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

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

xpost

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

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Dan Deacon for like one second

actually I am trying to get into cascading style sheets right now...

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

btw, everything ever posted on fluxblog

^.^

sometimes i get actually angry that i once really liked badly drawn boy

was gonna mention him (bought the first album). still like 'silent sigh' tho.

i actually paid baller $ for his first EP and that wretched music box thing. fortunately i cashed out before the market crashed

i wz watching Purple Rain a couple weeks ago it was great but then my mom want to put on stupid NCAA Final Four...

Prince rulez...

Radio 4. I convinced myself I liked their first couple albums because I had no problems with Clash/GO4 worship. But then I witnessed their stiff, joyless live show.

xp - The Darkness remain awesome.

Anti Pop Consortium. I think I spent a long time trying to convince myself they were good. I haven't heard Flourescent Black, but it's supposed to be better than their earlier stuff?

I bought Anti-Pop Consortium's first album too (Tragic Monologue, or whatever it was called?) when a local newspaper praised it to the high heavens, so I guess I fell for it. That album lead me to discover Apani B Fly though, so it wasn't a total loss.

i listened to that first big mashups thing The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever and it was still pretty amusing i thought

Anti-Pop Consortium's first album too (Tragic Monologue, or whatever it was called?)

Tragic Epilogue.

lol

if I may pull out some bullshit trump cards here:

-Tommy Lee's first solo album
-P.O.D. (though I'll still rep for "Alive" as one of the least worst nu-metal hits)
-the post-grunge band Default
-early '00s Barenaked Ladies, all the way up to their effort to rekindle the magic of "One Week" with a rap about chimpanzees, and their collaboration w/ the Blue Man Group. "Falling for the First Time" and "Too Little too Late" were decent singles, though.
-Staind
-that Fastball album that didn't have "One Week" on it

The Bare Naked Ladies collaborating with the Blue Man Group, man, that is really something.

the Brian Wilson Smile album

i kinda agree.

Been a long time since I played it.

Brian Wilson's album wasn't that bad.

yeah, it's really good, which is easy to forget because the original Smile Sessions with Carl and Dennis and pre-breakdown Brian are really really good. the 2004 version is one of my favorite albums that I have almost no impulse to play on a regular basis.

xpost speaking as someone who was too young and too new to Brian Wilson/Beach Boys to comprehend or be swayed by the context of why Brian Wilson's Smile release was so important, I bought it and can easily say that Smile stands on its own as a beautiful piece of work. And certainly isn't "bullshit".

I also don't care if there are journalists who might lionize it more than it properly deserves - they're the ones with the extra spunk on their trousers, not me.

they're the ones with the extra spunk on their trousers, not me.

disturbingly vivid imagry.

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rockcrits, ca. 2004

rock critics and their power tools.

it's a living.

A.F.I. For a good portion of my college career, it was possible to convince myself that their transition from hardcore to mallpunk was an "artistic evolution" that would, once critically examined years later and detached from the adolescent Warped Tour scene, would be heralded. College is weird.

dude answer that and stay fashionable or whatever is still kind of awesome but yeah i got really baffled when i realized that the dudes that got booked in the teen center of my college town were now MTV SUPERSTARS