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

i listened to that for the first time in like eight years yesterday! it really is, isn't it

they're not really a plain return-of-garage-rock setup though: two drummers and two bassists iirc -- was any of the other stuff good?

i spent 6 months or so thinking i really liked that first Franz Ferdinand album

I think I originally listened to the Fall because of the Franz Ferdy comparisons.

"Ultraglide in Black" is still smokin

^^^seconded. I still love the Dirtbombs. Their singles/covers 2CD comp is also a treasure trove of riches

I still like the Dirtbombs albums I got then as well as the white stripes and the first strokes album.

i think their originals are generally not up to the standard on their covers but that's just imo

standard OF their covers

I still love the Dirtbombs - yeah u can't really hold the lol "keepin it real w/ tru garage rock" thing against the OG Detroit scene.

also sad but true answer, despite the fact that i know and am friends with a bunch of the dudes - Rhymesayers/Doomtree/TC indie hip hop in general

xp - unless you happen to be talking about the Von Bondies - in which case, fire away.

I still like the album I have of theirs too!

I really liked Test Icicles when it was just the demo songs on their myspace, then they put out the album and I just felt embarrassed.

hahaha i am realizing that my last post looks kind of like "ooooh check me out i had drinks at the bar with DJ Abilities" but thats not what im getting at, i kind of do feel bad because they are nice dudes and really believe in what they're doing and whatever and they certainly dont think its bullshit, but i kind of do.

Fleet Foxes iirc

although i will still stan for "White Winter Hymnal"

meh, this isn't that bad actually i guess . . . "He Doesn't Know Why" is ace too O_O

that Fleet Foxes record is really really good, I will stan for it.

von bondies aren't that great...but the dirtbombs are AWESOME! One of the few times I actually have seen live music, in Ann Arbor at the Blind Pig late 2008

all my friends must be punished....

yeah, not as bad as i remember it, actually . . . altho Peck

nold still sounds like a lesser Jim James in places

i thought Beck mightve got a mention or too.

two

If u weren't down w/ Beck's schtick, then you prob would have realized that by 00

Tho Sea Change was way overhyped (even tho it is still p good)

Beck is a 90s phenomenon, not an 00s one

For me, the Microphones.

Sufjan Stevens. And possibly the Hold Steady.

i can see where people might have been progressively less in love with the hold steady as their sound changed through the decade but are people really falling back on their love of the early stuff?

like i could never see myself liking and then not liking "separation sunday"

Separation Sunday has soured big-time for me. I can't play it and not think of the direction they've gone in now, and how Separation Sunday was a pretty effective forecast of that sound.

separation sunday and the first one are still great

when does the LCD Soundsystem backlash start?

the upcoming album i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huv9EOY3p_E

i do like Ultraglide but saw the dirtbombs a couple of times and was really not into it - but so many people swear by the live show i must have caught em on bad nights or something- whatever it was it kind of soured me on em - and I love The Gories and Blacktop a ton

agree Collins is at his best doing covers in all his bands though - and clicheed as it is to say, he does make them his own

I can't play it and not think of the direction they've gone in now

So you can't listen to "Cattle and the Creeping Things" because the new single sounds like Weezer? The piano in the bridge of "Stevie Nix" is inseparable from the piano on "Lord I'm Discouraged"? This makes no sense to me.

i forgot about astrobotnia, but i did have that cd at one point. it also brings to mind some glitch-hop shit like machine drum that i've never listened to since.

and i don't see how anyone can be mad about 'st. anger' (ha), since it gave us 'some kind of monster' which is an immortal classic

entire record is classic!!

So you can't listen to "Cattle and the Creeping Things" because the new single sounds like Weezer?

Doesn't "Cattle" sound a bit like Weezer itself, though?

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.

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can't tell if this is excelsior or bummerz material

kinda lol but mostly sad

mostly sad but kinda lol

I think every single indie band/artist whose CD received an 8.0 or higher in Pitchfork has been mentioned at least once on this thread.

interesting

conspiracy

great point

you can't spell conspiracy without piracy

another great point

you can't spell conspiracy without the prefix con