Corniest selection in The Current's list of the top essential songs since 2000

I'm telling you, The Current is next level corniness.

“Such Great Heights” is the corniest track in the Top 50, IMO. (I’ve never heard of Trampled by Turtles or First Aid Kit.)

(I know I’m posting a lot in this thread, but I’m in exactly the right mood for something silly like this at the moment.)

Hot take: Coldplay has aged better than most things on this list.

write-in vote for "issues"

The list barely acknowledges that pop/R&B exist, save for Beyoncé, Adele, “Toxic,” “Umbrella,” “Shake It Off,” and few Gaga and Kelly Clarkson songs (etc.). How does a taste profile like that even develop?

(Oh and of course stuff like “Happy” and “Uptown Funk.”)

Idk why that is hard to fathom?

Why you trolling me tonight, Sund4r? (Lol)

man I do not miss the current. it's really amazing how the current and KEXP are essentially the same in overall concept (listener-supported but well-funded stations that play a lot of indie music in pretty white/liberal cities) and KEXP is just exponentially more thoughtful and diverse and imaginative in its programming.

it's been almost 10 years since I had a job where the Current would play for hours on end and it still makes me a little mad, just such wasted potential.

“all my friends”

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:05 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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all these things i've done

It's pretty hard to top 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier'. No less cringey today than at the time of its release.

All My Friends

I loathed "All My Friends" when it came out. But now, somehow, it's only maybe my 24th least favorite song on this list.

no one who would vote for "all these things that i've done" has seen 1) me perform this song at karaoke 2) southland tales

the corniest thing about this list is how many artist repetitions it has. plus the Flaming Lips.

Its not the list I would make, but all the same most of these songs are good.

most of the people who picked them are good too

but get them all together and

http://citypages.com/music/40-non-essential-songs-since-the-year-2000/

I love how the entire top five is from 2003-2004. I mean, those were the years I were 17 as well, so I absolutely agree, but it's still really funny.

Voted Flaming Lips. At some point, the switch in my brain flipped on them and now every single note they've ever recorded sounds corny AF.

(which I'm pretty sure makes it classic)

Almost classical (skip to 4:15):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE6NVGd-7u8

Not quite the same thing, and yet…

I still like a lot of these songs. Went with 'Do You Realize?' though (the moment I wrote them off).

Christ this is impossible.

Trampled By Turtles: Wait So Long

They made this one up just to make sure no one had fallen asleep while reading, right?

Yeah, this is impossible because there's legitimately a lot of good songs on this list which were both popular at the time and have aged well.

Voting for The National because The National.

It's more the list as a whole which is corny. It's cornier than the sum of its parts.

Annoyed about the second Wilco song here because there is literally no 'corniest selection' question to which the answer is not 'Wilco'.

Yeah, Wilco are crap.

didn't realise shit rock music was considered corny on ilx these days

the songs aren't, by and large, shit though.

my god, it's full of corn

the songs aren't, by and large, shit though.

didn't realise corny rock music was not considered shit on ilx these days

do you realize is the predecessor of a lot of the other lame shit on this list

Putting Arcade Fire at No. 4 and Lizzo at No. 7 is really the battle of 2009 Online Corny vs. 2019 Online Corny

I do like a lot of these songs, some of them a lot. "Rehab" always grated for me, though. I never spent enough time with LCD Soundsystem to hate a specific song.

why is that Portugal the man song not here

^It’s #808 on the list.

Scratch that — #251 (don’t know what the heck I was looking at the first time I searched)

Wait! It’s #87. I swear I’m not drunk, Google Sheets is, lol

(The 2nd time I mixed it up in my head w/Peter Bjorn & John, whom I also figured had to be represented here)

I’m gonna try and think of the most apparently suitable song/artist that is somehow not on this list, as a fun game

NOTABLE OMISSIONS (at first glance):
Fischerspooner — “Emerge”
!!! — "Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard"
Giant Drag — “Kevin Is Gay,” “This Isn’t It”
The Von Bondies — “C’mon C’mon”
Monsters of Folk — “Say Please”
Franz Ferdinand — various add’l songs (seems odd that they’re only represented by “Take Me Out”)

It’s somewhat hard to get a read on this station’s taste profile; not just due to some notable exclusions, but also the inclusion of some true shit that even KCRW (my local touchpoint for indie corn) wouldn’t touch... Greta Van Fleet, etc.

The overall theme may just be “whatever they were sent promos of”

I intensely dislike several of these songs but The Strokes have been the epitome of corniness for their entire career

emerge isn’t annoying it’s dope as hell

I mean, corny

My understanding is that 6music list was voted for by listeners, I think even 6music wouldn't be corny enough to vote Clocks to #1 if it was just staff and DJs.

143 Animal Collective My Girls
142 Spoon Inside Out
141 Florence + The Machine Shake It Out
140 The Darkness I Believe in a Thing Called Love
139 Foster the People Pumped Up Kicks
138 Jet Are You Gonna Be My Girl
137 Alt-J Breezeblocks

This section is hilarious.

xxp 6music is a far better station, whatever you think of it.

yeah that seems a fair assessment looking at the Current schedules and what playlists are available. seems to be very light on specialist programming

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Thank god for Radio K, KMOJ, and KFAI

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

this thread is the corniest and youve been told.

actually i mean it. the corniest thing, it’s here.

KMOJ is a treasure

#4 in these results is entirely new to me. i've never heard of trampled by turtles or wait so long. it is.....not great.

Arcade Fire should win this for Wake Up.

Too late Moka

Kicking myself for not noticing “Home” on the list when I voted. Just goes to show everyone’s voice is important , one vote can change the world.

Trampled By Turtles is an outlier on this list - an acoustic/bluegrass-y jam band that is "big" in its world, but its world is not the same world as the other 49 artists here. (maybe there are a couple other worlds represented, but you know what I mean.)

given that, i would say that Trampled By Turtles' presence on this list is largely driven by the fact that they're from Minnesota ... home of The Current.

Yeah, Trampled by Turtles got my vote. I wish Minnesotans could hear some of their music the way the rest of the world hears it

which is funny because normally minnesotans are super obsessed with what the rest of the world thinks of them

a very palpable hit

I can't believe I missed a thread where we were bagging on the Current!

Anyway, i'm not sure whether The Current deserves all this snarkiness...

I would argue they do and the reason isn't exactly their playlist, which is terrible, but unlike the other light-FM adult pop station in town Cities 97 which is easily ignored, is that the Current plays what they play but they act like they are WFMU. That sometimes around 6 PM they play a 20 yr old Guided By Voices song and they act like OMG FUCK THE MAN THE COPS WANT TO SHUT DOWN OUR EDGY STATION!!

Yeah, Trampled by Turtles got my vote. I wish Minnesotans could hear some of their music the way the rest of the world hears it

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, June 2, 2019 10:14 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which is funny because normally minnesotans are super obsessed with what the rest of the world thinks of them

― j., Sunday, June 2, 2019 3:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This exchange should be played on a loop during the entire state fair

Tired: Indie rock is played out
Wired: Indie rock backlash is played out

AAA Radio, forevah!

That sometimes around 6 PM they play a 20 yr old Guided By Voices song and they act like OMG FUCK THE MAN THE COPS WANT TO SHUT DOWN OUR EDGY STATION!!

LOL

I don't have any real beef with AAA radio except when public or community broadcasters adopt the format because what's the point. CBC Radio 2's general non-classical programming seems to have m/l gone that way a lot of the time and just why. Someone has to think of the children.