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

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.

― Captain Ahab, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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

looking through the iTunes store . . . do people listen to bands like Rogue Wave & Stars? real question

Shout Out Louds?

Rogue Wave's stuff is all over TV, so yes

so like how much of ur personality do u think uv disowned bc of ilx ksh srs q.

lol

he has changed since ilx got to him but not as much as kevin k

plaxico: my tastes have definitely shifted b/c of ilx, but i could give you a long list of indie i will still stan for. let me go get my list of albums i've loved that i started making at the end of the decade

http://www.866attylaw.com/images/burn-classification.jpg

let me go get my list of albums i've loved that i started making at the end of the decade

please don't

there's so much indie i still love y'all, but this is thread for stuff you don't love anymore

so like how much of ur personality do u think uv disowned bc of ilx ksh srs q.

― plax (ico), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:44 PM (3 minutes ago)

am curious exactly what u mean by this tho

but ksh if you love something, set it free
if it comes back it's yours
if it doesn't, write a shitty song about it and throw it up on myspace

stars were pretty amazing at one point

Shout Out Louds?

― ksh, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

good first album iirc

yeah, just sincerely asking b/c i know ppl who are into those bands but i've never heard much of their music

Cold War Kids? The Raveonettes? Silversun Pickups? Datarock? The Kooks?

curious: are the records you guys have remorse about checking out/being excited about now things that you just kinda downloaded because of a good review or a lot of word-of-mouth excitement or something? because i've always resisted putting my time into listening to stuff just because of buzz or critical acclaim -- like if i'm given reason to think it specifically speaks to my taste i'll go for it, but vague "this is the best rock album of the year" kinda talk alone never compels me to listen to a record. i feel like i'm kind of alone in that regard, though.