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

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

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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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ultra-hip late 90s astralwerks "electronica" acts

have you actually heard Population Four

Yes, it's an abomination and an affront to my ears. Wild Mood Swings is an apt comparison. The difference is, I purposefully didn't pick up Pop4 until after a couple years of digesting and falling hard for Forever, Loved, Wings of Joy, Future Songs and 3-4 of the early EPs. Oh, and I bought it in a clearance bin for $.99 and had extremely low expectations (which, yes, were "met"). It's all in how you approach these things!

HOW CAN U LISTEN TO PRINCE OMG I MEAN THIS IS TEH PERSON WHO PUT OUT CHAOS AND DISORDER!!!!!!11 OMG AND HAVE U HEARD TEH RAINBOW CHILDREN OMGGGGGG

I CANNOT LISTEN TO PRINCE EVER AGAIN

Yeah so imagine that P4 is the second full piece of work you hear by them; why on Earth would you ever investigate the rest of their albums?

(although I do need to get Wings of Joy at some point if only to own a copy of "Starblood")

xp: you do realize that when you do things like that, it makes you look like a massive tool right

Right!

I'm just saying: would you have stopped at Chaos and Disorder if that was the second Prince album you ever heard?

No, because I actually liked Chaos and Disorder.

Wild Mood Swings > Population 4 > Chaos and Disorder.

post-Vision Creation Newsun Boredoms for me. Live is a bit of a different story but I played Seadrum all the way thru maybe once before selling it. All those later Super Roots rehash and then the loud/quiet/loud drum panning got a little formulaic after ohhh idk, 5 years of them playing the same shit?

Dan: Try "The Zookeeper's Boy" or "Cartoons and Macrame Wounds" by Mew.

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omg POPULATION 4 ... a real bad black spot in an otherwise excellent back catalogue.

though to be fair, that came out in 1997 ... not the 2000s.

the Brian Wilson Smile album

oh wait i love seadrum/house of sun, though BOREDRUMS shit was aptly named

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