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

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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It Is Shit

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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

that'd stick it to him

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imna listen to mewtoo

HUGE DRUMS AND GUITARS AND IT IS CATCHY

lol

THATS WHAT SHE SAID

If you take this back to the 90s I have several almost-candidates for this concept; I feel like by the 00s my skepticism finally calibrated correctly to my musical tastes and I started being better able to filter what I was hearing as opposed to making "this is great!" snap judgments followed 3 months later by "... no wait, actually this is horseshit".

Even with that caveat, it's usually a case where I heard one album by an act and loved it, then ran out and bought a second album and went "wtf is this bullshit" and actively avoided them from that moment out (hi dere Cranes, Sky Cries Mary). I think the only album I've ever actually swung from liking to disliking/hating is... Strangeways, Here We Come.

MEW IS A SOUND A KITTY MAKES

Alt-country swallowed up a lot more of my money than it should have. This had something to do with Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera, Neko Case's Blacklisted, and Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot all showing up in my life at about the same time. While I still like those albums a lot (although not without reservations I'm-lookin'-at-you, YHF), I bought a lot of second- and third-tier roots-rock in their wake. A lot of this was honest exploration though - I didn't have a computer back in the early 00s and if I wanted to listen to a CD that I couldn't find used, I'd have to pony up and buy it. Ordinarily, I'm pretty good about just not choosing to like stuff that I don't like, but I held onto some of those records for a while hoping they'd grow on me.

I'd have to say though, in terms of wasted effort and cash, alt-country was my ska-punk of the oughts.

As an aside, am I the only person who thinks every DBT album after that one has been shitty? God, each one of those was such a let-down to me.

Incidentally, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/"reservations" pun entirely unintentional.

dammit, I wanted so much to totally hate Mew but, aside from the truly annoying guitar part, "Introducing Palace Players" is kind of great

so fucking rich of ilxor to 'suggest' bands i've been enthusiastic about for me to hate on

Hey I purposefully stayed clear of Cardiacs, Ulver, the Fall, Neurosis, VDGG, all the stuff I know you truly and deeply fucking adore beyond all coherency. I was trying to suggest the borderline-good acts that time actually does seem to have soured...

then ran out and bought a second album and went "wtf is this bullshit" and actively avoided them from that moment out (hi dere Cranes

DAN YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT CRANES THEY ARE INCREDIBLE

LISTEN TO CRANES

have you actually heard Population Four

can i just say that when Mew "broke" all my lolindie friends were talking about it for weeks, and i thought they were actually talking about μ-Ziq and was like "when did everyone get so hip all of a sudden"? Then i realized it was some shit band.

(xp) because anyone who can maintain enthusiastic fandom in the face of that album is a stronger man than I, and I say this as someone who numbers among his favorite bands the group that did Wild Mood Swings

Hey I purposefully stayed clear of Cardiacs, Ulver, the Fall, Neurosis, VDGG, all the stuff I know you truly and deeply fucking adore beyond all coherency. I was trying to suggest the borderline-good acts that time actually does seem to have soured...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:10 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark

Can't hear you over the sound of DANISH MELODRAMA

(and hey that's my LEAST favourite of the bands you mentioned...christ alive how can Late Of The Pier have soured already? They're younger than me!)

μ-Ziq is so hip

christ alive how can Late Of The Pier have soured already? They're younger than me!

oh man this zing bait is too easy gotta let it drift

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uh, way hipper than some major label third-generation Elbow clowns, yes.

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