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

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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

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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

that is more the sense in which i registered disappointment, yup xp

65DaysOfStatic - still fucking great, fth
Elbow - first three records are still very good, although I don't listen to them so much now and can understand the criticism
Late Of The Pier - jesus dude these guys are AWESOME and will get AWESOMER
Melt-Banana - WAHT, suggest fucking ban if you carry on like this
Mew - finally! a good suggestion! although again, some of their stuff still rocks
Mogwai (post-2003 or so) - never fell for Mogwai post-Happy Songs that much tbh
Oceansize - nope, still awesome
Max Tundra - nope, still awesome
Xasthur - nope, still oh cmon stop trollin' me

Mew is about as close as you'll get to an admission of culpability

max tundra = shite

actually my definitive answer here is destroyer's rubies

I still cringe with embarrassment after bragging to my friends that I had inside knowledge that it was going to get a pfork 10.0 thanks to getting duped by that ilm thread

:(

Was just hoping you'd show up, Herman.

What's your answer?

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white rose movement too, was all excited that I was into a band's single before that single got a 5 star review from pfork, thus validating my ahead of the curve hipster taste

i actually bought a copy of the first coldplay album because i read somewhere that it sounded like the chameleons and talk talk! talk about a bum tip! this is why i stayed away from that other band that got compared to talk talk. the one with the singer who sounds like peter gabriel. i'm blanking on their name...

um elbow maybe :D

cast Destroyer's Rubies into the flames, trust dyao he had his reasons

suprised not to see the darkness in this thread

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i shiiiiiiittttt theeeeee beeeedddd agaaaaaiiiinn

I'm gonna get shit for this but kanye west - graduation. still can't see why it's his definitive album. 808 and heartbreaks much better imo

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Was just hoping you'd show up, Herman.

What's your answer?

i agree with whoever it was said that this thread is full of people who bought cds by bands who were hip and now they're not hip anymore they dont like them. (not in all cases though, but otherwise it does smack of that)

Yes that's mostly true but you're avoiding the question.

What's *your* answer?

I'm gonna get shit for this but kanye west - graduation. still can't see why it's his definitive album. 808 and heartbreaks much better imo

― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't think anyone wouldn't argue that The College Dropout is his definitive album

haha I just read through this thread and was surprised at all the revisionist history going on. definitely remember a large number of people itt and on this board stanning for graduation as album of the year when it came out

oh and its not the arcade fire, i still like their albums. So I cant think of anything I've bought that I regret. After buying the 2nd last Suede album (which was shit) with the internet making hearing things easy, i vowed not to buy so much stuff blind based on reviews. I d/l the last Suede album, it was even worse so I didn't buy it.
Im sure there's stuff I bought i might not play much of (i do like to get all albums by a band/act if i like something by them) but I honestly cant think of anything i really hate and regret buying offhand. If i do, I'll be sure to let you know.

i like graduation a lot. i even like the chris martin song.

i dont listen to a perfect circle anymore so that's as close as i can get. Will that do ,ilxor?

Still love Tool though, always have since the 1st ep came out.

Herman, you like the Arcade Fire?? O_o

That's not very metal of you.

as the metal thread regulars delight in telling me, i'm not very metal.

I also have embarrassing memories of trying to pitch the last twista album to the college rag I wrote for. also that prodigy comeback album

i definitely bought some stuff cuzza ilm love that i didn't like or listen to but i wouldn't call any of it bullshit. just wasn't my kinda thing. junior senior, dizzee, wiley, some other stuff. and all of that is totally outweighed by the stuff i bought that i DID really like. all that kompakt stuff. i rilly rilly rilly liked that stuff right off the bat. and it still sounds great to me.

I was the only person to vote for Graduation as the #1 album in the ILX poll that year and even I wouldn't argue it as his definitive album, even if it's my personal favorite.

Otoh, 808s and Heartbreak sucks dog balls.

kind of want to start a companion thread to this - musical trends & bands of the 00's you underrated at the time

Not to sound all 'I don't even own a TV', but I've found that my musical regret is inversely proportionate to how much attention I pay to musical press and reviews. I'm pretty out of the musical loop these days, but I'm much less likely to get hornswaggled by ecstatic blog blurbs about the genius of an artist who's been around for two weeks.

So most of my bullshit was from the earlier part of the decade. I was mildly obsessed with everything put out by Tigerbeat 6, Troubleman, Gold Standard Labs... Some good stuff, but not all good stuff. Also, that slew of early '00s bands vaguely influenced by Gang of Four.

hey I'm late coming back in here but I just wanted to note that the Mego stuff I was pointing my finger at before was really just the Evol CD, Ohne, and the Francisco Lopez LP (which still put me off the label when I got them all within 2 years). I could probably accuse Sahko and Mille Plateaux of burning me more often back in the early 00's.

also, Gold Standard Labs reminds me that I fell for !!! even up to the 3rd album, that was some bullshit.

I was the only person to vote for Graduation as the #1 album in the ILX poll that year and even I wouldn't argue it as his definitive album, even if it's my personal favorite.

This, for example, is one that I'm glad I listened to after the hype had died down some. It's not awful, but it's definitely a major drop after two stone-cold classic albums.

kind of want to start a companion thread to this - musical trends & bands of the 00's you underrated at the time

― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:39 AM (3 minutes ago)

plz do

plz don't

mark grout started that one earlier, kinda

link?

oh yeah just put on robyn and while it's still really good, doesn't seem to be as anthemic and mindblowing now as it seemed at the time.

OK, Looking back, what's the biggest Not-bullshit, musically speaking, that you didn't fall for in the 00s but then found you were wrong, and so did, in the 10's?

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What's with the "real naming" biz, hmm?

The Hold Steady / Lifter Puller. Seemed awesome at the time but now it is unlistenable. For some reason Finn's lyrics just embarass me.

On a broader note, anything that was lyric heavy in the early part of the decade. When you hear the same words over and over, it just seems to become less meaningful on each listen. (if it ever was)