard sings the word 'thingy'

Loving the YouTube comments for "Reflection":

It´s all about the fucking music... you don´t have to know anything about the band, just listen to the beautiful music they made for you...
I listen to Tool because i really LOVE their songs, I don´t even care for Maynard´s private life...
btw: Coke Zero sucks...

lolistening now - he's reciting most of the wacky shit which is buried under their standard math-chug. it would be almost cool if this sounded psychedelic in any way but its exactly like every other Tool song.

The Decemberists, specifically Picaresque O_O

― ksh, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:39 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

this. my god.

blood brothers is a good one!

Comment on the "Vicarious" video:

I cried hysterically watching the baby drown. This band evokes the deepest emotions inside of me.

Sigur Ros version:

I cried hysterically watching the baby drown being born. This band evokes the deepest emotions inside of me.

loooooool

seriously though, listening to "Reflection" now and this is ace. Lateralus holds up

xpost Maynard sounds a little like Weezy on this part, needs more autotune

Strapped down to my bed
Feet cold, eyes red
I'm out of my head
Am I alive? Am I dead?
Can't remember what they said
God damn...SHIT THE BED

xpost i'll rep for blood brothers up until their last album, which i haven't heard. though my opinion might be clouded by nostalgia. i'll have another listen and report back

shiiiiiiittttt theeeeee beeeedddd agaaaaaiiiinn

how does someone come up with that in the studio?

i want a mashup of this and one of the songs from St. Anger

i rage i glaze i hurt i hate i shiiiiiiittttt theeeeee beeeedddd agaaaaaiiiinn

seriously though, listening to "Reflection" now and this is ace. Lateralus holds up

^

"Parabola" -- also ace.

indeed

that's suddenly turned into a hold steady lyric xxp

LJ your answers so far on this thread are disappointing to me.

What, in that I fell for them in the first place, or that I abandoned them? 14 year-old LJ had a big place in his heart for the second Coldplay album*, what can I say

*except for Green Eyes which was always ten tons of High And Dry esque bullshit

you will be the oneee screeaaammiinnnggg ooooouuutt

i shiiiiiiittttt theeeeee beeeedddd agaaaaaiiiinn

Suggestions for LJ:

65DaysOfStatic
Elbow
Late Of The Pier
Melt-Banana
Mew
Mogwai (post-2003 or so)
Oceansize
Max Tundra
Xasthur

groanworthy alt-rap circa 01 vs tryhard neon bullshit mid-decade, take your pick