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

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.

ppl rep for raveonettes a lot i think

I was kinda curious as to how well A.R.E. Weapons would still hold up, but as soon as the line "Fuck you! Pay Me!" popped into my head I realized they're still worth it.
xp ps-raveonettes are still pretty good

some dude otm

i still like wolf parade pretty much

raveonettes are great! just awesome JSMC and motown rips!

xpost to cad

ok, cool.

i'm just going through iTunes's "Alterna-pop" "iTunes Essentials" playlist, and i've passed over a lot of this stuff

yeah sometimes it's good reviews/good buzz. a lot of times it's something that SEEMS like it should really appeal to me but then later on i realize it just isn't that good.

like i never got to this stage with something like fleet foxes but reading about that record made me think i would really like it.

xpost to some dude

i think for me a lot of the past decade, and even still now, really, has been spent listening to tons of stuff to figure out what "my taste" is, so i've definitely downloaded & bought tons of stuff based on hype, some of which i've liked and some of which i haven't

This thread is for shit where you were like "this is some this pla

The Raveonettes?

Love these guys. Their recent two albums are their best. They keep getting better. Seeing them Friday of next week. Excited. First class band.

whoops

listening to tons of stuff to figure out what "my taste" is

What's your conclusion? What is "your taste," per se?

This thread is for stuff where you were like 'this is some this place chicken!' but now you're all 'man, this is some house chicken'.

totally

I WANT THIS PLACE CHICKEN

mostly noisier indie rock, metal, and also some chartpop & popular rap

xpost to ilxor

how about you?

It's hard to "define" taste without firing off genre names, as you demonstrated...

it's not, really

yeah, it is difficult.

almost forgot, but i would also throw tons of other stuff that falls under the "indie" banner but isn't necessarily noisy to my list too

i don't even like to talk about this kind of thing because i'm afraid of coming off like some haughty "I AM IMMUNE TO YOUR 'MEDIA HYPE'" type jerk, but really even though i know in the download era i know how this is how a lot of people process and learn about music, i don't really get it. it's so much fun to kind of find out about artists through cheesy old school ways like side projects, opening acts, random things you hear in friends' cars or at shows they take you to, the idea of just reading a name a bunch of times and then deciding to go add it to a download queue is such a bummer to me.

no, i agree. most of the music i love, i've been turned onto by the old fashioned method of someone playing it for me at their house, in the car, etc,