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

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.).

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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

you cant spell piracy without AC

air conditioning=invented by Thomas Edison, who formed the first version of the band, Vampire Weekend

who did so purely to spite his former employee Nikola Tesla, of the band of the same name

AC=short for Animal Collective, the band founded by George Washington, Iggy Pop, and George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver=invented Pitchfork. Years later, a website with the same name was started by a young group of Scientologists/Ayn Rand fans

invented THE pitchfork

you can't spell pitchfork without at least some rudimentary training in literacy and word formation

so that means you can write for pitchfork without being able to spell it

You can't talk about Pfork on ILX without at least some rudimentary snarking from Mr. Que and the peanut gallery.

In tool's defense, "rosetta stoned" is clearly one of their joke songs..

And good call re: blood brothers

I don't have any huge regrets either from the 00s, but I figured this thread has more to do with songs/artists/albums we enjoyed initially which we eventually grew out of..

I'm perfectly comfortable with great albums by bands who then sucked. It's nature's way. Separation Sunday is not soured by what came after.

i didn't hear the Blood Brothers until the very end of the decade and was like damn i've been missing out

There's plenty of stuff I liked at the time but have no time for now which I don't really regret 'cos I got something out of it - on the other hand there were a couple of things that led me down total blind alleys, e.g. liking Of Montreal and Circulatory System so much that I ended up wasting time and money on Ladybug Transistor and Great Lakes CDs (not to mention THREE Apples In Stereo albums). Or thinking, "Wow, The Cold Vein is really good, therefore I'm sure 'Def Jux Presents: Vol. 3' is worth my £13".

So I guess the bullshit I was falling for was the idea of greatness by association...

Unlike most people on this thread, I fell for Of Montreal back in their Gay Parade, Coquelicot, Aldhil's twee-psych days, then I kind of burned out of them and so ignored them during the Hissing Fauna electro-pop period that everyone else seemed to fall for. I guess both periods of the band have some redeeming qualities. I don't listen to Fiery Furnaces as much as I used to, but I still occasionally play Widow City - I think that one holds up pretty well. I don't dislike the others, except for Blueberry Boat, which I never got into that much. I still like the Hold Steady, but I haven't listened to anything past Boys and Girls in America.

I fell for ...Trail of Dead back in their 2001-04 era, before they went prog/shit. But I'm from Austin, their hometown. I like to think that's a fair excuse. That's probably half delusional, though.

Same goes for Explosions in the Sky, come to think of it...

def fooled myself about source tags and codes for a while, but i will rep for madonna

first 3 albums are great but the rest is embarrassing rubbish

Aimee Mann
Wilco
Jens Lekman

I also listened to Felix da Housecat records way more than they deserved, altho I never fully fell for them.

"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?"

It's not as if the excesses and poor choices of their later material were totally absent from Separation Sunday--now they are just easier to hear. "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" is still amazing, though.

Art Brut loooool

Wolf Parade loooool

parts of Apologies is still good tho