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

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― 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

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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

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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

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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.

It IS Shit though. Strokes were the worst.

Wolfmother and The Vines were the worst

guys guys cant we all get along and just agree that all three of those bands were absolutely terrible

that is a newsletter to which I wholeheartedly subscribe

god, the vines.

the singer from the vines had all these column inches in the nme and shit pouring over his wild rock'n'roll behaviour and then it just turned out he had aspergers.

also remember reading that they started out being a nirvana tribute band and being like "started out?"

i only put something on if i feel like i will enjoy it, so a lot of the stuff i've enjoyed in the past but might consider bullshit now, i just haven't listened to in years. i don't really feel any need to confirm my suspicion that i will no longer enjoy something, i'd rather just look back on the time that i enjoyed it fondly and leave the cds in the closet collecting dust until i take it out much later on for nostalgia or to give them to my little brother or until it for some reason seems appealing again. but then again, if i'd ever gotten into the vines i might need to call bullshit on that.

i was thinking of posting a huge screed about how uncharitable and dislikable this thread was but y'know what's the point

this thread was good when ppl were following the original intent but now it's just kind of rehashing arguments abt shit from the early 2000s so

to rehash, the strokes' first two albums are quite good, they're a little more interesting than common or garden revivalists because they combined various august nyc types 67-82 ish in an uncanny way that's never quite reducible to any of them, naturally without being a fraction as good as television or w/e but that's beside the point isn't it

i really dont want to get into a debate about the strokes so i am just sticking with my simple "totally fucking dreadful" position which i refuse to back up with facts and charts and figures

THE STROKES SUCK AND I HAVE PROVED IT TAKE OUT YOUR PENCILS

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i used to like cursive and now listening to them makes me hate myself

the strokes' first album is one of the only huge rock albums of the last ages that i don't despise so thumbs up to them for that.

people who are not aware that the strokes suck should maybe check through their work and see if they forgot to carry a 2 or something

thomp that's of course true but people can be neurotic stockpickers anxiously trying to hoard or cut losses on their former enthusiasms so it's fun to see these often neglected personal histories of spite

so fucking rich of ilxor to 'suggest' bands i've been enthusiastic about for me to hate on - fuck it, i might listen to Mew right now