GAPDY poll

it's as if statues were playing music, and not in a good way like the xx -- it strikes me 'expansive' music that's completely hollow -- i understand why the aesthetic appeals to people but i don't understand how people sit through the songs

I guess we feel exactly the opposite because your statues statement is how I feel about the XX. The dullest, most insincere music I've ever heard. Whereas I get a lot of emotion out of Grizzly Bear---particularly songs like Reprise and Foreground. Guess I just have different taste that you and most of ILX, although I did enjoy the Fever Ray album I don't think she merits 3 of the top 50 tracks....

well about the last word i would use for the xx would be 'insecure', but i understand how people could feel the opposite way of me in terms of the statue thing -- i enjoyed fever ray too and don't think she merits three of the fifty tracks

I didn't say insecure. I think they have fairly large egos actually. I just said insincere. Seems like a total put on. (talking about the xx)

oh my bad. ok.

I've seen them live and wasn't impressed. Lots of similar note plucking. Zero energy. Not that GB have much to offer in that department on stage, however I will say their musicianship , particularly the drummer and Daniel Rossen, left me completely impressed. Maybe I need to see the XX again, but when I saw them they seemed a bit smug, bored and droll

if it makes you guys feel better i dislike both

That makes me feel like you are really cool.

my taste has never been a pose, but ok

into you either way. Like how you aren't into both bands. Makes me want to get to know you more

Oh schmindie troll, don't you think we've encountered your kind long before now?

am I schmindie? :D THANX!!!

Mr. Fever, who's the collective "we", the embittered washed up music critics that haunt this site day in and day out? Or is this just a case of the "royal we", in which case you are fully forgiven sir

Handy tip: try not being a dick to everybody else on the site and then maybe they won't be dicks to you.

Yours, on behalf of all the embittered washed up music critics

I didn't star the "I hate them both" comment above. Having a convo with someone else and someone chimed in with a useful "guess what? I think they both suck" comment....

Well don't rise to it, and don't lash out at the entire site. If you start quarrelling with everyone who makes a comment you don't like, this isn't going to be much fun.

It never really was THAT much fun to begin with....While I appreciate the advice, someone needs to call a spade a spade, otherwise we just go around in solipsistic circles circle jerking and commending one another's obscure/simultaneously majorly mainstream music tastes, no?

INDIE=BAD

GAGA/PAISLEY/MAINSTREAM=GOOD

DRONE/METAL/RANDOMNOISE=GOOD

INDIE=I hate that guy I see every morning at the coffee shop, he pisses me off.

Fine. Blow a gasket defending Grizzly Bear if you like. Fight the good fight for poor misunderstood indie bands everywhere.

they are boring as fuck but as long as animals keep on collecting we need to not let ourselves get distracted and fight the real enemy imo

― The Reverend, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:55 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not blowing anything.

Someone tomorrow will have something even more dismissive to say to "take me down a notch"---ultimately though, how is anything I said any more/less bitchy than 99 percent of the shit posted on this board?

am I villainized for being a bitch? liking grizzly bear? not being a music critic? defending indie? being contrary? or just being "bloodless"....someone tomorrow will surely tell me why I suck and I'm looking forward to it.

people are saying that grizzly bear and animal collective suck, not you

Was talking to bro who called me a "dick", which is sort of the same as "sucking"---do you have a last.fm lex? I'd love to see it

i think that was after you said someone was trying to look cool? which wasn't v nice

http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend

Here's mine http://www.last.fm/user/Luccaz94

oi...kids these days.

GrizzBear mostly a snoozefest, but 'Two Weeks' is unfuckwithable. Same goes for AnCo's 'My Girls', but the rest of their catalogue is larger and far more annoying, so yes they need to be destroyed first.

one thing i like abt anco is the sprawl of what they've produced and all the ideas picked up toyed with and tossed back on the pile.

just like THE-DREAM

yeah i like things

i just think its a shame that the best parts of their career are being overshadowed by the post strawberry jam stuff

You know, I kind of respect AnCo for doing new things, which I would never accuse the Grizz of, they just happen to do new things that make my blood boil.

this is on 'most read threads' today

Maybe it got linked somewhere? I'm pretty sure that's happened before.

pretty proud that this word got out a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrk9m9nRxlY

amazing use of the youtube annotations feature

~~~mind blown~~~

told ya!

2009 called, it wants its festival lineup back pic.twitter.com/zBWCniamzY

— Eric Renner Brown (@ericrennerbrown) February 5, 2019

wow

🎶🎶 three out of five ain’t bad

Good lord, that really is an impressive piece of work. Ra Ra Riot???

She Wants Revenge is still a thing?

If it wasn't for that (Manners 10th Anniversary) thing, I'd have assumed that was a genuine 2009 fest line-up.

The Faint!

one has to go pic.twitter.com/GV0ylHQPR1

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) September 3, 2020

bitte orca more like bye-bye orca

There's hardly anyone kicking out AC in the - I'm guessing mostly American - replies. Phoenix is all time, DP is p good still, never cared for Grizzly Bear.

To me the Dirty Projectors & Grizzly Bear albums are unimpeachable classics. AC is eh and hasn't aged well, never got into Phoenix.

Also DP & GB released their best albums within the last 3 years, still going strong.

phoenix sucks

YYYs are the only one of these acts I was ever a fan of (and mostly the 1st album).

the early singles are the shit. Can you hear it calling?