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

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I wouldn't call Iron+Wine dangerous, but inoffensive isn't really his shtick. More like pensive spiritual.

Mordy, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

(or something.)

Mordy, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

he should have marketed himself as the easy-listening roscoe holcomb

ogmor, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

I bought the first Mars Volta album *and* the first Iron and Whine (lolz) album, how about that?!

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

Sold both the following year, fwiw.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

i like the first iron and wine record too for real

69, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:33 (sixteen years ago)

i used to have that sub pop singles club 7" that was like $100 too (/ILV)

69, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

i actually might like the last i & w disc second-best (behind the debut). his lyrics aren't as sharp as they once were, but the arrangements are killer. there's a straight-up highlife song on it!

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

anyway, debut disc was a stunner.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

(quiet is the new loud, you may have heard)

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

dog is the new cat

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

up is the new down

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

i actually might like the last i & w disc second-best (behind the debut). his lyrics aren't as sharp as they once were, but the arrangements are killer. there's a straight-up highlife song on it!
yeah, see, I totally support the dude going in different directions in terms of sound/production/etc. But that first album was just sooooo good, that it'd be hard to top it.

tylerw, Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

no argument from me. one of my favorite discs of my favorite decade of music.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

(well, this or the 80s)

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

this is yr fave from the 80s tho right
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/06974b6f503edf79080f1a21c143cd59/27950.jpg

tylerw, Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

disc is so good it's my favorite from the 80s, the 90s . . . and today.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:44 (sixteen years ago)

creek drank the cradle is one of the most unpretentious bro writin' songs albums i can think of; impossible to imagine it falling into the "bullshit" category

call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

Mew - finally! a good suggestion! although again, some of their stuff still rocks

:( Last two albums are still favourites for me.

Sundar, Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

Our Endless Numbered Days is actually my fave by him, but yeah -- all his stuff is incredible.

Mordy, Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

but lol @ anyone who fell for Sigur Ros. whadda crock of shit

― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:15 PM (2 days ago)

http://www.aprilfish.net/?p=990

k3vin k., Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:02 (sixteen years ago)

From CCRU/k punk to SR/teh ardkore nuum to kode9/hyperdub and i'd even throw blackdown and greivous angel on the pyre as well...

...take away the hype and musically they're pretty much running on empty

beat boy damager, power 2 the people (Its all about face), Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:42 (sixteen years ago)

I'm going to give Endless Numbered Days a good listen. I don't think I ever gave it enough of a chance.

Benjamin-, Thursday, 15 April 2010 07:29 (sixteen years ago)

@ Its all about face

Whatever.

I think the Hyperdub label is plenty of evidence that there is some great music going on in there.

babylon sister (Siah Alan), Thursday, 15 April 2010 07:53 (sixteen years ago)

Like what Siah Alan ?...not kode9's own stuff, not zomby, not cooly g and not ikonika. King midas sound has got some ok bits as late nite stoner lullabies.

I fell for the ethos in the beginning with sinodub and kode'9's early skippy garage stuff showing some promise but the whole spaceape era was truly dreadful and then to turn around and piss all over mainstream dubstep on the whole was bullshit. In as much as Burial captured the zeitgeist of post 9/11 electronica it was stil boring as all hell emostep and like loefah's halfstep, he painted himself into a corner he now can't get out of...IMHO

If hyperdub is chronicling anything, its the decline of innovative, relevent UK bass music and the ubiquity of self indulgent music for old farts to stroke thier chins to and still feel like they've got anything relevant to say about music. Sure, your opinions will differ but i'm past the hyperstition. Feel free to convince me otherwise though.

beat boy damager, power 2 the people (Its all about face), Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

Mew - finally! a good suggestion! although again, some of their stuff still rocks

:( Last two albums are still favourites for me.

― Sundar, Thursday, 15 April 2010 03:01 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

They're very good live; plenty of their songs are catchy and powerful, especially at the tail-end of Glass Handed Kites; they never topped 'Am I Wry? No'; their music frequently sounds a bit...clean? Airbrushed where it could be knotty or abrasive. Hence, they sound like they're trying to be more populist and ^crassly* anthemic than their songwriting indicates they should be.

Nonetheless, I retain an open mind to them. Just saying I don't <3 them quite as much as before.

maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:02 (sixteen years ago)

but lol @ anyone who fell for Sigur Ros. whadda crock of shit

― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:15 PM (2 days ago)

http://www.aprilfish.net/?p=990

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:02 AM (7 hours ago)

A+

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:17 (sixteen years ago)

167)Jónsi/Go: Sigur Rós guitar-bower embraces happy, shiny indie-pop; completely over-reads The Books in the process.#4.5

167)Jónsi/Go: "YOU SAY LOOOOOOOOO" "omg i'm crying" #9.5

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

during the 00s i went autechre, shitmat, modeselektor, andy c (lol?), squarepusher, venetian snares etc. would not repeat.

404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

i went to see

404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:24 (sixteen years ago)

fuck joanna newsome and the unicorn she rode in on

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

oh and the vivian girls. what a shitty band. all the charm of a sarah records band, none of the hooks.

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:33 (sixteen years ago)

vivian girls did a lovely second record, i think.

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:39 (sixteen years ago)

heh oh wait this is supposed to be things i DID fall for? i fell for no such bullshit. everything i like rules.

also vivan girls 2nd album is a slightly less reverby rehash of their first record. oh also times new viking: shit band.

basically any of that lofi horseshit that pumps up the reverb to the max in order to cover up the fact that they suck.

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

times new viking has great tunes you can sing along to without all the static, they rule.

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:47 (sixteen years ago)

i write better songs whilst taking a shit

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:47 (sixteen years ago)

you should share them with the world--fyi please try to wipe away all the poop noises when you record those songs, not a big fan over here.

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:49 (sixteen years ago)

but lol @ anyone who fell for Sigur Ros. whadda crock of shit

― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:15 PM (2 days ago)

http://www.aprilfish.net/?p=990

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:02 AM (7 hours ago)

Whoop de fuckin' do

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:49 (sixteen years ago)

crank up the reverb and my BMs could be the Next Big Thing. how would i mic a toilet though?...

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

boom mic iirc

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

boom tish (splash)

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:53 (sixteen years ago)

― A piping hot bowl of grits shits

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:58 (sixteen years ago)

if there's one thing the board has been light on recently, it's poop talk

don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:02 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it's weird, but poop talk just kinda dropped onto the boards outta nowhere

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

you're welcome

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

hey want to tell us about more bands you don't like?

call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:06 (sixteen years ago)

the decemberists really bring my piss to a boil

A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

Looking back, what's the biggest piping hot bowl of shit, musically speaking, that you fell for in the 00s

█▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

A piping hot bowl of grits

Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:13 (sixteen years ago)


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