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

@ Its all about face

Whatever.

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

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.

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.

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+

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

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

i went to see

I Don't Believe People When They Talk About How Great Destroyer, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, M.Ward, & Papa M Are.

fuck joanna newsome and the unicorn she rode in on

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

vivian girls did a lovely second record, i think.

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.

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

i write better songs whilst taking a shit

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.

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

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

boom mic iirc

boom tish (splash)

― A piping hot bowl of grits shits

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

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

you're welcome

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

the decemberists really bring my piss to a boil

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

A piping hot bowl of grits

>:D

One more vote for The Streets. I bought the first album based on the hype, thinking that it was rap music, hated it right from the first listen. I tried to listen to it a few more times, if by some chance I would "get it", but nope. Haven't listened to anything by him ever since, though the first album is still gathering dust somewhere in my apartment. IMO this dude would have a had a better career as a spoken word performer/standup comedian than as a "rapper". His beats were pretty thin and weak too.

There are a couple of Streets tracks that work really, really well (specifically "Don't Mug Yourself" and "Weak Become Heroes") but aside from those two, he hasn't put out a single thing I've ever wanted to hear more than once.

Well yeah, that's why he's like many spoken word artists: it can be cool to listen to his "tunes" once, for the story, but there's no reason to ever relisten to them, because musically there's just nothing interesting enough to come back to.

ha that's way more charitable than I meant; I didn't enjoy most of the tunes the first time

I'd add "Blinded by the lights" to that list, fwiw.

being a teenager in the first half of the decade and listening to loads of pretty bad music with my friends

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

the latter half of the decade where you might buy a bad CD because of bullshit blog hype (e.g my diplo example)

― po-mo da don (tpp), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:40 (Yesterday)

^ this.

i was pretty into the garden state soundtrack when it came out. aside from the "return to rock" kinds of bands (strokes, white stripes, franz ferdinand), i wasn't really exposed to much from the "indie" world, so it kinda blew my mind. at the very least, it helped set the stage for my later tastes. that record is pretty funny to me because i don't listen to any of the bands on it any more save for nick drake.

i'm a bit surprised the blood brothers have been thrown into the "screamo/emo bands" grouping. the first bands i would think of way before the blood brothers would be bands like finch, thursday, thrice or the used. or any band on mtv2 around 03-04.

i'm also surprised at some of the annuals hate. i get that they were overhyped, but they're definitely a solid band.

all this streets talk is interesting to read, so i looked him up to refresh my memory. i had no idea he made two more records after a grand.

I still think the first album was average, a good snapshot of his schtick. The second album, though, I still think is a masterpiece. Don't buy for a second that it's a "spoken word" album, either.

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I played both albums on a long car journey home.

Enjoyed both, but they played like a play, and I had no plans to repeat the 'performance'.

Individual tracks? Sure.

xp I don't think Tuomas was saying that, more that his vocals don't really qualify as either rapping or singing

always been more of a fan of 'a grand don't come for free' wrt the streets tbh, tuomas/hi dere.

eh xp.

i'd agree with 'masterpiece' in fact

I can't even remember the one song off of it I heard but I remember my reaction was "oh, it's like he is skull-fucking 'Stand Up Tall'"

i am listening to the strokes right now and "is this it?" holds up really, really well

oh without question

Gold Teeth Thief

it's not really "bullshit" obv but it's something i never need to hear again

is this it is fab

dudes, you all did this 9 years ago, you don't have to do it again

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Speaking of Blood Brothers, I should dig out Crimes to see how it sounds now. I think I'd still like it.